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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 2

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Kin Ora- Dairy Company to-day decided to erect a new factory. It will be. noted from to-day's weather forecast that a strong south-easterly gale, is forecasted, with heavy rain and flooded rivers.

The first consignment of poles for the Teviot Electric Power Board was landed at Beaumont last week, states a Roxburgh correspondent of the Otago Daily Times.

A number of immigrants who came out to New Zealand from Home on the s.s. llemuera, arrived, at Gisborne last evening by the s.s. Arab urnfront Auckland. Included in the party was a high percentage of children. For some time, past the Hawke’s Ray County Council lias been engaged on the work of drafting a uniform set of by-laws, which it is understood will be adopted by most of the county councils throughout Hawke’s Bay.

The recent rains have improved the outlook for the dairying season considerably and'' have brought on the feed. Thet cows had' begun to go off slightly, but now the amount of cream coming forward' to the dairy factories is as great ns ever.

It is understood that there is a scheme afoot whereby freezing companies will buy stores for their clients and lift them when fattened, payments being made by the clients then. No commission will be charged by the companies. —Taranaki Age. The main roll compiled in connection with the municipal elections closed yesterday, with a total of 5406 names, The figure is much greater than is usually found on the main roll, this being accounted for by the fact that the officials, were unable to purge the roll. A supplementary roll will close later.

There was a fair rush of ratepayers at the Borough Council offices yesterday to take the last, opportunity of avoiding the imposition of the penalty of 10 per cent, added to all rates not paid. It is stated that between three and four thousand pounds were paid into the Borough coffers during the day.

The ruling prices of meat for export are: Lamb BJd, wethers 6d and ewes Lamb has fallen from about 9d, and wethers and ewes have both shown an upward tendency. A reason advanced for the drop in lamb values is that some difficulty is anticipated in getting the frozen meat away before it clashes with the Canterbury shipments.

Mr. W. Stevenson, who has been appointed to represent the New Zealand Customs Department in Canada and the United States, is an ex-Otago High School pupil. He entered the' customs service in 1896, and in 1907 was appointed collector of customs, treasurer and postmaster to the Cook Islands Administration at Rarotonga. He returned to Wellington in 1921 as inspector.

The butter export; figures of Poverty Ray illustrate more clearly than words the manner in which the dairy industry is gaining ground in this district. In December, 1921, butter to, .the. amount of 2466 boxes was forwarded for export, the January (1922) figure being 1112 boxes. The total for the two months was 3578 boxes. In December and January of the'current season, the export figures totalled 10,349 boxes. The percentage of increase in the two years is in the vicinity of 260 per cent,

A Taupo native named Kepa'' had a miraculous escape from death during the easterly calc which sprang up on Thursday. He was fishing on the eastern 'shore of the lake in a canoe and was blown off shore. In the heavy sea that was running the canoe drifted helplessly, hut by continuous baling The Maori managed to keen his craft from filling, and was eventually driven ashore on the west uf the lake near Karangahane Cliff. He was rescued by a search party, after being 48 jfiours without food and exposed to the storm. '

The next fortnight will lie a critical period for the freezing industry “fn Poverty Bay. The long spell of wet weather has had a bad effect upon the lambs, and stock did not fatten, while Ihe demand for store sheep has made it better worth while for the farmer to sell his ewes as stores than to freeze them. A large number ot flocks have been exported to other districts. The few days of fine weather experienced since Saturday may have a satisfactory effect uopn the pasture, and conseouentlv upon the freezing stock, if to-dnv’s threat of a resumption of the rains is not realised.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Railway Dengue a resolution was massed, that this meeting urges upon the Government, the early concentration of its forces for the completion of the railway between WalTti and Taurangn.” Mr. C. W. Harris, chairman of the Ha lira ki Plains Count y -Council, moved that the Government he asked to complete the unfinished East Coast lines, mid particularly the Pokeno-Paeroa section. The line from Pokeno to Paeroa would shorten the journey by 40 miles on a congested fine, front) Auckland to Paeroa, and to all stations on the East Coast line beyond. It would serve one of the newest and richest districts of the Dominion, with a population of 30.340. and it would tlicj in (lie further development of the large area in the plains amounting to 4,975,360 acres, which had yet no railway connection nearer than Thames. Paeroa, or Pokeno.

