LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The mails which left Auckland on September 25, via Vancouver, per tlm Aorangi, arrived in London on October 27.

, A Sydney cable .stales!: The Maheno is encountering very rough weather and will not arrive in Sydney until 10.30 on Tuesday night.”—Aust. Press Assn.

Tho directors of the New Zealand Paper Mills at a meeting at Dunedin yesterday, authorised tho payment of an interim dividend at the rate of 3 per cent.—Press Assn.

Twenty-five applications were received by the Harbor Board yesterday for the position of clerk of works of the wave trap seawall contract, which is now under way, no decision was reached, the appointment being deferred until the next meeting.

All previous receptions accorded the Prune Minister (Mr. Coates) on his current election campaign paled into insignificance when compared with the scenes of enthusiasm which marked his address in the Auckland Town Hall last night, wires our special correspondent. At Christchurch yesterday Waltei Lindrum and Clark McConachy began a billiards match of 18,000 up. The scores at the end of the evening’s play were Lindrum 1,516, McConachy 968. The best breaks were: Lindrum 300, 20 o, 198, Lit. 138; McConachy 93.yaiTl 154.—Prise Assn. /Mmujf has rerajgfffed to to^fforti^w). jt As Jrvßjes are required in maw or New Zealand it is imposjjrbljf toMemain for a. longer period on please.***

The Poverty Bay Golf Club is endeavoring to promote matches in the summer months. The dub is endeavoring to obtain offers from sufficient members, the minipium being 25, wliifch is required to keep the links in playing condition during the hot weather, and if successful, various tournaments will be promoted A message from Quebec to Vancover states that Canada will not appoint a Minister to Ireland, and Ireland will not appoint a Minister to Ottawa. The Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, made this clear on arrival from Europe. Jt is probable that at some future time representatives will be appointed, but these: will not have the rank of Ministers.—Aust. Press Assn.—-United Service

An alleged undertaking given by the late engineer (Mr H. W. Fulton) to level ai section in Wainui Road in return for ,the right of depositing spoil on it was the- subject of an application for this work to be done, by Mr T. G. Lawless to the Harbor Board yesterday. In view of the fact that a similar request bad been rejected the previous month, the Board also turned down this application. A comedy of changed babies was enacted at Tokonmru Bay on .Saturday. A woman, who had lieen an inmate of the maternity home, was joyfully speeding homeward to Ruatoria with her baby, hv service ear, but on reaching the Coast she was stopped bv an urgent message Jmoloring her to return at once as she had taken the wrong baby! She returned to town and after the exchange was made she went home the to!'owing day. Nurse Elliott, who has been Plunket Nurse in Gisborne for over six years, is about to be transferred to Wellington. During her stay in this town she has won the confidence and esteem of all those among whom she lias worked: and a committee of the I’hmket Society believing that- many mothers will wish to bid her farewell has arranged that she will be in Findlay’s tearooms on Friday afternoon. between .3 and 6 o’clock, when all who are interested will he cordially welcomed.

Dates for the. primary school terms and vacations for next rear arranged hv the Hawke’s Bay Education Board are as follows: First term: From Mondav. February 4, to Fridav. May 10"(14 weeks). Holidays: 2 weeks.' Second term : .From Monday, May 27, to Friday, August 23 (13 weeks). Holidays. 2 weeks and l day. Third term: From Tuesday, September 10 to Friday, December 20 (14 weeks and 4 days). Holidays: 0 weeks. Teachers’ examinations: Tuesday, August 27, to Saturday. September 7. Commencing date of 1930 school year (primary): Monday, February 3, 1930.

"Whilst in Wellington recently, the chairman of the Harbor Board (Mi W. G, Sberratt) interviewed the secretary of the Marine Department concerning the proposal that tho department should acquire the Board s dredging plant for uso at Westport, hut was unable to obtain any further information as to the progress of negotiations. He also conferred with tho manager of J .J. Niven and Co. concerning the firm’s claim of £IOO per month for alleged delay on the part of the Board in levelling a section on Kaiti, and ho then asked for the submission of tho basis of the claim in writing to the Board. ' Whilst cycling home from work vriiTi a companion about 5 o’clock last evening, Jack Algie, the well-known amateur champion cyclist, collapsed and fell off his machine on to the roadway, lapsing into unconsciousness! His companion summoned assistance, and Dr. Gunn was quickly on the scene, Algie being ordered into Cook Hospital, where at a late hour last night he was still unconscious. No reason can he advanced thus far for his seizure. He was riding slowly along Roebuck road at the time and, on reaching Norman road intersection, his companion saw him drop from his bicycle on to the road!

The hard level stretch of sand at low tide on Kaiti beach forms an ideal speedway for motorists and cyclists. There have been a number of complaints of speeding: lately and consequently the Borough Council appealed to the Harbor Board who controls the beach, to> protect the public and children against speedsters who used it as a racing track. It was understood that several • accidents had been narrowly averted.'—The chairman (Mr. W. G-. Sherratt) mentioned that the Board’s by-laws prohibited fast driving of any vehicle along the beach, and on his suggestion it was decided to 'dedicate the hoard’s powers under this regulation to the Council. “The Council will send their traffic inspector over to the beach, and ho need prosecute only one or two for this practice and it will stop,”" added Mr Sherratt.

Though admitting a charge of drunkenness, Arthur Ernest Vogel Mason, aged 29. in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, denied a charge of attempting to convert to hi,s own use a motor-car valued at £l6O. Mason’s counsel stated that his client became drunk on Saturday afternoon and, later in the' evening, he was found half asleep and “dead drunk” in a motor-car, after which he was arrested and charged with attempting to convert the car to his own use. According to a constable, the car was parked in Kent Terrace, the defendant was at the wheel and was doing his best to start the car. The; magistrate remarked that the case did not seem to he that of adrunken man blundering into a motor car for the purpose' of sleeping it off, “but seemed rather to he that of a man who had entered the car with a hazy idea of starting it.” Accused was fined £5 in s default one month’s imprisonment on the charge of attempted conversion of the ear, and be was convicted and discharged 1 for bsijig drunk.—Press Assn.