Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 4

Local and General

According to, a, report current during the week-end, ■ • export prices have been further revised. . The price in respect of'.lambi is stated to have been reduced to 5Jd. :

‘Gisborne candidates who were successful in passing the State examination for maternity nurses, held in December, were Elizabeth P. ATeKay and Gladys Fredericks, of St: Helens Hospital, both of whom passed with 7b per cent, or more marks.

A Hamilton P.A. wire states: “James Olds, 29, farmer, Te Awamutu, who was admitted to the "Waikato' Hospital on Wednesday suffering from serious head injuries sustained pn account of. falling from a horse', succumbed 'to his injuries on Saturday afternoon,”

The body of a middle-aged man was discovered'washed up. on the bank of the Manawatu. river. A paper in the pocket bears the. name “D. Hansen, Wellington.” The body has been in the river three weeks and bears no marks. The man was well dressed. Identification has not been established. Luggage checks for Wanganui' and Auckland were found in the clothes.—P.A.

A very good specimen of the quinnat salmon was caught in a net on the Opoutaina beach by a boy, Dudley Harlier. A year or two ago Mr. Leddon Jane caught another in the river. It will therefore be seen that the fish are moving this way contrary' to the assertions of fisheries experts that they could not survive in the warm waters of the north.

Attempts aro being made by Mr. E. Monekton to introduce the succulent toheroa into the sands of Wainui and Waikanae.' 1 AVhen’ visiting the Bay of Plenty last week Mr. Alofickton obtained a number of the shellfish and brought them to Gisborne in cans of salt-water, then ■ planting them deep in tire sands of the local beaches.

Restrictions are still urgently required in connection with the borough water supply which continues to diminish with the mounting string; of dry days. Besides forbidding the use of hoses, the Borough Council has also found it necessary, at certain periods of the day, to reduce, the pressure, hut this will he immediately restored in event of a fire breaking out.

A verdict that death was due to ngunshot. wound self inflicted was returned by the Coroner at the inquest into the death of Douglas Nelson Hooper, gardener, agc-d 24, whose body was found in a cowshed at the Rhodes Convalescent Home, Cashmere. yesterday morning, with a sin-gle-barrelled shot gun beside it. The evidence was that Hooper was of sober habits . and diligent. He had no financial Worries, but. for the past three da vs, had seemed depressed.— P.A. ‘

A further indication of the. usefulness of an aeroplane service was (saVs the H.B. Herald) given on Friday night when the Dominion Airways piane, travelling between Hastings and Gisborne, left Hastings ax o o’clock, arriving at Gisborne at 6 o’clock, where it took on as passengers Air. J. Buckeridge,,who was. the pilot injured in the crash of one of tho Commercial Airways’ planes at Waipiro Bay. and also Air. Frank Petre, who was a passenger in the same plane. The return journey to Hastings took just one hour, the plane arriving at S p.m. The injuries received by Air. Buckeridge were such that it was necessary that he consult a specialist and it was for this reason that ho made the quick trip by air, afterwards motoring through to Napier.

Customs revenue collected at Gisborne during the Oc-tober-December quarter showed a decrease of onetiiird when compared with the figures for the corresponding period of 1929, the total amounts being £l2-,-027 16s and £18.627 17s 3d for 1930 •and 1929 respectively. Excise duty returns also showed a substantial drop for the quarter, the 1929 figures totalling £3092 11s ICd, as against £2639 0s 9d for the three months last year. During the October-De-cember quarter in 1929 only £251 2s 10d was collected in export levies, while for the corresponding period last year the- returns amounted to £722/1/2. For December, with the returns for the corresponding month in 1929 given in pareptheses, the figures were.- —Customs: £3392 iSs 7d (£6068 ;L3s 3d): excise duty. £ll9O 4s Id (£1206 1.9 s lid).

•An unusual incident occurred on Gladstone Road late on Saturday evening. Those who happened to be in the vicinity of the Union Bank were, startled by the convulsing of an e-leotrio light wire tunning across to the other side of the street. At the same time, what had violently come into contact with the wire dropped to the road with.’a heavy thud. It was at first supposed that somebody must have/ thrown some heavy article from a window, but that seemed improbable, for. the point of contact with the wire was well out, almost above the centre of the road. Bystanders went to the spot and found that wliat had struck the wire was a ! large bird, which was then in a dying state. Nobody was able to identify the bird which., in size pt body, was, larger than a liawk. The plumage was brown and, when tho wings were spread out, the distance c-ovCred would be about’ three feet. The beak Was sharp pointed, hut deep at the base and only about a couple of inches in length. Its legs wore slender and _ long and wei e claw-footed. According to a by-stand-er,' - the bird had been caught' in the street earlier in the idght. Apparently, it was ailing, and in flying about, lights in the distance must have confused it. Perhaps one of our r&aders may be able to identify tho..species to which it belonged?

