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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14841, 19 February 1919, Page 2

The Telegraph Department notifies that full traffic is now accepted via the Eastern line. * The days of the sword, apparently; aro not yet over. A district order states : "All courses of instruction for Territorial and Cadet officers will include sword drill as one of the subjects. Officers m the possession of swords must therefore bring them into camp, and those who have not swords shcnld endeavour to obtain or borrow them for the occasion." — Captain C. B. T. McClure, M.C., sen of Mr and Mrs W. D. McClure, Dannevirke (formerly of this district), recently received a bar to his Military Cross, the honor being awarded by the King "For conspicuous gallantry ad devotion to duty. He led his men during an at-, tack and consolidated the captured position under heavy fire with conspicuous gallantry. During the counter-attack, by skilful leadership, he was the means of capturing many prisoners and..preventing the enemy from obtaining a footing m our line. He set a fine example to all ranks." In connection with the proposed hydro-electric scheme m the Waikohu, as put forward by Mr F. de Lautour, of the Gisborne Engineering Co.', to the public meeting on Saturday, and at which a provisional committee was set up to go into the matter, the committee is arranging to visit the proposed site m the coWse of a few days, and a public picnic may be arranged later. Delay has been occasioned' by some of the members of the provisional , committee being away, but no time is being lost m the investigations being made to supply hydro-electric power for the district." The annual meeting of the local branch of the W.C.T.U. was held yesterday, when there was a good attendance of members. Among the correspondence read was a letter from the 1 . Wellington superintendent, acknowledging with thanks the receipt of £42 collected by Gisborne members as a contribution to the Minesweepers* Fund. After completion of routine business, afternoon tea was provided by the president. ;TJip election of officers for. the ensuing year was as follows: President, Mrs. Goffe (re-elected); secretary, "•■ Miss Roaie; treasurer, .Mrs, Wilkes (re-elected) ; vicepresident, Mrs. A. Graham, Mrs. j. East, Mrs. Toneycliffe, Mrs. H. Whyte. The Court of Bishops which has .been set up to hear the appeal lodged against the judgment of Bishop Julius ih connection with the series of charges brought by the Rev. O. H. Gossett agaih-sb thi Rev. C. E. Perry (vicar of St. Michael's, Christchurch), alleging non-conformity with the teaching and regulations, of the Prayer Book, was to sit m Dunedin to- • .day. The Primate (Bishop Nevill) will preside, and th& other members 6f the , court will be Bishop Averill (Auckland), i Bishop Sedgwick (Waiapu), and Bishop Sprott (Wellington), Bishop. Julius, of ■ Christchurch, having already judged the I case, is not eligible as a member of the Appeal Court. The bishops will decide, prior to taking' evidence, whether the > proceedings are to be public or" private. s The movement that has been initiated ' throughout the Dominon fpr the introl duction of a better system of road cohJ struction has been taken up :by thp s Waipa County Council" at Te Awamutu. ■ In the opinion of the Waipa Cfo'uncil i the time has arrived when some system I of building permanent roads has becomey? 1 necessary, and that, such roads > snould i be constructed largely at the oost of j the Consolidated revenue-^-automatically - given.^ In order to get, the Government - tp bring m legislation m this direction - (either by the adoption* of the Victorian - system or' some modification of it) they t urge that local bodies ;> should take I ; action. The Cook County Councils has [• been asked to join m a request from j the Counties Association, insisting, on. s. immediate Government action: The experiment of sending l ' milk for the relief of starving babies m ' » France and Belgium is highly approved 1 by ]>r. Harvey W. Wiley, .the' eminent ii food specialist. When asked whether ■ he thought the powdered anilk being sent ■ abroad was as valuable as -a. tissue i. builder as milk m its original form, he saidi : "Ekmphatically it ia so; in.*fact,' I have already contended that it i&. «'the . best way to treat nulk. In such form you preserve all that le pure and whole- , gome m it, and the treatment to which it is subjected expels from.it any matter > i calculated to do injury to the consumer. ; . Of course, the process- should' be of such ''■ , a character^ as to guarantee that the ; , proportions of fat to protein shall not i ibe disturbed. But that is a simple* ; matter to determine — I mean,, of course^ . .simple to science. I have of teji. thought that I would like to install a milk-drying ' process at my farm m Virginia. If I did ! this I coula send a couple of pounds of * powdered mjfk; by parcel post to a cus- [ .tamer m Washington for six oentg transportation cost, and this would probably last a week." Replying to the recent representations from the Cook County Council respect-' ing the long delay over the- Pakarae bridge, the\Hon. Sir Wm. Fraser, ■> Mm* ister of Public Works, has written'stating that the delay is entirely d_e»v*to the difficulty m obtaining hardwood timber from Australia. The importariCeof having the bridge erected at- an early date is recognised by himself ahd the officers of the Department, but he regrets that there are no means of expediting the delivery of the timber, as the number of steamers running/ between Australia and New Zealand is not nearly sufficient to cope with the goods traffic, and coal and other ; urgent ... household * and commercial commodities have to receive . pVeference to bridge materials, jAs an .illustration of the difficulty, ' the. Minister. mentions that the : Department placed several orders for hardwood timber more than a year ago,;' and has hot been able : to obtain, delivery . of any -tot the material, notwithstanding that representatibns have been made to the proper authorities on /several occasions. The_ Department has a large accomulatk>Ti> of timber at Sydney awaiting snipmenfc,. ; and it is useless to; place further orders; v at present. Descfite the ' Minister's explanation it might bo pointed out that since the Department interested itself m the new Pakarae bridge/ and undertook to call for.' tenders' for ''the ''timber the Cook County Council ordered the timber which has since come to hand, and has ;) actually been used up m bridge con- / struction. • ' Mr. Fred. Gray announces a a'peaial entry of hacks for his next Saturday's sale. ' ■ ... At 1.30 p.m. to-morrow an imreserved auction sale of household furniture is to * be conducted by Mr. G. K. Miller at 473 and 475 Palmerston road, on behalf of Mr. H. Fryer, who i s leaving the district. /> At the reserves^ placed on the three blocks which are being offered for sale on Saturday, next, on account of the Jlioro Sheepf arming Company, the auctioneers anticipate being able to dispose of theni under the hammer. The quality / of the' land is well known, and two of / the sections containing 346 and 370 acres >'■ respectively are only 10 miles from,' l*>laga Bay.. The remaining section* * Sin 18 nearei : Gisbor »c, has an .area pf 740 acres of first-class^land. Some choice building sites at the corner of ' Rutene road and Kaiti esplanade will also be offered at the same sale on aeoount of Mrs. W. Gault, and the safe, will conclude with the offering of » line suburban section of five acres, on the Wainui road, just out of the Borough boundary. This i« a splendid cutting up proposition, and 75 per cent: -of the purthase money will remain on mortgage at 5 per cent. The sale, whicV will commence at 11.30 a.m., i 8 bernr * conducted by Messrs. Williams- and iyettle, Ltd., at .Miller's mart,.* - .j. y <*■■;> '.. XpM more ■^'•'■talk^^bflioJb^^m^i^--:' labOsr-savipg and .peTfect='ciejw*ii^qha„- :t X « tieS i of "No Rubbing" Laundry H«lp, the better it is for everybody, but/the more you talk abou^ influenza and such like,tl^ worse it ia for everybody. --3. To those who have^to rise at uncertain hours, Grieve., Jeweller, recommends a> « luminous dial Alarm Watch (guaranteed! I five years), ,755.* ! x • : : " '. : "'■' ." ' j Nights are drawing m; What about a dependable Alarm Clock, 7/6, 8/6, __/&, 1 15/-, 21/-? Grieve, Jeweller, guarantees 'his Alarm. Clock..* '.;,'■•

