TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16213, 25 August 1923, Page 8

TOWN EDITION

A South Waharapa farmer states that his ducks nro Buttering from foot-rot owing to the constant rains.

The capital valuation of the land within t.ke jurisdiction of the Central Hawko's Bay Power Hoard is just on

Tlio president of the New Zealand liuc.ii';- ConU'ieiieo una usscnted i<o \\ 'i-.u'OU Kiicmg Club's alteration in .;„L.i.s, viz., r'rout Jjimuavy 16 and it, u. . vJ.auhi.rv 15 and 17. 11)24. j '' Another ; gap,/in' ; :ljve.\ranks-, of ]Aj.ick.-f l|iid"s smatil cot ewe oC veterans -oi tne > iiidian"'' was','occasioned a , lew" diiys'ago, .with''the passing'of Mr. "< John \ S'luns.,.'.,at his home, .Hiiisi'de • Crescent,,. ■> Mt.i'Eden. ' ",V./. ..'■■■ ••' '..; '.'■ .' "*"'. ''■. ■')

< "I -regard ijas.one ot Inet most favor ; able failures 'of-Ilie competitions in VVel- ; liugton that the'surplus funds arc devoted to tlio endowment- of musical and j c.ocutionary scholarships,” said Mr. j Itoland Foster. . j >e said that the To A rot t fill h/v»» 1

It ciuuict be said that the To Arohiij people tire not ail lioucst lot (says the .\ttisj. During last week, ''Working <>m" ad vk toed litf £1 which she htui ivsi, and, three local residents each | lu'oug'h': in it one-pound uolu v..ueii Llii. v v j una picked up.

Some motorists have been risking

penalties lately by making use of the Derby street bridge. A motor managed to pasy, the obstacles on a recent ©veiling, and ati lunch time yesterday a. motor cyclist coolly followed up a policeman. ' The latteir, who was in, plain elolhcsj just missed sighting tho cyclist. Tho piles of dead sheep in the pituw-bouiid, heights in tJie south an u hcai'trending sight. One party of "snow-rakcis," as they are culled, found COO dead iji one gully (says Matura Ensign). In many cases where a sheep dies the others out oil all I its,, 'Uiool, .so that when it: is 1.1.

covered the hide ia clean as if it had btcti s*liava.l.

Workmen are now busily engaged in eairyrng into effect the ambition.s- - for the further bonuiiiicatioii

of liaaauion, decided on at tiio i meeting of tho Beautifying Socio

,'j'kci scheni,; is one designed to havi ■ho two-fold benefit of adding to the town's beauty, while at the same tinu providing work for manned men who

owing to the shortage of employment, tiro unable to find other occupations. A builder named William Thomson, who has Lcciii extradited from Melbourne, is to apear in Auckland before a Magistrate on a charge of having left New Zealand without the written permission oi a Magistrate while in arrears with money payablei under a maintcnan e.order in: respect to'his wife and child. The extradition proceedings were taken on the complaint of the wife, and under the reciprocity arrangement 'which exists between New Zealand and tho Australian States. "Half house, unfur., convs., children welcome." So read an adveirticement in the Auckland Star. By reason of its uniqueness (says the Star) this advertisement lias attracted particular attention, for it is not since the long-distant, days before! the housing shortage: that children were ever tolerated 'by landlords. . . . But perhaps this "Children welcome" advertisement is preliminary to a change of heart; on the part of tho property ow.ner, and that in the near future wo shall see houses advertised to be let only to those couples whom nature hag blessed—with preference! to large families ! Auckiand University is to benefit bv the splendid gift of £IO,OOO from tho Auckland Savings -Bank {states .the Star). The gift was referred to at a meeting of the council of the University Qollege by the Hon. G. Fowlds, who mvcY that a letter had been, received from the trustees of thei lank agreeing to make a eontribttiion of the amount mentioned towards the campaign fund in connection with the new university building.' This gift would, of course, require crnpowevimr legislation, but it wou'd bei a small measure which no doubt would be put throu'.'h before tbe present session of Parliament concluded. His Honor -Mr. Justice Reed, in Christchurch, refused an application that a prisoner oti trial for a serious offence should be allowed bail over night, the hewing of the charge against him having been begun in the afternoon and adjourned till next morning. His Honor said that he made it a rule not to.admit a prisoner to bail after the jury that was trying him had been empanelled. , Tie had no doubt that no member of a jury would allow interference on a prisoner's behalf, b'.it there must- be a strong temptation to interfere with the jury, and in the interests tit the prisoner himself it was wise that, ho should have no opportunity to do anything of that nature. "If the public only know h?v mu"h delay a badly-written telegram or loiter address causes at times, 1 am sure they would take a little more pubis to write more legibJy than they do," said Mr. Markmaii, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. "I supl<:ee it is because they are in a hurry, but there arc occasions when the writing of telegrams is really shocking—a Chinese puzzle. When one gets into an operator's hands, and he fails to decipher what' certain words are, the telegram is sent down to the counter

clerk for elucidation, and if ho can* I not meikp out what has been, written, hf has to'ring tip the sender." "The only sound solution of the,defence problem—and one which would give l.ho maximum of efficiency at the minimum of expense—is an agreement for mutual co-operation in which tho liability undertaken by each State is clearly defined. 1 No such agrocinoi.t can, however, be. expected until it is realised that tho defence problem is not ..simply a .question of the strength of one or other of the services, but of ) tlie.co-ordiinatod two of the Empire's

resources, and also that no State can expect assistance from another unless it accepts an equivalent obligation." s—Major-General5 —Major-General Sir E. Chayton'n his report oil New Zealand Defence Forces. i . <

Referring to the Napier-Gisborne road,! the annual report of tho Napier Chamfeer of Commerce states : The Minister j of' Public Works is to be congratulated on having made a determined and satisfactory effort to give effect to. his promise to make this road passable at j all times of the year. Since our last i annual report the now deviation between i Waikare and Mohaka has been complet- j ed, together with tho bridge over the j Mohaka river. This gives access to ; Wairoa by motor car ( in any weather. < On the Wairoa-Gisborne end work is still in progress on the bad portion be- ] tween Morero and Muriwai. This is the | only section of unmotalled road left, j and it is expected that before another winter comes upon us it will bo possible '■ to traverse the whole distance between Napier, and Gisborno in the worst, of weather.

The expeditions manner in which wool sales are ccmduetfcd waa the subject of comment by Mr. J.' Trcwin til a meeting of the executive' of the Auckland Fanners' Union. Ho thought more time should be given instead of resiling tho lota through. It appeared to him thai the auctioneers vied with one another as to who could get the greatest munber of baloa .through in tho shortest time. The matter had Veen discussed in other places, and it appeared to him the Auckland executive should, express their opinion. The president said the subject had boon tiisemsed ;vt the Dominion conference, and the expert members assured the t'eiegates there was no plaice in the world where wool sales were more efficiently conducted than in New Zealand. The wol was valued by tJie buyers beforehand, end he did :iot think the way in which the sales w:t • (■(irricd out resulted in lors of money to anyone.