LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12530, 16 April 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Pay merits by the Kia Ufa. Co-upcra-tivc Dnir.yins Company tor buttpriar supplied! dr.ring last month amounted to £l2,<J3<J 6s 6d, on .the basis of Bel pen- lb. Cheques will bo posted to suppliers this morning. In connection with the .Easter holidays retail shops in town will. 'remain open on 'lihurstlay next until 9 p.m. and will close al! day on triday, Saturday and Monday', April 19 20 andj 22. Parking of his car outside a regular parking area, lor a. period exceeding that allowed l under the bylaws, resulted in a line of 5s und costs on Eiclnird Shqrratt being imposed by Mr E. L. Walton, S.JVT. m the Police Court yesterday. .Failure lo take out a, third-party insurance policy cost Philip Aspirall a lorry driver, a line -of FI unci coats when the case way placed- before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. Having allowed inaintenanGe arrears to accumulate, John Pitziuatirico was sentenced to oho iu6n>th’& imprisonment by Mr F. L; Walton, S.M., in the -Police' Court yesterday the warrant to he suspended while 5s pe r ueelc off the arrears is paid.' Prior to his departure from Auckland I'o.r London, Mr Coates appealed to all Peform supporters to.' adhere to the arrangempiM for a continuation of the Coalition in the 1935 general election as completed between himself and Mr Forbes. He helped tiie supporters of both leaders would sink thpir-. differences and co-operate in a 'spirit of genuine public duty, in - supporting: the. the candidates selected. —P.A. • 1

A Sydney message; states that Elsie Mupy :Mo«es s ;• fonqerly Fischer, and professionally known as Elsa Shralia, the well known singer, was granted a dedree nisi for divorce on (ho ground of desertion.—lf.A. Admitting a charge of selling an airgun id a,bpy under the age of 14, years'Cyril P. \V. Whitty (Mr A. S. Wauchop) was .finyd 10s and costs by -Mr E. fL. Walton,, '.. S.fVl'., i n the Police Court yesterday. Under a judgment summons application, E. Stewart wag ordered by Mi” E, L. Walton, 5.M... in the Mag isitrqte’s' Cburt yesterday, to pay Dr W. A. Bowie £3 3s Gd. in default 'thrpo days- imprisonment " Tli e ' management committee -of Tins Otago Rugby Football ; Union decided last night to support* the nomination of Messrs J. G. McLeod and J. Prenderville, as delegates to- represent New Zealand, at the Imperial Rugby conference.—P.A. } Five cases of typhoid one up tne Coast and four in the Urewera county, formed the principal infectious diseases in the East Capo health dis trict reported for the week ended yesterday. The total number of cases lor tlie week was light, the remainder being one ca-$o each of scarlet fever, diphtheria and; tuberculosis. No deaths were reported during the week. ■ Fines of £1 and costs for exposing lice-iufestod sheep for Sale, wore inposed' by Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court • yesterday on Geoffrey B. Eisken (Mr E. T. Bfosna’han) George ALc-fu tosh and Clement Menzie». For causing stock to be driven . acress; the cattle-tick boundary., without • first obtaining a permit, ' the Gisborne Sheepfanners’ Frozen Meat and’Mercantile Company was fined £2 and costs. Drastic recommendations were contained in a report tabled at a meeting of the. Oiielmnga Borough Council bv an investigation ounimittec appointed by the council to inquire into borough affairs. The upshot was a decision to .dispense with the -services of four officers-—the town clerk (Mr 11. A. Hockney) ; . the foreman-of works (Mr •R. • Gopdonf ; the storeman (Mr. R. Inglis), and the motor mechanic (Mr L. Brain). The report of tin; committee which comprised three members of the council and three residents had recommended the dispensing of the services of only Mr Gordon and Mr : Brain. The. Mayor (Mr E. Morton) , an ex officio member of the commit tec. declined to sign its report and lie or” son ted a minority statement.— P.A. “It is generally considered by the British c/.-onomists, V.vhc arei the soundest, in the world, tliaj the roots of cur present day troubles run down into ethics,” said .Dr Charles Gordon (‘‘Ralph Conor”) the Canadian novelist and preacher, in an interview in Christchurch. ‘‘You have to deal with the ethics of people- before you can get them straight on economics”, he added. “I am not an economist but I feel very strongly that we will never right the world till we nan change it fundamentally, and changing Rue world • fundLmentally is a matter of ethics. Wo have to learn the primary conditions of trade We do not knew how to trade in the world yc‘t—w e arc a lot of barbarians.” A small spider completely black except for two greyish markings l and a red mark on the middle of its body brought to the ‘‘Taranaki News” office in a. bottle with some of its oespring, proved to bo a. katipo spider. On being placed in the bottle it limmedietelg began to weave a series of webs, and then laid two nests of eggs, which resulted in 30 or so small brown spulers\ each with two. rows of white spots down its body, which were joined with a pale, pink streak. As the katipo spider grows older, stated Mr W. W. Smith, a New Plymouth naturalist the red mark grow?’,, and R is a peculiar fact that the nearer to the sea the spider is found the longer the stripe on its body. The hop-picking season in tlie Nelson 'district, which is now".practically finished, has been notable for the number of‘cases of hop rash, amount ing in some gardens to the proportions of an epidemic aivj causing prevalence of complaint. It k attributed to the dry season, rains having fallen very sparsely during the flowering of the hops, so that an unusual amount of pollen remained in the bloomer The pollen accumulating on the human skin sets up irritation, and a. rash occurs. In severe cases hop fever supervenes, causing considerable distress and disfigurement although, as far as is known, no serious aftereffects. Doctors arc unable to do more than prescribe alleviating lotions and ointments, although tsomc advocate inoculation. The only sure remedy appears to be the compete removal of the patient from the vicinity of the gardens. When Lord tlewart, the Chief Justice of England, rose to apeak «t the Nqw Zealand dinner recently, lie an noubeod that he had received; p note from a journalistic friend asking 'whether the Dominions Secretary, Mr J. If. Thomas, who was sitting next .to the Bishop of London, V,as teaching ;h.im the mysteries of the Maori tongue. ‘T have inquired) ’’ continued L-orj Heiwai’t (whose brother, Torn Rostron Tlewart, was formerly a journalist In Melbourne), “arid 1 find that Mr Thomas lmo not,..been inculcating Maori, nor has ho ; been d'ealinrj; for tlie benefit of the Lord Bishop, in the principles of malfeasance, mythology, marquetry, megalomania nor mysticism. What he has been trying to do all the evening 43 to convert his Lordship tq iNlethqdism • and 1 can fell you that under, the law of bankruptcy; it would go fraudulent conversion.’ ’ 'Poor Willie Wig<r is chained to bed, Hehi, feeling awfully had. ; A nastyktoiicli of ’flu is what Ts troubling him }jrT poor lad. Blit why direful grip When youdlfin he secure. And .nlyriiTs safe, from courti or cold : WrtfT Woods’ \Qre.at Peppermint