TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15871, 10 July 1922, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

, Wellington: Arrived .at 12.40 p,m Ripple, i'vopm Gisborne.

A block of fifteen: acres of land .'if Pakowhai changed hands last week at £l5O per aero. There are no buildings on til© area.

Negotiations are in progress for the opening of another picture theatre in Napier. It is also stated that another such house of amusement will shortly open in Hastings.

, .Mr. Robert Pollock, business manager ot Qld j Mother . Hubbard :- Pantomime Companyy. which i opens, in Gisborne' ion, Monday next, *\ has. arrived l - in-'Gisborne from'the Bay .of Plenty. . In view of the. visit of ;Mr. .'Gorringe, Government Instructor in Swine* Husbandry, the directors of the -Farmers' Co-operative Bacon Co. have decided to postpone their meeting to have been held at To Karaka to-morrow.

A young woman, Miss Norali Hartleady, employed as a waitress at the Matawhero hotel, met with a mishap when out riding yesterday. It is stated that, thinking the horse was bolting-, she jumped off, sustaining a sprained ankle. The patient was admitted to the Cook i hospital this morning. A resident of the Bluff, who lias boon engaged in fishing operations at Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, for some time past, informed a Southland Times reporter that lish were very plentiful in those waters and l the freezing works at the Port, which are worked by water power, were operating satisfactorily. The prices they were obtaining for fish, however, did not. make tho industry a lucrative one. One thing that particularly struck him on his return to the mainland was; the difference in the. weather, conditiona at Port Pegasus being muc! mildfer than those obtaining further north. Even at Half Moon Bay, they found the weather more severe than a'' tho,south end of the island, where they had only one frost that could bo so named.

Wholesale drapery and clothing house?. in England have experienced a remark-! able, spurt in trade since. Easter. This j is partly due to the lateness of that holiday and the cold weather having delayed the usual seasonal demand. There is a much freer movement ' of warehouse stocks, and business is showing more "life" than for a lone time past. Nearly all branches are sharing in the revival, and wholesale figures for tho first half of this month will make some amends for the compnra lively • poor totals recorded by many houses earlier in the year. Full time is being worked in many factories, additional labor.lias been taken on. and in not a few cases overtime working has had to be resorted to in order to try to cope with the demand. Speaking in reference to the Coulter shipping scheme at. a meeting at Hillersden, in Marlborough, Mr. William Smith, provincial president of the local Fanners' Union, said that as things were, freights were prohibitive and killed this province's chances. For instance, the, freight on chaff by rail from the Wairarapa to Wellington was 7s 6d, while from Blenheim to Welling ton it was £2 ss,' counting railage, steamer, and all incidental costs. Considering the cost of production, the local fanner had no hope of competing. Th' point, concluded Mr. Smith, was that the farmer would just have to help him self, and this he would do in launching the shipping scheme. He considerer' that there was a future for the scows but more would be heard of that anon.— Marlborough Express. "Woodman spare that tree" has lon been the cry of nature lover in regard to Mason's Gardens, Lower Hutt, but, in spite of the cry, instructions hav< been issued, and in a few weeks tlw noble pines and gums will have passet, from being things of beauty to tin ignoble if very necessary purpose o serving as winter firing. A contract ha. been let to clear all the largo trees i tho gardens. The trees are not bein felled in the orthodox manner, but ar being pulled out by tho roots, and fror: tho time the tackle isi attached to, say. a pine three feet iti diameter and a hun died feet, high, to the time it is extracted from the earth, a .space of thr<v minutes elapses. The fixing of tho tack! may occupy about fifteen minutes. TJ" machine is said to be the only one of i kind in New Zealand, and is very, simp! fo operate, remarks .the Past. "I have a great appreciation for th-. drinking prohibitionist," remarked th; Rev. I!.. B. S. Hammond at the conch' sion of his prohibition address at, Pal' merston North, when asked' if he consid ered it was a fair and proper thing fo a. man, who was a member of a charter ed club in Palmerslon North, to attenc a* prohibition meeting and' assist in. tat ing up a. collection in aid of the cause Mr Hammond' went on to state that c man might be a member of a club, not because he sold liquor, but because o' business reasons. That man might, con siider his club would be better for tin elimination of liquor, andt if he mm« boldly forward—not surreptitiouslytbere was nothing to be said against hi action. The gentleman in question bar acted in good faith, had every rigjit tr be present at the meeting, and persona! ly the speaker was rather inclined to !x proud of him.