Fuel conservation is the latest movement of the Victorian Railway Commissioners—“ Look after the shdvelfnls and the tons will take care of themselves.’’ being one of its recent admonitions to the employees. “Save coal—it. is to the benefit of all of us to do so,” is the advice tendered in the weekly notice issued recently. In addition to advice (says the Age), the Commissioners have caused conferences to be held on the question, and once a month district committees, composed of representatives of the transportation and rolling stock branches, meet at the important depots and discuss methods of coal conservation. They estimate that if each employee Vwould be responsible for the saving of 6d a week by the more .careful it so of stores, £33.000 a year would be saved to the Department, and if a pound of coal were saved per train mile run, an economy of at least £9OOO a year would be effected, without impairing efficiency in the smallest degreo.

Preparations are being made to organise a stock drive in the Waivarapa' in j connection with the annual, show. ,

. Mr. M. Davev, orchard instructor for Poverty Bay, has been called to Wellington in connection with fruit -export business, and will be away for an indefinite period. As reported front London, subscriptions to the New South Wales loan of £4,000,000 at. 5 per cent-,issued,at 98£, exceeded double that. figure." The State Government decided to accept £8.000,000.

The prevalence of appendicitis, is illustrated by the fact that no fewer than nine cases have occurred in an Auckland family and its immediate connections. All these patients have undergone successful operations.

A statue has been unveiled at Waimate, Canterbury, to the memory of the lale Dr. -Margaret Cruic-kshaiiU- The late Dr. Crnickshank had been in practice for a number of years in Waimate. She lost her life during the influenza epidemic of 1918. y Between 60 and 70 teachers,from all parts of the Auckland province attended the opening o£ a. week’s farm school for teachers at the Ruakura farm school on Monday. The syllabus includes ocular demonstrations, practical work, and illustrated lectures.

Several men are engaged in erecting camps at Fruitlands and Gorge Creek, in Central Otago, for the Public Works Department with a view of making an early , start on extension of the Last Chance irrigation works. This work when in full swing ' should employ at least 40 to 50 men. The death occurred at Nelson on Monday of Mrs Henrietta McCoig, aged 81, the result of burns received a house catching fire' from a c\m n blown against a can die '• used ' iofM.A-'--ing in oed. r ihe in Nelso’n for over 40 years as a maternity nurse-

, While fishing about six chains above the Lower Hurt bridge on* Thursday a nam named Scbffantica discovered* ffie body of a man entangled in the willow trees on the bank of the river. It. was subsequently identified as that .of John Edward Reyes, builder, of Lower Hutt, Who has been missing from his home for over n week.

One of the Mornington (Dunedin) cable cars was pushed off the line iii the vicinity of the Princess Theatre on Saturday by a motor car. The tramcar was damaged, and the motor car had ’its radiator crushed. The motor car was able to be driven kwtiy,'but an hour elapsed before the could be replaced on the rails.

a.view to providing homes.for employees the New Plymouth' Harbor Board is subdividing a portion of one of its reserves at Moturoa for sale .for dwellings. The proposal Has been approved oy the Borough Council is so far ns the land within the borough is concerned, and a committee bias been appointed to confer with the county council as to the proposed road.

( Tlie question of .the, establishment of “'half-way” houses, giving better provision for the reception and treatment of incipient mental and delirium tremens cases formed the subject of a. communication received by the Hospital Board from Dr. T. H. A. Va,lintine, DirectorGeneral of Hospitals. He asked for information as to the number of patients passing through the board’s hands who would be suitable subjects for such an institution.

It' seems that the terms of imprisonment which have been inflicted on bicycle thieves in Christchurch are haying a good effect. In the Magistrate's Court Seniqr-petective TV Gibson said that only 31 bicycles were reported as missing in December last. Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., commented on the fact, and said that at one time they used to disappear at the rate of 1700 per annum, or 80 a month. It was qhite promising to note that the number was down to 31. ( The Royal Mail steamer Makura is still manned by a, non-unionist ei'ew. The seamen’s strike ended in Australia some weeks before it was called off*-in New, Zealand. When the Makura arrived at Sydney from Vancouver and Auckland last, week most of tlie members of her crew* who had gone out on -strike applied to rejoin the vessel again. They were not successful, however, as only a few of the non-unionist crew, were paid off at their own requests; and-they were replaced by other non-unionist seamen. * ? V T - *

Some days ago the Mayor - of Napier (Mr. J. B. Andrew) announced his” intention, following the Borough Council’s decision, of calling a conference: of local bodies for the purpose-of considering the question of forming a provisional power board for this district and .so place the district' on a better footing for urging upon, the Government the necessity of proceeding- .with the harnessing of Waikaremoana. Tlfe / conference has been summoned for February 15. The Mayor ,f has also communicated with the Minister of Public Works requesting him tof allow , one of his officers; to v'isit Napier and give the local bodies some assistance. when considering the proposal. V - v'v’

