LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12092, 3 November 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Legislative Council met at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. No business was transacted and the Council rose at 2.35 p.m. until Wednesday next. —BA.

Yesterday afternoon Police Commission© Wohlmann offered £IOO reward to the person finding the body of Samuel Pender Lakev, of Ruaiwaro.—P.A.

His Majesty, each year, beginning in 1934, is giving gold, and silver medals for the two best volumes of Empire poetry by British citizens under 35 years of age.

Resolutions covering a wide range of local body activities which were passed! at the last annual conferenco of tho New Zealand Municipal Association at Rotorua were placed before the Government yesterday by a deputation comprising the president of tho association (tho Mayor of Wellington, Mr T. C. A. Hislop), Mr J. O’Shea, counsel for the association, and Mr F. M. Martin, secretary. Their representations were received by the Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Works, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, who promised consideration of the various matters discussed. In introducing the deputation Mr Hislop said that the fact of the conference being the first for three years accounted for the large number of, remits.—P.A

Some difficulty is being experienced by the Labor Department in securing sufficient married men for the metalling work on the Hanga-roa-Waikaremoana road recently authorised by the Minister for Public Works. The work is being carried out. under the co-operative contract system based, on an ’ average earning of 10s per day. Thirty-five married men are required and up to yesterday only six had been secured. The -first gang of meff is to be sent out to, the work on Monday.

There was a very large attendance at a combined gathering of the Business Woipon’s Club and the Optimist Club, held iff Le Gland Cafe, this- week. Mrs Jones, presided. Mr W. Carruthers, bacteriologist at Cook Hospital, delivered a very interesting lecture on “Bacteria”, speaking on lines, different from his previous address on thd subject. Miss L. Ferguson,, who has recently returned from a trip to Australia, gave an interesting account •of a visit to the Kodak film factory in Melbourne. Mrs Jones and Mr Fred Phillips, on behalf of the respective clubs, voiced thanks to the speakers land; a vote df thanks; was- carried. with, acclamation. The. Optimist benediction, pronounced by Mr £• Anderson, brought a. very pleasant function to a close..

(Two ; .. s£; in the s'ervic© of the Ahgticsh Mission v.-ere cited by- the Bishop c* Aotearoa, tj).e Et. Rev. IF. A. Bennett), in the course of his sermon at St: Mary’fi Church at Hawera. He said that at a settlement, Wainui, in the Waikato, an elderly Maori woman gave a site for a church and the sum of £l5O. The site was accepted, with thanks, and later she' returned and added the sum of £l5O to the gilft. In another locality in the Far North, the Maoris felled kauri trees sufficient to trnld a church and carted it by bullock teams t 0 the sawmill, whore, it wap prepared for Use, and the whole, budding was erected and finished free of debt.

The investigation of the East Coast Railway construction scheme as far as Wairoa is complete and a report has been sent to the Public Works Department in Wellington for consideration and approval. When the Department has perused the information submitted, the report will be released by Mr Trevor Smith, resident Public Works engineer at Wairoa. Due attention is "being given to ' the revenue-producing possibilities of • the line, but the committee of inquiry; will not be in a position of reporting for at least two iweeks to the general committee of local body representatives.

“I do not think there will be any unofficial Labor candidate for the Duller seat,” said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage when a report, that a section of miners had decided to nominate Mr. A. McLagan in opposition to Mr. P. C. Webb was referred to him. “If such a candidate does come forward, he will not cut much ice. He will not affect the result,” said Mr. Savage. “Everywhere the miners have been noted for their loyalty to the official Labor movement.” He quoted the result of the Bulli by-election in Australia, as an illustration that even a very powerful candidate individually could not hope to defeat the man who had the official support of the party.

Court proceedings are not always devoid of humor, and a bright interlude occurred in the Lower Hutt Police Court when Mr. E. P. Bunny made his introductory remarks to a ease in which a Qhinaman had brought an action against a Maori woman claiming possession of a chattel and damages for its detention. Mr. Bunny said he believed that it was the first case of its type in the Pacific, and suggested smilingly that it might he referred to the League of Nations. In the same vein, the magistrate, Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., agreed, adding that it could he referred to one of the delegates of the Institute of Pacific Relations. “Lt’s hope that the relations will he pacific afterward,” remarked Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, the other counsel, engaged in the case.