LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11827, 7 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The price of gold is CO 3s I’d an ounce, says a London P.A, cable.

Weather permit ring, the City Band will render another first, class Pengrain me of music at the 'I raj alga r r f > innda on Sunday evening. The per-

forma lire will commence si V2R o Vinci;

I."sinir rhe chain .sy-tem i>i killing and working with free iaTor. remarkable tallies were made at the Whakatu works (Hawke's Bay Farmers) and Tomoann (Nelsons, Limited) during December, Tomoann acheieved a record for iis whole, career, killing 1 odd.i.'O lamb>. 10,000 sheep. and 1700 beef rattle. AYhakaiu killed 1.27.n0n jambs and 11.000 sheep.

Cnn.-Lunring a Suing finnU* io the sports meeting to-day. the annual dance ef vlie Gnu end Sports Club will be bold in the Ormond Hall this evening. Gups. Trophies and prizes won during the day will he presented ai the dance, a good rupper uill he provided, and Stuart Sheer’s Rhythm Hoys’ Orchestra will supply the dance music. A free Red bus leavers Hannah's corner and Romm's free bus leaves To Kara!-:a. both ai 7.30.

Precautionary steps a gains; the possibility of earthquake damage are to bo taken at the Gisborne High School and tender-, for a substantial amount of structural work will close with the secretary el the tenders board. Wellington, oil January 10. Among the precautions to bo taken will lie the erection of reinforced concrete buttresses for the walls of the assembly hall and ground floor classrooms, the anchoring of the gables and bracing of roofs over the ground floor class-rooms and front entrance, the replacement of a cracked concrete lintel over the entrance to ihe cloister and the removal of the fanlights over the entrance doors to the assembly hall. The buttresses for the walls will he spaced at intervals corresponding with the roof trusses and will run the full height of the wnjls, 1° which the reinforcing steel rods in the buttresses will be tied.

In spite of the prohibition regarding the export of silver coinage a woman passenger who recently left New Zealand considered that site had successfully solved Ihe exchange problem, but she was unexpectedly foiled. In spite of the limit of £5 on the amount, of silver which can be taken out oi the country, tlio passenger changed £]on into silver at an Auckland bank. Site succeeded in taking it with her on a passenger boat, expecting that it would be worth a full £IOO i n England. Tt was not until she handed the money to the purser for safe keeping during the voyage that it was found that more than £7O of the amount was in Australian silver, which can bo sold in England only at a heavy discount. If Australian silver is sold in that way it is probably sold through a bank, which would accept the money from a customer only.

Pew motorist would believe that carrying too much benzine in. their tanks would cause trouble and stoppage’s. An Auckland motorist who returned from Rotorua told a story of how he was held up three times . lie filled up Ills tank at a wayside bowser. He filled it so full that tlie benzine was lapping the tank-cap. He Started off on his journey again, hutbefore he had gone more than a quarter of a mile the ngine co-ughed and spluttered and died. The motorist believing there was a- blockage in the feed-pipe, blew it out. Twice after that lie had trouble. He cleaned the vacuum tank and the carburettor. Even than his car coughed and stopped. Then lie realized the. trouble. There was so much benzine in the tank that not enough air iv»s getting through the small holes in Hie cap to force the spirit through the pipe. A pint or two was syphoned out, and all was well.

Their behaviour belied, the label on their car, but perhaps they were, nevertheless, says the ‘'Taranaki •Notts.” Hanging out of their oar, gesticulating wildly and talking noisily, a party of motorists passed along De* yon street one recent afternoon. To tho hack; of the car was attached a painted sign bearing the one word, “Gentlemen.”

Somo post is attacking the blackberries on portions of tho Mamaku Range and they appear to ho dying off. Tho pest appears to take the form of a fungus or mildew and where it has taken hold the blackberries are all shrivelled and dead. It appears to ho only in small patches, but is spreading.

When a three-year-old hulloclc was slaughtered at Smithfield recently, seven pounds of rusty nails and screws, a silver brooch, the remains of a rubbor boot, part of a bowler hat, a shoe buckle and several yards of copper wire were found in its stomach. The animal was in perfect health, probably because it had been talcing its iron ration!

Approximately 1200 boys are looking for jobs on the books of the Christchurch Roys’ Employment Committee, and it is expected that the number will touch the 2000 mark before registration, is completed.

A farmer at Waipukurau showed a reporter a Polled Angus enw a few days ago which, ho stated, gave six gallons of milk per day, the milk being of fair test. The reporter was surprised, for it is uncommon for a cow of beef strain to give anywhere near such a production, The reporter has since been informed that these high production Polled Angus occasionally do make their appearance Whether this attribute is due to one particular strain is a rpiestion that would he worth enquiring inin.

It has been reported that large numbers of rabbits in Queensland nr e dying, being affected with a. parasite lhai is described as a little red flea or bug. Expert opinion is that while ihe flea itself onnnoi cause the deaths it may be introducing diseases causing mortality. An investigation is to bo made when specimens are obtained, as some hope is held that the flea may provide a solution of the rabbit problem.