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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14846, 25 February 1919, Page 4

The -Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald arrives from Wellington on Thursday morning and proceeds to the Coast, probably as far as Te Araroa. Mr. H. W. Wait, secretary of the Cook Hospital- Board, has. tendered his resignation. Questioned on the subject to-day, Mr. W. G. Sherratt, chairman of the board, said that Mr. "Wait had unfortunately found it necessary to take this course owing, to family illness. The Chief Postmaster advises that as a temporary measure figures may be accepted in the text of cable messages in the deferred rate. The concession is not applicable to France, French colonies, Denmark, Brazil, Argentine, Pern, Punto-. Arenas, Bolivia, or wireless of-r fices. -„;_. Commercial telegrams for Bulgaria, via Salonika, and private and commercial telegrams for Turkey and- Black Sea ports, 'VltPQ^essa, may now be accepted. Messages" niust bo in plain language, English and French, and accepted at sender's risk. The service is uncertain, and subject to heavy delay. A tribute to the work dbne by the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, Minister foi* Agriculture, and M.P. for Bay of Plenty, for the Whakatane district was paid by Mr. Walter Reid, Whakatane County Chairman, during the Minister's visit to Whakatane. Mr. Reid said that the Hon. Mr. MacDonald had done much good work for this district, and though it ; might not be in his electorate after the next Parliamentary elections, yet the people of the district would feel that they still had a firm friend in the Hon. Mr. MacDonald, who would take a sympathetic interest in their requirements. "When a man sues in a court in a country like New Zealand he should use his correct name. He should not use a false name to shelter hia ancestry, or for any other reason," commented His Honor, Mr. Justice Herriman, in summing up in the case of Busch v. Bates in the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Thursday. His Honor's comment was prompted by the fact that reference had been made, in counsel's addresses to that of "Mr. M. Myer's crossexamination of plaintiff in which it had been 'revealed that plaintiff had been baptised Hans Heinrich ' Willielm Busch, although h e had sued as Henry William Busch. His Honor pointed out that in cases such as this, in which there was a conflict of evidence, latitude was allowed to counsel to enable a witness's credit and credibility to be tested. Speaking, at Waitara on the subject of road construction in country districts, Sir W. Fraser said he had, during- his term as Minister for PublicWorks, come to tho conclusion that to spend money on formation work without metalling immediately Mas a snare and a delusion to the settler, and a wasteful expenditure of money, because, from the nature of tho country, it soon became a bog and a quagmire, and the ■work had to be done again. He therefore always urged local bodies to borrow money, not an overdraft, which was limited, and was meant for maintenance only, but from the Local Bodies' Department for a term of years, and on ibis amount he would grant a £ for ij subsidy. In this respect he had just issued an authority for a subsidy of £600 on a £ for £ basis to do 81 chains of the Awakino Valley road. When the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald was passing through Napier last week, he was interviewed by Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., in connection- with the instigation, of the putomatic telephone system at the Napier exchange. Mr. Vigor Brown reminded the Minister thai papier had been promised the automatic system some two or three years ago. Mr. MacDonald said it was "impossible at present to fulfil the promise, as the Government could not get telephones of any sqrt- There were hundreds of connections waiting to be put in hand. In Australia the Government had 150,000 poles awaiting shipment and could not get them over. In fact the whole extension work of the Department was at a standstill and was likely to bo so for some time, until tilings got back to normal. Two or three cases of influenza have been admitted to the i-isb)»ie Hospital recently. Questioned on the subject today, the chairman of "the Board, Mr. Sherratt, said the oasos> were p'mply cf the ordinary fojrm of influenzp,. In view of the possibility of a recfufrence of the epidemic throughout the ' Dominion being introduced from outside^ however, precautionary measures Were being taik|en\ and • the neoessary stocks of chemicals andl disinfectants obtained. Personally, he thought that if 'another wave of the epidemic occurred they should cpmmandeer the trt*,irjpaja.-hal\ as a temporary hospital, ' ; ar(c| he had intimated this to the Goverrjmpnt; whilst another hall might he requisitioned for vroraen. That would save considerable disorganisation of the ordinary hospital work. In accordance witK' the decision arrived at recently the citizens who acted in charge of the blocks had been invited to co-operate again if necessary, but he trusted that the occasion would' not arise. Representations had also been made to the Government concerning the proposed Imi, and he had requested tho Publio Health Department to specially supervise tt>p sanitary arrangements in connection therewith. You can pop the question anywhere you like, but buy your Ring at Gordon's, 'jeweller, opp. Bank N.Z.*

