Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5666, 21 December 1920, Page 4

Local and General.

The awards in connection with the ! Gisborne Times essay competition, : “What Constitutes True Patriotism,” j open to all readers under 18 years, are: j Irene Agnes Bruce, 303 Aberdeen Road j 1; Isobel Kolin, 102 Stout Street 2;~1 Neva Paltridge, 11 Vogel Street 3. The j successful essays will appear in the Christmas Number of the Times.

An announcement of special interest to competitors at the coming Te Araroa sports appears in another column.

’ .The primary schools throughout the Hawke’s Bay Education Board’s district, which broke up for the summer vacation last week, will not resume again until February 7.

The executive committee of the Poverty Bay Freezers’ Union is requested to meet, in the Labor Council Chambers at 2 p.m. to-day to consider important business. Amongst the holiday attractions next week will be the screening at the Opera House of the famous eight-reel Paramount Royalty masterpiece "The World and His Wife,” which has been drawing crowded houses in Auckland lately. Amongst a lengthy list of supporting films will he one of the latest and best Mack Sennett comedies.

The following telegram was received yesterday evening by Mr W. D. Lvsnar. M.P. from the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister for Education"l have pleasure in informing you that Cabinet lias to-day approved of a grant for school extension at Wairoa, also a grant, for the erection of a two-roomed infant school at Gisborne North (Mangapapa).”

The conference of waterside workers and employers ;' of waterside labour, was resumed at ’Wellington yesterday. At' the previous sittings the question of increased payment on account of the increased cost of living had been postponed, pending the decision of the Arbitration Court in regard to the “9s bonus.” The delegates yesterday discussed the cost of living and the judgment, of the Court. The conference will be continued to-day.—Press Assn. At ail inquest at Auckland yesterday into the death of William James Granville, former employer of Thorn, who was yesterday, a verdict was returned that deceased, died from a gunshot wound self-inflicted, while under the influence of liquor, and mental strain due to financial worry. The evidence showed that deceased had tried to commit suicide oil ' a former occasion.—Press Assn.

Sub-Inspector William Mathieson, who lias been promoted to the rank of Inspector and transferred to Greymouth, was tendered a civic farewell at Dunedin yesterday. Eulogistic reference was made by the Mayor aud others to his ability and impartiality as a police officer. Regret was expressed at his departure and hopes were entertained that lie would return to Dunedin shortly on still .further promotion. Mrs Mathieson wah'presented 1 with a substantial wallet of bahTc'nq.tes. Considerable enthusiasm was shown' throughout the Assn. . At the hands of Sir Thomas Mackenzie an interesting addition is .shortly to be made to the Otago Early Settlers’ Museum. In the course of coii- - versatmu at the Baiclutba Show. U?r Thomas stated that during the Dardanelles : investigation Lord Fisher was examined, and some exception was taken to the fact that he had not stated his reasons before the Imperial War ; Council for opposing the Gallipoli campaign. lie was rather severely censured by seme of the members of the Commission, but Sii Thomas Mackenzie stated that, his attitude was the constitutional course for ,hun to adopt, and in that view he was supported by.-;Mr Andrew Fisher (High Commissioner for tile Commonwealth). Eventually the Commission, after further investigation, supported this view. “As a' result,” continued Sir Thomas, “Lord Fishor regarded our action as having saved him from possible censure, and from that time onwards a great friendship arose, which continued until his death. Jle wrote to me frequently, and presented me with a volume of his works. On liis death, his. son. the, present Lord Fisher...,ask-’ ed me to accept two of his' naval*- Uniforms, as. he : felt sure it would "have"* been his father’s wish.l have - these* uniformsAvitii- mo', and Lpurpose handing them - over) to the- Old' Identities* Association, -if . the committee t Uj)f that, body Vr'ill accept them'.** / . - ’.*,' •

Following is the result of the Short cfirv competition in connection .with the GiXnie Times Christmas NumSl“ tre£t/ if "Saving Stacey”-Mi® Beamier MeCormac,. Tolag TTiirhlv commended: Mr* colts, V* borne; Norman Plimmer, Gisborne; Anne Trevellyon, Rernuera, Auckland. The two new railway engines landed in Gisborne some weeks ago, are being assembled by Messrs Niven and Co. Point Chevalier has decided to amalgamate with the City of Auckland the proposal being earned at a poll ry 243 votes to 123-Press Assn. The local Defence office has received seven German machine guns captured by New Zealand unite on the 1 tench front. The trophies are lor allocation in the Poverty Bay, East Coast and Wairoa districts.

