LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12913, 15 July 1936, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

For the two weeks elided July -5, fares, subsidies and' specials on the borough buses totalled £306 19s Od. Tlie total mileage run was 6570 and 25.744 passengers were carried.

So as to obviate the incouvenion o to mothers with young children attending the Plunket rooms on wet days, tho Borough Council decided .last evening that a small “no pacing” area should be painted -outside .the' front entrance to the institution.

The Minister for Defence ' announced " yesterday that H.M.S. Achilles would, leave Gibraltar about July 17 for Jamaica and Panama eh route to New Zealand, guild is due in Auckland during- the second week of September.— P.A. .

'Traffic licenses issued by the Borough Council during ;the past tortnight totalled 223.' Of these motor drivers accounted for .120, followed bv motor lorries .09, private carts 20. heavy traffic 11, public carts 3.

T'ho Government motorship Maui Pomarc, which was to have sailed from Wellington yesterday afternoon for Niue and Apia, was held up by trouble with tile crew. Her departure was put off till 7 p.m., then 11 p in. and, finally, as a settlement had not been reached, till 11' o’clock this morning. The exact nature of the trouble was not officially disclosed last night, but it is said to have arisen when one man.who had been given notice declined In shcepf, his discharge. -P.A. ' '

Tho Carthago has arrived at Frcmanlc from London.

Soventy-fonr: licenses were, issued by the. Borough Council during the fortnight ended July 11, Milk vendors easily headed the list with 36, the o'thois being: hairdressers, 9; meat purveyors, 7 ; bakehouses, G ; offensive trades 6; eating houses, 4; lodging houses 3; small goods, 2; dog collars, 1.

The Poverty Bay Hunt Club wrote to tho Borough Council last evening asking permission for the use of the Makiiraka Domain fo.r its point' to point steeplechase .meeting on Friday July 2-I.—lt was decided on the motion of Cr. Do Costa to charge £o 5s for tho use of the ground.

At a mrcfciiiy of tiia Kiilsklj branch ol the A.S.Ii.S. yesterday the following resolution was carried: ‘•'That this branch of the A.S.R.S. tikes strong exception to the action of certain business people in raising pnc.’s of commodities out of all proportion to the increases in wages and that we advocate a boycott to counteract this unjust and unwarranted action.” —P.A.

The estimated cost of providing a supply of water to the hangar at the aerodrome, sufficient for fire-fighting purposes is £530, and an ordinary supply would cost £250, stated the reserves committee’s report to the Borough Council last night. The report added that the committee is unablo to recommend this expense, 'but suggested that the matter be reviewed when loan proposals for the extension of the existing field are being considered. The report was adopted.

Following the Geelong bombing, hid ward Carr, of Chihvell, gave his consent to the withdrawal of the writ against Constable Milne, from whom Carr claimed £IOOO damages for alleged false imprisonment, malio’ous arrest and prosecution last January on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. Carr’s solicitor announced,* before Judge Wesley 1 that h,fc desired the case withdrawn without costs to Constable Milne. The: Crown acquiesced and the writ was withdrawn.—P.A.

Jn connection with a recent request made by the Gisborne agency of the A.A. the public works committee of the Borough Council reported having inspected the intersection of Aberdeen and Roebuck roads. In order to improve the existing conditions for traffic, it was recommended that the bitumen surface be widened on the western side of Roebuck road, and continued for a short distance info Aberdeen road.—The report was adopted.

The revenue from game and bird licences sold in Auckland this year, in spite of the recently increased fees, esiabl’shcd a record far all time, accord ing to the president of the Acclimatisation Soc'cty (Mr I'. E. McKenzie) when it was reported at a meeting last night that the revenue exceeded last year’s total by over £IOOO. 11 was claimed to bo an extraordinary result and one far in excess of expectations o’ 1 members, wlio had doubted the wisdom of the Minister of Internal Affairs increasing the licence fees from £1 to £l/5/-. Mr McKenzie said the increase had been an experiment nut into force by the Minister, who should be pleased with the result, and who was deserving of thanks for his action in giving the society such encouragement.—P.A.

At too meeting of tho Borough Council last evening, Cr. P. H. Bush-, null asked when tho next payment was duo fur tho cash registers on the municipal buses, as bo would like to see the matter further discussed before any more payments were made.—The Town Clerk (Mr W. M. Jenkins) sai-i the eight registers were hired for four years at £I2OO, and £3OO had been paid, also £l5O for the first half of this vear. The next payment fell due m September. Until that agreement was rescinded the council could not go back on the agreement. It could be rcescinded by handing back the registers. At the; end of lour years the registers became tho property of the council.—The subject then dropped.

At a meeting of local bodies bold in Gisborne on April 28, a motion was passed asking that leg'slation be provided so that the control'; of noxious weeds, particularly ragwort, could be taken over by rabbit boards and subsidies granted. The resolution was sent, to the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, and hits reply was forwarded to the Cook County clerk (Mr F. T. Robinson) to . the Borough Council last evening. The Minister stated that further legislation was not necessary and the question of .a subsidy would require to be given consideration.—-The letter was received.

When a constable discovered a broken window m the ground floor of the building occupied by .Holt's Advertising Agnicy, Wellington, about ll o'clock on Monday night, a . cordon of police was drawn round the block in which the premises were situ ated and ri search lasting several hours was intsituted. All. the premises in the block, including the city engineer’s department, were visited. Sounds were heard during the progress of the search and safe blowing and other equipment, were found in Uott’s premises. There was a broken skylight in tlio roof, but no other trace of an intruder was discovered. —P.A.

Fat'mists .studying the intimat: do tails of leaf structure in recent years, found the green coloring materia':, chlorophyll, responsible for enabling plants to use solar energy in transforming gases and other inorganic substances into- food. Latest, information from. the United Stales Department of Agriculture goes a bit farther. It examines a question important to every farmer, namely, how many leaves arc- required to produce enough food to develop good fruit?” “At least 30 to' 40,” comes the answer for a single peach, “40 to oO for a good-sized apple .and about (30 for a:i orange.” L'aves ore thus seen to bo so many worKcrs in plants manufacturing fr.uits as tin ir products. Cut down the numbePof leaves below certain levels, through frost or by allowing caterpillars or worms full sway ,am : l production is likewise down.