LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12528, 13 April 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Grey Bar has shoaled to a detph V)f lOfcet at low tide and shipping is likely to bo retarded. — Press Assn.

About 1 p.in. yesterday the Fire Brigade turned out to a call from Whitaker street, on account of dense smoke issuing from the engine of a ear owned by Airs Madwen. Bciore the arrival of the brigade, however, assistance had been rendered, and the engine returned to the station.

The sixteen weeks’ dispute at Puponga colliery, Nelson, lias been settled, all the unionists sharing the work. Tonnage payment replaces day wages’ and the rates will be eight.pence per ton above any on the West Coast, Mechanical ventilation is being installed.—P.A.

A Sydney P.A. cable states that two parties of Japanese reached Sydney yesterday comprising a Japanese sample fair delegation, which examines commercial methods and trade potentialities, and the Pacific economic inspection party. Their tour includes New Zealand and America. The latter section is travelling purely as tourists. The trade delegation consists of business men from Nagoya.

“It is with dismay that we anticipate the time when our country is dotted with by-laws and the skyline streaked with utilitarian wires, and if you intend to pay us a visit we would recommend you to do so before the ‘grid’ system has dominated our landscape,” remarked the Rev. H. O. Fenton, of the South London Photographic Society, in a lantern lecture which was delivered last evening to the members of the Gisborne Photographic Circle.

oiunmer-timo for 1934-'JS will end on April 28, the last Sunday of the present month. Officially, decks will be put back at 2 a.m. on April 28, but as usual tho majority of househoXiem will recapture the ‘‘missing ’ halfhour by altering clocks and watches before retiring cn tlie night of April 27. The present- period of summer time has continued since September 30, 1931. Under v the •'Summertime Amendment Act, 1933 the period is fixed at from tlie last Sunday in September 1 of one year to the laut Sunday in April of the following year.

In the howling gale at 8.40 last evening the Fire Brigade was called out to a false alarm given in Waverley street at the top end of Childers road, ■ some two miles from the station. On arrival it was seen that the box was broken but there was no one in the vicinity. Persistent inquiries were made by Superintendent J, W. Kane, but to no effect. As is well-known, tho giving of a malicious false alarm is viewed as a very serious matter,' rendering the offender liable to a heavy flub. Under the circumstances of the atrocious weather the calling out of the brigade last evening was a particularly callous illadvised act. The matter lias been placed in the hands of the police.

“Here and there in England,” was the subject of a lantern lecture which was delivered to the Gisborne Photographic Circle last evening. This collection of lantern slides is being circulated ' throughout Australasian Societies, affiliated’ with tho R.'P.S. It was originally exhibited •at the thirty-seventh .annual exhibition in London and tho various-, - slides- wcie contributed by a number 'of South Londimv Photographic Societies and clubs. Tho compiler of the' lecture, tlid Rev.' If. ' o.' "Fenton, F.R/.P.S, president of one of tlie -South London photographic clubs, is- 1 an exmomber of "the Dunedin Society and it was through liis - efforts that colonial enthusiasts have been given the ! opportunity’ of ' seeing some splendid views : of rural England. • Oxfordshire, ’ Essex, "Somerset, Kent and inkny other South' London deunties 1 presented some-' delightful pictorial settings' as weVUns: que corners of village 'landscapes;

TJio Poppy Day collection (or. Dunedin" city and suburbs yesterday totalled. £IOBO. • • The corresponding figure * last year was £ioo7.- j ~P.A. • j '• " "" • F •!

In Sydney the trainer King stated Yesterday that Silver itinjf continue? io‘improve but until be does fa&t-kvOTk it will bo irnta. ssi.ble-to say nvhether lie would tako bis place in tho Doncaster Hundic:ap.--P.A-

Minor injuries were susained bytwo passengers yesterday when the service car 'from Tiriii’oto skidded over the bank in passing a lorry at a coroner on McGonigal’s Hill. The cal’ somersaulted down the bank and

came to rest about two chains below the road. The driver was Mr. T. Baty and the passengers in the car were Mrs It. E.’ Barton (Ruakituri) 1 ) and Mr Rangi. Mold. All escaped lightly, though suffering from shock and some bruising.

Mr J. G. Coates said yesterday that he hoped to have the budgetary proposals practically finalised by the time he arrives in New Zealand. He is taking with him a preliminary draft, and while abroad will devote considerable attention to finalising the Budget. He expressed the view that it would be possible to complete the business of the session, in a little over two months, tints allowing for .{lie election campaign to commence late in October.—P.A.