Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9659, 5 November 1923, Page 4

Local and General

Residents of Mangapapa are notified by advertisement in this issue that they must trim overhanging hedges.

lii the case against "Win. fcawers, charged, at Invercargill with using fus premises as a common gaming-house, the magistrate said that he intended to convict, and sentenced the accused to thirty-two days’ imprisonment. Counsel gave notice of appeal. 13. A.I 3 .A.

A canvass for members of the Royal Agricultural Sciety, conducted during the recent spring show, resulted in 113 signatures ' being obtained from visitors and members, states a Palmerston North telegram. The Manawatu A. and P. Association also secured a number of members. —P.A. Supplies of maize (says the 'Auckland Star”) still on the light side, and offerings from Gisborne are now small. No*further lots of South African. maize are now on the water tor this market, but as soon as the summer sets in, the demand for maize usually falls away. The annual break-up function ~of Mr. and Mrs. F. May’s dancing classes eventuated on Friday evening, when about 70 pupils and parents assembled in the Rowing Club Hall. An entertaining programme of fancy dancing and ballets was .presented, upon the conclusion of which supper was served.

The entries for University matriculations, including accountants' preliminary, number 4500, an increase of nearly 500 on the previous year, says a P.A. message from Wellington. The examinations will be held from I)e cember 4th to 13th, inclusive. On account of the enormous number of entries each candidate will he notiLued by post of the result, but beyond that the University authorities do not intend to go to the expense of preparing lists for publication. The following resolution was carried unanimously at a largely-attended meeting of the Wellington Assistant Masters’ Association: “That this meeting of the Wellington Assistant Masters’ Association views with alarm the relatively disadvantageous position of the Wellington teachers on the Dominion graded list, and urges the Minister of Education to introduce the Board system of promotion until such time as uniformity of appointments is arrived at.” —P.A.

As the result of a meeting of the By-laws Committee of the Cook. County Council, held to consider the traffic by-laws recently framed, it was decided to recommend that in cases where farmers use their own wagons and carts for transporting their own produce the fees be on a reduced scale. This will not affect the fees chargeable on motor-lorries or other vehicles. The chairman (Mr. G. M. Reynolds) has in consequence given notice of a motion embodying the recommendations of the committee.

At the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday, Edward. William Phillips. found guilty of bigamy, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. Counsel, on behalf of the Vecond woman, asked for leniency for the prisoner. Mr. Justice '.Reed said he had a public duty to perform in warning men who came out from the Old Country and married New Zealand women under false pretences. Had it not been for the jury’s recommendation, and the fact that his wife would suffer by his detention, he would have passed a longer sentence. —P.A. A Wellington P.A. message states that Pakira Haeata, a young Te Ore Ore Maori who ,was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at the March sessions, at Masterton for attempted murder at Black Rock station, Wairarap.a. died in the Wellington hospital. Deceased, during the affray, received a charge from a shotgun, and the wad produced blood poisoning. Haetea was in hospital until his trial at ATastcrton, and ever since. He left for Wellington after being sentenced. His' arm wa.s amputated on Thursday, hut Haeata collapsed after the operation and died. The points gained at the Rose .Show by- the different exhibitors are as follows: —Mrs. F. B. Barker 39, Mr. R. Hepburn'39, Mrs. J. It. Murphy 35, Mrs. C. Adair 33. Mrs. G. L. Evans 28, Mrs. O. Holdswortli 17. Miss M. Barker 16, Mrs. T. B. Silence 16, Mr. J. McKee 15. Mrs. 11. "White 14, Mrs. J. Barns-Graham 13, Mrs. W. G. Sherratt 11, Mrs. R. G. Crawford 10, Mrs. G-. Stevenson 6, Mrs. D. Blair 6. Mrs. J. W. Nolan 5, Mrs. W. G. Sherratt 4, Miss J. Caldwell 3, Mrs. IV. Norman 4, and Mrs. D. G. Robertson 1. These points count towards the annual points for the silver rose bowl. . The latest batch of publications received from Gordon and Goteli, Auckland. per B. Eastwood, includes two issues' of the Green and Violet magazines with, as usual, their wealth of fiction. The Adventure Story Magazine is essentially a periodical for the healthy out-of-doors man or woman. In entire contrast is the True Storv Ma.gaz.ne, which sets out to publish strange but true stories of life, and some indeed border on the miraculous. In these days of stress the Happy Magazine, with innumerable light stories and humorous illustrations, should act as an antidote to the Worried business' man. As usual, the feminine public is catered for to gbod advantage in ’Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal and Weldon’s Bazaar of Children’s Fashions.

