TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15874, 13 July 1922, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

All hockey, matches were postponed today on account- of the ruin.

Instructions have, been issued by the Harbor.. Board .to the returning officer to conduct the harbor poll on August 9. Mr. E. R- Brabazon, Collector of Customs, Wellington, will retire -on superannuation at the end of Septemter. Ho will then have been 41 years in the Custoftis Department. "There'is not twenty-five per cent of the land on the Hauraki Plains under production," said Cr. J. F. -Mayn at a conference between the Lands Department- officials and the Hauraki Plains County Council at Ngatea. Cr. Harris said that the Hauraki Plains County would sooner or later be one of the most wealthy counties in the Dominion (sa.vt the Waihi Telegraph"). "Sports bodies will have kf i jr.cak away from tlio idea that they can have their grounds in the middle of the town," said Mr. A. Swarbrick at a meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board. They must go further afield! for their grounds. The open spaces in the centre of the town should -be reserved as tin parks and the playing holds should be oi die outskirts-:"

Aa a result of a. motor accident, a 1 I'ukekohe, a Maori, Whare Rangi Ngn tai, died at the Auckland Hospital or. Saturday. The victim, who was a laborer, aged 48 years, resided at Puni, and was admitted to'the hospital on Friday. While crossing King Street; Pukekohe, to get a motor-car, the deceased, who was a partial cripple, was knocked down by another motor-car, and sustained a fractured leg. A unique proposal will come before the Annual meeting of the Wellington Bolwing Club. The suggestion is that a tournament be arranged for club members wild are 70 years of ago and over. There i.s a number of bowlers who have reached the allotted! epan of life, and who are still able to enjoy a game of bowls, in fact play equally a.s well, if not better than the majority of younger men.

"How much is half-a- gallon?" asked counsel of a witness in the New Plymonth Maoist-rate's Court. in an attempt to visualise in practical form just exactly how much the quantity would ho (relates a Taranaki exchange). "Perhaps it would be easier to judge half a pint" put in the Magistrate. and a smile went round the court. "Yes. that would probably be an easier standard of measurement,'' admitted counsel.

General Sir Tan Hamilton, who commanded the forces on Gallipoli, writing to Mr. Herman Schmidt, his distress at learning of the tragedy by which Sapper Moore-Jones met with. "Just the heroic death I believe be would' have chosen if he bad been asked how- he would wish to die. I had the creates!, personal regard for him and lament his lass, but feel that it has added another glorious incident to the hlstorv of 'New Zealand."

• A rather interesting exhibit was brought into the Waikato Times office last week- by Mr. R. Renwick, Putaruru—lG ordinary pins, two inches iong and very much discolored. • which he states he found in the gizzard of a fowl which he had killed, not because it exhibited any sic;ns of illness, but for tabic purposes. ' These pins, also the remains of a. safety pin, were sticking .through the gizzard about a quarter of an inch. The. bird was apparently in.the.best ol health when killed.

The final terms of his judgment in the civil action heard yesterday, Bell, Gully, Myers, .and. CLeary v, Kane and Dunlop and Fergus Gale Dunlop, were given by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., today. His Worship.yesterday gave judgment for the plaintiffs, but deferred the question as to whether the judgment should go against the firm or aguins' Mr. Dunlop personally. This afternoon his Worship announced that he was satisfied that the judgment must go against the firm. He gave judgment accordingly for £52 10s', with Court costs at Gisborne and Wellington, and solicitors' fee, £3 3s.

Tito fact that the present valve of tlie endowments of the Auckland Harbor Board i-s largely due to the foresight ol its first chairman, the late Captain Ualdy, was referred to by the deputy chairman of the Board at the opening of the Auckland winter show. He said that when Captain Captain Daldy warequested to become the chairman of the first Board in 1871, bo required from the Government, as nn essential condi tion of taking office, that certain endow monts, including, the bed of a large proportion of the harbor, should be vested in the Board. The importance of this, Mr Hutchinson said, was seen to-day in the fact that the Board held the freehold of between 2CO and 3CO acres oif reclaimed land. About 180 acres of land, be added, bad been reclaimed during the past 20 years, this ensuring deeper berthage and: the gradual deepening of the harbor. How does this comraix' with the 3000 acres or more of reclaimed land which can with comparative case bo made available by tlie Napier Harbor Board as a revenue-producing asset, asks the Tribune.

The Waikanae Beach Improvement Society has advised Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., that the £l5O which was allocated to the Society from the Magistrate's Fund 1 , for the purpose of providing wages for labor on the beach, 'is now almost exhausted and the men would probably have to bo put off about tin middle of next week. Tlie Society ha* asked Mr Barton whether there is any prospect of obtaining a further all oca tion from the fund, in order that (he men may be kept at work on the beach improvements. To this Mr Partoii hnr replied stating that tree planting work on the Kaiti Hill memorial park was t start not later than Monday, and n number of men, at present out of "work, would be engaged, for this work. He bad asked thone in charr.e of the arrange ments for this work to givo him aestimate of the amount they were likelv to require, and the Mayor had a creed with' him that any surplus which re m.lined 1 in the fund, would then be hind ed ever to the Peach Society in or.-'ei to keep the men employed upon the im provemont.s there. Mr Barton has nopd ed; out that after handing over £l5O tithe Reach Society there is now in hand about £IOO. and there were the piwced." of the Savage Club's korero in O'e Opora House! next week still to come in.

The annual meeting of the Kahuti Bowling Club will be held in the club' pavilion to-morrow night, nt 8 o'clock.