Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9573, 26 July 1923, Page 4

Local and General

A considerable number of ratepayers are not aware that, if their rates are paid before August 11. 3923 they are entitled to a discount of 5 per cult. If suuicient entries are forthcoming a piano solo sight reading test, open, will be included in the programme for the forthcoming Coinxietiticnio Festival. At Auckland yesterday Mr. Poynton SAL. expressed his intention to imp:-e imprisonment on anyone convicted of lofting another personas motor-car. — Press Assn. A petition bearing the signatures of CO representative retailers and warehousemen has keen presented to the Mayor, uskiug that a half-holiday be declared to-morrow for the annual meeting of the Poverty Bay Trotting Club. The Mayor accordingly has invited shopkeepers to observe a holiday. Seme iirms have declared their intention of remaining open all day.

To"- raise* funds io cohiinuc improvement works on tlie "Waikninie Beach, a social will lie hold in the ssenibiy Itajl on Thursday next. August !. As file works in hand, on tire ®each are helping to absorb the unemployed marl'i.ocl men of the city, it is expected that there will be a very large attendance. An excellent supper will be provided, and music will be provided by B'tundling’s full orchestra. The members of the Gisborne Boxing Association are notified in our advertising columns that the current year's subscriptions are now due. and by the payment of one guinea at .Muir's, booksellers. members can obtain their tickets and ringside coats. It is very necessary for members to apply early, ns the applications for new membership are many, and it might be obligatory for the committee to allot the few remaining ringside positions.

A communication was received by the Cook Hospital Board yesterday from the Ononae branch of the Farmers’ Union asking for an adjustment of the boundaries for the district nurses in the Cock and Bay of .Plenty hospital districts. At present there was a ‘no man's land’’ between' the two districts. —The chairman said that the question was one which should, he settled by a conference between the two Boards, and on bis motion it was decided to write to tlie Bay of Plenty Board staling that a deputation from the <'■! ok Hospital Board would visit. Opctiki next Holiday week and meet tlie Board there on Tuesday to consider the question of boundaries between ,tiie nurses' dis--1 riels. A complaint was received from the Aard Motor Co. by the Cook Hospital Board at its mooting yesterday that their .subsidised service to the hospital was not paying, and stating that they had only taken it on because they considered that they wore going to get any special jobs going.' However, they were being overlooked in this respect and considered it was unfair. —The chairman (Mr. \V. G. Shervatt) said that the Board was paying £2 a week to the Company and was under no obligation to it. There were three companies running, and if there were any new complaints they would have to consider new arrangements.—The letter was received.

When the Farm Committee's report was being considered at the meeting of ■the Hospital Board yesterday. Mr. H. H. Be Costa entered a. protest against what lie termed the over-charging of the Board by the Hospital Farm Committee for in ilk and cream supplied. He. himself, lie said was getting- his cream delivered for Is 6d per pint, whovens the Farm Committee was charging Is *'B,l for it. Milk, too, was being charged- for at more than the current rates. —Mr. McCliskie. chairman of the Farm Committee, said that the wholesale price of cream was Is Sd per pint and ho would; tell Mr. Be Costa there was cream and cream, but the quality supplied front the farm was the. best. It was easy to adjust the separator so as to get two gallons of cream instead of one from the same quantity of milk. The wholesale price of milk was Is fid ror gallon, and the retail price 2s Id. The -Farm Committee was. supplying-milk and charging ■ld per gallon for delivery, as against lOd by retailers.

The Toy Traders’ Exhibition m London includes a wireless crystal set costing Is, It is not stated whether the Government will license this. “1 expect,” said the Prince of Wales tit the banquet of the Medical Society of London at the Hyde Park Hotel, ‘‘that tiic only reason why there were no doctors m the Garden of Eden was that Eve obviously knew the familial' prescription: ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away!’ ” The main road from Rotorua to Opotiki i« reported as being in a very bad condition at present. The many ruts trie covered by liquid mud, and therefore can hardly be avoided by motorists. Passengers by the mail cars fare badiy, as these motors have to keep up their timetable, making the journey a very rough one.

