TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13306, 16 February 1914, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

Tho Rev. William May, recently pastor of 'he Baptist Church ;il Dunedin, h;is received a call to Winnipeg. — Press Association. Section 4, block 9, Ngatapa. Survey District, containing 34 acr-es, for which a ballot was hold, was drawn by Mr N. P. Gibson. There were threo applicants. Mr W. 11. Skinner, -('oiinnissioner of Crown Lands for Marlborough, is spoken of as the most likely successor to Mr R. T. S.idd, who leaves Napier shortly <o lake up tlie position of Commissioner of Crown Lands at Du'.ieoin. At last week's meeting of the Land Board at Napier, the. Gisborne Land Officer reported having sold all the sections offered for .sale m Otoko village and Waikohu, but sections m Rakauroa township were passed m. There, was a. full house at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturday night for the. Pathe Picture programme. The theatre will be engaged for two nights by the "Within the Law" Company. A new programme of pictures will be shown on Wednesday night.

A Toad through run 87. I'awa, to give, access to tlie Gisborne High School endowment, was proposed by H. D., W. A. and J. Caldwell, the lessees,, m a letter to the Hawke's Bay Land Board last week. The matter was referred to the ranger for a. report.

Although nothing further has been heard of the railway crossing, the matter that is holding up the progress of the Gisborne workers' dwellings scheme, it is understood that the details regarding the homes are being proceeded with. Deposits on some 15 out of the 21 sections at Te Hapara have been paid, and the Government, architect is at present preparing builders' plans of the cottages to be erected on these sections.

The value of a motor car for hillclimbing purposes was demonstrated by Mr J. Johnstone, of Messrs Redstone and Son's staff, by a tour which h< made m a Cadillac ear. Ho' left Gisborno m heavy rain at 10.30 a.m., and arrived at Tokomaru Bay at 4.45 p.m. on the same day. The Arakihi road, which was selected for the trip> was m a very heavy condition. Tlie slip m the road, which has caused so much trouble to motorists, was negotiated without any difficulty by the powerful car. It was over this road that Mr A. M. Lewis, with his big Cadillac, put up a record, tbe actual travelling time from Tolaga Bay being 2_j hours.

"A prominent consulting engineer has frequently given as an objection to the battery f-ystem the presence- of poisonous gases arising from the batteries," remarked Mr A. R. Harris, the Edison 'battery expert, at present on a visit to Gisborne, when discussing matters with a pressman to-day. "One can easily see he has based his criticism upon experience with leaden batteries, for with the Edison battery there is absolutely no gassing during use," explained- the expert. "There is gassing during charging, but this is of a pure fving nature, viz., oxygen. The car has a peculiar feature that it absorbs carbon-dioxide and gives olf oxygen, and m this way, instead of contaminating the air, actually purities it. In fact, several of the European Rowers have been considerably interested m the batteries for submarine work, because of this peculiar property. Tlie Edison Company claim tliat by use of their battery m submarines the latter will be able to remain under w : ater two or three months?. With the present method of conserving energy, the use' of batteries tends to aggravate the presence of asphyxiating gases." '

One tender was received by the Cook County Council for laying the steel ways m connection with the special road that is being constructed -m ILuxley and Tyndall roads, Kaiti, to carry the heavy traffic from tbe Kaiti brick works. This tender, however, has not been dealt with up to this afternoon, as no councillor was available to open the tender. Altogether there ar« about 50 c'haiils of steel ways to be laid. The metal foundations were laid last winter, and this has now consolidated. Trenches have to be cut for tlie rails. It is not proposed to carry the rails right out to Wainui road, for the .reason that should an extension down Wainui road bo decided on there would be no difficulty m making a loop. The steel ways are five inches wide, and the gauge of the track is five feet. This will be sufficient for the majority 'of drays. Once the work of laying the rails is m hand it should be completed m about a month, so that the- trouble experienced last year should hot recur this winter, at, any 'rate as far as the majority of the Kaiti roads aro concerned. Something will have to be done to Wainui road, for the concentration of the brick traffic on to this main arterial r road will have a damaging effect; especially m view of the fact that f,he road is not m very good, order at present. Later, the tender, that of Mr 'Jas. Brosnahan, was opened and accepted.