LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10562, 16 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

An unusual visitant to Patutalii last week was reported in the presence there, near Mr. J .M.. Monckton’is homestead, of a line 10-pointer stag.

Members of the Cook County Yv’omen’s J Guild entertained the 51 inmates of the Children's Creche at a very enjoyable picnic in. Gray’s Bush last week.

“More drastic measures are required to keep, weevily maize from entering the Dominion,” says the' annual report of the Opotiki branch of the Farmers’ Union.

Trapped in an engineer’s shop in Kitchener street, Auckland, late'on Friday night, a middle-aged man was arrested by a patrolling constable, a probationer, only doing his second night on beat duty. Money in the safe apparently was tlie intruder’s objective.—P.A.

“The noxious weed menace is getting worse year by year and in some cases almost beyond the resources of the individual farmer. More drastic measures are needed for the eradication of noxious weeds, by way of the Government employing men to do the work.”—Extract from annual report of Opotiki branch of the Farmers’ Union.

Work on the projected two-storey building in . Lowe street, to replace the wooden structure burned down last year, will commence almost immediately. Mr. J. Colley was the successful tenderer for the contract at u price reported, to be in the neighborhood of £B,OOO. The building is being erected for the owner of the property, Mr. J. W. Bates, of Hastings. while Mr. das. Greig is the architect.

Wairoa is shortly to have a , new theatre, according to the present plans of Mr. It. J. Kerridge, proprietor of the Palace Theatre, Gisborne. The new building will be a palatial structure, having a seating capacity of 1000, with two large shops also contained in it. Mr. F. H. Forge, of Gisborne, will be the architect. At present the site of the theatre has not been definitely decided, but- Air. Iverridge has offers of two suitable sections.

Costing £2,000. Feilaing’s new football grounds on Johnston Park were officially opened on Saturday by the Mayor (Mr. E. Fair). The grounds are perfectly equipped, the grandstand being a feature. Mr. T. Collins, president of the Feilding Football Club, who is chiefly responsible for securing the grounds, received a presentation from supporters of local Rugby. Two senior matches wore played. Hui Mai (Manakau) defeated Feilding by 13 to 11, and Wanganui Old Boys defeated Feilding Old Boys by 19 to 13. —Press Assn.

The rights of stock inspectors to examine herds suspected of being diseased, was mentioned at a meeting of the Poverty Bay executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday by -'ll'. W. H.'Shu to. He stated lie knew of one herd suffering from tuberculosis, but he understood that the inspector could make an inspection without the owner’s permission.—The union agreed to ascertain if the inspector could not make an inspection without the owner’s permission, and if this was found to be the true position. Mr Shute added he would complain about the herd in question.

A suggestion that as the union liad accepted responsibility for the English public schoolboys who liad taken up farm work in the district, it should convene a gathering of these ‘‘voung men on the land’’ annually with the idea of making them feel at home, was made by Mr. Adair to the .Poverty Bay executive of the Farmers' Unicu on Saturday. The idea was generally accepted by members, who decided to write to the English publie schoolboys’ organisation which, it Was reported, had been formed in this district with a view to organising a social gathering about A. and .11. Show time.

Substantial loss through fire was sustained on Saturday night by Mr. D. Johnston, of Hansen road, Hexton, who has a milk round in town. Returning home about 9.39 p.nn., Mr. Johnston discovered a store shed fiercely blazing and so entirely out of control that he could only watch it burn to the ground. Adjoining structures were endangered, but good i ovk by Mr. Johnston and some helpers prevented the fire from spreading. The shed contained three sets of harness, a milk float, three loads of firewood and Mr. Johnston’s winter feed for his dairy herd, all of which were completely destroyed. Mr. Johnston estimates his loss at about £IOO, for nolle of the contents of the shed was insured. Nothing is known of the origin of the fire and. as far as is known, nobody had entered the shed since about 6 o’clock that evening.

Complaining that insurance companies were making a fortune out of rates for policies on motor-cars, Mr. F. S'. Bowen, president'of the. Poverty Bay. executive of the Far mens’ Union, suggested oil Saturday that a remit should be sent to the Dominion conference on the subject. The collection of certain information was first neeessqi'y.he said, and life, considered that the Dominion secretary should ascertain the total amount paid out by in eurance companies for motor-car accidents and losses by five and otherwise of vehicles, and also the amounts paid hy the car owners in the district in .covering their cars. Mr. J. E. Benson agreed, stating that in these time when if was compulsory to insure against third party risk the rates ivere far too high. “Yes,” added the president, “the companies are charging £7 when the rate should be 10s. He pointed out that if a car owner picked up a man on the road and gave him a lift, whether lie. asked for one or not, and an accident occurred and that memin was injured Ahe^car; owner was ÜbSje for damages .—The union agreed tbfdeal -with all remits to be forwarded 'to the. conference -at . the next, meeting. ■-■ ’ - ;Aw’ v : YV-v:..; - v v ..\ y\

, >A six-roomed house in Smart road. New Plymouth, owned and oceupietl by Mr. 11. J. Dais ley, was destroyed by fire on Friday. The insurance was £BOO on the house and £3OO on the furniture.—P.A.

