LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Gisborne Swimming Club’s bridge to bridge'race will take place to-night at 5.15. Entries .close at o o’clock with Mr. C. .Brown.

Messrs. Common, Shelton and Co., Ltd., draw attention to the' clearing sale to lie. held on behalf of Mr. M. G. Morgan at the farm, Te Karnka. on Thursday, January 12. Full particular:-; appear in the auctioneering column.

The tender of’'Messrs. Curtis and Co. being the lowest of three, was accepted for the formation of 7SJ chains of the Hangaroa-Wnikare-moana road by the Cook County Council at yesterday’s meeting. The amount of the tender was £7Gn.

During the month ended on D comber 21, . traffic licenses a cre issued hv the Cook County Council as fellows: Drivers’ 21. heavy traffic 11. Fees collected totalled £B5l lib: 10d. Jn the. same period four building permits (were issued and £3 in fees collected.

During the time from when the shop was locked up at 9.30 on Saturday evening till opening yesterday morning, the business premises of L. E. Collier. Cuba street, Palmerston North, furrier and tailor, were broken into and fur coats and necklets to the value of several hundred pounds stolen. Prior to Christmas, an unsuccessful attempt was made in burgle the shop.— P.A.

A young Maori, Claude Andrews, alias Wikiwana Karanria, was charged before Mr. E. C. I.evvey, S.AL, in the Police Court yesterday with the theft of- £■% belonging to Leo. Lafferty. Detective. McLeod explained that when the ease was mentioned previously, accused had intimated his intention of pleading guilty, hut now he intended denying the charge. K • therefore, applied ior a remand until Friday, which was granted.

A pneumonia patient at the Melbourne Hospital divested himself of his clothing, smashed a window and jumped to the roof of another ward, shouting, “Bring me a polireman." When, the police arrived, the naked patient became calnj, • saying. “I’m alright now. I’ve seen a policeman.” He was put to bed with a straightjacket on.

The Hon. O'. .J. Hawkon speaking at Wellington .yesterday, said the Government had last year planted 32.000 acres of trees on Government plantations, which now amounted to 130,000 acres. The object was to nlant 330,000 acres by 1033. Tests were being made to. see if certain N.Z. woods could bo utilised to make paper pulp. The nurserymen are to wart on the Government with a view to roo.nosting the State nurseries to compete with private, nurserymen in fair competition, and Stop the present cutting.—l*. A.

’ Shorn of its winter mantle, the Line Crater Lake, op, the north-east end of Tonga run, occupying one of the eight,or nine craters of the mouutaiu, is a, circular amphitheatre cf grim volcanic rock, black and grey, with sides sloping down to ex-quisitely-tinted blue waters. The distance across ihe water from shore to shore is about one-third of a. mile, iind many have been charmed iu the cast few weeks at the first sight- of the silent beauty. At 6000 feet above the sea, the snow and ice of winter were still uinnelted two months ago, and Hampers who were in that part of the .National Park even, a month ago had an arduous and toilsome climb before they, looked down upon the great sloping sides of the basin-shaped crater.

New fashions apply to the, home as well as to the'individual, and in this connection -pictures have shown a most- decided change of late years. In the up-to-date' home the large black and white- engravings, framed in two to three-inch oak, or similar - wood, have given place to the much smaller picture in which practically all the colors of the rainbow are represented In many cases the originals are nninted bv. some' of the world’s lcadiug artists, and; the replicas are at times difficult to- distinguish from the original. Venetian love scenes, beautiful garden vistas, seascapes, etc., all are faithfully copied. The fashionable frame is of half or three-quarter inch, black wood or gold, and tho v . pictures framed' seldom exceed 24 inches hi - 12 inches. These are in spell um-ve-vsnl demand that they can ho retailed cheaply, tho. prices, including framing, running from 12s. 6d, A lorw assortment may be seen at Eastwood’s Rook Store, whore an insnoetiori is invitpdv n° one being Pressed to purchase. Those who prefa,. as a hobby, to do their own framing -also have a big selection otuntrained pictures of the sam<?>. class to choose from. 'V

For his second offence of di inL ness wthin K hll was fined 10s by Mr. K- *-■ livfmy, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday.