Captain,Cook’s naval chart of the St. Lawrence river, made to'assist General Wolfe in hi s operations against Quebec, was sold a# Christie's, in (London last \vcek for £IOBO. The news gives added interest to the approaching sale ,an London of Cook’.s original journal on the voyage of the Endeavor. Thtee manuscript copies of This journal, each signed by Cook, are known ;t6.be> v in V '■ existence, two being in “England and / one in the Australian Museum in Syd- / nay. The original manuscript ' shows/ that in a number of instances the names first given by tliy great .’navigator>M6 places in Australia v'.ere.-,.subsequently - altered by him, it is thought after consultation with Ranks. Botany Bay, Mho * scene of the historic., landing .mVA-PR-tralia, was first “String, Ray Harbor;” -1 and then “Botanist Bay.'” > It is ypointed out by Professor Wood/who' has / ‘ ’ inspected, thy manuscript,, that the. name J “New- South Wales,” too,- \vpk- an after- • thought, being written over some words ,* . which had been erased. In’ other places . the country is, called New.-Holland, for /• :; which in one place iVsubsfhatted New tk,« Wales. “On the other hand, there is/', : no, sign, that, .the name. ‘Poverty Bay,’, . applied to the . first anchorage' in New ’ Zealand, is an afterthought, - so/that' “/' / Cook’s first intention to call ft’ Ehdea- > vour Bay cannot have , lasted lPfig.” There is a movement on foot ih 'Sy&iey ... to raise a fund for the -pnrposej*-‘uf enabling the. Mitehell Library to c«tbi.d ... / all, comers when this'historical'-dShfeieiit / is put up for sale by auction hi Mhtch. * • J ' ' ■■■'. ■■

Tin? Waerenga-o-kuri .sports are hvLe held on Saturday. Post entries will be received. ’ ■

Readers are reminded of the ■ high class sale of dresses and millinery to be. sold i by public auction at ,111©:’ premises of' Mrs. Amy Jefferys, Peel street, commencing at 11 a,m. to-morrow.* .

On Saturday night till© second of . a series of popular week-end danpes will take place in the Girls’ Emergency Club room at 8 p.m. The Elite, orchestra of three instrument® will provide all the latest jazz and dance music and the committee are looking forward to another big night. Light refreshments will be urovided' and 1 the. dance is open to the public.**

The unreserved sale of thp balance-of Neill’s drapery stock at the shop in Everybody’s buildings vtill_-.be Con- . tinned’ to-morrow and oil Saturday,VtHe v sales ' commencing at- 11 a.nil Country client® and l the general public have never before had 1 such a favorable opportunity to stock up at thyir own ideas of values, ns the varied“‘selection of ladies’gap-' moots, etc., are being sold' linger the hammer at ufireserved 1 prices.** Mr. H. J. Andrew is again to the fore with some special bargains in boots, shoes, clothing, mercery, etc.--' These wil? all bo found real money-Staying progiosi, tions. Everyone will be welcome term* spect for themselves. The sale will be for a short period only/* ' J • We advise all marriageable eirls to. sing plenty, especially while “No-Rub-bing” Laundry Help is, doing the week-' !yj a « i lv.** was » in -Agent 'for ‘No-Ruhbmg.

The next Napier wool sale will take place on ,February 19, for which allocation, of 27,500 bale? has been made, the same as for the last sale. It is anticipated that the catalogue will be completely filled. ,In connection with the Oamaru election petition set down for hearing by the Chief Justice and Mr. .Justice Adams on February: 9, Sir Robert Stout, understands that an application will be made for an adjournment ot the hearing of the petition and this is likely to be granted by the Court. In view of the forthcoming Borough elections the half-holiday question is now exercising the minds of some of the local traders (says the Opotiki Herald), and an effort is to be made to alter the holiday back to Wednesday. A ‘‘battle royal” therefore may confidently bo anticipated.

It is nine years since a direct shipment of bananas from the Friendly Islands was landed in Auckland, but the Government of Tonga has now arranged that the Union Company’s s.s. Kaitoke shall call at Nukualofa, about February 13th., for 3000 cases. The Kaitoke should arrive in Auckland on February 19th.