Early on Saturday evening Cordon Lasky, a young man, met w.itn a painful accident in Gladstone road. He was riding a push-bike to which an auto-wheel was attached. Ihe iron forks broke and he was precipitated heavily on the roadway, receiving severe facial injuries.

A laborer, George Alendies, while feeding a circular saw cutting timber at Redcastle, near Oamaru, met witn a serious accident. The saw burst, and the teeth struck bun on the lorehead and penetrated the skull, tie was sent to hospital, where an operation was found to be necessary. .Hiss condition is serious.—P.A.

The stoic of Kemp Bros, at Alungerc, Auckland, was burglariously entered on Friday night. The intruders, having failed to effect an entry »)\ the front door, climbed a .verandah post, lifted a sheet of iron Jiom the roof, and entered through a panef ir> tho ceiling. They failed to obtain an} money, and regaled themselves with pakes and cigarettes.—iP.A.

Unemployment, according to the registrations at the Labor Department. Bureau on Saturday, has slightly improved during the past week, there being a reduction of two as coinparea with the preceding week. The total How is GO of whom 39 are maruen men. Four men were placed m employment during the week, at Alangapuike, and there were 22 new applications as against 18 during ffie previous week.

In the Blenheim Police Court on Saturday John Graham, alias John Sinclair, alias Charles George Breen, 40, a cook, was sentenced to three rnontlLS’ gaol for the theft of shirts, sox, and garters from a fellow hotel employee. Accused has a length} ust of convictions, starting in 1920. For the theft of a suit of clothes, the property of Malcolm Kerr, at Sumiyside station, Ahutin boro ugh, last month, Eric Nimrod Dixon, 21, was adinittec. to one year’s probation.—-P.A.

The breaker of a window in Parliament Buildings, Wellington, Regina la Nelson Wiut'ord, 45, laborer, pleaded guilty on Saturday to drunkenness and committing miscliief. The police stated that the accused apparent!} was inclined towards this offence when under the influence of liquor, as in 1924' he had been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a similar offence at Kirkcaldie and Stains’ shop. He ivas convicted and ordered to make good the damage, £2 10s. in default seven days’ gaol.—P-A.

When Poverty Bay apple growers estimated that. they would require shipping space for about 12,000 cases during the present season, they un-der-estimated their requirements by nearly half. Already, this season, a total of 12,190 eases lias been sent tyway and there are still about 11,000 cases of the fruit available for expert. Of this surplus, 7,000 cases are to be shipped by the Mainioa, due at Gisborne on Afay 1-1. but it appears likely that the remaining fruit wilhave to be retained for the local market.

Following on a previous report iron; the Principal Inspector, Air. Muuro, of Auckland, the East Coast Rabbit Board, on Saturday, agreed to forward a petition to the Government asking for the alteration of the board’s boundaries to those suggested by Mr. Muuro which involve the cutturn off of a large area of waste land on the Rangutuiki Plains which the Government prefer to work themselves. When the boundary question was discussed at the previous meeting. it was reported that the Department owed the board £2,000 for work done on Crown and native lands, but a letter from the department- pointed out that this was not the position. It was explained that when all the accounts were submitted to the department, the department would then owe the board the amount quoted.

When the Poverty Bay executive of the Farmers’ Union received ad vie* on Saturday from the commercia. manager of' the Railway Departmeut (Mr. D. Rodie) that traffic was being worked on the Napier-Wairoa line as far as Tutira, the section beyond Eskdale being still controlled by the Public Works Department, Mr. J. Meld inquired as to the effect on freights for fertilisers for this district. The president (Mr. F. S. Bowen) replied that he had been informed that the Railway Department had hoped to have the line constructed to Waikare last year. The onlv improvement which the railway would have on the freights of sea-borne manures from Auckland, was. that it would allow fertilisers to be brought from Wanganui to the railhead, and thence by lorry to Gisborne. “As soon as the door is open in that direction the freights from Auckland will be reduced,” added Mr. Field.