LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

During the -past month three eases of infectious disease, one each of diphtheria, cerebro' spinal meningitis and one of scarlet fever; vrpte- reported in the Cook Comity. The rangers: of the Cook County Council impounded 461 head of : stock off the county roads during the past mouth, according to a report to the council yesterday.

■’ In the Supreme Court in .Auckland yesterday, Joseph McGovern, on 17 counts of forgery and uttering cheques and theft, was sentenced to 12 ’months’ imprisonment.'—P.A. An < overturned motor-car, badly damaged, lying in a ditch in Upper Ormond road last evening near Sim and MciAra/V store, aroused much interest in the minds of passers-by, hut no particulars could be ascertained as to the cause of the mishap. The overdraft of the Cook County Council, after passing accounts yesterday, stood at £19,768, an increase from £17,157 since. September 22. Rates received,during the month totalled £3BO 12s sd, the receipts aggregating £791 15s lid. The Matron of Cook Hospital acknowledges with thanks a performance by the Salvation Army Band at the institution during , the month, also gifts from the following: Messrs J. Duncombe, D'. J. Barry, 'Chappell, H. S.' Philips, , Muir; Mesdames Dodgshun, Grayson, Chas. Gray and John Clark. At Tuescray , night’s meeting of'the j Auckland provincial executive of the Fairmers’ • Union it was' the general opinion that the Summer Time Act would benefit only the sporting community. A motion was carried asking the Education Board to permit rural schools to retain , standard time.* — P.A. ■ “Carrying on of the panoply of an English Cathedral service is one of the most expensive . amusements there is,” said Dean Carrington, amid laughter, at the Christchurch Diocesan. Synod session. ‘.‘Next to the drama the most expensive thing to run is the opera, and then comes the highly-paid artistic labour involved in a cathedral ■ service. It is tremendously expensive, but is a groat means of grace in the diocese.” Tlje sum of £4-18,060 will be made available to suppliers of the New Zealand. Co-operative Hairy Company to-morrow. This month’s payment exceeds by 21 per cent, the'corresponding distribution of last, year, approximately £350,000. The company’s butter output from June to September inclusive totals 4803 tons compared with 3815 tons for the corresponding period of 1926, an advance of 26 iier cent.—Special. “This is just an instance of how fair British firms can be in their dealings,” stated the' Mayor (Mr. J . V. Brown) at the Napier Borough Council’s meeting, when the council was advised by a firm in the Did Country that it had agreed to grant the council a rebate of £l2O on the order it had placed. The council expressed appreciation of the action of the firm concerned, and decided to forward a letter conveying those sentiments. An English wool-buyer, vylio arrived at Auckland by the Rotorua from Southampton expressed the opinion that wool prices in the coming season would show an advance on 192627 realisations (says the New Zealand “Herald). “The "Continent is the factor leading to that conclusion on the present market basis,” he said. “One hesitates to forecast in so uncertain a trade, but those are the indications of the hour.” A request of the Vacuum Oil Co. that their staff be allowed to use the Council’s water hydrants for lire practice in connection with the Company’s premises, Reel Street, was mentioned by the Borough Engineer (Mw A. Young) to the last Borough Council meeting. He said that after consultation with the Firo Superintendent, it was considered that there was no objection to the Company using the hydrants for dry practices only. Owing, in this case, a'nd for technical reasons, it is not desirable to allow water to be used for such fire practice.—The Mayor was instructed to confer with the company officials ou the matter. How to feed the destitute exercises the Auckland Unemployment Association just as much as it exercises the poor how to feed themselves. There are innumerable sad cases, but some of the men who coine lor help do not deserve much sympathy as individuals. One man in particular who has several dependents event to the association asking that his tram fares to relief work should be paid, and that he should be given, a week’s meal tickets. The meal ticket appeal prompted the association's “reliever” to ask about the man's.wile and children, to which the dutiful husband and father replied airily, that “they could go and _ fisli for themselves,” so he received no tram fares either.