Aided by the fine weather of the past week, the roads of Poverty Bay have improved to a considerable extent. A bad winter’s ruinous effects is quickly passing away now the warm weather has set ip, and many of tlie roads previously impassable 'are now open to traffic, while others show much improved surfaces. The Coast road is now in such a condition that cars may proceed with ease and comfort right up as far as Ruatorea, and on the Napier route a much better service is now possible, .while one-day trips to Rotorua are again, being advertised. On Saturday the Public Works Department despatched /additional lorries to Kopua and Tarewa, • and given continued fine weather, the work of' metalling the seven-mile stretch of had road should he pushed on rapidly. Motorists are advised to he extremely careful on the corners on this road, a caution that also applies to the deviation .at Tatapouri. The new road at Tatapouri will shortly be metalled, an improvement the value of which is very apparent in wet weather. - 1

The evangelistic mission conducted by Mr. T. Russell Cameron, assisted in the song service by Mr. RfSBradley, will bo continued m the. City Hall, • Palmerston Road, .tins evening, commencing at 7.1-5. An alarm of fire was given about 8 o’clock on Saturday night, the outbreak being in the Arcadia private .10tol. When the brigade arrived there it was found that the ilames had obtained a slight hold among some shelves in* the kitchen, hut the fire was very quickly suppressed, the damage done being negligible. A hatter, writing in, “Men’s Wear” mentions that it is his invariable experience that men with small heads buy the cheapest hats, and men with big heads the dearest; aYid in explanation he suggests that “men wi i small heads have not tne intelligence to enable them to obtain a position which will permit them to pav the price of the best .quality-hats# Doom House, tlie exile home of the ex-Kaiser, will be more isolated than ever in the future, for the principal inmate has ordered the erection or a barricade to prevent his residence from being overlooked from the high road. The villagers were astonished' ono morning to see workmen fitting up a wooden framework on which strips of matting Bft high were nailed.

In connection with the remission or the special tax which the Cook County Council proposes to impose on drays and waggons throughout Die County, it is to be understood tnat the proposed reductions shall apply only in the case of farmers owning and using the vehicles exclusively ror their own purpose. Drays or waggons used for general carrying, whether permanently or intermittently, will have to pay the full original ‘-ax. The Executive Committee of the Poverty Bay Horticultural Society rpi‘t at 5 p.m. on'the day of the Rose Show under regulation 12 to consider a dispute in class 22. After full consideration the executive disqualified, with the exception of entry 3 ail other entries, and the judges then awarded entry 3 exhibit the Ist prize. The dispute was unfortunate, as the donors of the trophy had stipulated certain wording in the schedule which made it very difficult xor exhibitors.

The advertisements of Homeland race meetings and horse shows are tepid indeed compared with how they do things “out West.” This is/how Calgary announces such affairs: “Cal<rarv July 11)23, Exhibition Stampede and Buffalo Barbecue. Buckingest outlaw bucking bronchos that cvei bucked a buck. Roiling wild and snort-v* calves, riding wilder steers, milking wilder cows (against time), and the famous wild horse race. After watching this race you will need a’ half-hour’s rest to get tame enough to eat your supper. Honest you will.”

In delivering bis verdict rt the inquest touching the deatli of Topine Amohau, the little Maori boy who died from the effects of scalds caused by his falling into a hot pool at- Ohinemutu, the coroner, Mr VY. G. R. Kenrick, said that lie thought there were too many of such accidents. There had been five or six during his residence in Rotorua. He .suggesteu that the Maoris call a meeting with the view of,, having any dangerous hot pools fenced in with wire-netting m the height of, say, 3ft. This would not detract from' the appearance of the pools, and would he an appropriate way cf spending some of the money earned by entertainments. At a recent examination the word alibi was included in a question beginning with the usual, "Explain tne following.” etc. Some of the explanations, although obviously made to see how far the examiner had a sense of humor, are not unworthy of record. One pupil, domestically minded. crave "The song a mother outs her baby to sleep with.” Another, clearly a sr.per-Einsteinian, defined it as "being in two places at the same lime.” A third, doubtless a future administrator, stated that it- was merely "a police court formula." Lastly, a pupil who seems somewhere to have heard of the allegory on the hanks of the- Nile, defined it as "a

town in Egypt.”

The glorious weather on Saturday brought out large numbers of people, and throughout the whole day—morning. afternoon and evening—the streets wore quite an animated appearance, the scene being reminiscentof the days before the recent depression period. Shopkeepers in all branches of trade report a big increase in business, and as ore business man stated: •'•'We have now entered well ‘into the new era.” He prophesised that the day would be the forerunner of many others of a like nature, and that pessimists would he abolished for the remainder of this year at least. The irresponsible small boy in the street with his “thrown-downs” arid crackers, purchased in anticipation of Guy Fawkes Day. and the parents walking homewards with long rockets, etc., gave the requisite carnival air to the scene, and Gisborne looked more like its old self than it has for manv moons.