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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16545, 27 September 1924, Page 6

Woodville is shortly to celebrate its jubilee. •

Applications for the position of manager of the municipal abattoirs close at noon on Monday. The appointment will probably be made at the meeting of the Borough Council on Tuesday .evening. Next week tlie intermediate trip of the Arahura to Napier will be discontinued. The steamer will leave Gisborne for Auckland on Saturday mornings. The new time-table •is given in our shipping columns.

A sitting of the Arbitration Court will be held in Gisborne on Tuesday next foi the purpose of considering disputes in re lation to the local laborers’ and biitchers' awards. .. The waterside workers’! dispute will not he heard locally, evidence in this connection having been taken here. A married woman, Mrs Catherine White, of Dickson street, Ivaiti, was admitted to the Cook Hospital this morning, suffering from a fractured shin-hone, caused through slipping on the scullery floor last evening. Her injury is not serious, a,‘ml she is reported to he progressing! favorably.

In the Y.W.C.A. Ciluh rooms last evening, in the presence of members: of the Board of Directors, over 3D girls were enrolled as members of the Poverty Bay Community of Girl Citizens. After the ceremony of enrolment, a pleasant social, interspersed with musical items, eonclado.l the evening. The Ruahine ladies’ hockey team, which lias been visiting Gisborne to compete for the Lady Carroll Shield, will probably leave here at 8 o’clock to-night, and travel - as far as Morere, where t-hey spand tlie night-, continuing to Dannevirke at 6 o’clock to-morrow morning. The Wairoa A team leaves at 8 o’clock to morrow morning, and the Wairoa B team on Monday evening. The Harbor Board has received cable advice from Mr. R. Campbell, the resident engineer, who is at present in Australia in connection with the purchase of tlie new dredging plant, that there has been a slight delay in clocking the dredge “Ariki," and that the vessel will not now go into dock until about the middle of next week. C*n,e of the barges had been docked' and found to be in splendid condition.

The refloating operations on the schooner War Lord, which is stranded on the beach between Opoutama and Wnikokopu, had lo ho suspended on Thursday on account of !lie winch breaking down, which necessitated its removal to Napier for repairs. On Thursdnv night a heavy sea shifted some of 1 lie skids, which will require lo lie replaced before the refloating can he continued. Tt is expected that operations will lie recommenced on Monday next.

The monthly meeting of tlie Cook County Women’s Guild was held' in Prime’s rooms yesterday, Mrs Lyndon being in the chair. The matron's report was read, showing tlieif were 22 children in the home at - present, all well, and attending school. The visitors’ report stated : We visited the home during the month, and found the home clean and in order. A vote of thanks was accorded to the West End Wesleyan entertainment committee for entertaining the children and providing supper. A vote of thanks was passed to the Education Board for the vote passed for a temporary school at Victoria, township. Gifts for tiie month wWe acknowledged as follows: Mrs B. Paine, clothes: Mrs ’Doddrell, games; Fisken and Ludwig, meat; F. Collin, meat.

High street. Carterton, has a long line of nearly two miics of lights hung in the centre of the read.

An e’dcriv man, Mr. .(runes Swlnton,

a widower. 64 years of a£e. was. admitted' to the Cook Hospital shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suffering from broken ribs, believed to have been caused through being kicked by a horse.

A very pleasant evening was spent in .lie Lu Grand Lounge last evening, when hie visit hockey teams were the guests

,f the Poverty Bay Hockey Association

it a dance. There was a large attendance of tlie public, and dancing to music suppl'ed by McMullen’s orchestra was greatly enjoyed. The reuplay of tlie match between Poverty Bay and Ruahine this afternoon is attracting a great deal of interest, the teams having already demonstrated their evenness and assured the public of an interesting and even contest. After the match tlie Lady Carroll Shield will be presented to the winners, who will hold the coveted trophy for the first year. The following nominations have been received hy the secretary for tlie committee of the Poverty Bay Trotting C'fiuh : Messrs K. Fitzgerald, T. Haismnn, A. Langford. J. J. McDonald, J. Riddell. W. Riddell, and S. Wootton. As only six are required, an election will be necessary and this will take place at the annual meeting on Thursday evening next. Major-General Sir Donald, McGavin, Director of Medical. Services and Medical Administrator of Pensions, has forwarded his resignation to Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Defence, and will leave for London in. the Remuera in December, with a view 10, studying tlie latest developments'in surgery, ami with the intention of returning to New Zealand and uiking up the work of consult in g surgeon. Sir Donald- is a son of Mr. and Mrs. McGavin, who were for many years resilient at Tokomuiu liny,

Passengers hy the vHsnorne Motor Service tins morning - included: Mos(laim's Hughes, Nurse, Reid (2), Mungrol, Davidson, Gortroy, Corbett, Ring, Orr, Taylor; Misses Gilmour, Cromnie, Davy, Booth, Campbell and Brooking;. Messrs. Barnard, Pearson, Cooper, Thompson, Kinnaird, Kennedy, Hughes, Sutherland, Nurse, Winchester, and Norman. Inward passengers yesterday included: Mesdames Anderson, Aiicell, Parcclle, Owen, Blight, and Morris; Misses Lambert, Brown, Pardoc, Hendry, Cummings, Ellis, Wilson, Ehvorthv, Harris and Morgan; Messrs. Flavcil, Randall, Palkncr, McNeil, Thompson, Pettitt, Davis,' Booth, ißowen, Kinross, Agncw, White, Proffitt, Ahuroa, Smart and Gray.

