TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16406, 12 April 1924, Page 11

TOWN EDITION

The Wellington Radium Fund has reached £1.0.800.

Hastings has founded a Rotary Club.

There were over 200 motor cars at the weekly sale at Masterton.

Professor Adams, the noted educationist, of London, is expected to arrive in New Zealand in August.

Kurty-livo applications were received for the position of town clerk at Feild ing.

The Hawke's Bay Automobile' Association decided to call the attention of the police to the shifting of road pegs near Tangoio, thus causing cars to get stuck. Maoris are blamed.

Bishop Sedgwick, who is visiting the Ens! Coast, will be at Gisborne for Hood Friday and Easter, and on Anr.ar Day will lay the foundation stone I'ov a soldiers' memorial at Tiki Tiki. . The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce is discussing a proposal to change the name of "Franklon Junction" to "Hamilton .1 unction." in order to place the town on Hie Main Trunk line. Over 270) licenses for fishing and gameshooting within the Auckland province were sold by the local Acclimatisation Society last year. There is a prospect of a substantial increase this year.

This week's maize .report from Auckland states: Bay of Plenty grain is selling at 6s lAd on the wharf in wholesale lines, and South African is being distributed on about the same basis. Demand is slightly improving. A departmental commission has been appointed, with .Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., of Wanganui, as chairman, to inquire into the recent increase in ferry dues on ferry steamers made by the Auckland Harbor Board. Considerable interest was taken in the loading operations of the Union Company's Wingatni at Dunedin, as she loaded two locomotives for Auckland. They are of the W.F. type, and were built at Hillside Railway Workshops for use in the North Island.

A generous donor, who resides at Masterton, and is a keen supporter of the Melanesian Mission, has provided at the cost of about £IGO, an up-to-date wireless listening-in set with every appliance for the use of the Rev. R. Godfrey, who is now stationed at Raga in the New Hebrides group.

There will he no blacksmiths in the next generation, according to an opinion expressed at a public meeting by Mr. F. VV. Rowley, Secretary of Labor. Of all the skilled occupations which were suffering from the dearth of apprentices, the blacksmithing trade was one of the most seriously affected.

There has been a. slight decrease in the number of applications made to the local office of the Labor Department for employment d'lUring the past week, there being only nine names on the Department's books this morning, compared with eleven at the end of last week. Of this number seven are laborers. the others being an electrician and a gardener.

The rapid manner in which back country farm lands were going back into second growth was emphasised at a meeting of Wanganui farmers. The speaker said he knew a block of about 10.000 acres which was sold by the Government some years ago, -and he ventured to say that from 30 per cent, to 40 per cent, of it was now in a worse condition through fern and second growth than it was when originally sold. A suggestion was made at the annual meeting of Hie Auckland' Acclimatisation Society that farmers and others should be encouraged by payment of a subsidy to rear pheasants, in older to counterbalance extensive destruction by poison, indiscriminate shooting d by other means. It was mentioned' thai in America many farmers' wives made good pin-money by raising pheasants on poultry farms. Something approaching finality bus been reached by the Palmerston North Borough Council on the much-discussed question of the provision of a tepidi hath in Palmerston North. Estimates and comprehensive details covering three schemes were tabled, being backed by a recommendation by the: Baths (Ijinmittee that the work bo put in hand at an estimated cost of £6700 and that a loan of £7500 be placed before (he ratepayers for their approval.

A linesman on the staff of tbe Telegraph Department had: an unusual expei'ienc© at Auckland. lie was up a ladder in front of Wrights' liuifdings when a pane of glass was broken in the second storey just above his head. A large pie.ee of glass fell upon Ihe workman, hut luckily ho was struck by the Hat surface and not by the jagged edge. The glass bad not acquired any great momentum, having just begun its fall and the linesman escaped l with a shock to hi.-', nerves.

A gathering was held at the Methodist Church, Itochmorul Avenue, Auckland, to express their good wishes to -Mr. K. Puddle, who was leaving the district to take rip home mission work in (lisborne. The Rev. \V. S. Potter presided, and after referring to tho valuable services rendered by Mr. Puddle and the high esteem in which he is held, presented him with an assortment of IB valuable books. Mr. Puddle, who suitably replied, said that be would always regard the Richmond Avenue church t\s his "home church." Two of the railway tunnels on the North Auckland railway have been choked with debris, and sixteen railway stations between Kaukapakapa and Maungaturoto are isolated (reports the Star). Outside the Topuni tunnel a stock train lias been stranded for days, and tbe crew have been devoting their energies to clearing the line as far as possible in an attempt to get back to Helensville. At the Tahokaiou tunne! about sixty men have been working. Both tunnels are about a quarter of a mil*: in length, and in addition to being practically choked to the roof with earth, mud, rocks, trees and other debris, slips outside the entrances almost seal them up.

Details of the drowning at Karangahake of Dorothy Poole, stepdaughter of Edward Patton, show .that the deeease«r was returning from school with four other children, and expressed 1 her intention of paddling her feci in the Oliineinuri river. reports the Auckland Star. In spit,. ..I' the warnings of her companions, she went

off to do so. She, stood in tbe water up to her knee.-;, while (he river in flood was running with great speed. The rock on which she stood moved 1 , and she fell backwards into the water. She seized a willow overhanging the bunk, and caught one of the branches. A pair of spectacles she wore slipped off one ear, covering her mouth. In attempting to replace them, she let go one hand from the branch, with the result that she was swept way. She had a heavy bag of books over one shoulder, and a heavy coat on.

The Gaiety skating r.'nk, Cbbdcn street, opens this evening. Methodist Church.—Services for Sunday: Blight Street. 11 a.m., Mr. J. 11. Tonkin; 7 p.m., Mr. F. H. Forge. Te Hapara, 11 a.m., Mr. 0. S. Vincent; 7 p.m., Mr. E. R. Atkinson. Mangapapa, 11 a.m. Mr. W. Bignellj 6 p.m., Mr. J. H. Tonkin.