TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

j The [Military Appeal Board is expected to arrive m Gisborne to-morrow, but the delaying of the steamer may have upset arrangements. A shortage of potatoes, it is reported, is being experienced locally. Messrs Samson Bros, landed a small southern consignment this morning, which were readily cleared at £15 per ton. At the annual meting of the Gisborne Farmers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., on Saturday, Mr. Dennis moved -that the 7i per cent, dividend proposed by the directors to be paid on the capital, be carried forward. This was seconded by Mr. McLernon and carried. The local bowlers' intend to assist the Red Triangle Fund, and a meeting of the Kahutia Bowling Club will be held m the pavilion this evening, at 7.30 o'clock, to discuss matters relative thereto. It is requested that there should be a large attendance. The contractor, Mr. Nicol, is losing no time m obtaining the materials for the construction of the projected river groyne. Boulders for the work are being obtained! from Kaiti beach and stacked m readiness. The first groyne to be erected will be immediately opposite the Harbor Board office. Captain Graham, master of the Anchor ] Oo.'s steamer Waimea, was severely m J'ured by some unknown assailants, who •rutally assaulted bin. the other night on the wharf at Greymouth. When Captain Graham was knocked dojwn by the miscreants they kicked him about the face and body. He .has been compelled to go ashore at Nelson for medical treatment. > Some of the prisoners at Kaingaroa tree-planting^ camp are adopting an unfriendly attitude towards conscientious objectors to militarism who have been sent to the camp for disobeying the law (says the Manawatu Daily Times). The ordinary convicts at this 'camp— most of whom are said to be people who belonged to genteel professions— decline to work or have any intercourse with the conscientious objectors.' They regard it as an insult to themselves to have such men as the anti-militarists olaced alongside them. They declare that while they have done wrong and broken certain laws they are loyal folk and do not believe m anyone who is fit who would not fight to •win the war. The school of 25 whales which came ashore on the west coast of the Northern Peninsula recently is not the largest number of whales that has been stranded at one time on this' coast. A writer m the. Northland Age states that on a previous occasion about 150 blackfish, a medium-sized member of the whale family, were stranded on the Ninety-mile Beach, their length varying from about 15ft to 30ft and upwards. The fish were all lying within a radius of about three, miles from Te Arai Bluff. The discovery was madei by a Maori boy, and a number of natives with primitive appliances obtained a considerable quantity of oil from the whales. The inaccessible nature of the locality made the taking bf a good trying-out plant to the spot im- x practicable. Sapper McManus, a well-known Labor leader, who stood for the Dnnedin Sonth seat, andi who has just returned from France after two years, with the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps that countermined successfully at Arras, says : "It is nice to know that the tie of service against a brutal foe has burnt up any feeling that existed out here about Labor questions. Men who took opposite sides m the big strike m New Zealand are there working together as brothers. We have seen a Red Fed go out to try tc rescue from burial m a shell crater a man .who out here was a non-unionist. Such happenings are common, and do not give rise to a thought. All are m complete harmony— to try to beat the German."' "