LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10096, 8 September 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

—. . —■—- —' * — The Gisborne Boxing Association have arranged v/it-li tho Harrier Club orchestra, under the leadership of Air. VF. Stewart, to supply the music fit the tournament- to be held at the Opera House on Saturday night.

Yesterday the police raided a Chinese market gardener s premises at Alilton and took possession of six bottles of whisky. It- is understood a charge will be preferred against accused at Alilton on r richly. P.A.

Tho prices of adnvssion for the Eln'our-Heeney contest and amateur buxine championships at the Opeia House on Saturday n cht, shou d be the menus of attracting a capacity house. Pit and stalls have been fixe, at, one pi ’ce- only 5 -, circle </-. and front stalls S -. All prices to include tax.

Arthur Edward Cowper, dentist, was fined -r - 20 and costs for pel nutting one A.~F. Alurray. an unregistered mail, to carry or the practice o* dentistry in Iris name- on his beho.h. Alurra-v was fined .£5 h' l ' lio.ding himself out as practising dentistry. Costs only were allowed on two other charges against Alurray. l .A.

Great interest seems to- be centred round -the meeting 0i ,^ H j‘ J T rcm 1_ man, Dick Emoiir and Jack Heency in their boxing cutest at the Opera House next Fatumay. Judging by tho demand for seats at the opening of the booking at Mliter s Corner vesterdav this match. With the ac dtion of the fir. Is oi the Poverty Bay amateur chamiiienshi'ps, shou.d c.ian a packed house.

One hundred anil twenty-timee passengers wore carr txl, bj .the Gis. Alotor Sevvico ears on tho G inborn.--Napior route oil Sunday when - - major’tv of the v’s.tmg hockey p.,nevs left for their lamms m the south. Yesterday wax another . busy day, when tho balance of *the visitors departed, fifty outward pas song • ing transported by the company.

In the Palmerston North Police Court yesterday. *\ arc * ,Xr P i Stap’eton Mouldev (*--)* i pleaded guilty and the Supreme Cou t nt ' t £ - iing sentence oti a elm i go 1 * ” to Hssaiilt » girl of*' ei-clist' who S””1 i " 5 c filter, when heard the girl’s s . tl ( ', Vllo scene, actho Tjolteo .arrived on lneo _ He cused came out or a 1,,u 3. v „ » attributed the olVonce to drink. 1 . ■ To-mon-oiv. conunoncnS

For forty-five minutes a, man sought to evade arrest at Lyttelton early on Sunday morning, by swimming about the harbor, following a , wharf disturbance.,/Uonstables tried to arrest him butJthe man saw them coming and tcJk a header into the water. When he gave himself up. Yosterr&ay, the man, who is named I atrxuc Byrne, a sailor, appeared at the Court and was -fined on charges or drunkenness, obseepe language, and assaulting a constable. —P.A.

A colbsion between one of the Harbor Board’s hopper barges and the schooner Will Watch, occurred about 7 o’clock on Saturday evening. Ihe barge was being towed in irom the bay and, approaching its Kadi berthage at the rate of about four knots, collided with the wharf with considerable force and then ran into the stern of the schooner. Asa result the main boom of the Will Watch was smashed in half, and the bulwarks at the stern were somewhat broken. The boom was removed yesterday, and a new one was constructed bv the Harbor Board. The ’damage to the stern was not serious.

"There is an apparent misconception,” said tho Mayor (Mr. G. Wildish) in tiie course of an interview with a Times representative yesterday, "regarding the loan for additions to the existing electric plant.” The additional p'aTit was not required as a stand-by but was necessary to meet the present demands for power, ihe reason that the Council had consulted the Power Board in the matter was so that a unit could lie installed which would work in with any arrangements winch might hod good ill the future. The present plant was very much over-loaded, and the ;-ddit:onai unit was urgently needed so that all demands for power cou.d bo satisfied.