As a result of a protest by the local Press (says the Dunedin Star’s Clyde correspondent) regarding the grave menace to the community through tuberculosis sufferers being allowed to travel and stop at hotels, etc., without any precautions, the Vincent County Council has decided to hold an immediate conference with the Hospital Boaid. A batch of eleven unemployed were sent out'to the Public Works camp at Eskdale on Tuesday by the Napier office of the Labor Department. Although a slight increase has been noticed in the labor .position in .Napier lately, it is expected that the amount of work offering on the waterfront will ease it considerably.

Prosperous times coming again and not so many civil summonses, is eviorder just at present. A constabWßn the Wanganui district, who has bcMtt*n the habit of supplementing his income I>v a fair amount for milage fees, wheit asked the other day how things were, replied: “Man, they are not suing well at all'now.” Five well-dressed young men looked very sheepish when paraded together to answer charges of playing penny pool in Point Erin Park on Sunday afternoon, saye the Auckland Star. It was stated that they were all the sons of respectable people, and the spectacle had not been an edifying one. Fines of 10s each and costs 2s 6d were imposed. The Napier Fire Board has been successful in raising a loan of £15,000 under favorable conditions, for the purpose of erecting an un-to-date fire station as approved by. Inspector Hugo, oh the old Theatre Royal site, together with further plant and equipment and the installation of a fire alarm system; also improved facilities for fire fighting at the port.

“If I were Minister of Health I would not recognise any conscientious objectors. I would put them in gaol. They are a danger to themselves, and their families. There should be no such thing as a conscientious objector in a civilised country.”—Dr. Adams, speaking to the Sanitary Inspectors’ Conference on the subject of conscientious objectors to vaccination against smallpox. The season at Taupo this year has ibeen a very busy one and goes to a great extent to show tho increasing populai’ity of this centre for the business main or tourists to spend vacations. The trip from Napier through the mountainous country is one that is long remembered, the whole road being full of interest with grand scenery and historical spots relative to the Maori.

On going out to yard his dariy herd, Mr.Anb ibs, of Frankton, discovered the herd sire, a young pedigree Jersey bull of some promise, lying dead in a paddock beside the stockyard. Evidently during .the heavy thunderstorm the previous evening •lightning struck the animal, .possibly attracted by the copEer.bnll ring in his nose, as apparently e was killed instantaneously.

As further proof of the value of fingerprint evidence, it may be mentioned that in the case of Arthur Garvin, who pleaded guilty to a series of thefts from warehouses and dwellings, the detectives obtained fingerprints at Edmond’s store and Professor Malcolm’s house. These were forwarded to Wellington, and found to be identical with those of the accused man.—Dunedin Star.

> V As to air space in rooms,” said Dr Matgjll at the onference of sanitary inspectoral at Wanganui, “errors are apt to creep' in. W’e rely too mudi on cubic space per individual and too little on window space. As a matter of fact, a person might sleep under perfectly sanitary conditions in a dry culvert pipe large enough to hold him, if his head stuck out into the open air. It would be inconvenient, but not unhygienic.”

When berthing at the cross wharf at Dunedin the Canterbury Steam Ship r ping Co.’s Breeze struck the centre of the wharf with some force. It was blowing hard from the north-east, and the weather was very thick. The stem cut through a heavy piece of ironbark timber, splintered it to its entire length, smashed a stringer under the wharf, and bent the water service pipe. The steamer itself suffered very little damage. , /

■■ A' : ‘. despictable act of vandalism, the desecration of the old cemetery at has been brought to the notice of the police. Tombstones have been overturned and broken, glass Wreaths ruthless smashed, and disgusting sketches and inscriptions blazoned on the memorial stones. Even the graves of little children have not escaped. Scarcely a wreath in the whole cemetery remains whole. Numbers of stones were thrown down, and one large marble cross was shattered. The deplorable act is apparently that of boys of not‘very mathro years.