"I can look back to the time when nobody cared a twopenny damn for science," said Dr. Newman, M.P., at a. sitting of the Industries Committee at Wellington. He said he believed that a change had come, and that now the value of science was appreciated.

A gentleman m Melbourne, writing to a friend m Christchurch, Bays the medical men are having a busy time m connection with the influenza epidemic. There is a great rush by the publio to be inoculated, and the doctors, who put through as many as 100 a day, for which they receive 5s each, are _ doing well, from a financial point of view.

The Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, Judge Murray, who has arrived m Melbourne, expressed, m an interview with a representative of the Sydney Morning Herald, his opinion-' that there was no obstacle m the way of placing German New Guinea and Papua under one administration. All the conditions, he said, were practically identical and the boundary line was an imaginary one. Judge Murray further gave an account of a patrol conducted by a Papuan magistrate mainly through German territory. At first the natives encountered manifested great hostility, but on learning that the patrol was British and not German, they became friendly. A native chief, m answer to a question, said he thought at first the patrol was German, and the Germans were no good.

A proposal to abolish the Territorial system of defence has been brought forward! by the Ashburton County Council, which is circularising the County Councils of the Dominion on the subject. The Ashburton Council, m a communication to the Cook County Council, states that it views with alarm the proposal to hold training camps, being strongly. of opinion, now that the war m ended, that., the territorial scheme is unnecessary and burdensome to the community m general and that the time has arrived when the system should be abolished', and every means used to bring returned' soldiers back to civil life. No system of defence of the Dominion, they urge, should be introduced and passed by Parliament before the electors have had an opportunity of expressing their views through ;the ballot box. A reply to the Ashburton Council's representations was recently made by Sir James Allen.