LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11955, 27 May 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The I law Ice’s Jlav versus Wairoa representative mi bo played at Wairoa oil M#y Hist, at ,3 p.m. The official onpffnig of the bridge will take place yrft- 11 JFoti the saiue| da.\'. so that on tlnmiafts • will have’ ample time to \vi Itidss hptb functions. —A dv t.'-j ■ " I

Under the stress of the heavy rain, the effects of the weather on the main twice for brief 'intervals last evening, the first time just after 6 o’clock, andthe second occasion at about- 9.3(5. The actual cause was not known at tlio power-house, hut it was attributed to the effects of the weather on he mam transmission line to Gisborne.

Arrangements are well in hand for the special committee appointed by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board to provide temporary accommodation for pupils df the Gisborne Central School who arc at present being taught in porches and shelter sheds. Boys of Standards 111. and IV. are to be housed in th© Masonic Hall, Childers road, while the girls from tlie same dlass will be taught in rooms well away from the damaged portion of the school.

The Sydney correspondent of i.-c ‘'Age” writes; The horse has come back. There wore -1000 exhibits of different kinds of Dobbins at me show. They came with such a rusti that the authorities found it difficult to feed them, growing home fodder on an extensive scale having fallen into disrepute On the farms. The heavy liorso has become more popular on the farm since the agricultural machinery agent has seized tlio tiine-paymient tractor and other movable machinery that bad to be fed at an expensive petrol pump. When times aro bad the horse can pick up a decent meal in tlie hack paddock or along the roadside, and nobody presents a bill lor the grass consumed. The same thing applies to metropolitan suburbs, where tlio horse lias become suddenly popular, and ancient-looking vehicles are Being taken out of sheds and varnished up.