LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

. Monday next, being New Ye-’<x* v> Day; the Gisborne Timps will os> published, > ri .•■•V. y Fruit; .orchards suffered severely | m the'gale yesterday and "in many cases crops of earlySipples hrid were a total loss, the trees being practically stripped of all fruit. The loss in this direction alone must run into a considerable sum Maize oro.ps especially where a height pf three oi .four feet had 1 been attained, were flattened on many farms and Poverty pears certain to be much smaller Bay’s production of this cereal apthan usual. Flower garden** suffered extensively also and ardent gardeneis niust have been saddened at the great havoc wrought.

Many substantial donations have been received at tho British Museum towards the Godex S'naiticus, the fourth century manuscript of the Bible, which is now on view. These donations are in anticipaton of the bpejiing of a fund for tlie purchase of the manuscript. They include £SOO firom tho society known as the Friends cni' National Libraries as the first donation. Lord "Wakefield sent a cheque for £IQQO.

Tlie chairman of tho Auckland Transport Board, Mr J. A. 0, Allurn, who went to London on business* relating to ithe board's loan qommitments, returned. yfesterday. He declined to disclose the outcome of his 1 mission until a special meeting of the' board had been held. Mr Allum said he found business men, as represented by the London Chamber of Commerce, thoroughly dissatisfied) with the existing financial position and are making strenuous efforts to briug fib-out- such a change as would enable industry to function normally. 'ln the past, the activities of financiers Had not been of very great concern, owing to the tremendous amount of development taking place, but now theTe was an obvious desire to impress upon those controlling finance that while they were still an important part of the machine, they were not 'the whole machine.

In meeting representative men in London, said Mr J. A. C. Allum, chairman of the Auckland Transport Board, who returned: yesterday, he found no serious criticism of New Zealand’s raising the exchange (rate and, as far as he could judge, statements made in connection with it were purely propaganda by interested parties. The question of export quotas was not in the remotest degree associated with the New Zealand Government’s tariff or exchange policy- It appeared that the English authorities, had resolved to re-establish their farmers. That involved a considerable amount of control over the farming industry generally and, obviously, that control was being extended to "imports from overseas. “To-day there is no room for the interested party which issues apparently important statement merely as propaganda,” said Mr Allum, “The only thing that matters is the welfare of the people asi a whole- As far as I can see, the motto of people of responsibility at the present time is welfare, not wealth-”—P.A.