TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16112, 28 April 1923, Page 8

TOWN EDITION

Auckland : Sailed! at 1.40 p.m., Tofna, for Suva'.

Tenders have been invited for the erection of 00 huts on the Napier-Gis-korne railway route. Mr. and Mrs. T. McCarthy, of Park road, Napier, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Saturday.

An endeavor is to be made to secure an extra day’s racing at Trcntham and a day’s trotting at I’etone during Wellington’s welcome week in next June.

The Hastings Borough Cbunctl has decided to ask the. clergy to co-operate with the Council bv organising working fees to clean up the grave?; iri the cemetery.

A ltirge lizard, marked with three Mack stripes or bars, is making his home in a garden at Dannevirke. It is surmised that it must have arrived in a case of bananas. In 1916 the annual rateable value of Auckland city was £891,580. The to.tal this year, including districts which have amalgamated with the city and new buildings, • is £1,673,797. “One blot on Ihe administration of hospitals is the pay of the nurses,” said the (Mayor of Stratford) at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a maternity hospital. The. lion. Cl. Fowlds, who has just spent ten weeks at Papua as a deputation from the London Missionary Society, returned to New Zealand by the Manuka.

While driving a trap near ihe Iluakura Experimental Farm. Mrs. Amelia Glazev was thrown out, through her horse bolting and getting out of control. She sustained a broken leg. Mr. J. Hargreaves, loader of (he English party at the Wallal eclipse expedition last September, is in Wellington, completing plans, for observing the next solar eclipse on September 10 in Mexico.

Miss Freida Jcuks, who has taken a position in Gisborne, was presented by the staff of Westerman and Co., Hastings, with a handsome travelling rug, and by the firm with a solid silver manicure set.

Mr. L. J. Carmine, Superintendent of the Telegraph Department at Blenheim, formerly of Gisborne, is retiring on superannuation at the end of th:s month, and intends to enter into business with his son'in Wellington.

Mrs. Cochrane, wife of an old settler, Mr. J. Cochrane, of Dargavilie, was found . dead on a lawn by her husband and son, xvho were returning from their day’s work. She had been subject to fits.

Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, Dominion president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, will sail for England about the middle of May to represent the N.Z.R.S.A. at the biennial conference of the British Empire Service League.

j A systematic extraction of (enclosures from letters in a private box at the Wellington Post Office was disclosed in tho Magistrate’s Court, when a youth was charged, with stealing postal packets containing sums amounting to £25 10s. ! Mr M’arkman, speaking at Levin in ! connection with the difficulty in collecti ing telephone toll charges, said that ! under the new rules, it was proposed : to collect six-monthly, and probably a penalty of 20 per cent, for failure in prompt payment would be made. I Mr. W. T. -Williams, of Te Aute, has made a donation of £4OO to assist the work of the Church of England in the Rotorua district. Two hundred of this stun to be devoted towards the erection of a church at Ngongotnha, and £2OO towards building the proposed church at Whakarewarewa.

The Alexandra Herald states \ that Mr A. Taylor, of Conroy’s, is making another attempt to land pears on the London market in good condition. He has packed them in Closed crates. Each crate, contains three trays. Winter Nelis is the variety sent. A consignment of 25 crates has been despatched.

“I was charged with losing the Government. hundreds of thousands of pounds when the. Soldiers’ farms were being bought, because I would not value lands on the prices then obtaining.” said Mr. Flanagan (Valuer-Gen-eral). “I consider that unimproved values in New Zealand have just about realised their limit,” he concluded.

In view of the more optimistic feeling prevailing, and l to cope with (heir rapidly increasing business, Messrs Grundy and Shennan have decided lo erect a new brick store at the rear of their present premises. The building will lie a twostorey edl structure l , and is to be used- for the storage of bulk goods. It will bo of a. fair size. Tenders for the erection of the structure are being called by Mr. F. H. Forge, architect.

A motor lorry overturned on Ihe Taradale road, Hawke’s Bay. R, Bickerstaff, w4io was seated alongside E. Beresford, received injureis which necessitated his receiving medical attention. The body of the lorry was badly smashed, but’ tho cab of tho lorry apparently saved the passengers from serious injury. If is stilted the accident was caused by the steering gear failing as the lorry was travelling through a heavy coating of shingle.

