TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

Ka«t Cape : Steamer passed south at 1 p.m. A Canadian canning concern is filling riii on:or tor I<J,COO,OOO one-pound tins of pork and beans for the British army. Four applications have been received for the position of permanent secretary to the Returned Soldiers" Association, but. they have not yet- boen dealt with. The official count of the voting m the Harbor Board eleet.ou was completed this afternoon, when it was ascertained that while UK-re -was a little alteration m the figures, these did not affect the ■:u\sonnel of the elected representatives. Captain Bathurst, m the House of ; Commons, stated that at the present \ rate of eon.su nip tion of potsvoes there | were unlikely to be any available for anyone during the late spring and early summer months. • As au illustration of tho completeness of the closing oi the Belgian frontier, the IV.egVauf says that Dutch, American and Spanish couriers now travel to Ksschen. where, they meet their colleagues from Belgium and exchange bags. They are allowed to spea.k only German, and only m the presence of a German officer. The small draft of a dozen men for the 29th Reinforcements -were to parade at 3 p.m. to-day. The men all attended, but owing- to information not being, available as to whether the s.s. Ripple would be going to Napier on Frid**}y, '.he parade was adjourned until 4 p.m. The men included m the draft are : — R. .]. Barnes, T. Brown, P. Bourke, T. F. Bowes. R. Criuckshank, R. Gartshore. !"■*. G. Heffernan, J. Hanna. E. I E. Mellor. M. J. Riddick, A. W. 'Mb-! Murtrio, and H. McDonald. A congratulatory telegram despatched by the newly-elected Mayor of Napier, Mr H. Hill,' to his son,'Cr. Hill, who headed the poll at- the recent Borough Council election, reads as follows : "Tlie 'Mayor- of Napier sends his son hearty congratulations on the honored position obtained m late elections. Gisborne town endeared by long friendship, happy memories. My hope is that our respective public duties be so ordered that your services to Gisborne and mine to Napier may be commensurate with the honors the citizens have bestowed by •election to places of public trust."