Again on Friday night 111© Rotorua district was visited by heavy thunderstorms. At 8 p.m., looking southward from Ilotorua, two great storm centres could be seen, on e over Tarawera and the other west of Waiotapu. The lightning discharge was leaping the intervening space, making a wonderful spectacular effect. Four inches of rain was reported as having fallen during the night at Waiotapu. Damage to roads is reported *oa almost every outlet from JRotorua,. . ‘ Passengers to Opotiki anti Gisborne were held up in th© Waiinana Gorge, and transferred across the slips. February Life just to hand contains a fascinating article on sharks, in which the afr. David G. Stead, says:— “Take thev'Ccfttral part of the coastline of New South Wales as an instance. Here within a total distance of, say, one hundred miles, sea (and surf) bathers td the number of many thousands may be found disporting themselves within easy shark reach on beaches, or swimming in the calm, placid, safe-looking waters of harbors, bays, and estuaries, on any morning during the summer-time —the time which exactly coincides with the greatest ‘movement’ of sharks in our sea waters; the time when quite vast numbers of potential ‘man-eaters’ are never very far away from the great majority of those bathers. You see, I call them ‘potential’ man-eaters, but it must bo evident to all that thpse great sea-monsters are not by preference maneaters, or there wouldn’t be many men, women,' or children left in the surf or on the beaches of Australia. That little thing ig worth thinking over for a moment; and I shall show you later that it is only the hungry—the very hungry—shark that is the dangerous one to humans. The trouble is that you don’t very well know which are the hungry ones Until too late. And for that reason alone it is exceedingly inadvisable for surfers to offer themselves in the way that some do—whether for cheap notoriety or only for the sake of adventure doesn’t matter here —as ‘shark-bait.’ ” Other articles include Henry Ford in the Mystrey of Big Business,; Warwick Armstrong on “The Secret of Bowling,” and a great complete story of the Soutn Seas by John Russell, pic.

Nearly 70 square feet of pavement worked in a handsome five-color design have been unearthed in a garden at Colchester.

In view of the early completion of the Otira railway line, West Coast firms are interesting themselves in the matter of getting into closer touch with the other side of the island. In an air-mail express which crashed in a fogi and caught fire between Oran, Algeria, and Casablanca, Morocco, tlie pilot was burned to death, but the mailcarrier escaped with slight injuries. A new heavy calibre gun has been invented by two French engineers, M. Galliot and M. Bory, which, it is claimed, has no recoil and with which the barrel flash is greatly reduced.

Dr. Torstan Amundsen, an eminent Norwegian surgeon, who is a relative oif the Arctic explorer of the same name, has been touring the East for some time, and is now cn route to the South Sea Islands, and New Zealand. Tn New South Wales since June, 1920, there have been 22 cases of anthrax infection, all apparently acquired from shaving brushes of Eastern manufacture, and six of them have proved fatal.

Mr. Julian Grande, the well-known Continental journalist, and accredited representative of the London Daily Telegraph to the League of Nations at Geneva, arrived by the Remuera on Saturday on a short visit to New Zealand.

In the fact of improved activity in prospecting throughout the Waiht district it is hoped that something worth while will be met with. Efforts are being made in England and America to raise sufficient capital to develop claims situated in the Waihi field.

The monument which is being erected at the White Cliffs, Taranaki, by the officials of the Waitara and Whiteley Methodist Churches to mark the spot where the Rev. John Whiteley met his death at the hands of some rebel natives in 1869. is nearing completion.

Of the loan of £19.000 for the extension of the trams to Wcstown, the greater part of the money was obtained in Dunedin (says the Taranaki News), the rate, being 5J per cent., as the money was unobtainable at s' s per cent., the rate previously decided on. A tender for £6942 has been accepted by the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co. for the erection of a new factory at Riversleigli. A sum of £4OOO lias been set aside for new plant. Including buildings, roading, and di’ainage, the total outlay will be about £12,000. Animal lovers will enjoy a- pig story which is told by a settler up the Wanganui river, says the Chronicle. A town visitor, always welcome on a backblocks farm, was expected}- and a sixmile ride over a bridle track had to be made to meet the steamer. As though out of curiosity, the pig, which was a pet. also made the journey, and also mndo the return trip to the farm, a full distance of twelve miles. The visitor was very pleased with his pig escort. When tho. market is well loaded up with supplies of onions it sometimes happens that a timely outlet is found through Vancouver bv tho mail "steamers. On one occasion last year onions formed the bulk of the cargo carried by the Niagara. The prospects of onions going the same way this year are said to be bright, and the Moknra will lift 1500 bags for Honolulu. These are from Pukekohe, where some of the heaviest crops are grown in the Auckland province. Some uneasiness being felt by Dominion stockholders in tho Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, the Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada in New Zealand (Mr. Beddoe) was asked (says the Dunedin Star), if he could obtain information as to how they stood on the Government taking over the railway. He has ascertained that the interest on the guaranteed stock, amounting to 8,986.333 dollars annually on a principal of 216.207,141 dollars, was guaranteed by the Dominion Government in the agreement of transfer. The position is that the interest not earned by tin* Grand Trunk will lie paid by the Government. Holders of such securities are therefore in an assured position as to the payment of their interest.