The Governor-General competed in the race for U foot yachts at Auckland on Saturday, sailing his own vessel, the Iron Duke. Lord Jellicoe who got a very bad start owing to the hght breeze, finished fourth m a held of ten.—Press Assn.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that Canon J. A. Lusk, 8.A., Cambridge, at present m the Waiapu diocese, has been appointed in succession to the Ven-Archdeacon Richards, who was elected Bishop of Dunedin.

' A Press Association message from Timaru states that Jermiah Costella, licensee of the Waimate Hotel, single, aged 30 years, was drowned in the Waihao river yesterday, in an effort to rescue a companion, who fell into the water.—Press Assn.

The Dominion Meteorologist’s torecast is as follows:—"Present indications are for moderate to strong westerly and south westerly winds, with fair to cloudy weather generally, but changeable and showery conditions arclikely in the west coast and southern districts. The barometer is unsteady. —Press Assn.

The Davis Cup teams have now commenced solid training (states a Press Association message from Auckland). The match court at the Domain was used for ihe first time yesterday by Brookes and Patterson, who both were enthusiastic regarding the condition of the court. The rival teams will use the court fairly often during the coming week. Those playc-rs who went to Rotorua returned yesterday, after an enjoyable visit. Regulations governing. the charges to be made for legal -work performed by or on behalf of the Public Trust Office were gazetted last week. The Public Trustee is empowered to fix the scale of charges to be paid to solicitors in respect of the preparation, perusal, and completion of securities to or instruments for the Public Trustee, and for the discharge, renewal, or variance of such securities, and generally for the transaction of legal business for the Public Trustee. This scale, with such modifications as the Public Trustee directs, is to apply where the work is done by the office solicitor or. other officers of the Public Trust Office, <iud in thac cu e the money received w.'il be paid into the Public Trustee's ;;o----c juiir..

A clever little fox terrier named Floss, which has the distinction of being the onh- mascot of the N.Z.E.F. to come to the Dominion, has passed through quarantine, and was greeted by many friends on arrival in Auckland on Wednesday, says the Herald. She joined the N.Z.E.F. at Codford in 1917, coming as a puppy from the home of Sir Walter Long" to Sergt. Lowndes, who found that she had a wonderful intelligence. She was taught many extraordinary tricks, and as an entertainer she was popular in many camps Von the Salisbury Plain, at children’s hospitals throughout Britain.and at patriotic functions. Permission to bring her to New Zealand was not granted, and she therefore embarked on the Rimutaka in a kit bag. She was allowed to live, but had to undergo a very strict quarantine test after reaching the Dominion.

