TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 8

TOWN EDITION.

■ ~ ——7^ —; • i The membership of the. Mfumwavu (.iolf Club —playing and honorary—is 1:1)7. .. l ' The new rates for iPro insurance in Dannevirke will show a general reduction on those in force. • , The British Ministry of Transport has offered substantial assistance toj wards a proposal to build a road, across j the Tnv at Dundee at a cost of about I £1,000,000. • j The steamer Water Lily left Colne Bay last week with the largest party ot mutton-birders that has gone to the Macquarie Islands for a great number of years, States the* .Southland Times. At a meeting of the Timaru Borough Council it was' announced' . that, .the Mayor, Mr l l ', J. Rolleston, M.P., had set aside £SO from his honorarium for' tlie purpose of the library/,vor the Juvenile Library. . • For weeks and weeks of . hard' rehearsal and for a whole week’s programme, the Dannevirke, Municipal Band derived from the recent performance of “The Reveille” £l3 4s Gd ns its share of the proceeds. A fortnight’s intensive canvass campaign will be launched in Wellington on April 26, with a view to raising the £25,000 .necessary for the erection of a memorial to the 1700 men of Wellington city and suburbs who-fell in the war. “Y r ou’d hardly believe it,. but do you know that the valuation of our '{land in New Zealand is greater than the valuation of the whole of Australia?” asked Mr. J. D. Hall, at a ’ meeting of the North Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union,, A new illustrated weekly paper is to make its appearance in Sydney shortly. Mr. A. deR. Barclay, formerly a well-known New Zealand journalist and recently editor of the Sydl ncy. Sunday Times, has been appointed ! managing-editor of the new publij cation. “Tlie crisis you have experienced in I lie meat business in New Zealand has | been duplicated in Argentine, but , things are looking up. Present crops ! constitute a record for this country,” 1 states Mr. F. W. Flyger, in a letter ! from Buenos Aires to. Mr. H. T. FlyI ger, of Palmerston North. . I The Minister of Lands states that | two large blocks in the Auckland and 1 North Auckland districts, totalling 16,000 acres, and subdivided info 84 sections, have been surveyed with a , j view to allotting the sections' under the “homestead system” when the ; Government is in a position to make ; the necessary advances. The rhinoceros beetle, according to (Colonel Tate, ex-administrator of j Samoa, was introduced into that island j in the latter part of 1010 in boxes eonj 1 tuning rubber plants imported from i Ceylon packed in soil arid'•vegetable i refuse. The beetle spread rapidly, and j has since played great havfticf. with the j cocoanut palms. Some people in Christchurch appear . to have a perverted notion of what is ■ just and proper. During- a’-recent (street collection, a helper'-’nkkod two i well-dressed ladies for a coiilriinition. | They refused. A second or-two later ! tlie helper dropped her box of 'badges. : Each of the ladies quietly pinned' one ; on and walked away without a word. While on their tour of New Zealand the American athletes gained a large number of orders for trophies, .besides winning medals. Kirksey won trophy ' orders to the value of £3l 10s; five gold i medals, and also a Wellington'- 'Certificate for the 100yds. championship; I Merchant, £26 10s worth of orders, 10 j gold medals, and two silver ■oncdals; and Krogncss, £lO 10s worth Of orders j and two gold medals. ( About a, fortnight ago a Timaru, girl j had the misfortune to be hit, on the head; with a, brick while at her wort I in an upper room in the Arcade,.Timaru. | Borough Council employees were at work j installing electric light in adjacent j preanises, and) by some mischance a brick fell insid'o the workroom, striking the young lady. . She suffered! injuries to her head! demanding continued' medical treatment. The accident was of a particularly unfortunate nature, in that the young lady was to have been married this month. Her wedding day lias been postponed' indefinitely. It is understood that she intend'a to claim damages from the Council. The fertility of the once-despised . pumice lands of the Auckland Province .impresses visitors from other lands as well as New Zealandors to whom the fact is demonstrated for the first time. “One cannot but be struck,” said Mr. G. Brown, of Brisbane, “with the magnificent herbage and grasses growing on the poor-looking pumice land. After driving through 20 or 30 miles of-ap-parently poor country, carrying only a few famished-looking tufts, -it is- an ; object lesson to drop upon large green • fields, all of the same kind of country, carrying rich crops of clover and other pastures., Why so.much of this vujuable land is allowed to lie idle is difficult tq understand.” The Poverty Bay Beekeepers’ Assoeia- : tion hold its annual meeting on' Satur-, day, a: number of matters of interest -to hive-men coining up for discussion. -By resolution the secretary was instructed to write to,,Mr. Campbell, director of the Orchard division, Department of. Agriculture, . asking him if he would I accept bees ffom Poverty Bay for the purpose of biological examination for nosema. apis. The election of officers re- ' suited in the return of the following: President, Mr. H. J. Ellis; vicepresident,. Miv.H. ,B. Havers; lion, secretary and treasurer, Mr., J, BAdams; committee. Messrs E’.'L. Scott,! G. Stevenson, W. Fear, and E. Christenson. Mr. was complimented 'on the completion of fiftden years of unbroken servjce to' the association, in: the, capacity of secretary and treasurer. | ' A boy about "seven or eight .years' [■ of ago had a narrow, escape between j j Winiata and Tnihapc recently, He'was i (walking uloiig the railway like,. qnd | was. Crossing a ' cattle-stop at a loVd I crossing, when a train rounded the | cuvvo. The boy, became so' confused , that his legs slipped . through • 'the {wooden-bars of fho cattle-stdp; ; nnd he made despprato efforts- to free himself while the train was bearing Mbwii on him;;- Ho : managed to get frtip; arid ran along the lino j’pr some distance in front of thp tfpjn, but the- engine! thundering fit, his . heels gayp; him .the ! inspiration, to the right tiling ,nt i last,;, and* lie jumped clear of tlio rails just .beforo the train reached fijm- Thc lad ivas apparently not so iiuvch .eonceriied. as a man who. wutched, t.Ke. inj culprit, from the roadways and redeived ■fi to. 14$ nerves. ~T .“1 | Travelling through the country by rail, j visitors to New Zealand arc generally struck l>y tho crude and ugly appearances of our - railway stations. In drawing attention to this at a mooting of tho Amenities Society, tho Hon. G. M- Thomson dwelt on the pleasing effect Rakaia station had on everyone who passed that way. Ho hoped to see much more attention given to tho planting of troeS’ and flowers, especially about our suburban fail way ‘stations. Thosp stations at present wore very barren of anything to relieve tlio eye ; or create- a Softening effect. He stiggested as an encouragement for. sta- ' tionmasters, that the example,..of .the railway .authorities at-. Homo bp emujlated, viz., by offering prizes'to’stfitioninaslers for decorated stations. There was ample, room at our railway stations' for little gafderis' of .flowers i and graceful shrubs and trees.