At the Police Court this morning, be*fore Mv. J. 'S. Barton, S.M., Gfiarlea* Dunlop was charged with a breach of his prohibition order, and was fined £3, with 7s costs, in default 14 days' imprisonment. The Europeans and natives of Maiigaia, th© second largest island of the Cook Group, recently mad« a request to the Resident- Cpmrnissi^fer at Rata tonga \ for 'the return of Major J. T. Liti&% as; ' Resident Agtent. Major Large!Relinquished the position at Mangaia invi9l3, and- has since been resident in Auckland. The committee of the Plunkat Society announces that Nurse Blackburn, ,522 Aberdeen road, has consented to act as Plunket Nurse till the arrival of NurseAllen in the beginning of April. Mrs Blackburn will be glad if the mo^hera, whose babies are well enough^.willljEing them to the office.' All severe' cases •will be visited as usual. Urgent and new cases will please communicate with Nurse Blackburn, 'phone 1249, or the Plunket office, £99, every afternoon (except Wednesday), from 2 to 3.30 p.m.. Nurse Allen, who has been engaged for Gisborne, has undergone four years* course of training in general hospital work and one year in private nursing at Oamaru. She has also liad experience in maternity home work, and iflfat present at the Kiritane-Harris' hospital at Anderson's Bay, Dunedin. She finishes up her training there at. thai end c_ March and arrives in Gisborne ..in April next. Attention is drawn to the advertise-? ment of the' lied Cross shop comihittee re the opening of th,** shop^ on Friday afternoon next and the foJ^oWing'^yFor the past four years the Re"d^or6s» shop has been carried on ' most successfully under the management of the'•victoria League, with the help ot- '• niany woll-wishers who are not membra of the society, the whole of the mon,ey" received being sent to the BritisH^lte<l Cross in London, who cared for •^Jjewf'' Zealand soldiers equally with oih#& of the British' Empire. During the "war the Victoria League, from its private fund, acquired by subscriptions and donations from members, has given assistance in many ways in New Zealand, helping!© supply comforts to military hospitals,, etc. The proceeds of tlie shop thus week, under the management of six united districts, are to augment the funds of the League, so that its good work may continue for the benefit of patriotic movements in New Zealand or possibly nearer home in Gisborne. ,V An interesting personal note"; '-■ was struck by the Moderator '61'tW 'Pjresby- ' terian General Assembly, the Rig^ Rav. W. Gray Hixon, in his inaugural-ad-dress at Christchurch recently.-. '■ '(Eha, 'said that a few years ago when he visited his native Paisley, h. attended the church in ( which he was baptised. aiid was welcomed by a venerable eldery whom ho xeoognised as the popular teacher who had made the Bible so in-' foresting to his scholars. "When I told him that I came from New Zealartd," continued the Moderator, "he said ffhat. he would sh{sw me something of interest if I would wait sit the close of the service. So ,-svhen $h© people had dispersed we made ony, way together to the session house ; behind the church, and there,* opening an old minute Book, he called my attention to the following passage: 1839, November 10.— 'Rev. Mr Brewster preached the church vacant, the Rev. J. Macfarlane having resigned his charge, and sailed for New Zealand, to plarita Presbyterian church in that infant colony.' 'But,' I said, 'this is the Free Martyrs' Church, and this record belongs to the years before the Disruption. How comes it to be here?' 'Oh,' he replied, %t the Disruptioni our minister and all the elders came out and earned the session reconds with them.' So there in the minute-book of my father's ovfn Kirk (Session in Paisley I read the official' record of the exodus of the pioneer minister o. our New Zealand -i Church. The discovery stirred me to a fuller con- , aeiousness of \he.. apostolic succession into whioh God had called me, and wedded . me more happily than ever to the Church of th© brighter "Britain of tlie new day." , . sssasgmamsm , .yy'"