LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11549, 28 January 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Tinivoto sole, -to have b n 'hold Tuesday, bebn.ary ± has beeuf postponed until a date fiv«l in March next.

/Cabinet has authorised (courses for each ox the tour sq,; ‘ 1 min of the New Zealand A» 1 ones fc.r the current year. The dates bar -- not been decided. . but the coins., will bo of ten day- duration.— 1 -A.

T]> directors of the South Taraunki/AVinter Show Association at a n yesterday, decided to sup-j/i-V the ’ other provincial organisations in an emleavOr to retain the revenue from the Ornkii education reserves, originally intended tor scholarships or ethers means of- education for Taranaki pupils. I -A.

While turning out of Wi Tore street into Ormond road yesterem, 0 car driven by Air. AV, A. Barton, of C)G Stout street, collided "lth a milk-van, which was _ proceeding down Ormond road. Neither drive noticed the other untii.it was too late to avert a crash. Nobody va> injured and neither the car nor toe ran was seriously damaged.

Alombers of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce, at the annual meeting yesterday, decided to make representations to the Tourist Department with a vow to having a dressing room over ted at the second bath at Aloreiv. Air. 11. F. Forster who brought up the matter, said that there was great need for an alteration in this connection. Under

the present arrangement, users _oi the bath wore compelled to dress inside the enclosure and al°o to -it there waiting to cool ofl ii that bud been ordered by the doctor. In the meantime, other persons wishing to use the bath were kept waiting outside. Alorere was a great advantage to the district and brought many people here, more now than ever before, so that the congestion was getting worse all the time. It seemed to the speaker that the Department •was spending all money possible °n Rotorua and nothing at all on Alorere. He moved that the Tourist Dppartment should he written to, asking that a dressing room be added lo”tlie middle hath and also for a re-

turn of receipts and expenditure at Alorere for the 12 months. This t\u> seconded by Al’r. T. Corson and carried unanimously.

“I don’t think there was any Ox- ; cus<? for his action, said M r Harper. S.AL, in the Police-Court yesterday when imposing a fine or £2 on AVi Karauria who was charged that, on January 9. at Muriwai, he cruellv ill-treated and tortured a. bull bv discharging a shot-gun at it and Wounding it.-- Senior-Sergeant AYadc prosecuted and Air. A. I • Coleman appeared for defendant. wno_ n’eaded not guilty.—Ern Brown, owner of the hull, stated that the animal escaped from his pnditoc-a. through the neglect of a visitor on the night before the shcotmg and m wandered 'info a paddock leased 'A -defendant.’ 'There there was maize belonging to witness and deiendant. Witness heard a. • report 'and saw' th° hull deiiart hurriedly from this paddock. Next day he found that tne animal had received a elnuge <> shot in ils side. —Constable Allan, or I’afutaiii, to whom Brown complained, gave evidence a.- to taking a statement from defendant. In this AVi said that the bull wan damagin'' 1 ' the maize and would not leave the paddo'-k- 0» the second ocensien defendant attempted to remove the annual, it' threatened to nr-h him so he returned and aof Ins gun. Once again the hull made tor defendant and the latter then fired at it. meaning only to scare it away.—Defendant gave evidence on the lines of this statement. —The magistrate said that he was satisfied from the evidence that- the hull was a quiet animal and was unlikely to behave ■ a

the defendant claimed. It was the obvious course for' the defendant to have called complainant and asked him to remove the animal. A fine of £2 and costs wqs imposed.

Petrol tax paid by the three main local service companies operating between Gisborne and Ope tiki during the ' past 12 m.nnihs amounted to £760 2s lOd. Air. A. AY. Gough informed members' at the annual meeting of the Gisborne Chamber *'t Commerce yesterday. Air. Gough recalled that the tax wa s originally 4d a gallon and that an extra 3d wag then added, making a total et 7d. one penny of which was borne by the petrol’companies. He had earefuly gone into the figures regarding 'traffic on the Gisboriie-ppotiki road and lie had 'calculated the cost of He tax at the rate of 7d per gallon. In his opinion, the amount of tax collected had not been expended on the road and ho would like to know where the money had gone, apparently into somebody else’* pocket. Air. R. W. J. Edwards recalled Um remarks by -the Government business agent for the Railway Department, when in Gisborne recently, this officer Raying that the users of the road paid only about 20 per cent, of eost, ttic remainder coming out. of the general: fund. AH. H. F. Forster commented that if the summary giyen had included. the tax paid by al] lorries using the road the total would have run into a pretty big figure. On Air. Gough's motion, it was decided to write to the Main Highways Board and the, Waikohu County Council, thanking them for reaching an agreement over constructing the bridges on the main road at Otoko.

Nip it in the hud! A few dosen of ‘‘Coldenza” taken ns soon n.s Qif first signs of a cold is felt will stof it. >'?>