The cross-Strait .trip from Picton tc Wellington on the Wainiii is not by an;, means a pleasure jaunt if one may-judge by the reluctance displayed by member of the Borough Council on a recent even ingto brave the- rigors of the" deep. It was suggested (reports the Marlborough Express) that Councillor Payne, as chairman of tho finance committer, should go to Wellington in connectio'r with the £22,000 loan. Councilloi Payne: "Oh, no, not on that boat!" Someone then suggested that the Mayo: should make the journey, but his Worship hastily declined,, stating that hf had .-riot been to Wellington since, tho Wainui was put on the run, and he didn't want to go on her. Councilloi Gascoigno remarked that it appeared that, the Union Company was actually discouraging travelling by keeping the Wainui on the run. Finally, Councillor L. Griffiths was selected to lool' after the loan.

'Mr. J. TombleKon stated to-day that at his meeting in connection with the Harbor problem to-night ho intends to place before, his audience the very latest in harbors"; All •he would say was that it was not. a scheme . for ocean boats, his i pet scheme' for ocean boats being Awapuni. The question to-day if immediate relief, in the -present harboi and he 'intends to show; how this can br obtain' with the. aid of tho Maui in a : few months, giving- when finished, a small lightering harbor of not less than eight feet at,low water springEi, preserving, tjie lower wharf, the-Waikanae for a turning basin and further development, allowing the Tun tea to -work all stages of the ti;dp and free from silt trouble. If. this can be dQne ? Mr Tombleson contends.that it should satisfy the. shipping people for somo years to come and allow the farming community to recover from the present slump in prices before they are asked to undertake further heavy burdens: '...'.

Some caustic comment was levelled at llki Gisborne Borough by-laws in. the Court this morning, Mir J. S. Wauohop describing one set of 1919 motor by-laws as "good Sunday rending.':' Jn ■"opposing a police application to amend- an information by (Substituting another .by-law section for that under which the -information had originally been laid, Mr Wane hup paid that li« considered his easo would, be prejudiced, by such a,' change, lie thought that possibly tho section by which it was proposed to amend; the information, mi<rht stand, whereas tho original ono, ho submitted, cpfnld not stand. He agreed with His Worship that there wast a much bigger hoi© in one than there was'■, in the other. Mr Barton paid that bo did not like either of the sections, but ho pointed out that it was not necessary to name the action, of a, by-law in an information, though it was advisable to do so. Tlis information was not amended, and' His Wornhio found that the section, that, dealing-with the parking of ears in streets, was one which had to be "reasonably administered/."

Mr James Craigie, M.P., has sold out his interests in tho Timarti Post to Mr H. Bell, and severed completely his connection! with the paper.

It is quite on the cards that the N.S.W. Education Department will acquire its own movie outfits, and use the pictures as a means of education.

"If you are not- able to treat those dear little Jerseys as nice and kindly as they deserve." you don't deserve to have a wife or a sister," said a wellknown fancier at the Jersey Association smoke concert at Stratford.

As showing the effect of the intense cold of last week (relates the Otorohan.ga Times) ,-Mr,D'. Turner says that; oiv eo-.•iiig'-to thenveir- for eels, 'ho found', them 'fmz'on.Ko'Jdea'th'-in'Hhe "water, a tiltingthat ho has never known happen before.

' -'Tho' Governor-General and Lady Jellicoe propose visiting Hawke's Bay this month. Their Excellencies will be the guests of Sir Andrew Russell. On July 21st Vif.count Jellicoe will unveil a war memorial at Waipawa. •

The petrol perambulator has arrived. It is propelled by a small engine fixed to an extra wheel which is attached just behind the back of the perambulator, and on it are foot rests for the nurse-chauffeur. Baby can travel four miles an hour without vibration.

A New Plymouth firm received freight bills recently, which causes them some surprise. From a Canadian port to Wellington the charges were £24 ; from Wellinato-i to New Plymouth (including transhipment charges in Wellington), they amounted' to over £2O. Gisborne freights are wors'j than that.

It having become known in Wellington that a number of men have been sleeping out this winter, arrangements have been mado to accommodate about 50 men in one of the Wellington Harbor Board sheds. Beds and bedding have been procured, and the men are to doss on tho floor. Many of those thus accommodated are seafaring men. The owners of 4218 acres, comprising part of the Moutoa Estate, between Foxton and Shannon.', have requested tho Government -to take over the land at £90,000, the valuation placed on the land by the owners. . The' Government valuation is £112,000. and when an objection was recently made in the Assessment Court the valuation was I sustained.

The Manaia Witness says: Mr W. B. Davies, of New Plymouth, writes to the Herald strongly advocating the planting of orange and lemon trees in suitablelocalities. . New Zealand now imports over 160,000 cases of oranges and lemons every year. Mr. Davis is sure (that more than those quantities could be grown in the Dominion. We should like to know whether be- would favor the cultivation oi olives. Genuine olive oil is exceedingly hard to get, and if conditions are suitable the industry should be a profitable'one in years to come- V ■ i ■