LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10724, 23 October 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

A modernly equipped hrick dwelling is to be ’erected on behalf of Mr. If. Harris on a site now occupied by a wooden 'building in Peel street, opposite the Power Board’s offices. "

In the billiards match McConachy is 16.501 (in play), and 'Lindrmn 15,717. The best breaks yesterday were McConachy 766, 542, 235 and 103 (unfinished), and Lindrum 344, 342, and 194.—Press Assn.

An Auokland Press Assn message states that detectives arrested Cecil Francis Hunt on a charge of breaking and entering Meltzcr Brothers’ pawnshop in the city on June 25, and stealing jewellery etc. to the value of £l2O. Accused was remanded till Wednesday.

Spurious ten pound notes appeared at Caulfield on Saturday, and are believed to be identical with those given bookmakers at the same meeting a year ago, originating from the same gang of Sydney forgers.—Ati'st. Pi *oss Assn.

The largest land deal transacted in the Waikato for a long time was recently completed by Mr. F. W. Kemp, land agent, of Hamilton, who sold a farm of 1053 acres at Kiwitahi, formerly owned by Mrs Bell, to Mr L. Lamer, of Auckland, for £25,000 cash.

A two-seater car travelling to Tolaga Bay on Saturday, came to grief just beyond Turehau. The machine skidded in loose gravel and turned over in the watertable. One of the occupants, Mr. F. G. Bafcdr, of Tolaga Bay, received a fractured nose, and lesser facial injuries. The other occupant escaped unscathed.

Eleven members of the .Scholium family formed a team which easily defeated Muriwai on the country wicket during the week-end. The visitors compiled 175, Joe Scholium 74 retiring, and Colm Scholium 57. The home team rseponded with only 33, Jock Scholium taking four wickets anl Pat Scholium five.

Jr A i>arrot is one of the King’s most (faithful companions, and resides in the royal room. It has for som o years accompanied His Majesty when abroad, and the pair first met while the King was serving in the navy? and visited a foreign port. This, together with the advent of Sir Joseph Ward to tho leadership of the United Party, reminds one of a wartime cartoon. It pictured meetings of Sir Joseph Ward and King George. Alongside was a parrot, saying, “Pretty Joey, Pretty Joey.”

The Empire 'Forestry conference at its final sitting at Auckland yesterday morning passed a resolution affirming the desirability of adopting the same name throughout the Empire for each spfecies of timber. Socalled birches, for instance, in New Zealand, are really beeches, now known bv different names in the North and South Island. The conference passed a somewhat similar resolution regarding the urgent use of the same set of terms for all forestry plants, no matter in what part of tho Empire. A number of the delegates left in the afternoon for Wellington en route to Sydney, and others leave by the Vancouver boat on Wednesday.' Lord Clinton says the commission was especially impressed by tne wonderful amount of tree planting in New Zealand, by the qualities of the growth, by the wise manner in which the forest areas are being conserved, and by the beautiful scenic reserves set apart- in the most liberal manner-in towns.—Press Assn.

a connection with the cable nies-

saga regarding the twelve British public school boys coming to the Waitaki Boys’ High School, Mr. Frank Milner ,rector, informed the Oamaru Mail that the arrangement is for. a limited number of boys of Shout 'tT vears of age to come to Waitaki for two years to receive l education on the agricultural side in order to familiarise themselves with the theoretical aspects of farming and New Zealand conditions by mixing with New Zealand boys thus eliminating the trouble of failure.to acquire'the New Zealand atmosphere. The scheme lias been devised by the English Public Seliols Employment Bureau, and Waitaki has been chosen because it is a chartered member of the English Headmasters’ Conference schools and because it has an agricultural side and facilities for such boys. Two British boys at Waitaki are now doin<>- very well, and one lias been ottered a good position in the Waikato. The boys ' are under the supervision of Mr. 'Milner, and under the Secretary of the Immigration Department. —Press Assn.

In the capable hands of Mr. G. Crawshaw. arrangements for a hue musical programme for the Diggers Reunion to-niglit have been finalised. The reunion will take place in the Citv Hall, and the' catering has been organised on a scale appropriate to an expected attendance of 300 01 more returned men. The ex-servico men will have, as their guests the Hon. K. S. Williams, Minister ot Public Works -and Postmaster-Gen-eral; General R. \oung, Zealand Defence Forces; Mr. •* • Lysnar, M.P.; Mr. D W. Coleman, Mayor of Gisborne; Lieut-Od. O. Hellier Evans ; and Mr S. J. Harir son. Dominion secretary of the It s A Captain R. Sherwood Hale, president of the Tbkomq.ru Bay association, will head one delegation from the coast, and other parties are expected to attend from the branches of the Gisborne ICS.A. at Tolaga Bay, Ituatoria. and le Araroa. Hio country district and Wairoa will also be represented at the gathering, should prove one of the most important of its kind held since tho close of the war.