At the Boy Scout rally in the Parish .la'll last evening, reference was made to die untiring work of Scoutmaster Baker tin promoting the interests and the welfare of the movement. The C-ommis-soner, Dr. W. A. Bowie, stated that some of those who recognised the manner in which Mr. Baker had devoted himself to the work over a period of eleven years felt that his work should not pass unnoticed. Few people, he said, realised the self-denial which Mr. Baker s work had entailed, and it was undoubtedly due to him that the movement had lived at all. He asked 1 Mr. Baker to accept a handsome silver tea-pot as a slight, token of their appreciation of his services. Mr. Baker, in thanking them for their •rift, stated that lie would continue to do his best in the interests of the Scouts, and he now felt that the movement was going to make better progress than it ever (tad in the past. The monthly meeting of the Gisborne School Committee was held last evening, Mr. Geo. Wildish presiding. Various.

routine matters affecting the administva:ion of the school were dealt with, and the headmaster’s report, which , was in ivery way satisfactory, was adopted; The report stated that the attendance* luring the month had been Very satiskictory, the roll number being 934 and the average attendance 891, or 95 per cent, of the total on the roll. Reference was made to a proposal to plant a row of wattle trees along the fence line at the bottom of the playground, it being stated that the local'* orchard instructor, Mr. M. Davtw, was prepared to assist in this connection. A cheque of £4 4s, representing prize money won by school’s teams at the competitions, was forwarded, a.nd it was recommenced that this amount be reserved for purchasing pictures for the infant department-. An plmost exceptional record of school attendance was reported to the meeting of tlie Gisborne School Committee last evening, the headmaster stating in his report : "‘Two children, Lucy and Leonard Lancaster, left this schobl on September 19 after an unbroken attendance of '6s years. They have gone to Hastings frith their parents, and will now, I understand, ittcnd the Hastings central school. They wore present here on the Friday afternoon, and intended tp travel overland so as to bo present at Hastings school on the following Monday morning. The record for attendance put up by these children at this school is a remarkably good one, and had they remained here until the end of the year they wonld 1 have been .entitled to bars to the attendance medals which they hold. It would, I think, be a ’raceful act on the part of your committee to supply the bars on receipt of a ■cr till cate from the headmaster of the Hastings school at the end of the year, to the effect that the children have lost- no time from school since leaving here.”- - ft was decided to give effect to the recommendation in connection with the bars.

Last evening the iftrectors of Messrs Adair Bros., Ltd., assembled in the office of the Company to bid farewell fo the managing director, Air. E. T. DodIrell, on tlie eve of ills departure for a trip to th e Old Country. The chairman pf directors, Dr. J., W. Williams, is making a presentation of a box of cigars for nso on the voyage, referred to Air. Dod-. dr-ell’s business qualities, and felt sure that- the trip would not only be beneSe al to Mr. and Airs. Doddrell’s health, but would also be of great value to the company through the opportunity their ao-director would have of visiting the leading soft goods markets of the old vorld. These sentiments were heartily endorsed by tlie other members of the Board, and in tiie course of an appropriate eply Air. Doddrell said that He would ’ook forward with-great pleasure to Iris "otnrn to Gisborne, and to tlie renewal if his association with the company, which had! been so pleasant, during Ids’ piglit years in Gisborne. Air. Do'ddrell leaves hy the Arahura this afternoon t.a loin the sr.s. Osterlv at on lltli October. He expects to lie away for six months.

The effect of Aidomne’s double win at. the Avondale meeting has boon that his sire, Autumn, has been fully hooked lor this season, and the owner", AR - . D. J. Barry, is now hooking mares for next season.

Old King Cole and Jack and Jill weift, ip the hill to see Alary, who'had a little lamb, after singing a Song of Sixpence, and calling on Little Bed Riding Hood, who showed them round the Mulberry Bush and introduced them to Tom thumb. They then proceeded on their way back, and met a young lady. King Cole said. “Where a:-e you going, my pretty maid ?’" “To see tlie Farmer in 'lie Dell. Sir.” she said, who wants me ‘o Rock-a-bye Baby and nurse Little BoPeep. All these Nursery Rhymes can be obtained at The Stradiphone Co., Palace Picture Build mgs. Tel. 11.*