* It i.£ stated to bo unlikely, states a, Wellington telegram that the re port of the commission set up to enquire into the confiscation of native lands will he published before presentation. to ~ Parliament next sc=». sion. —P.A . • ■

After experiencing, wfet -wona.ior with heavy seas on 1 uesdny th launch “Jane” owned 'by UieHaW Ice’s Bay Trawling Company Mom Gisborne developed; engine iroubJo and was, forced to put in at, W bar - gara. When no news was received on Tuesday of the launch grave iear., tor her- -«a fetj , h„t it is reported that the crew are all well and the launch is undamaged.

l‘TJie new svndieal laws by which ltalv is going to be mobilised into a Socialistic State is one of the most interesting experiments in economirvs,” said Mr. H. Hall, a Tim aru architect, on bis return to New Zealand. He said that Mussolini bad forced down the prices.of all coipm,Politics bv 20 per cent This was done by proclamation, and wages had to go down accordingly. Ihe posiuon was accepted without dispute by both employers' and employees.

i . During an appropriate interval m the Peace Shield boating tournament ar, the Ivahutia Club yesterday, Mr. G. B. Whiting formerly inspector m, Labor in Gisborne, and now a member of the visiting Now ' - mouth rink, thanked' the local in erahors for the kindness and hospitality showered on the visitors and extended an invitation to them to visit New Plymouth at any time, also expressing the hope that some (aisborne representatives would be participating in the New Plymouth tournament on January 23.

The new motor regulations recently circulated in draft form will probably not -be gazetted, as revised for some weeks yet. A fair response has been ma-de to the invitation extended to local bodies and others to consider the proposals, and lorwnrd suggestions to the authorities, a lair batch of replies having reached the Public Works Department. It is understood that the mdjor proposals have been generally accepted as ' satisfactory, but that the criticism offered has not in the main followed a constructive line. The revisi»d regulations are ready for issue, but further consideration by Cabinet, will be necessary before they are gazetted.—P.A.

The deadlock between the contractors for the Tawa Flat tunnel and their workmen concerning the conditions and rates of pay still continues. After the last abortive conference the contractors declared that if the men, did not accept their offers by the endi of the year they would man the tunnel with independent workers, and recommence operations on Tuesday. Mr. Cook, general secretary of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, stated yesterday his union had not been further approached by'the contractors, and the union intended to make no further move .in the meantime. Work was not restarted at Iho tunnel yesterday.— P.A.

A conference of school inspectors is to be held towards the end of next month to consider modifications in the primary school curriculum and the recommendations made in that connection by the School Syllabus Revision Committee, which has been hearing evidence on the question at intervals during the past twelve months. An advance drait .4 the committee’s report is now under consideration by officers of the Education Department, and it is anticipated that an advanced draft of the revised syllabus Whll be placed before the conference of inspectors. The final meeting of the Syllabus Revision Commit toe will also be held in February, when the finishing touches will he put to the report, which will then go on to the Minister.—P.A.

“Coriaria." writes to the Auckland Star: “At one. time t-iitu was supposed to he deadly poisonous to stock and some of the early writers c.n our botany gave alarming accounts ot the mortality among cows and horses. I laast quoted a. case of an elephant with a travelling show .that picked up a food by the roadside in a country district, and promptly turned up its tops. In some cases cows cat tutu not only freely but greedily, and seem none the worse. Walking along the Exhibition Drive at Titirangi one day recently, I saw a drove ot cows feeding indiscriminately on the scanty grass and on tho hush growths by the” side of the track. One matronly Jersev was making a full meat off a tall tutu hush, and enjoying big mouthfuls without- showing the slightest inclination tn lie down and die."