The death has taken place, at the historic “Restoration House,” Rochester, of the Rev. Canon W. H. Rollins, until a few weeks back Rural Dean of Rochester, and who was for 37 years Vicar of Gillingham. The Lamm, wlio was 76, had been totally blind from the age of 16. The blindness was caused through being iiit in the eye by a cricket ball. One of the largest tenders for girders and ironwork that has been let in Gisborne for some years has been accepted by Messrs Common, Shelton and Co., Ltd., in connection with their big re-construction scheme. The quantity involved is stated to be between GO and 70 tons; the successful tenderers were the Gisborne HydroElectric and Engineering Go., and the contract price. £2118.. All tbo scenery, costumes and other properties of “Mecca,” “Aigar," “Aphrodite,” “Chit Chin Chow,” and several other productions of Mr Morris Cost have been destroyed by fire in the warehouse in New York, in which they were stored. Mr Gest estimates Jus loss at £270,000 (says Hie Daily Sketch;. The most serious portion of the loss is said to be theatrical lighting naraphornaliav valued at £50,000. A Maori giving evidence at the Native Land Court at Wanganui remarked: “Py carry, 1 have te best cow, ' Maggie,’ in te Turakina district.” “How do you make that out?” queried counsel. “She give two tins full of kerosene every day, replied the native. A cow like Maggie, to provide enough fuel in a day to drive a milking machine for a week would be a valuable acquisition to any dairy farmer.—Herald.

1 osterdav t oo Hospital Board opened tenders for t:.e erection of a cottage for the district nurse at Te .Karaka pind the removal of the dispensary. Ten tenders were received and that of Mr. Skelton was accented. The tenderers were as follows: —Jiislon and Sutton. £1090: If. Peacock. £998; F. M. Pudnev. £977; A. E. Shorter. £963; A. E. Kirk, £958; A. T. Jones, £957; I?. Sheet. £S37; Geo. Smith, £897; 11. Wylos, £SS7; A. J. Skelton: £BBS. "Probably Dunedin has fewer children religiously neglected than any other large city.” was a remark made by flie Rev. E. P. Blamires, general secretary of the Sunday School and A eung people's Department of the Methodist Church of that city. He said that workers in the suburbs reported that all the eligible children m their blocks wc-re attending some Sunday sc boo!. Otago lends the Dominion m Young Worshippers’ Leagues. A generous dunes, has authorised the Rev. !*'. G. Gumming, agent of the Patients and Prisoners’ Aiu Society at Dunedin, to distribute, on his behalf. 200 tons of coal and 100 pairs or blankets. These contributions will enable Mr G umming to provide a measure of c,amort to lire needy and to tiio-o by whom, a little extra firing and sm:u,- bed, kuhns will be welcomed. In ywirr to give -atisfac-tion in ibe di'i; nm:■:>m of this magnificent gr;:. _■' nick in accompanied by the prn.im-e or inrtlur supplies. Air G-ma.-:r.mg has asked the Rev. C-. E. Movetoil to be associated with him.

There is a prospect cf trade in fat sheep being opened up between New Zealand and Alclbcurno. _\ consignment of about 300 sent by J. A. Mathewson. < f Dunedin, will go forward to Melbourne by the Moeraki. which will leave Dunedin to-day. Some of the snoop were purchased private!-,- and the bala nee at auction* at Burnside today. Tiie.v are a particularly nice line of sheep, being prime fine crossbred and ha I i- bi■ ed wer il ers, carrying valuable skins. The consignment is estimated to kill out at 701 bs. The prices realised are considered very satisfactory.—P.A. The Oti-a tunnel is to be officially opened by the lion. J. G. Coates. Minister <'f Public AVorks, on August 4. and Mr. Leslie 11. Reynolds lias received an invitation to be present. Ir is no: widely known, even in Gisborne, that Mr. Reynolds had charge of the

engineering operations for the contractors who started the work. Mr. Reynolds designed ail the works for water supply, buildings, ere., for tlie tunnelling' plant, and was in charge of the piercing operations, which aetuaily eonimeuced before the .commencement function was held in 1908 by Sir Joseph Ward. Charged with being found in a state of helpless drunkenness, a man named Philip Burns, alias James Henry Burn-, alias Herbert Reynolds. appeared before Air K. C. l.ovvey, S.W.. in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. Senr.-Sergt. Fitzpatrick applied for a remand for one 'week, so that the man might be kept tinder observation. He had been found at a late hour the previous night, helpk-'sly drunk, and seemed to be under the impression that son rouu was i basing him. lie had a razor in his possession when picked up. Lastyear, when in a similar condition, lie bad attempted to commit suicide— Tlie remand was granted.

