TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16175, 11 July 1923, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

A petition in bankruptcy has born filed by Joseph Tool, stock agent, of Tolaga Bay.

For the past six years the waterside workers' Jutvd undertaken the distribution of tobacco, cigarettes, and lollies on Sundays to tno inmates, men, women and cJiilclreti, ill the Auckland Hospital. Mr. Duncan MacLennan, a celebrated Scottish dancer, is now on his way from the Old Country to. Dunedin, and bus Leern engaged by the Dominion Compeli tiona Society to adjudicate in Iho national dancing sections at the festival there, in September.

Apple-juice, as a medium for preventing me obscuring of motor-eat' _ windscieens by ram, was mentioned in the Auckland Supreme Court during the hearing of claims for damages for injuries sustained in a motor accident. One of tiii-e defendants was referring to the visibility through bis wind-screen on a certain wet day, and he offered to tell Mr. .'Justice llerdman the secret process he adopted to keep the glass free from raindrops. The method was quite an easy one—just the application of applejuice. Mr. F. H. Moulder, chairman of directors of the shipping firm of Houlder Bros, and Co., London, arrived in New Zealand by the Manuka from Sydney. He will spent, about ten days in New Zealand, and after visiting the Hot Lakes district, will leave for England, via. Panama.

A team will be picked from the following football players to represent Carriers and Motorists against Watorsiders on the Reserve on Thursday afternoon at 2.30: Lowndes, Leader, Oxenham, Borst, Duriston, Elliott, Green (2), Panckhttrst, Preston, Oglivie, Smith, McKay, Langridge, Ofeborne, McKeague, Sand well, Stringer, Lawrie, Attwood (captain), Vbspe'r. Mr. P. H. Summerfield lost a big, valuable Hereford bull a few days ago on his farm at Whakapu, through the animal slipping down a large concrete pipe into a deep well, where it was drowned (states the Wairoa Star). The wated had to be pumped out and it was quite a difficult job hauling the weighty dead body out. The pipe was only a three-foot' one and how the animal slipped down through it, is a, bit of a mystery.

A deputation waited on the Hawke's Bay County Council with a request that something should bo done to protect farmers from the depredations of rooks. The chairman Mated that the council had taken steps to secure- power to deai with the matter. Mr. J. Clark said 50 people in the Twyford-Fernhill district had signed a petition that all rookeries should' be destroyed. He understood that, the old Act'did not give power to destroy on other people's land. It was decided to ask the Government to give the settlers the right to form associations for the extermination of the birds.

Tho path of a touring manager of a hockey or football team is strewn with thorns, an a rule, and not a, few grey hairs are the result of practical jokes played by the men under his control. The manager of the P.B. hockey team at Mnsterton last year had a bad five minutes on tho telephone, just prior to the Norden Cup match, in conversation with two of his men, who had rung up to say they were stranded at a country township "with a broken-down car. When tho manager had reached the desired' condition of,helpless rage, he was advised that the players were ringing from a building in the same block.

Mangapapa residents are complaining bitterly of tihe inadequate nas service, particularly during tho hours when theft - © is heavy consumption. It was stated by a consumer to-day that the- gas is so poor of an evening that tilio" lights had actually gone out. On the matter being referred to the Gas Company to-day, tho manager, Mr. Prince, stated that the company was laboring under great difficulty ati present owing to tho severe climatic conditions inducing napthaline blockages, which were being removed fl'fi fast as possible. The absence of Newcastle: coal, as a result of the strike, was also contributing to a extent towards tho difficulty, but the very best was being done for consumers under the circumstances.

A portion of the Main Trunk line about four miles south of To Kuiti is the cause of serious anxiety to tho perma-nent-way officials at present (states a correspondent). What is said to bo a "creep" in tho country has caused a subsidence in the lino at the point mentioned. Tho country there is rather precipitious, and tho line has a steep gradient. A special gang of workmen is engaged on tho "creep," and loads of metal are being conveyed by train from To Kuiti, to be used in strengthening the railway track. Trains running on the line are taken across the danger spofc with the engine going dead slow, and it was at this speed that the Main Trunk express negotiated that portion of tho line.

The design 'of tho New Zealand pavilion at tho Empire Exhibition was prepared by Mr. Ormrod and his associate, John 15. Simpson, official,architects for the Exhibition. The elevation is.3oft., and overlooks the artificial lake which runs from east to west through the centre of the Exhibition grounds. The interior lay-out was also prepared by the same architects in London, but their conception of the Dominion's requirements proved on close examination to be entirely unsuitable. It was therefore decided by tho Dominion Advisory Council to soo'k tho assistance of two Wellington architects, Messrs, Llewellyn 15. Williams and J. T. Mair, Government architects, to prepare a plan which would meet with the ideas of the council. In this connection, tho experience of both the local architects gained in their studies abroad and by firsthand information of the world's largest exhibitions proved invaluable.

Practically tho whole, of tho northern wing of the' New Zealand pavilion of the Empire Exhibition has been reserved for the meat and dairy produce exhibits. Tho exhibit representing the former is being handled by tho Meat Purchase Board, and tho latter by the combined Dairy Associations. Tho Council has endeavored, where possible, to obtain the co-ordination and assistance of the controlling bodies of each of the industries concerned. In) this way it is considered that- true representation <of the particular industries will be established. Unfortunately, the- support; of the Woollen Mil! Owners' Association has not been forthcoming, and the Council is making arrangements to purchase outright' an exhibit of woollen manufactures. It is proposed to sell this exhibit in London after tihe close of the exhibition and recoup tho expenditure. The dairy interests will, by means of a levy, accumulate a. fund of at least. £IO,OOO for exhibition purposre. Tho general manager of the Fruitgrowers' Federation id at present in London, and whilst there ho will arrange for a fruit exhibit! which will portray both in quality and quantity the fruit producing qualities of tho Dominion. Tn the) south wine tho chief feature! will ho tho wool exhibit, and tho setting out of the wealth of the Dominion's display in this section will leavfl nothing to be desired. The mineral section will contain specimens both displaying the developed and -undeveloped' resources of New Zealand, and the Under-Secretary for Mines, with a strong expert committee, in pivin.g the matter close attention. Stags, deer, and wapiti heads arc being obtained, and, in all, it is hoped to send some 150 specimens of theso. Tho reception room will b<* decorated in keeping with the other portions of tho pavilion, and the furniture for this purpose and the pavilion' jrenerally is now being prepared by local manufaoti'irers. At the end of the main hall will bo tho limber exhibit. This exhibition will be featured with a. background of paintings bv New Zealand artists dealing with surh subjects as shipping, milling, logcing, and virgin bush. Two ficrures of axemetp symbolical of the industry will form tho centre of the exhibit),