LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13094, 16 February 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The donations towards the cost of a. new radio set for the Memorial Homo now reach £2l and include a

gift of £5 os voted by the Rotary Club at its meeting yesterday.

The anniversary of the foundation of the Rotary movement will he celebrated by the Gisborne . Rotary Club at its weekly luncheon next week which will he held* on Tuesday instead of Monday. A special programme, which will include appropriate addresses, is being arranged For the occasion.

A Melbourne P.A. cable states that the Union Steam -Ship Company of New Zeal in:!, the owners of the Kakariki. yesterday issued a High Court writ claiming from the owners of ih(> Caradalo £OO,OOO damages allegedly occasioned by the recent coll ision. The Caradale was “arrested” yesterday when, under the authority of the Hijgli Court, a’ sheriff's officer nailed a writ to the mast.

At t'iy iiiviluliiin of Ihe Opotiki A. and P. Association. with a view to- popularisin'! national dancing at tlio show next year, a party of national dancers from Gisborne attended the A. and P. Show on Friday and gave an exhibition winch was muclr appreciated by show patrons. The visitors were entertained at the Masonic Hotel. during their stay. The dancers were Misses AlargarcL Jonassen, Edith Livingstone, Tut Menzies and Sheila Munro. Mrs. Esfjiu’iant was tlie pianist and Airs. Livingstone was chaperon. The parly was taken to Opotiki hy Messrs W. Jonassen and AV. Livingstone.

A schedule of proposed prices far eartago and motor transport within the Wlhangarei County, prepared hy the AVhangarei Commercial Schieles Owners’ Association was dismissed in committee at Whaiigarei yesterday by the Sub-Provincial braneh of the Farmers’ Union, County Council, and the chairman of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, who later met the carriers in conference. A resolution was carried to the effect that the Tanners’ organisations opposed the fixation of road transport charges at the expense « I the fanner as the ult’mato payer un til such, time as tlie principle of compensated prices for the farmer is given effect to in .a wav that provides him with the means to pay his costs. It was stated that the new schedule represented an increase of Go per cent and was out of all reason.—P.A.