•Air H SJ Stubbs.will. tents’of an eight-roomedl dwelling, tw morrow (Tuesday) at '• m s ] ia rp. Tho sale commences at 1 p.m. \

Advice has /been received that Me J, H. Somervell, an extra mm. _> dept at the Gisborne H’gh Sc ’ passed, in. English, Histpiy ancl French,. stage 1, ■ foj\ atiori the recent University examination.

Theengagement is announced of Evelyn ’Marion, yomigcst daugbter oi Mrs. and the late Colonel G. J., Winter, of Gisborne to William Frederick only son of Mr. and. Mrs. W. Stevenson, of AVanganui.

Owing to the transfer of Air. Norrio. Handricks, manager of the. Majestic Theatre, to Feilding, that theatre will, from to-dav be under the management of Mr. R, J, Kerridge, of the Regent Theatre, who will control both houses.

It is freely reported that Mr. F. AV. Peddle, of Motuhora, may he a candidate for the Gisborne scat at the next General Elections. Some years ago. Mr. Peddle unsuccessfully stood for an Auckland seat.

“AVe members of .Parliament,” said the Hon. R: APCnllum. M.L.C.. at the Afarlborough Sounds tctlephone function, “do not stand for the aspersion of Hansard. No doubt a lot of rubbish appears in Hansard, but, on the whole, it is well worth reading. It contains a lot of sound oommonsense, and to a large extent its contents represent an amount of preparation and thought that would surprise the average member of. the. public if he were ihnde aware of it.”

The manufacture' of matches in Now Zealand is to he greatly extended. Air. C. JE. Bartholomew, 0.8. E., deputy-chairman of Bryant and Alay, the well-known English firm of matchmakers, London, who arrived by the Niagara from Vancouver. stated that his visit was associated with plans for extending the company’s present plant in AVellington. The plant was at present utilised for the manufacture of vestas, but the intention was to introduce additional machinery and engage' more hands to 'manufacture matches as well. The company said. Mr. Bartholomew, was also projecting similar extensions in. Sydney and Alelhourne, and the erection of a new-' factory in West Australia.

The manager of an Ashburton firm went with a party of friends to a lake to fish, but he found that fishing was extremely dull, too had in, fact, to carry on with it seriously. He therefore proposed that he should initiate some of the women members, of the party into the art of weilding the rod. One woman took a few lessons and then, ’taking -the rod, made a east. It extended for only two yards into the lake, so she tried again, this time casting out four yards. There was .a tug-, on the line. “I have got a fish!” she exclaimed. “Oh, no, yon have caught, a. snag,” said the. tutor. His surprise was deep when, almost immediately afterwards the'line began to run'out of the reel. The line was reeled in, and there was landed on the lake shore a. beautiful quinnat salmon weighing 5 Jibs. ” Air. J. Buckeridge, pilot of the Spartan plane which crashed into a dwelling at AYnipiro Bay on New Year’s Day. returned by plane to Hastings for further treatment of the injury to his oVe sustained in the smash. Discussing the mishap prior to leaving Gisborne, 1 Mr. Buckeridge stated that the cause was difficult to determine. As lie banked to turn the machine it dropped quickly on an even keel, presumably striking a “pocket” of “dead” air, and hit- the house before be could do anything. The fuselage of the -plane was extensively damaged and will require almost complete reconstruction, but the rest of the machine escaped with remarkably little damage, not even one of the main struts in the plane being-broken. Generally in a crash the framework and struts suffer heavily.

A prominent member of the Gisborne Amateur Athletic and Harrier Club since its inception in 1920, Air. Grant AlcDonald, who leaves this morning en route to Alasterton, was farewelled at-the Gisborne Hotel on Saturday evening by friends and club members. Air. P. Fulton, on behalf of the Athletic Club, presented Mr. McDonald with a silver ’Split-sec-ond stop watch, suitably inscribed. Ho said that Air. Afc-Donald was one of the original members of the club, and the true typo of amateur sport. Until his retirement last year, AH. McDonald had competed, considerably as a- sprinter and middle-distance runner, and had managed to annex a number of chamnionships. Air. R. Biggar said that, from long acquaintance with the guest of honor, he had found that AH. AlcDonald played the game both inside and outside of the field of sport. He would be missed from local sporting circles,. but the speaker was assured all would join in heartily wishing Air. Ale Donald a prosperous future. The G.A.A. and H.C. was well represented, while the Ormond and Kaiteratahi sports clubs were represented by Alessrs D. G. Beattie and A. Ingram jun.. respectively.