LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11877, 23 February 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

A meeting of the executive of. the Poverty Bay Basketball • Association was held in the pavilion «n Tuesday. Mrs. G. H. Soeats,- president, was rathe chair, and there were present: Misses C. Mead, C. Miller, R. Stephenson, P. Warner, L. Byrne, B. Walker, G. Wallace,. M. McKinley and Mrs. Williamson. The report and balance-sheet to be presented at the. annual meeting was approved. Players are -to be asked to -make a special, effort to ensure the success of the art union. Matters- in. connection with the Dominion tournament to be held in Poverty Bay, this season were discussed and it was decided to. take steps to raise funds.

The English PWeek-end Review” contains-the following comment regarding Walt Disney and his animated cartoons: .“Disney’s,genius lies in his extravagant impossibilities: ho has done more to release our inhibited consciousness than .the .solemn assurance of many psychoanlyists. It used to he thought unreasonable to want the moon ; 'now Mickey Mouse can (take an incredibly long arm and reach it down. The rather frightening .importance of inanimate things dissolves when all, at any moment, may bo ridiculously humannised. Only the film could have given Disney , his opportunities, but only a Very gifted artist could have explained them as he. has done/’ ,■■ •; , ■

Inquiries; into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Thomas Mjaherj, who was found lying doad in his ivharo at iWaihau Station , on Saturday morning, w.ere conducted at Tolaga Bay by the acting-CoroneT,. Mr /I; P. Do Moutalk, and a jury, of four, comprising Messrs P. V. Hickey, C. Taylor, i£. Ross and F. Holder. Constable Canning..represented the police. Evidence wa?i i given that Mr Maher, aged . 73, had been engaged as a farm ymrkor by Messrs Loiseland Son for the last 30 years. The. body was found lying in a pool of blood on-the floor of tho hut and an examination showed that he had apparently fallen .across the hob of. tho fiiopiiaco, .sustaining t a doublo fracturei.of. the, jaw and other, head injuries, these, rendering ; hijq sciqus and causing a. copious flpjy of blood. A verdict was- returned that death .was due to loss of blood from head injuries suffered as-the result of a, heavy,fall, .'

The proudest and happiest little -will in Bradford to-day iky. Kathleen Glover. She is* only 14, but she is u heroine and proud possessor of a silver watch hearing her monogram, which was. presented to; her by the Lord Mayor of Bradford. She Jieard u neiglihour’s child screaming, ran ont; . and . found the child with her 'dress on- fire. ; She seized the child, rolled her in a rug, extinguished the flames, and saved the. child’s life.

In a. question to the Minister of Agriculture in ■the'”House of tlepre--1 sentatives on Tuesday, Mr Holyoake (0) ;asked whether the Government was in a position, to indicatc. what.it proposed to do in regard to the guarantee to the fruitgrowers this year.;.'rile said that 45,000 ’ cases of fruit luul already been shipped overseas; The Hon. C. E. MacMillan said that it was proposed to increase the guarantee sixpence per case.

Tn. a question to the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Parry asked whether in view of the serious position of the unemployment problem, he would set aside a. special day on which it could be fully discussed by all parties in the House.. Mr. Forbes said he had ropTTcd last week to a similar question. The discussion on previous occasions bad resolved itself into an abuse the Government. If the Opposition was prepared to nssist<the Government in regard to its legislation, he might he prepared to consider the matter. He renewed his suggestion that Mr. Parry and other members should confer with the Minister of Employment, with a view to offering helpful advice.—P.A.

Permitting stock to wander at large in Clifford street cost Thomas Harding a fine of os, with-costs £1 2s 6d, when the case was heard before Mr P. H. Harper,. S.M.- in the Police Court yesterday. Mr D. E. Chrisp prosecuted on behalf of the traffio inspector, Mr C. H. Ferris. Defendant explained to the court that only one cow was concerned and this animal had broken through a fence.

. According to advice received by officials of the Gisborne Swimming Club, the Maori speed merchant, W. Whareatu, is anxious to make an attempt on the New Zealand 50 yards record at the oarnaval to be held at the Macrae baths this evening. Competing at the Heretaunga Club’s carnival at Hastings, Whareatu covered ,50 yards in the very fast time of 24 2-ssec. He has now forwarded a request to the Gisborne Club that a 50 yards race be included in the programme for to-night, so that he maj attack the record, as well as the 100 Yards.