An electric lighting system has been recently installed at the . Patutahi Hall, and was in use for the.first time on Tuesday evening at the farewell tendered by the residents to Constable and iMrs. Maloney. The plant consists of a five horse-power two cycle Better patent para Hi n engine which drives at 31 kilowatt 130 volt Metropolitan Vickers dvnamo. The main switchboard with voltmeter, ammeter, main switch and fuses with pilot lamp is erected near the dvnamo, and the whole plant is housed in a new building away f'B m the hall at the rear of the section. the current being carried on aerial wires into the Ifal! for distribution to the various lighting points. The engine and dynamo are mounted on solid concrete foundations and the whole of the engine room floor is-of concrete. Tim installation was earT'icd out by Messrs. IV. J. Sinclair and Co., electrical engineers, of Bed St., under Mr. Sinclair's personal supervision.

The arrangement* for the Brace Bemanstration on Sunday are now well in hand. Through the kindness of Canon Packo and the Gisbosne Sheenfarmers the meeting i> to ho held in the City Hall. This was considered advisable ou account of the stormy weather so prevalent, lately. The City Band is to assist by providing music before and after the speeches. This will be a great help. Tlie Sunday schools in the centre of the town have been asked to bring their children and the Anglican and the Methodist schools will be represented. Some cf the others cannot attend owing to their meetings being hold in the-forenoon cion week days. The will be Canon Packo, Father Lane, Mr. JCairway (for tlie League of Nations), Mrs. Walker (Tor tlie Ladies’ Organisations), and Air. B. W. Coleman (for Labor). It is expected that the demonstration will take rather less than three-quar-ters of an hour—quite long enough on a winter afternoon with so many children. , In view of the gravity of the European situation all are urged to he present.

The Opera House has been booked by Mr Walter George’s Smart Set Company of 30 performers for a season towards the end of August. “My landlady wants .to cover the outside walls or my house with posters. She says 1 only rent the inside of the house,” said a woman at Wiljcsueji Police Court. The Magistrate: Refuse to let her do it. All the smart young men in London are wearing grey ties. The demand is so great that at most of the exclusive shops anyone who attempts to buy a tie which is not grey has to be content with a very poor selection. He is simply not catered for.

Arthur Reader, charged at the Thames Police Court with .insulting behaviour, was .said to have shouted, and "sang opposite the house in which a Jay dying. When told of* the fact he -replied, “A good job if she does die. i have been fighting for 62 years for the likes of you, and lam not dead yet.” lie was ordered to pay the doctor’s fee, 10s Gd. ■ Three hundred people attending a cock-fight at Maxwell Wall (Co. Antrim; were discovered by a constable, who ordered them to hold up their hands. Some of them ran away, and one fired a revolver in the air, with the result that - troops wore attracted to the scene and shepherded the whole partv into a farmyard. One of the men* captured protested his innocence until'a cock which he was carrying inside a bag began to crow. Many people possess a certain., amount of that ingredient in the human “make-up" known as “cheek, but some possess it to a much greater decree than others (remarks the Timaru Post), 'ibis fact is vouched bv a Timaru greengrocer who is m a" good position to judge. He had a very large cauliflower —an unu.-.uallv fine vegetable—which he proudly hrspiayed in iront of his shop. The cauliflower attracted too much attention. Someone took a great fancy to it. and it disappeared. The greengrocer, in the course or the day, wandered down the road for sympathy from his brother-iu-tradc*, the butcher. “Why,” said that worthy, when the sad tale had been told, "a woman came in here to-day with a large cauliflower. She said she had bought it from you and you were too mean to give her the paper to wrap :t up in; I wrapped it up for her niysek."