TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15873, 12 July 1922, Page 8

TOWN EDITION.

The s.s. Arahura arrived from Tokomam Bay and Auckland at 3.45 p.m. to-day. A donation of £2 has been received by the Mayor, Mr G. Wildish, from Mrs "0" for the purchase of meat in connection with tho Magistrate's Fund. Major Belcher, of the British Exhitition Mission, who paid a visit to the L'awthron Institute at Nelson, was wry favorably impressed witJi t lit 1 - research work betnjr carried out there.

Tin., following team will represent the butchers in their football match tomorrow : Hill, Dtinlop, Roderick, Trowbridge, Fraser, Smith (3), Mee, Mourenl, Keenan, Albrecht, Cornelius, Green, McConnell, Wood, and Sangwell.

A sale of work, was held in the. Parish hall this afternoon by the Holy Trinity Ladies' Guild, in aid of the church and mission funds. Hood business was being done at the various stalls. The proceedings were enlivened considerably by music supplied from a, gramaphone, kindly lent, by the Vicar. Afternoon tea w.-i.s dispensed under the supervision of Mesdames (iolfe. McKinley, Ludwig, Etlery, Robertson, and Misses Harris and Uof'fo. The following «;ere in charge of the different stalls: —Misses Brooke-Tay-lor (2), and Booth, and Mrs Muis, work: Mesdamesi W. A. Smith and Harney, small poods; Mesdames H. T. Jones and Beddow, produce; Mrs T. A. Crawford, sweets; Miss Wachsmnnn and Mrs Home, cakes.

The base of the promenade at. the Waikanae beach has now been completed from the tea. koisk along to Grey street, and only the parapet and the ,15ft. walk remain to be done before this section of the Beach Society's improvements is completed. The next portion of tho work to be undertaken will be the concreting of tho spaco in front of the bathing pavilion, and later it is intended, if suiiicienfc money is available, to carry the promenade and sea wall along in front of the Victoria League's shelter. An effort is being made to secure a. sum of money from the Magistrates Fund, as the construction will bo carried on as relief work, and it it is found possible to pay the labor required, the society will be able to find the material to carry on the work.

'The other clay, in one of the Sydney police courst, a defending solicitor was nearly pushed into the dock by a policeman who mistook the man of-law for his client. This recalls the story told by Lord Morris the witty Irish judge. He declared that on one occasion the jurymen at an Irish assize were instructed by the clerk of the court to "take their proper place," and "Bedad, if they didn't all walk into tho dock!" An even more remarkable case is reported*" tu have hapepned in New York, and if the story is not true it certainly deserves to be. The defendant in a certain matter could not be found at first, hut was at length discovered among the jury empannelled to try the cause! He was quite annoyed at being removed, and remarked with Some reason: "Who should know move about it than I do?"—Daily I Telegraph.

A mooting of creditors in tho bankrupt estate, of George G. I). MacDonaM, deceased, was held to-dav, the DeputyOfficial Assignee (Mr W.*L. Butler) presiding. The only creditor present was Mr T. Haisman. The deceased's relatives were represented by Mr J. G. Nolan. The aggregate debts of the estate were stated at,"£l29 10s 2d, and there were no available assets. Replying to the Assignee, Mr Nolan stated that an insurance policy could not bo drawn upon for funeral expenses. There was nothing of any value in the estate, except perhaps a few commercial shares, The Assignee intimated that, he would have to distrain upon them. Their vol'ie, he learned from Mr Nolan, was about JJS6. Mr Nolan said that he was prepared to make a. representation to the relatives of deceased in respect to the funeral expenses. The Assignee remarked that he would have to he satisfied with this. He would enquire into the matter of the shares mentioned, to ascertain the possibility of a sale.

Tho penny-in-the-slot stamp machines which are now a featue of many po.-l oilices, have a habit of often being out of 1 order, and most citizens unthinkingly immediately blame the post office oiiicials (states the Hastings Tribune). Tho fault, however, invariably lies with the adult public who attempt to force the machine to use kid coins, or the small boy element is responsible. Tho Chit t' Postmaster, Napier (Mr. A. E. McGregor), showed a reporter a collection of coins which had upset the machine in the private box lobby during the past month. These included a French 10 cent piece, a penny struck by a Brunswick firm to commemorate the Federation of Australia and stamped 1901, a Spanish two centlmos copper coin, five badly flattened pennies, a piece of lead the size and ahapo of a penny, and a flattened half-penny. In addition, the machine was cleared of several tops of match-boxes, and a quantity of sand. In, view of the fact that the machines are delicately adjusted to take only good pennies, the reason for failures can easily be discerned.

Mr. N. D. Hood, who has been appointed Chief Surveyor of Ships, Chief Inspector of Machinery, and Chief Examiner of Engineers for the Dominion, joined the Marine and lnsj>ection of Machinery Department in February, 1905. Mr. Hood received his initial training in tho Soho engineering works at Nelson, during! winch time two iron vessels were constructed there—the.steamer Wakatu and the sailing vessel Uno. In 1880 Mr. Hood went to Scotland, and for several years was with tho well-known firm of shipbuilders, Messrs. Alex. Stephen and Sons. He then entered the Union Steam Ship Company's service, i/i which he spent thirteen years, when he accepted an appointment with the Blackball Steam Ship Company, and for the last five years of his connection with this firm held the position of superintendent engineer. Since entering the Public Service, Mr. Hood has had charge of the Nelson and Canterbury districts respectively, and latterly was Assistant Chief at head oflice. Mr. Hood was in 1902 president of tho Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers.

Sir Henry Maybury, Director of Roads in the Ministry of Transport, answered a. series of questions on the subject of roads. "If you want to see a good road," he said, "I can show the best in the world. There are roads in tin's country so good that* foreign road engineers are always over here looking at them and askiirg how they are made. M. Le Gavrian, the French' road-maker, chief engineer of the Department oi' Roads and Bridges, was here last week. Mr. Van Heyst, chief of the Department of Public Works in Holland, will bo here . next week. '.'What is the best road?" Sir Henry was asked. "The best is too expensive to be practical," lie replied. ''For heavy traffic there is nothing equal to the granite setts of Lancashire based on concrete. Next to well-laid masonry on concrete, the bestroad surface for the average heavy traffic of the present day, smooth, dustlcss, and wearing, is a bituminous macadam. We are using this for our new main roads. Von can make it up with granite and blast furnace slag, and in the south and west of England it is made with lime-stone. By substituting aspholtic bitumen, from Trinidad and Bermuda, rock asphalte from the Continent, or the residue left after the distillation of spirit from petroleum, we get. a good binding material for the macadam. It is superior to gns tar, which, has lost much of its road-making qualities in recent years owing to Improved methods in gas making. Cost is the only thing which now stands between England and the finest complete system of modern roads in the world. This is down some 25 Der cent., so that given the same amount of money we shall be able to do far more work this year than last. To lay a new tar macadam 20 feet road now- costs about £3,000 a. mile; but the estimates of cost submitted by local authorities are often excessive. There are many existing roads which could be made ns good as the best for seven years at a cost of £1,500 a mile."