Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11403, 2 January 1931, Page 4

Local and General

r At about 7.40 last evening the- Fire Brigade was. called out br an alarm from the corner of Sheehan street and Russell street to extinguish a rubbish fire at the back of a house, 125 Russell street, occupied by Mr. Cyril MacDonald..

Fields at'., the Ormond .District Sports Club’s meeting to-dav will be liirger, thap.the. handicaps, already published indicate,- 'as .several addition al gentries, ihayc been _ received. As well as the most prominent local athletes, the two "Wellington middledistance Tunners, 3 .W,',8. Ogg and R. Lllis, will he competing. All held events '’will be post entry.

Wireless news, has been received that, the Wellington’ yacht Windward arrived safely at the: Chatham Islands at 4 p.m. yesterday from Wellington, whence she sailed' at nine o’clock on ‘ Christmas morning. Tho message reported “All' Well:”,. The crew of • the ’ Windward comprisesMessrs. P. P'. Rollings. Colin S-teele, Don Graham and Al-H. Irwin. The windward "is the smallest yacht that has yet made the trip from Wellington to, the Chathams.—P.A. -

An .unusual and somewhat exciting incidents-occurred oh. the Psirlc face* coiirsd; during the motor-cycle'upbrts yesterday when •an alarm of. ‘Fire ! was' .raised,‘ and smoke- was seeii wj--Buiri(r froin tlio outside sthiicl. , Coil-* Stable ;.Heasli„T>, \vlib' noticed’Tho outbreak', .lHrsbcd' at’ once -to ‘the stewards’' room' and 'in' a-tfew- secbnds 'tlxh chretak'et,' Mr. Leo’ was on the/spot. The. fire' wliith was - ’under the toil seat of tho whs,, with the did «f willing helpers, /soon .extinguishecJA after a: *fetv , boards had been reinoved. 1 The total damage is estimated a.t 'between: '£sand ' £l.O. V \ - ■ V--.

Only 26.30 inches oC rain fell 'in Napier during tlie last, year against 2ft'/sßin in 1929, and 41 76 in 1928. —- v.a. . , . '• ’ .;

■ The Customs re venue- collected on Napiey .during 1930 totalled .* £325,382.,' which, is a * record for this port, •the previous highest total beilig £803,731 in 1928.—1 LA.

The Wanganui,, bowling, centre's Christmas toiirjriameint was ’/Won. yesterday; by. London (Wanganui, The sehUffthgllsts were Toipkies and Travers (Wanganui),—R.A. . *.'

A. London. .P.A. cable < states, that Wednesday was the closing date ior entries for"the billiards championship but-.none were received. ’: The.; date has" now been extended • to January 21.

The death .of Wilfred Marfleet, aged 12, of'Otahuhu, who was"knocked clown :.by a, car' on Tamaki bridge on:-Tuesday afternoon, occurred in Auckland hospital . yesterday. He bad; received seriqtis injuries- to Ins head and concussion,—P.A.

The .Wanganui Tennis association’s tournament. opened yesterday in . brilliant .weather. The .competitors included Steelman, the Dominion champion, and Wilson, a seri)i : fihalist, w the New Zealand championships.PA.

A motor cycle and a-car collided near Oormack’s r aihyay crossing, Oamaru, last night, rind the cyclist, David Higgefsori, 2-5. single,; received serious injuries, necessitating _ the amputation of a leg. His condition is grave. —P.A,

A London P.A. - cable states .that Messrs. Dorman, and Long have secured the contract for tile Tees’bridge at Newport, to. cost £616,000. It will be the only bridge in Britain having a central span lifting vertically and allowing ships to pass.— P.A.

In the shooting for the Lafferty Crip. the : British _ military college, Sandhurst, 1-i, points, . came first, Roval Military College, Australia, 11 \ pis, ,2.. R.M.0., Woolwich. 10 3, Royal Air Force'. College, Cromwell, 5.) i, R.M.C., Canada, 2pts o’.—P.A.-

Before the date of operation of the Age of Marriage Act of last, year, 26 girls were married in ■ England and Wales at the -age of 10. the bridegroom in one case being There is also a case of a woman of 70, having married a 23-year-old , mail. These facts ar ervealed in the statistical review for 1920 by the re-gistrar-general.

