TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

There are four registered private schools in Gisborne.

The s.s. Baden Powell sailed at 2.30 p.m. to-day for Wellington, and the s.s. Tiroa ten minutes later for the Coast and Auckland.

The Gisborne Boxing Association has arranged to match Tom Ileeney, oi Gisborne, and 0 Sullivan, of Auckland, at Gisborne on race night, 26th inst.

Fees (including sundry debtors untracoable to the extent of £33), amounting to £5245 11s sd, have been written off by the Nelson Hospital Board. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Harold Charles Green, butcher, of Gisborne. The meeting of creditors has been fixed for July 23. Arrangements have been made for a deputation of South Island members of Parliament to wait on the Prime Minister and the Hon. J. G. Coates on the subject of a separate Board for the South Island under the Highways Act. The Nelson Automobile Association has written to the Highways Board, suggesting that the first expenditure on main roads 9 should be where districts are not served by through railways, and that the main road from Culverden to Reei'ton via Blenheim and Nelson, should receive first attention.

The queen carnival inaugurated bv the Pahiatua A. and P. Association for the raising of funds for acquiring the freehold of the show grounds and also for erecting a grandstand was a great success, the sum of £I2OO being obtained.

The difference between judicious handling and careless handling of an average dairy herd is about lOOlbs of butter-fat per cow a year. With good handling, cows may reach 3001 bs, whilst with careless handling they will barely reach 2001 bs.

A petition, promoted by the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association, is ia circulation, and is being signed, asking- Parliament to pass legislation to provide that the licensing poll shall he taken at intervals of nine years, instead of three as at present.

Herd-testing in New Zealand is still far from where it should he. In the Bominion thcro are only two cows tested out) of every 27 being milked. The North Island shows about. 71 per cent, under test whilst in the South Island the percentage is placed at .78.

The New South Wales Government's efforts to dispose of the State trawling industry have been far from satisfactory. It is stated that new trawlers could be brought from England at less cost than the figure at which Ihe boats now lying idle in Port Jackson are nominally valued.

What is probably the best cat yield so far recorded this past season (states the Southland News) is that from Mr. Jameg Brown’s farm ati Oporo. Mr. Brown threshed the splendid yield of 115 bushels to the acre. The oats are very heavy, weighing 44-451hs to the bushel measure.

At the end of last week officers of the Labor Department, were busy among Wanganui ccal merchants weighing coal and coke found on the various delivery carts going out to customers. These were weighed, and in some cases, it is understood, the quantities were found to he short of the amounts indicated on the tickets.

It is stated that those who have properties adjoining tho Wairarapa Lake, 100,000 acres of which are under water six months of the year, have had surveyors engaged with the object of evolving a scheme to drain the lake. An elderly settler stated that be expected to live to see the land now under water containing modern homes and kitchen gardens.

The extent to which motor traffic is competing with and defeating the- railways was instanced in the Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth, when the question of arriving at the expenses of a witness who had been brought from Napier was being discussed. “What is the railway faro?" asked counsel. Witness replied: “I don’t know; I motored over; 1 never travel by rail.” Heavy “range" in the inner harbor has recently caused damage to tho Lyttelton Harbor Board’s property. The engineer to the Board has reported that Hie increase, in his opinion, is, duo to the dredging of the entrance channel and of tiic. inner harbor. He suggests two methods for reducing tliei range, costing £BI,OOO and £2OO,CCO respectively, hut questions whether the expenditure is justified.

“The fact that available phosphate is abundant in Otago soils but deficient in most New Zealand soils, especially those of the North Island and southern parts of the South Island suggests," Mr B. 0. Aston, chemist to tho Agricultural Department writes in tho latest number of tbo Journal of Agriculture, “that some day Central Otago, with its splendid summer climate and irrigation, may become the granary of New Zealand."

An early meeting of llio WViilii Borough Council Hydro-Eledtric Commit! eo is to bo bold to go further into tJio question of electric power for Wailii, and it ist understood that definite stops will afterwards be taken to ascertain the requirements of local consumers. There is no intentiom at present to mova in the direction of power for lighting purposes for private residences, the scheme under consideration being for the provision of power’ for tradespeople requiring same for driving machinery, for shopkeepers who may desire to change over to electricity for the lighting of their business premises, and for both lighting and heating purposes at the Wailii Hospital.

Prior to bis departure from Grevmouth to take, a position on the teaching staff of the Gisborne High School, Mr. W. It. Scott was met by the staff and pupils of tho General Department of the Greymouth Technical High School. The Director (Mr. ,T. Hutton), on behalf of the staff and pupils (particularly those who had been associated with Mr. Scott at the former Grey District High School) asked Mr. Scott to accept a handsome travelling ’rug. In doing so, the Director expressed their best wishes for the future happiness and prosperity of Mr. Scott, and hoped that the gift would prove useful to him in his travels. Mr. Scott made an appropriate reply, returning thanks for the good wishes and presentation.