A fresh tramping record, travelling by the aid of an acetelene lamp at night, was made on Wednesday night by two ardent 'pedestrians, who covered the distance between Wall’s where and Te Horo in 164 hours, thus reducing their time of 25 hours last year. On that occasion they were 9 hours in the snow. On this occasion they wore for approximately 10 hours enveloped by dense mist, unable to see more than 50 yards ahead. They found it mucii colder in tho chill vain than when, bn the former occasion, the drifting snow froze all the interstices of their clothing.

.The production of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" to be given on May 4 ami 5, is a very expensive one and money has not been spared to make it a great success. The Rev. L. H. Fenn has assumed the financial responsibility, and while this is great he states he quite anticipates a substantial profit if tho publio support him by rolling up in good numbers on both nights of the S’. Some time ago pew swimming .. IS were built at Essex House school, towards which local people interested paid ft considerable sum- Mr. Fenn, at that time agreed to pay a portion of tim remainder himself, and also to raise about £IOO by means of some grrjet entertainment, "A Midsummer Night’s ’Dream” is the outcome of this, and while Mr, Fenn and h(s company hope to play to good houses on the strength of the play itself he thinks the publio should know what is to he done with tho profits. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Nolan returned to Gisborne to-day of tor a Very enjoyable visit ten New-Mouth Wales. While they were in Australia, the drought, which had lxon causing great havoc to the farming community, broke as far as the coastal areas were concerned. Inland conditions worp still very serious, hut there were no signs of jt ill Sydney. The city appeared vpry busy and 1 prosperous.’ The Gjsborniles wpfp. present at tho races and saw the veteran David’s performances, A visit was alsoi paid to the Blue Mountains and the jpnolnn Caves, splendid weather prevailing all tho time. Tire Sydney traffic is becoming so congested and such a problem that construction is now proepediiig on an underground, railway. Iti will go from tho Central railway station, along the , cant, side to Circular Quay, and thou ( back to the Central railway station by ‘way of the west side of the city. Work j is proceeding on a section through Hyde. ! Park. A large trench is being cut, and ! after the tube has been made, the earth ! will Ire put hack again in the hole. Mr. ! Nolan also saw the plans for tire’ proposed bridge across Sydney harbor, tho construction of which is estimated to i cost £12,000,000. The bridge will be a ' gigantic work.

The probability of _h.:- ur.per.a.r.g retirement was foreshadowed m Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Chapman.

“Parents don’t seem to care was the indictment made by a speaker at ttie k .MX. A. annual meeting in Christchurch. \V bile, many fathers took an interest in the development ol their sons, many others never troubled to inquire how they were getting on. The associations aim was not to take the boys from their homes, but to make them more lit to appreciate their homes. The question of excessive freight charges was brought under the notice of tne Wniroa Harbor Board, limber tic (lie amount of £930 8s 4d was brought from Australia, freight on same from Australia to Wellington being £l5O, while from Wellington to Waikokopu the freight charges were £278 13s 9d, plus a further £32 17s Id for haulage, landing, etc. Members were much disturbed over this matter and Richardson and Co. are. to be written to in connection therewith.

At a meeting of tho Wairoa Harbor Board the chairman reported on the work done at Waikokopu on which £26,C00 was spent with a balance ot £SOOO to complete the amount borrowed under the terms of the Act. The work upon which the money had been spent, was not complete, nor had the results anticipated been quite realised. Yet it had gone on so far in a satisfactory manner, and they hoped to complete more in time. He was pleased to note that the outer harbor wharf would be proceeded with by the Public Works Department, Good progress had been made with the railway, and lie ventured to say it would not bo long before goods would come to Wairoa via Waikokopu quickly. The boundaries question bad been settled, resulting in an increase - of their rating area over 90,000 acres. In addition to this 43 acres near Waikokopu had been secured as an endowment upon which a wharfinger’s house had been erected. The report was unanimously adopted. Considerable discussion took place regarding correspondence from the Public Works Department re a wharf outside the. boulder bank, and conditions regarding same were submitted. The Department would prepare the plans and submit same .to tl ie board. Ibis was agreed to, a special meeting to be rolled when the plans arrive.