j A few years ago with the advent of ! farm tractors it was predicted that the use of - the draught horse, except j on small farms, would he dispensed with, and consequently a number of : farmers discontinued breeding this | type. Extensive use of tractors in the ' grain-growing areas in Canterbury has proved to be a failure, and the draught is once more being looked upon with favour. A southern, exchange states 1 that all previous records for working ! draughts in the Ashburton county, and i possibly for Canterbury, were exc-eed- ■ ed at a clearing sale held at Dromore recently. A six-horse team averaged £IOO 13s 4d. and nineteen, horses averaged £6o 5s 3d. The top prices were for two six-year-old mares at £ll9 and £lls. In regard to the type of draughts it is interesting to mention that for some years the tendency in both the North and South Islands has been towards breeding a lighter class, but the turn of the tide in prices may again influence breeders to revert to the heavier animal familiar in the show rings some years ago. ! When the Y.W.C.A. hostels exist in cities it has been found necessary to make time limits according to the age or kind of occupation. The domestic worker often only stays a few days ] until such time as she is placed in f a home, or for a holiday period. In ■ order to meet the requirements of the j waiting list the older young women ! are expected to find other board after j one year’s residence. This period gives i them time to know the town and its I possibilities for meeting their kind. I Girls in their teens are often gtven a | longer period of residence because they | have more need of the counsel of the ! house secretary and of the special regu- ! lations that are made by the approval j of parents and of the hostel committee. ; Length of periods of residence and all ■ household regulations are arranged locally by committees according to the need. No rules are made except such as would be deemed necessary for the comfort and consideration of everybody in residence. . and these are re- : garded as household regulations for • general order and comfort rather than ! as rules. ' i j Of special interest is a large auction lsale to be held by Mr F. Gray to-mor-frow and Thursday, when there will j be submitted a very large range- of ' high class-furniture, etc., on account of Mrs J. ghoe.ii. “Waimarie,” Haiti EsplanadE- A Amongst, the-'articles to be ..offered for stifle-' are. listed -two dining tables, carpet rmjners, table cloths and . lihe.n* easy chairsip Axminster carpets, linoleum, pot ware. - two ice chests, fifty , head poultry- and a quantity of cutlery, silver and glassware. Mrs Sheen’s two-seater English motor car . will alsO.be put. up for auction.*** ! . Miss Reader, Typiste, . 74 Lowe | Street, Williams ■& Slierratt’s B Ridings (upstairs), opposite Messrs Roes, Bright & Wauchop, Solicitors. ,-Type- | writing of every description iindcri taken. Orders by mail receive cn.ro--1 ful attention.. Strictly confidential. | ’Phone No, - S.*** . . i. If you are puzzled over the prob- | lem of what to buy for her (or for him), a visit .to Messrs. C. Rosie and Go.is store will help you to quickly solve the .difficulty. This firm are a very.' attractive display of useful pud .dainty articles suitable or . New Year Gifts R afid a i very ..important item is thp ; fapf - ,%it:. everyth hie .is-tiupked htlreally mbdbrM - ate : prices.*’ k *(g:N;( A v;.<-ts’;V < - ' - V - •>'. . *. *• -•. • A fejy the; free use of.Niizol to ( protect the mucous membranes 1 . 1 df the: jnffiitlp'mos'ei and throat from Coughs,VGbld's ; aM’;Sore Throats, etc., is bettey-.thtm hours" Q'f,'sufferin" *

/• The first life-size statue to be carved in granite in New Zealand has been pleted by the N.Z Coromandel Granite Co, Ltd at their works in Auckland. The statue is that of a New Zealand infantry soldier standing with reversed arms, the muzzle of his rifle resting on the toe of his boot. It was designed by an English sculptor, Mr R. O. Cross, who is at present in Auckland. The model was copied in Coromandel granite by Mr J. G. Jensen whoso chiselling work on such a difficult class of stone is specially praiseworthy (says the ‘'Herald”). The statue is being forwarded to Clive, Hawke’s Bay.

Six years ago a bottle was. thrown o'ver from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition's vessel Aurora, which was then making an oceanographical cruise in southern waters. On November 23 (say 6 the Melbourne Argus) the Commonwealth director of Navigation, Captain Davis, who was in command of the Aurora at the time, was advised that the bottle had been picked up on the West Coast of New Zealand. It was thrown oveibpard to the south of Cape Leeuwin, about lat. 40deg: south, arid in tho intervening six years had drifted nearly 3000 miles to the eastward

At the recent. Auckland Agricultural Show, a slight mistake was made in the name, or rather the sex, of one of the riders in the class for the best pony hunter, to be ridden by a boy or girl under 16 years of age. The rider of the third prize-winner was Miss Joyce Beale, on her own pony, but on looking at her prize ticket she found that the- judges had taken her for a boy. With her hair cut short, boy’s hat, and with her breeches, leggings, spurs, and boy’s coat, and as she rode without a hat, she looked a perfect pretty boy of 14 years old. The judges took her for a boy, ancl write “Master Beale” on -her show ticket— Auckland Star.

City folk, who envy the- orchardist the freedom of his life, do not always remember the risks that attend his

calling (remarks the Otago Daily A late frost or an unexpected f storm may in a few moments ruin the work of a season. A Waimate grower, for instance, has just lost his entire crop of raspberries through' a hailstorm. The hailstones, he says, were as lurge as nuts, and besides destroying all his raspberries, broke 200 panes of glass in his houses. This grower has five acres under raspberries, and usually sends about six tons of raspberries to a jam factory in Dunedin. This year’s saleable crop will be measured in pounds instead of tons.

