TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13351, 8 April 1914, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

Tho timber for the To lu*iii<_ r a bridge, which Iki.*- hron nn order for some time, is now due at Wairoa. and the assurance is given that the structure will be erected during next summer. In Auckland on Thursday £218 10s Ad was collected m two hours (or 36---a niiiiule) m the campaign for funds to provide the hospital with motor ambulances. Ou opening a ease <.f bouts a lew days ago. „ Napier warehouseman found that one j. air had been extracted, and an old one substituted, to which a note was attached that read, "Taken while you wait." Tlie Druids" second "ail-right night." to bi> be Id at the .Masonic hall to-inorrnw night, promises to-be a. big gathering. Spwial. attention will be paid to the floor by the social committee, and patrons may rest assured of a very pleasant outing. News reached Napier on Monday afternoon that the Taupo coach, which left town that morning, went over a bank some 60ft high, when about 15 miles out. The vehicle was smashed to pieces, but the driver and the one _ passenger, also the horses, escaped injury. Tho team to represent tlie Kaiti-City juniors against the Pirates (Hawke's Bay), at the Victoria Domain on Saturday next, will be-, chosen from the following: O'Neill, Rawlings, Stephenson, •Solvander, Winter, Mcl>achlan, Pearfpn, McCarthy, Caulton, -.Walters, Heeny (2), Parkinson, McKay, Kenny, Wells, Ik-al, G. Dennett, Thodey, and Huston. Nominations for the seven seats on the newly-constituted Mangapapa Town Board will close with Mr H. K. Hill, reluruin.g officer, at noon on the 22nd inst., and the election -will take place the following Wednesday, 29th, simultaneously with the Gisbqrne Mayoral and municipal elections. Any elector m the Town Board district is qualified for nomination. There is a movement on foot m Wellington to get the principle of a sixdays week, as embodied m the new hotel- workers' award, extended to other trades, and even the police are said to be anxious to assure themselves of a wekly day of rest. Th'e Trades and Labor Council has been approached on the subject, and it will consider what action can be taken at' its next meeting. ' One of the chief attractions for the, Easter holidays will be the aiuiual gathering to bo held under the auspices of St. Patrick's Sports Club at the Park ground--* -on Easter Monday. Complete arrangements are being made for a monster gathering, and the entries, which are the largest on record, including a large, number of outside competitors, give every assurance of a most successful gathering. Special train arrangements for the convenience of town and country supporters have been made. In the evening a dance will be held m the Poverty Bay Scottish Society's Hall. A reduced wheat production next year m the South Canterbury district is expected by Mr John Talbot, chairman of the Timaru branch of the Farmers' Union. Speaking at the annual meeting, ho said that prices do not promise to bo good, and the cost of production ds increasing ; the item of threshing alone has risen from 3£d per bushel to sd, 6d, and even 9d. Late rains have also prevented the preparation of the land. Ou the other hand, tbe use of land for pastoral purposes is being encouraged by the higher prices which aro being paid for wool ajnd fat stock. Mr Talbot said that the blade shearing classes at the technical schools had pro- 1 duced a number of competent shearers, and greater success was expected m future seasons. ' Sir lan Hamilton, speaking to cadets at tho military college at Duntroon, spoke of the attractions of a military career. "The fascination of a military career," he said, "lies chiefly m tne opportunity it gives its votaries to get into tho closest human relationship with the great mass of the people. Comeraderie has ever been a marked characteristic of military life. I have heai;d this emphasised by persons situated at the opposite poles of society. The Czar himself has said to me that the happiest hours of his life were thoso spent when lie was commanding a company. I ventured, to ask his Imperia} Majesty why, and he was pleased to reply. Jbecause it was the one and only time m his life that he had felt himself brought into intimate personal relationship with his own people." i Plans of the divisional camp at Takapau have been prepared by the Defence Department, and thej' give some idea of the magnitude of the encampment, which is to be attended by about 6000 territorials. The area covered , by tents, etc., is almost triangular iii shape, the respective lengths of each side being 12C0yds, 700 yds and 1400 yds. The camp is divided into three distinct areas, the artillery brigade being on the extreme left and adjacent the railway line. The infantry brigade will be stationed to the left "of the artillery, and also facing the railway line, thus completing the lower side of thei triangle. The mounted brigade < will be located behind the infantry, but to the left of the artillery, filling m the upper corner of the triangle. Tho divisional heacW quarters will be situated between the artillery and infantry brigades. The Porangahau streams flows about 400 yds i behind tho camp. Mr C. E. Armstrong, district engineer, returned to town last evening from an inspection of road works m the Wairoa district. Iv the course of his visit he inspected deviations m qonnection with road access from the Frasertown-Wai-karemoana road across to the Ruakituri valley. He returned Via Mangapoike. Questioned as to tho progress of the Mangapoike road, the district engineer said that there was only a distance of about six iuiles to connect up the track at the Gisborne end with the road formation pushed iv from Wairoa. *0n the Gisborne, side a 6ft track has been extended from below Mr Jex4Blake's homestead to within about a mile and a-half of the Mangopo stream. This now enables one to avoid tho high razorback, and facilitates the driving of stock to and from Gisborne. , Tho extension of the track is m progress. On the southern sido the road formation has been extended to Mr Raymond White's boundary, but it will require widening m places before it is.. available- for ordinary waggon traffic. A concrete causway has been* put down at the crossing of the Tutewakihi, and the" approaches to the stream are under formation. ();n Easter . Monday evening it is proposed to hold St. Patrick's ball. As is usual on the popular occasion, the committee are sparing no effort to make the function an .unqualified success, both socially and financially.'- The Scottish hall has been engaged, and the music is to be supplied by Vita Bros.' orchestra. 'Hie catering is m the capable hands of the ladies' "committee. The funds- aro to be distributed among the stall-holders for the forthcoming bazaar. We trust to see the ball filled to its j limit, and anticipate, with the committee, an inevitable success. Tickets may be obtained from the secretary, Miss M. Neill, or any momhtr of the committee.*