TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

i Special reports were presented to the House of Representatives by the Goldfields and Mines, and Native Affairs Committees, recording the excellent services given by the late Mr. W. D. S. Mac Donald as Minister of Mines, and as a friend of the Maori race.

A tribute to- the late Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald was paid by the Mayor (Mr. H. S. W. King), at the Devonport.Borough Council ' meeting. . On Mr.\ Kiwg's .motion, a resolution was unanimously parsed expressing the Council's sense of the loss caused- to the Dominion by Mr. Mac Donald's death,, a>ndj that a message of condolence "be forwarded to the relatives.

The members of the Napier Boys' High School Rugby team who are at present m Gisborne, and are to meet the , local team to-morrpw afternoon, were this afternoon taken for a motor '.'spin" !iu the country to Patutahi, where Mr. J. Hall exhibited, to the visitors his fine collection of war trophies and lectured on them, m a manner which was very interesting to the boys. The visitors (were provided with refreshments and •.e- - to town, well satisfied with their outing. I The severe frosts experienced) m some | parts of Taranaki played havoc with the . fern, to the- great joy of 'the settlers m the Whangaalomoma district, who, just before the weather broke, took advantage of a high wind to "have ab out-6f-season fire. Porn fires blazed m. all directions, and some good clearings were effected. .The. -native, bush has also felt the severity— tawa a>nd hinau trees are quite browned, koromiko and other tender' 'shrubs -hang m ribbons, imd.tree ferns are blackened" and dead looking. Ribboarweeds appear to be the only nativo plants capable of resisting the frosts.

News of the continued success of JMjss Daisy Ke.ha, a Gisbornite, has been received m a copy of the Albury Daily News, -which iv the course of a report on' the production of -"Molly Bawn," says of th's artiste ': "The company is fortunate m having' such a finished artiste as Miss Daisy Keiha, whose beautiful presence and rare dramatic gifts enable; her to portray the lovable Irish girl, poor but haughty, to 'the life. Miss Keiha, who hails fi'oni New Zealand, also possesses a tine .mezzo-contralto voice of rich i velvety quality, with which she took i Melbourne by* storm some little time I since, when she sang the tent scene m lan MacLaren's production 'Julius Caesar.'" Miss Keiha's many friends ;in this district will be pleased to hear lof her success m Australia.

j There is a shortage of sugar m Gisborne at present, asd many households are reduced to brown sugar and "tablet" I sugar, and supplies of theae commodities 1 are shrinking rapidly before the : daily i increasing demand of the public. One ! confectioner and sweets manufacturer, jin conversation with a reporter * this ' afternoon, stated that the position was so acute that he had to stop manufacinvnsj altogether. Local tea rooms are feelinet the pinch m sugar supplies, and ai'e using "tablet" sugar for enonomy of supplies. Merchants seem doubtful 'as to the arrival of sugar supplies m. | time to afford relief m the course! of a week or two, and consider the position anything; but rosy. A special effort is : beinn: made to secure brown sugar and. i "tablet" sugar from other parts. of the Dominion to tide over the famine period. "Eggs are going to be fully 3s per dozen at Christmas time/ so Mr. Cassji remarked to a pressman this morning.' At the present time eggs were fa.rly plentiful, he said, but the period from now until Christmas time was going to be the most severe portion of the year for poultry-keepers to face oh account of the wheat shortage. 'The . Co-operative Egg Circle was fortunate enough to secure a quantity of , wheat arid mixed poultiv feed, which was soon bought up and distributed amongst the 180 members of the society. Only, a small number of hens -were being killed for the table just now, as' pretty well all 6T them were laying, though perhaps poorly, and these later would be killed off when they ceased to lay. Although' the society was making inquiries over Australasia there were no suppl:es of wheat m sight at anything like reasonable pvices, and the coming three months would be a, difficult period for pou.try-keepers. . •