TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 9

TOWN EDITION

Mr.-,. Russell, wife of Uio Hon. G. \V Russell, of Christeburch, is dead. Reginald Arthur Green, of Makaraka baker, was to-day adjudged bankrupt.

The visiting squadron at Napier to-mor-row willl comprise the. Hood. Adelaide, Delhi. Danae and Dragon. Canon A. F. Williams is to conduct a mission among the Maoris at Mann,tuke from May 11 to .May 18. The Hamilton Borough Council has set up a committee to consider "lie inauguration of a municipal 'bus service. "Control of affairs generally is being too centralised." said Air. C. K. Daniel! at a meeting of the. Master-ton Chamber of Commerce. "Everything,"he said. "is being dictated from Wellington." A team picked from the. following will represent Old Boys' third grade (Rugby) against Hovers on the High School grounds at 1.30 p.m. on Saturday : Ha-isman, Winter, Beattie, 'Edwards. Morrison, Felton, Buscke, McConnell, Howell, Jackson, Leslie, Pearson, Hamilton, Bailey, Loekett. Tlie Nelson, city rates for the current year will be sixpence! in the pound less than they were last year. The genera,! rate has been reduced from 2s to Is Bd, and the special rate has been reduced by twopence. There has been a largo increase in the ratable value of the citv since last year.

A ballot for 28,563 acres of thirdclass land in the Urcrcwa block, Whakatunc County, was scheduled to be held by the South Auckland Land Board las!; week, but as few applications lnul come to hand, owing to the strike disorganising the mail services, the ballot was postponed. At a meeting of the Matakaoa County Council, following the chairman's suggestion, it was resolved that the clerk write tile secretary of the Cook Hospital, advising him that this county was desirous of being provided with a cot at his hospital, and requesting, him to> furnish, particulars and the cost of maintenance in respect of same.

Deaconess Esther Brand is settled in a house, in Gisborno (315 Childers road), which will bo the central borne, for the Deaconesses working in the Diocese, and a. training home for women who offer themselves for any branch of Church work. She is to be joined early this month by one "who has offered for the Maori Mission.—Waiapu Church Gazette. "It is stated," says the Wellington Dominion, "that, following the example of the brewery companies of New Zealand, preliminaries are almost completed for the merging of the wholesale wine and spirit firms in the Dominion into one company. It is not yet known -whether any shares will be offered to the public." A joyful Wanganui father who bad given his'daughter away at her wedding celebrated the event to such an extent that he was found late tit night with his arms round an electric, light pole, evidently waiting for his own house to come past. A policeman arrived in duo course and gathered him in.

Trade in Auckland has responded briskly to the resumption of railway traffic. There is a very marked feeling throughout the community that the lessons of the recent strike will not have been overlooked, and that for a long time to come industry and commerce will not be subjected to similar interruption (states the Herald). Fruit-growing is an industry that lias its drawbacks,, according to a, report presented to the Wanganui Patriotic Association concerning a. returned soldier who had not made a success of a recent venture in that connection (remarks the Wangaruiii Herald). Questioned; by a member of the association regarding the failure of his son, the father replied: "There vas too many blights—vona with vings, vons that creeps, and two-legged blights VOt got over do fences."

A case was brought in the Magistrate's Court at, New Plymouth last week by the borough inspector against a youth for driving a motor-ear without having a certificate of ability. It was stated that there were many people driving cars about, the borough who had no certificates, and the case had been brought as n warning to such people. "And not before time," commented the Magistrate. "During the time I have, been in New Plymouth I have, seen more people driving cars, who plainly should not be doing so, than I have seen anywhere else."