TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16113, 30 April 1923, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

The newly-elected Borough Council will hold its first meeting to-morrow night.

The retail price of sugar in small quantities will be increased! by ±d' per lb. tomorrow. This does not al'lect the price (.'i \n\gs of sugar.

So impressed was a visitor from Auckland with the memorial park at Hamilton that he forwarded 100 native trees to the Hamilton Beautifying Society.

The vital statistics for the moaith of April arc given below, with the corresponding figures for April, 1922, in parenthesis: Births 47 (46), marriages 15 (26), deaths 7 (13). | Miss Ellen Millar, who so 'success-

fully portrayed the part of "Nan*' in the local production of "A Country Girl," has been asked by the Napier Society to play the same part in their production next month.

The revenue returns for the month ended to-day were: Customs £5952 Ms Id, beer £1054 13s Bd. For tho corresponding month last year, tho figures were: Customs, £5294 15s 3d, beer £1025 15s Bd.

"Are you prepared to live with your husband again" was a question put by counsel to a lady who was applying in the Wanganui Court for a separation order. "\es, if ho alters his ways and joins the Salvation Army," replied the witness.

Subsequent to the laying of the foundation stone of the borough powerhouse at North a complimentary luncheon was tendered tho Mayor and councillors by the contractors for the installation of the electrical plant, Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, Wellington.

A car, travelling to Whangara during the week-end, was damaged by fire, caused 1 by a back-fire which ignited benaine fumes around' tho carburetter. The flames were suppressed 1 with wet clay, but not before tho wiling and water hose Mere destroyed 1 . The damage was fortunately slight. The flood; last, week in Milton was the worst yet experienced thorp, and tho water running down the main street was several feet deep. There was eight inches of water in the woollen mills, and Hitchon's bacon factory was also inundated. There was two feet of water in most of the residences.

Boys playing near the war memorial on Kaiti esplanade have been making themselves a nuisance lately. They run around the base of tho monument, leaving t|he sludge-marks t>f their muddy boots, and have even taken to riding astride tho lions! The boys' parents should! warn them before other measures of repression become necessary.

Mr. M. Walford Bidwell, F.R.Q.S., who is visiting the Dominion for a mouth, will next month, leave for a America, en route to Manchuria and Mongolia. .From America he will pro ceed to Vladivostock and take tho transSiberian railway to- Khaihi on the border of Manchuria and Mongolia, and from thence travel by camel back across the Gobi desert for two weeks. At Wanganui last week members oif the legal profession entered a protest against the congestion of work in connection with the Magistrate's Court brought about through the Magistrate, Mr. J. S. Barton, being greatly overworked. It was requested that the public protest should be communicated' to the proper quarter. Mr. Barton, remarked' lie had! hadl a strenuous week, having fiat 41 hours in tho chair at Wanganui ai'd Hawera. That the Government must have the final say was the reason given at New Plymouth by the Valuer-General, as to why a local private valuer with a knowledge of local conditions was not appointed to assist the Government valuer in assessing the values of farms. "Say the Government valuer said the place was worth £3O an acre, and the private valuer considered that £26 an acre was a fair value, what would you do about it?" he asked. I

During tho flood at Dunedin, Davidson's sawmill, perhaps, suffered worst of all, there being little of the structure remaining intact. The waters roso slowly until the building was practically cover- , ed, and l then commenced to undermine the foundations. A largo crane was the first to fall, audi bits of the building followed soon after. The wreckage commenced to pile up in tho centre of the stream and extended almost to, tho Woodhaugh Gardens, Leith Valley. While driving a mail car Mr Ivan Gray had a narrow escape from a very serious mishap while ascending a steep hill near Blairlogio (states tho Wairarapa Times). A lorry with a load of metal was coining down the hill and was upon him before ho could make room for it to pass. Gray applied his brakes, but the other lorry struck him a severe head-on blow. Gray was thrown out, but fortunately not injured. Tho car was driven back into tho bank.

The cattle dip recently erected by the Opotiki County Council on the Hikutaia Hill was used for the first time last week, reports the Guardian. A mob of fcrO head of cattle for shipment to Westfield were put through tho dip under the- supervision of M. E. Lloyd Siddall, representing the Government Stock Department, and Mr. Upton, tho County Engineer. The dipping was very expeditiously performed, the time occupied being twenty-two minutes for tho 60 head.

The middle-weight champion boxer, Jack Hceney, has been offered a match in Christchurch, with Bryan McCleary, light-heavy-weight. Heeney has accepted the terms, which include a purse of £2OO. The fight'is scheduled {or Juno 2, and Heeney will have some difficulty in training, owing to a split lip which ho contracted in the course of Saturday's football match. Tom Heeney, it is reported, has been offered a figlit by tho Northern Boxing Association, against Cyril Whittaker, for a purse of £l5O. " •

"I oan'l speak much English," declared' a big hall-caste native as ho climbed into the witness box in the M agist rates Court to-day. 'What rubbish," said His Worship, "you can speak English aa well as wo can." Mr. Levvey has evidently bad sufficient) experience here to comprehend natives' oft repeated requests for interpreters, in this case his surmise was quite correct, for the native certainly revealed! no linquistie disabilities. Even Senior-Sergt.. Fitzpa trick's assistance by the use of such words as "korero," and' several Maori-English phrases, were quite unnecessary as far as the Courl was concerned.

I A car driver who collided with a horseJ man on Gladstone road) on Saturday i night is alleged' to have driven away j without enquiring whether the rider was ; hurt. The horseman was Mr, James . O'Grady, employed' at the Taruheru : freezing works. It is stated thati he was travelling along Gladstone road:, on the , correct *ide of the road, when the car, coming towards town, crashed into him, knocking him from the saddle and! dragging him for some yards along the rend'. Mr. O'Grady sustained: a. nasty injury to his knee, and' also suffered an injury ! to liis> sJioulder, necessitating medical attention. He was later picked UP from the road' by a passerby, and was unable to walk home. ! l ' Tho Dargaville Times reports that 1 there was some excitement at the conclusion of tho ladies' double-handed 1 saw at the Raupu-Mapu sports. One 1 : of the pair who wore runners-up went to congratulate the winners on their 1 victory, and for her trouble received a 1 fair amount of abuse. A committee- , man, who fried to pour oil on the troubled waters, also came off second best, and for his trouble received a smart smack in the face from the younger member of tho winning pair. It appears that the winners have been runners-up in past years to tho pair who came second this year, and were | out to retrieve their past, defeats, but failed to appreciate the action of thoir I opponents in offering congratulations.