—Special. The provision of accommodation for T.B. cases, who are now housed in the main portion of Cook Hospital, was) a subject upon which the Medical Superintendent (Dr. R. J. B. Hall) waited on the finance committee of the Board, according to a report "to the meeting yesterday. Dr. Hall suggested utilising the old isolation wooden building, which could be converted into wards for both male and female patients at an approximate cost of £6oo.—lt was decided to refer the matter to the Board for consideration.—Upon the medical superintendent _ reporting that he had not yet had time to investigate the proposals thoroughly, the matter was deferred until next meeting. There was no appearance of Hy. Walter Hall or Walter John Loach, bankrupt gramophone and radio dealers, of Gisborne, Napier and Palmerston North, at a meeting of creditors summoned for yesterday. The Deputy Official Assignee (Mr. O. Blackburn) announced that lie understood that Loach was ill, whilst Hall had written and wired, to him, stating he did net wish “to shirk his'responsibilities and desired 'to ho present,” and, therefore, asked that sufficient money for travelling expenses should fie sent to him in Napior so. that lie’might come here to attend the meeting. The Assignee remarked to the one creditor in attendance that lie did not' feel disposed to send the money. The creditor concurred,, it being stated that the estate. would produce about £3O. The meeting was adjourned: . To-morrow,. at 424 Gladstone? road, commencing at 1.30 sharp, Mr. Fred Barwick will hold an auction sale, of household furniture. Included in the list is one Waldemar piano, an exceptionally good instrument. Juvenile readers, and their parents also, will be interested to learn tl)at some of the leading London publishers have reduced tlio prices of their reward books this Xmas. These comprise school, adventure, boy and girl Scout stories, etc., by the best writers of the present day. In somo cases books sold for the past few 1 years at 4/6, are now reduced to 3/6. 3/6 to 2/3, 3/- to 2/3, and 2/6 to 1/9'. A large selection of these boojjs, together with a large-assortment of the latest children’s annuals, which have arrived earlier than usual this year, are on sale at Eastwood’s Book Store. •• :■ s • - - ■ 'Find.carbon deposit -o'ower and wastes petrol. Less carbon'when Using Duck ham’s New Process Motor Oil, therefore sweeter ' running arid , lower fuel cost.—j 5.

In the House last S Minister stated v that the Works Statement would come <g*n this week, - and the. Industrial Lou ciliatjon and Arbitration A^nerMmept Bill would ho brought down to-day. iP.A.- ' . v . Tennis enthusiasts . around'v Td Karalca will celebrate the opem g the Te Ivaraka Tennis Club o* l Saturday next. The ceremony was postponed from last Saturday p] 0 good weather, a most enj j < dayls fun should ensue. The tenders of the British. -£-W*" ial Oil Company for a supply ot ffitu men at £9 4s per ton. and. the uum Oil Company at £l2 11s 3J I • ton,for road oil were accepted by.tue Borough Council on Tuesday ‘even ing. . Vi “ •Having received a report irom the, city engineer recommending a pUi for re-conditionmg the city streets at a cost over 11,000,000, ,spreao over several years, the woiks - mittee of the Chnstehuteh City Council is recommending the Coun oil to take a poll on a loan proposal for £350,000, the idea being that ratepayers may be more 'M-A ‘° agree to a senes of smaller tones than one large loan.—l A. • • , ■ On September 1 there avci-c- 1patients in the Cock Hospital, according to a report submitted by th medical superintendent to. the Board yesterday. Since then 133 patients had been admitted, six had died and 123 had been discharged, leaving 132 patients in the institution teniber 30.—The chairman reported there were now' 128 in hospital an 16 in the' isolation ward, the figures being higher this year than last.. The memorial erected to the memory of the late Hon. W. D. fe ; . Mcs Donald in the Makaraka cemetery cost £196 17s 2d. • stated- Or.' Chas. Matthews, chairman of the Cook County Council, at yesterdays meeting, when he added that the local bodies of the Bay of Plenty electorate and of the Gisborne borough, as well as the Kia Ora Co-operative Daily Co., were contributing to the cost. Photographs of the memorial had been taken, and one each would be sent to the contributing bodies, to Mrs, McDonald, and also to the members of the late Ministers family. Appreciation of an employee’s work, and when it should be given, formed the subject of, a brief discussion at tile Cook Hospital Board meeting yesterday, when a motion came forward to thank an employee who was going oil sick leave. Some members held that such appreciation was very encouraging, whilst others expressed the view that the worker was doing no more than 'she was paid for. “After all,” remarked Mr. Q. G. Bavliss, “when you’re going on a holiday, you don’t expect the boss to come along and say, ‘Thanks very much for what you have done.’ ” (Laughter.)—The motion was abandoned- “ There is over £30,000 in hospital fees outstanding over the last ten years,” remarked 3D. C. G. Bayliss at the Cook Hospital Board yesterday.- “If this, institution, werq; run as a business, it would soon he in the Bankruptcy Court. I contend that it js more or less a business and should be ruu on proper lilies.”—The chairman (Mr. W. G. Sherratt) informed members that, since a clerk had been specially assigned to attend to the collection of fees, the sum of £3,609 had been collected for the ten months of this year, as against £2,781 for the same period of last year, an increase of £B*l3. The annual re-union of returned soldiers will take place in the Garrison Hall on Tuesday evening next. Every returned soldier and Avar veteran is invited to be present, including non-members of the R.S.A. General Sir Andrew Russell, who commanded the New Zealand division in France, will deliver an address on It.S.A. matters'. Some years ago it ed as if the R.S.A. would go out of_ existence through lack of interest,' but ou. Sir. Andrew Russell’s return from France, lie revived the Association,- gathering in hundreds of new members, and consequently it is now ou a sound footing. In addition, a strong musical programme, vocal and orchestral, is in'* the .capable hands cf Mr. Geo. Crawshaw. conductor of the Orpheus Society. ,■ To save congestion at the door intending patrons are asked to procure tickets at Tattersail and Bayly’s or from members ox the committee. The piopesal to giant an. extra £4O subsidy to the J'uranganui library bringing the total grant to £IOO was objected to by Cr. G. B. Smith at the Borough Council on Tuesday evening. When the committee’s recommendation was under discussion Cr. Smith contended that as tho council was economising in all directions, the increasing of the' subsidy was in opposition to the principle of. the policy and lie proposed that tho question of making the grant- should be deferred until the iiext estimates were framed. He was supported by Crs. McGibbon, Collin, and Holmes', all of whom spoke on similar lines. The Mayor and Cr. Todd emphasised that the library was a public asset to the town, and a benefit to the people. The grant was made on the Mayor’s casting vote. Wluit should prove a sensation in busiuess circles in Gisborne will be the half-price jewellery sale to bo opened at Messrs. A. Stoneliam and Co.’s to-morrow, and in order to make preparations for the event the shop will be closed this morning. The sale is necessitated by the fact that Xmas goods have already arrived l , and room must be found for these new stocks. There was only one way out of the difficulty, and that was to clear the shelves in the shop, and this will he done by means of reducing everything in the • establishment to half-price. What this means, wilt he seen hy a few examples out of the thousands in the shop. Fifteen and seven-jewelled levers for instances, which a day ago were 32s 6d to £7, will be sold from 16s ‘Sd to £3 10s, •silver wristlet watches have been rtN duced from 37s Gd to 18s 6d,; and irom £6 to £3, and gold watches mav be purchased at the sale at from £1,1) upwards. In diamond rings there is a very largo assortment, tho, usual prices £5 to £l2O being reduced to £2 10s to £6O. With tne coming of the sports season, committees of various organisations would ho well advised to make their purchases of cups in advance for these in E.P.X.S. will be available to-morrow from 5s Gd te £7 10s. arid Mu silver from £8 up to £l2 IDs. There is a large assortment, of English, hand-cut cmtal, comprising decanters, saiad bowls, ’ fruit stands, glasses, etc., wtuch at half-price 'range from 3s 6d te £3. Dozens of gold brooches will bo sacrificed at 2s Gd each. In view ot the approach of summertimo, re-' liable clocks, both mantel and alarm will be found of great use, and these may be purchased from 6s 3d- unwards. The firm has always specialised m good china, and- cups and saucers will bo on salo item 2s 6d upwards, and sots Irom £3. to*' -04fho salo will commence at 8 a.m 'tol morrow, and bargain hunters aro urged 111 their own interest to make an early visit, ' Tho newest goods, become more moderate in price, yet the dainty colorings and exclusive styles are more appealing,than ever. Summer frock* m every desired materiaf for' overy occasion await your choice. Exquish ite Summer, Coats in Georgetto7and Orepo-de-clnue aro te bo- most popudar. You - will find‘ 'the newest mantles and -imlHnery at Mfitlimw son’s v — (Adv.) , V. .