Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9947, 26 February 1925, Page 4

Local and General

High School pupils are advised by advertisement that lists of the books required this year may be obtained from booksellers. They are also earnestly requested to commence home study forthwith. During school hours they'’may consult members of the staff by ’pi 10 no. The Cosmopolitan Club entered into temporary premises in Dunlop's Buildings,; in Lowe Street, yesterday, and until the new building is erected the Club will bo conducted there. The library is being accommodated in a separate section of the building from the ordinary club.

The Nafcivo Court sitting, which was tp have commenced yesterday, hast been adjourned until Monday. The assessment of the compensation to he paid by the Harbor Board in respect of land at Awapuni which is being taken from Native owners by the Board under the Pubic Works Act, is one of the most • important cases.

At the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday, John Lawrence Oosgrave, on four charges of misch’ef (maiming animals), was sentenced to five years' informative treatment. Henry Tekaua. a Maori youth, for theft 'at Dargaville, was ordered two years at the Borstal Institute.—P.A.

What should prove to be one of the most enjoyable social functions of the season will be a euchre party and da-nce, to be he’d by the Poverty Bay Poultry Association in Liberty Hail on Monday next. A euchre tournament will be played from 8 to 10 p.m., and dancing will follow until midnight.

The Mamikau bar has been unwork able since Mondoay night,' states a P.A. message' from Auckland. The Rarawa left Onehunga wharf for New Plymouth oil Monday afternoon, and anchored inside the heads til! yeslcrday afternoon. The sea being still very rough she returned to the wharf. Her departure has been postponed till Thursday afternoon.

A middle-aged man, Francis Walter Selves, :ppea red before Mr F. 'C. Levvey, S.M., in the 'Police Courtvosterday, charged with being on licensed premises when they were required to he closed. Senior Sergeant Fitzpatrick said that defendant admitted being on the premises, but bad gone there for a purpose other than to obtain liquor. A fine of os and costs Ts was imposed.

The secretary of the local Farmers’ Union has received advice from the Imnrgrntion Department that ten more boys have been allotted to this district and should arrive here about March 10. According to latest advice received from the country, all the other boys that have been allotted to tho district through the Farmers’ Un:on. are giving the fullest satisfaction to their employers.

“Good hand-writing lias become practically a lost art to-day,” said MY J. Morrison, of Christchurch, at the Accountants’ Convention at Wellington yosterdsry, in the course ot a strong criticism of specimens of "hard-writing that came under the not’ee of business men. “Some ex’amplos ” lie said, "'were enough to make one weep.” He opined that writing was not taught in the schools ns it used to be when the proper att"tilde and the holding of the pen were enforced under penalties.

■ A statement in the press yesterday morning that many of the Aornngi’s stewards were not competent was the subject of a protest by the stewards last evening. They refused to serve dinner. Captain Crawford met the men and undertook that a. modifying statement would be published. Captain (.'rawlord states that on the whole the stewards are a competent lot and til's, lie says, is confirmed by a number of passengers.—id.A.

The question of tho day that grocers’ shops in seaside boroughs near to Christchurch should observe as a half-half-holiday came before Mr .Justice Adams at the Supreme Court yesterday ill the form of a motion 'for a writ of certiorari to squash an order by the Arbitration Court, amending the grocers’ assistants’ award, the ground being that the Arbitration Court had no jurisdiction to make the order. The motion was referred bv consent to tiie Full Court. —P.A. '

Mr Fawcett, Government Agriculture ,instructor for Hawke’s Bay is at present in the Motu district visiting farms at the request ot farmers... who all express themselves as l;e.ng greatly impressed by Mr Fawcett’s scientific kuow.edge regarding their pastures, and announce their intention of carrying out his suggestions especially in regard to the poorer classes of country, which can he brought back to a proper standard of fortuity, provided of course, that the owner is prepared to spend the time and money.

On exhibition at the Fanners’ Union offices is a fine specimen of a Long Island Beauty edible maize cob. The cob is full-grown, and over a foot in length, being far in advance of the local grown sweet nia'ze. This maize was grown from the seed imported From the United States by Mr G. Broom, Fox Street. Mr Broom also imported at the same time a sample of the Sixty Days maize, which, on being planted about the end of October reached maturity at the end of December.

While a horse was being groomed in a stable at Mr J. Yon Lein’s, Haugnroa, station, on Sunday afternoon, the animal suddenly took fright and, rushing out the door, it knocked over two boys and ran into a young lady, Miss Vera Croon,, who was knocked down and severely trampled. Miss Croon was rendered unconscious lor about an hour and a-ha.lf, but on recovery, beyond bruises and shock, nothing else was thought to be the matter. As her condition did not improve she was brought into town on Tuesday afternoon, and ail X-ray examination revealed that she was suffering from a fractured leg and severe bruises on the shoulder. Miss Croon was removed to Lister Hospital where, according to latest inquir es, she is progressing favorably.

Information was received yesterday morning in regard to the first selection for B grade events at tbe Auckland contest. A telegram was forwarded to Mr A. E. Lawrence, the conductor. asking for information as to the number of points scored by each band, it being considered that witn this information it would be possible to judge whether or not there was any 'likelihood of the local band making up the deficiency. A reply was received yesterday afternoon, staffing that tho points would not be disclosed until Friday night, when, it is assumed, tho other selections will he board. The message adds that the judge stated that all the bands were very close, so that the placing of: the competitors in the first, selection is not‘necessarily an indication .ofa' the. firiaTresn’t.’