Good contests were witnessed at the Country Clubs’ championships which were -held yesterday by the Masterton Amateur Athletic Club. A record number of clubs competed and the McVilly Shield Was annexed by the Masterton Club by the substantial margin of 61 points. Masterton gained 102 points and Kia Toa Club, Palmerston North, who won the tropliv last, year, were runners up witli 41 points: Dannevirke 28; Napier 20; Alartinborough 101 Carterton 74 and Wnipawn 6.—-P.A.

’Vital statistics for the past year in Gisborne # show that births and deaths increased and . marriages decreased as compare;! with 1929. Hie figures for .1930, with those for 1929 ii”parentheses, are as follows: Births 535 (510), deaths IS9 (167), marriages 190 (205) In addition to these figures the statistics for Maoris in Gisborne are: Births 43 (42), deaths 37 C '>l). Pakelia figures for tiie monih of December, 1930. are: Births (42 (30), .deaths 15 (U), marriages 24 (31).

'['lie Alasport Cup in the New Zealand speedboat championships was retained at Wanganui yesterday by Alderton Bros’ (Wanganui) J. and J. 11. R. Lane’s Join, of Pieton, was second and Brian Armstrong’s (Akito) Chris Craft was third. Time 2 min 29sec. The Helean Cup for boats over 25 miles per hour sVas won hv Chris Craft. The Bee Jax, owned by A. Woodman, Wellington, crossed the line first, but was disqualified, as its sjieed exceeded the conditions specified.—P.A.

Considerable activity ori the part of agents seeking to make f.o.b. purchase's of butter is reported by Mr. J. H. Sunderland, secretary of the Kia-Ora Co-operative Dairy Coy. Up to late on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Sunderland said, his company received three separate‘offers in the course of about 24 hours..each offer being an advance on the previous one, The first, was 11 fd per Id, equal to 119 s per/eivt.,. the .second was : Ilfd, - ana the third, for January, February and March shipment, at 12d,; equal ' to 125 s pe r ewt. “This activity is decidedly encouraging.”

To-day will see the. inauguration of the pew night mail between Gisborne and Napier, the contract for the c.-vr-rvin<T of which has-been secured 1 bv tbe Nnpier-Wairoa Freight. Service Under the new arrangement the south mail tviil close each clfiy ft *- 5.30 p.m.’, with a clearing of late fee letter.s at 6 o’clock. .This means that Gisborne residents will have an extra dav in which to-post their letters.. as compared with the old closing time of .12.30 p.m.,-- and almost a full dav extra in the case, of parcels Letters and parcels will be' delivered in Napier at the same time under the new arrangement as was the oase hitherto. To-day will also see the initiation of a daily, mail service between Gisborne and Te Aroroa. In tbe past mails have been carried between Te Ararpa only three times per week. Qn Mondays and Fridays also.- mail will-, her carried right through- to Hick’s Bay in tbe one day: ■ - •'' , ■ -'

The .forty-third annual report and balance sheet, of the New Zealand Refrigerating Co. Ltd. for the year ending October 31st. to be presented to the annual meeting of'shareholders states-that the directors- regret that owing to . the abnormal fall m values of' all animal products and particularly of by-prodticffi, .the accbuiits for ’the yoar.-enaccl C/ctober 1930 show, a loss on t|ve year’s operations. In according; the very satisfactory working arrangements with the Waitaki Farmers’- Freezing Company Ltd.,, it hfis been .necessary •to re-consider the price ,at which the Bukeuri works were, sold Jo them and their debentures . have boon' reduced to ,£IOO,OOO. A-fter 'providing for the above, arid adding the ailiount brought ’forward -from last, year,. th 6 ainou'lit avaikbte for;.appropriation- is £12,1-67,15s r7d\ whic)r the directors recohiriieiid should he . carried forward to the erfedit of the profit and loss account. Tlie director retiring in accordance with the articles, is -Mr. H ■A. Knight-,' jylio',, being eligible, offers himself for re-election. The balance !slidet shows aidoss tho yearls -'-operations'. ojf , £104.472. Another item, on-the debit side of. the profit.iuifl loss account is the cancellation' of . tlie --debentures on the Pukeuri freezing works,. £32,5.00. lho loss is..being- met bv the transference of £IIO,OOO-from tli eresorve account —P.A. -V f- ■' ;"■ "Vi

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