“Deep Sea,” the London prophet (who has many correct predictions to his credit) issues the following bulletin for home and workshop consumption:—A great engineering and railway strike will take place between January Ist and the Ist of March next year. A sensational event, which will stir the world deeply, will take place in London early in December. Politicians in particular will be affected by it... The earthquake of the century will occur to the west of America on or about 28th July next year. Damage to the extent of forty millions will lie caused, and very great loss of life, too. Great, trade slump, in the Midlands of England particularly, beginning about the end of December next. Watch cotton and leather then. Australian files to hand state that at the conference of the Australian Workers’ Union in January next, a proposal will be discussed to abolish piecework for shearers, and to demand a wage of £lO per week. The following are the rates in the suggested award: — That the payment for shearing dock sheep be £2 5s per 100, and studs pro rata; rate for shearing be £lO per week; that shed hands be paid a miniage; that learners earning less than £5 10s a week at shearing time have their wages made up to that amount,; that pressers be paid £9 per week; in the event, of a contractor not being able to pay for labour done, the same be made up by the station owner. Ali 'ajtejrhative proposals are that shearers J IB paid £o per 100 and fares oneway, fud that pressers be paid £lO per week and keep. In the event of a stoppage through wet weather, shearers are to be paid 30s per day for loss of time. -

Distributors of butter in- Auckland still experience a*, diminution in sales, although the amount of bulk butter passed through their hands is gradually increasing. It is estimated that the sales are still some 25 per cent, short of normal. Other problems are affecting retailers, who find that increasing the charge to 2s 5d per lb for booking and delivery is not. such a simple straightout matter as it would seem. Competition appears to demand that in many instances delivered and booked butter shall be sold at 2s 3d, and in most of tbe retail shops a largely-increased proportion of the sales is being made for cash over the counted. One of the firms that controls a large business in delivery of dairy produce for cash at the door have advised that their butter deliveries do not pay expenses, so they will be stopped, and the butter will be sold from the branch retail shops.

Most people are under the impression that the ways of cleaning a chimney are very limited (says the Timaru Herald). A new and entirely novel way was discovered by a lady in Timaru this week. A thrush got down the chimney of one of the rooms of her house, and the chimney required cleaning v’Sry badly. The bird remained in its sooty prison for two days, during which time it made frantic efforts to get out, but all it succeeded in doing was to knock sufficient soot off the bricks by the flapping of its ivings, to choke the hearth, and when the bird was liberated the owner of the house found that it was no longer necessary to call in the chimneysweep for that particular chimney.

Thus Mr J. C. Cooper (managing dir- 1 ector of the Wellington Farmers’ Meat Co), on his return from London: —“Ger- j many was sending a lot of goods to England, and doing an immense am- c mint of harm to English industries. *ermany must have fats, and eagerly . ►tight after tallow. Much of the tal- J low sent by his firm to Holland even- ' tually was sold to Germany. He was . of the opinion that Germany would ® be the first nation to recover from the 1 war. ‘We will never get the whole of ] the indemnity from the Germans. They will fight us first/• said .Mr Cooper. Germany was now more united than | she had ever been. He.did not think / that we would get much . more ;'indemnity from Germany than .we had -.; received. Th’ere was no question-.bufeiv Germany was preparing to fight the war over again. Germany, for the most, part, was guiding the armies of Russia, and their slogan was-. /Russia for the Bolsheviks, but the Bolsheviks for us ’ They wanted to make Russia a field of exploitation for. Germany.” . Serviette rings from 2s'in E.P.-and 7s 6cl in solid silver. Have/the name engraved on these.—H. J. Grieve for Xmas gifts.*** NORTH BRITISH GARDEN HOSE keeps tbe garden smiling end the lawns fresh and green for years and yeats.Famous for long lasting. Photo Albums,, the very best, make, handsome ’Xmas gills. , A . W. J. Mann; Kodak Depot. --/'•• '• - Hundreds of thousands of. motorists acclaim the unquestioned ,'siiperiority of CLINCHER CROSS TYRES under all , road and climaticicprLdftions. . All garages can supply. ' . ■ :/ Dnn’b say just, garden. .ijose.'i./Buy.NORTH BRITISH GARDEN: 'HOSiB.;. Then the dealer will know 'you; know:best.. Doesn’t kink, and-lasts longest. / ’Xmas gifts, whether it be for-Eath-,.; er, Mother,,, Brother, Sistei>-vOr,'-'*Sweet- • heart,. H. j/.Grievejhas'a beahtifnl se-. ’. lection bf : suitable gifts.: • v ■v ■