A proposal to establish municipal Turkish baths in Christchurch docs not meet with the approval of the Baths Committee of the City Council (states the Press). Tho committee reported to the council that they had made inquiries from Dunedin as to the success or otherwise ot Turkish baths, which were installed in association with the municipal baths there, a suggestion having been made that it might be advisable to run Turkish baths in conjunction with the Christchurch tepid baths. The reply from Dunedin was that, owing to the poor support received, the Turkish baths had gradually languished and was finally closed some years ago, after having been given a fair trial. The committee therefore had no recommendation to make in the matter.

Arrested for drunkenness on Saturday afternoon in Childers Road a young man named WEI am John Thomas was bai’ed out at 9 o’e'oek on Sunday morning, but at 2 o’clock that same afternoon he was found rolling about Custom Street again in an intoxicated condition. "It did not speak well for the way some of the hotels were conducted lor a ir.an to be in this condition on a Sunday,” said the 'Senior-Sergeant, when the defendant anpeared in the Po.ice Court before Air. E. C. Levvey, S M, yesterday. It was stated that Thomas was a hard-working man who had been engaged at Otbko for some time, but he' had a liking for liquor.—The Alagistrate: "I am going to hue you this time, but you get out of town as quickly as possible. On the firstcharge you will be fined 10/- and on the second £l. Now, you got out of town.”

Jt has become a common custom in America- for cities to provide camping grounds for touring motorists, so that many whose purses would not stand up to hotels and garage bills for two or three weeks and who wou’d otherwise never enjoy the delights of a motor tour, are thus ennb’cd. with their, tent and their ear. to see the sights of their country. Tins convenience wTI be made available to New Zealand motorists for the first- time at ihe New Zealand and South Seas Internationa’ Exhibition in Dunedin. The Otago A. and P. Soc-ietv lias granted the use of tho show ground at Tahuna Park for the purpose of the Otago Alotor Club, whose secretary ’■as ‘nforrred the Afotor Union in each Island of the faeflit’es thus made available for accredited members of motor clubs. At present it is 'lntended to make no charge, but if it is found necessary to appoint a. caretaker, a small charge w : ll be made to cover the expense. Tahuna Park is a dry. sandy n-T-ound within two mdes of the centre of the city. It is fenced in and has water laid on.

An Englishman at Ascot is a unique product in- his smart- perfection of turn-out. and 50,000 of such models of propriety gave tone to the Royal race meeting. The outstanding novelty of Ascot in 1925 was the unexpected popularity of silver-grey wear for men. and it mav be expected to set a fashion in 1920, as it is a rule that what Ascot men wear one year, well-dressed males all over the world will wear in the following year. Both the Duke of York and Prince Henry wore light grey worsted morning-coat suits and silver-grey top hats. King George, too, wore a grey frock-coat, a pale grey - waistcoat, and a- grey hat, with a silver-grey band. The more exclusive West End shops report a big demand for silver-grey’ clothes and hats, and the taste is extending to silver and grey neckties, jerseys, and golf stockings. Alen who did rot wear the popular silver or grey suits wore black swallow-tails, with lighttoned trousers and white spats.

The possibility of running exhibition trains fin the North and South Islands has (says the Railway Report) been considered in collaboration with the Department- of Industries and Commerce and representatives ot tho commercial, community. The proposal is. briefly, that- the exhibition train will consist of about ten carriages with the internal fittings removed and fitted up with stalls containing exhibits of the manufactures of the Dominion. The train will stop for a day and a night at various towns, and the exhibits will be open to the public. Suitable cinematograph displays will be given, and the attendants in charge of the exhibits will give lectures on New Zealand products. It- is proposed that- the train will contain an exhibition ot New Zealand-manufactured goods.and if business men take up the scheme it will give residents of the. Dominion an opportunity they would not otherwise have of obtaining a general survey of the high standard that has been attained in local industry.—Spl.