LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11841, 24 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Despite the spell of wet weather the Girl Guides’ camp on Ml’, .T. Bolden’s property at Longbush, is proving very successful, and the girls are spending an. enjoyable time. Unless tho weather heroines much worse the camp' will nob concluded until Saturday.

The mail car which.loft Qpotiki yesterday morning for Gisborne via'Motu, states the special correspondent .of the “Times'’,' had to return'rind go via Waioeka, owing to a big slip oil the Moremoro hill, which it is estimated will take two or'three days to clear. Owing to tho P.W.D. having removed telephones from the roadmen’s huts, no’advice of slips "can now, he received or given without a jotirhey of many miles. -

During last week one case of . tuberculosis was reported, and one death, from the same disease occurred in the East Coast health district.

The Ram Fair will be continued today, commencing at 9.30 a.m., when .90" flock Lincoln, 1080 flock Southdown land nine stud South downs will be offered..

At To Awamutii, , F. C. McLean, liccnseo of the Star Hotel, Kihikihi, was fined £6 for supplying liquor after hours and, also £1 on each of two charges for opening his premises for sale. Security for appeal was fixed at £2O.

In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr. P. H. Harper, S.M., Harold Green, who was in arrears on a maintenance order to the amount of £26 14* was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labor, the warrant to ho suspended so long as defendant paid the current maintenance.

A Westport T’.A. wire states that Mr. TI. E. Holland, M.P., (Leader of the Opposition) addressed , a largo meeting in the Town Hall there last evening, dealing mainly with the Cabinet crisis, the exchange question, fixation of prices, the dole, wages and mortgages, contending that the present, financial crisis could bo overeomo by a judicious use of the credit of the country.

Charged with the theft of a pair of trousers valued at 19s■.fid, the property of Benjamin Dudfield, a Maori named Rohe Williams, 31, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr. V TI. Harper, S.M., and pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Wade said accused had boon in trouble previously, and had been convicted of theft. The Magistrate said the trouble appeared duo to drink, and placed accused on probation for a year and Ordered a Maori prohibition order to be issued against him-

Two young women- who have left Auckland, are included in -a goldprospecting party which is proceeding to the South Island. ' One is an Aucklander, and the other a recent arrival from England. One member of the party is a farmer residing near Auckland who has had prospecting experience in America. Australia and New Zealand. The destination of the party is a former well-known gold-bearing area in Westland.

Louisiana’s most married woman, Mrs. Carolyn McDonald—Walters— Bronson—Burgess—Chevalier Gar-don—White—-Luigi—Hatfield Willis—Baseball, has been married for the twelfth time. Her new husband is a Mi - . McManus. The bride, married under the name of her ninth husband. Three of her husbands have died. Others were divorced. Mrs. McManus is about 37, and is the mother of 16 children.

The s econd day of the. week’s carnival to mark the opening ofthe New Napier was held in fine but somewhat cold weather yesterday. A large number of visitors were again in evidence The Governor-General and Lady Blodisloe, had a round of duties to perform, being occupied with opening the Napier Society of Arts and Crafts, tile Pictorial History of Napier, and the official opening of ihe re-built. Napier Hospital, while in the. evening Their Excellencies attended the Red Cross ball. Other events held during the day included athletic, sports and a concert. In the, course of his remarks at the hospital. His Excellency stated how attractive be and I.arl.v Bledisloo bad found ihe architecture of New Napier, with its wide streets, and the impression of simple dignity, tasteful colorings and homogeneity of design, in the newly erected strurf-

In the* case of flip Auckland Transport "Board, fho increased rate of exchange has put that body in a very difficult position. Air. J. A. C. Allum, chairman of the board, said that it •would probably mean an additional expenditure of £20,000 a year, the extra, cost of remitting funds to T.ondou for the payment of interest on loans, and to meet tho additional cost of supplies. That additional expenditure, for'-which the hoard Had not mado provision, would force the hoard to take immediate action. In the past every endeavour liad been made to avoid striking a tramway rate and to reduce fares as low as possible, hut this extra and wholly unexpected burden rendered the continuance of that policy impracticable. The matter was exceedingly serious as far as the board was concerned, and be was calling the members'together immediately lo consider what steps should be taken to meet this unexpected situation. Afr. Al- - said the raising of the rate of exchange was really a subtle and ingenious form of taxation, and it was going to have repercussions that pebpW never contemplated. ii res,

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