LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12529, 15 April 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The mercantile firms will close their premises (excepting Common, Shelton’s drapery department) on Friday 19th April to Tuesday 23rd April (both days inclusive). A. London cablegram states that the Ahglo-Austrnlian service left Croy don without passengers. If is ■understood there are two bookings next Saturday.—P.A. After much strenuous work in which pack-horses played a, prominent part conveying loads across the damaged South roadi Friday s anil Saturday’s letters were landed in Gisborno yesterday, n n( !‘ with the manroom staff working at full pressure were sorted and placed in the boxes last evening. Today the normal service will ho resumed. The Johnson quadruplets continue to thrive. At present the weight of Bruce is oUb, and those of the three ■girls, Mary. Kathleen end Vera, are approximately bib each. The progress cf the infants can he attributes in no small way to the fact JHnt approximately one-third of their daily diet or the first three weeks of .ife was human milk, find at the present time Mrs Johnson is partially feeding two °f the babies. Arrangements are proceeding satisfactorily in connection with the farmers’ field day. proposed to he held at the .showgrounds on May 9. Several letters in this regard were received at Saturday’s meeting'of the Poverty Bay executive of 'the Farmers’ Union. —Mr TV. J. Poison,, Dominion president, advised that he would do bin best to be present. —While expressing sympathy wit-5 the proposal, the Poverty Bay Fed-* eration ctf Women’s Institutes intimated that, cn account of other arrangements, it would be unable to stage anything on the date mentioned. The Poverty Bay A. and P. Association wrote stating that Mr C. E. Wheeler, of the Romney Marsli Brooders .Association, would he available for a demonstration on on Marc'll 9. —It was agreed to form a committee to make the final arrangements and draw up a programme. By advertisement, iii this issue dealers in poisons are notified' that ap plication forms for licenses are avail able at Post Offices. The Poisons Act L 934, came into force on April I ancl provides for three kinds of licenses—wholesaler, storekeeper and extended storekeeper. For th 0 purpose of classifying poisons there are three schedules to the Act. The first and second schedules' ar e exclusive to chemists, doctors, veterinary Surgeons and den tists for whom licenses' are not neces sary. The third schedule contains ivhat may be called 'farin’ poisons such as sheep dips, orchard! sprays, and iwdod killers. These may be s&ld retail under a. storekeeper’s' license, or under a wholesaler’s license. The holder of either Such licenser if in business five miles or more from a chfeirifst’s shop may also obtain an extended! storekeeper’s license which permits the retail sale of most of the poisons in the first and So child' schedules. All sellers of poisons are required to keep records of sales as pro vided in tile Act. ■'’"—“rffiSJMeiSr üßsiness was very brief at Saturday’s meeting of the. Poverty Bay executive of the Farmers’ - Union. Mr J. E. Benson presided and also present were Messrs G. V. Smith, C. Tietjen, F. S. Bcwcri, J. E. B'rosmthaii, find T. J. Foster Mr P. Baugh, veterinary supervisor aft Gisborne, adtishd that Mr J. G. (dpolc, wool instructor of the Livestock Division of the Department of Agriculture, would visit Gisborne in Jiino' and deliver lectures, with demd#T.ti‘ations if desired:—lt was decide,d to assist Air Cook in every; way possible.—The Poverty Bay Stockbrokers’ Association notified that it was prepared to give evidence .in any legal action as the retd jit bf taking stock via. - Wriioekd Valley ma’n highway. It was aUn feuggesfed that efforts should be rnado to secure co-operation between the interesed bodies With a i-iew to approaching the Main Highways Board on it® visit here next mbirith.—The union approved j of the feugget}tvbxi and decided to ( seek the co-operation of other bodies. •

The arictiori bale bit account' off The estate of the late Mrs TT, D. BrucP, at 752 Childers road, advertised to take .place to-day, lias been postponed till' to-morrow (Tuesday) at 1 p.m. sharp. Mr B. T. Doddrell will preside at the public meeting to he addressed by Mr F. R. Ball at the City Hall to-mofrOwj (Tuesday) night; Questions oh any aspects of Power Board affairs"' will be invited. Rainfall registered at Gisborne during the 24 hoiil’s ended at 9 a.nl. on. Saturday totalled 2.47 inches, the heaviest Hownporir locally fdf some years. For tile same period u]f to 9 a.m. yesterday, tho fall ivas only .41 inches. Borough electors on the 1935 main and supplementary rolls total 9746, of whom 8613 are on the main and 1133 on the supplementary roll. For the last election, in 19133, the grand total was 8599, the main roll containing 6914 names and the supplementary toll 1685. Renewed efforts are to be made to secure alteration of the borough stock route so that Mangapnpa bridge is avoided, the Poverty Bay executive of t-lxe. Farmers’ Union decided on Saturday. Members expressed 1 dissatisfaction regarding (he Borough Council’s refusal to make a change and it was decided fcoi aide the Sheepowners’ Union and tho A. and P. Association to; join in a deputation to the council. Mr G. V 7. Smith was appointed to represent the Farmers’ Union on the proposed deputation. The adverse weather condition which resulted in the south road being blocked necessitated an alteration in the plans of the J. C. Williamson Company season in Gisborne. “The Wind and the Rain” will now be staged for two performances, to-night and to-morrow, no matinee being given to-day as was at first arranged on Saturday. “Ten Minute Alibi” will be played only once, tc-niorrow afternoon, at 2.15. The company leave Napier at 7 o'clock this morning for Gisborne 'The New Zealand Reciprocal Trade Shop Nottingham was an experimonh” sn.id Mr 11. E. Davis, London manager of tho New Zealand 1 Dairy Board, “and there is no doubt ft has been a winner.” It is appreciated by the public, and the manufacturers arc apparently very willing to cooperate. We shall certainly extend tho use of the idea in file future, especially in the big centres, where it may he necessary to take nn Q of the biggest halls for the purpose.” Store cattle met a most disappointing market as far as vendors were concerned, at, Wednesday’s sale at S'tortford Lodge, when, out of an entry of 1409 head, only about 70 cattlo met the market. Demand was very restricted at prices well bef-ow vendors’ expectations,, and passings were the order of the day. Present conditions do not. it would appear, justify the purchase of cattle at the present time, as feed has not come away to the extent that it was thought it would. Supply is consequently well in excess of demand, with a resultant slump in values, (savs the Hawke’s Bay Herald.)