TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13699, 1 June 1915, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

Latf .yesterday afternoon two more births were registered , inakrng the total for the month of May 45. Mr Hope Gibbons lias offered his residence at Wanganui East, us a convalescent homo for wounded soldiers (says the Wangaimi Herald.) The offer of the New Zealand PowerBoat Association, to provide- a motor launch tor tbe hospital ship has been accepted. After leaving; Gisbomc, Mr W .Lints, organiser for the Queen Carnival, goes to Hat-hurst, Niw South Wah\s, to run a similar undertaking there. . He has engagements for the next twelve months t) organise Queen carnivals in> different parts of Australia-. Members of the various Trades Unions are requested to attend a meeting to be held m Townley's Hall this evening at 7.30 shaxp, for the purpose of considering taking part m tho procession on Thursday. A good deal of dissatisfaction is expressed that the unions did not j receive their invitations until to-day. Mr, Kennelh Carlisle, the well-known raconteur and literary representative or the Rainey African Expedition, who was last m Gisborne some eighteen months ago- with Paul J. Rainey's African hunt picture, is ,-now m Gisborne on business connected with the cinema. Mr Carlisle leaves for Auckland by the Mbnowai to-morrow. The Rakauroa Patriotic Committee collected the following amounts, which went into a block vote for the Waikohu candidate for. Carnival Queen : — R. Grace and W. Graham, jun., £3 3s each, R.. Will and F. L. Shaw 10s 6d each, J. Will 2s 6d, N. H. Shaw £2, ■»v\ X Shnw. £1 10s, J. Red path C. *'. Bramley R. Beaufoy and Mrs Redpath y.l »mi.m. :\h-< Snu-w 10s. T. Melville 6s, C Smith 15s, Mrs Calley 2s, Pat, Hessie and Jack Grace 10$, Anon fes, total £17 7s 6d.

Telephone subscribers will be gratified to learn that the Department is about to issue new i*evised subscribers' lists.' This time they will be published m booklet form, which will be much more convenient than the large sheets hitherto issued. The subscribers -will bo given alphabetically, and also 'm numerical sequence. Another innovation will be the adoption, of letters ■ instead of rings. For instance, a person requiring, say, 600. a long, short and a long, will s.iiiply say 6COS, or 6QOM, as the case may be. l

The Druids' "All-Right" Night Social Committee met last .; vening, when it wa,= decided to hold a • monster patriotic social' in the. Scottish 7 hall on Thursday evening next, and' the function should prove a. tittup finale to the Coronation celebrations o£ the day. The total proceeds will be -handed 'over to the patriotic fund, earmarked for invalided East Coast soldiers. This gathering will take the placeVjf the usual "All-Right" night, «-ml the committee intend to make it a big success. Excellent music will be supplied, and the floor , will also have special attention. Tickets have been priced very low, namely, gentlemen 3s, and ladies Is 6d. Jt "is expected that tin? hall will bo crowded.

On Barclay Hector, formerly Registrar of New Zealand University, being placed m the dock for sentence at WeJlington on three charges of theft .of the University funds, Mr AVilford., his counsel, asked the Court to consider that every moment spent m gaol would be the torture of Hell to the prisoner. Mr Justice Hiosking : "I anvnot so sure about that, and 1 cannot take that appeal as one to influence me.' His Honor added, that the infliction of sentenco m many cases caused infinite pain, not only to the prisoner himself, but to many others; but a judge who allowed that to doter him from imposing a. proper sentence should be removed from the Bench.

The motor "car presented by Mr W Graham on Ivlialf of the Rowing Clubs' Queen, candidate lias so far realised £■335 ; the car presented by Mr Hi Barker on behalf ol the Motorists' candidate has realised about £130, whilst Mr Rakai Thompson's car, presented through th? Cosmopolitan Olub candidate, realised £20 on Saturday afternoon, "it onlyhaving been presented that afternoon. These cars will be finally disposed of during Thursday's celebrations. The horso Goldomar,\ presented through the Sports candidate, was yesterday secured by Mr McKean. 'He- h:vs donated it again to the Carnival Committee, to be sold by auction on Thursday. A substantial sum has already .been realised o:i Mr G. J. Black's motor launch, and it will be taken to the Reserve on Coronotion Day on a lorry: The launch is ti be decorated to form an important feature jn the big procession. I A Tokomaru correspondent advises :■ — "M> W. H. Weetbr,ooke, Inspector of Factories, of .Gisbprne,- visited Tokomaru Bay and Waipiro Bay recently. At t Tokomaru a. number ojr men working at the Wainni freezing works asked liim ito meet them m the evening and explain the operations of the Workers' Dwellings Act. Mr Westbrooke met the men, there- being a flout fifty present. He explained the -working of,- the Act, and a strong progressive committee was set up with a view to putting m applications aaid using every means m their power to induce the Government to orect workers' dwellings at Waima. lhat workers' dwellings are badly needed at Tokomaru is quite evident. Married men with families are living m tents without any attempt at sanitation, and this on, native land for which they have to pay rent even f,or the privilege of erecting a tent. • To-morrow afternoon Mr G. K. Miller holds a sale of furniture at 273 PaU , inerston road.