SECOND EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16545, 27 September 1924, Page 13

SECOND EDITION.

An order lias been placed fur the manufacture of a- chain of office for use by Palmerston North mayors.

A shipment of Ephns phosphate arrived at the Bluff by the steamer MaindyManov from the. Gulf of Safaga. This vessel will discharge at the Bluff close on 15C0 tons of fertiliser, most of which goes direct from the ship’s side to farmers.

A resolution favoring the adoption of ihe Nelson system of religious instruction in the Morrinsville schools was passed by-the committee, if was decided that a vote of the parents ho taken on the matter. The decision was not unanimous.

The Taurnarunui electricity scheme has had extraordinary success. Sales of curent in the five months during which the plant has been in operation reached the point not anticipated under two years, with the result that it is now necessary to increase the capacity of the transmission line. The other day a man and his wife and two children walked into Tfuntcrvilio and said they had come from Porewa that day and intended walkingon to Taihape, where they had friends who would give the man a. job. The man had only 4s in his pocket. Help was promptly provided.

It would appear (says an exchange) that boxing in New Zealand will shortly see a fight before which all -the battles which have hitherto been staged within the square circle will pule their ineffectual, fires. This struggle which is about to take place will centre round who is to have control of amateur boxing in the. Dominion. The recent resignation of the council of the New Zealand Boxing Association apparently was but the first shot in the impending battle. “The greatest service that you can give to the Empire is to look after the boys,” declared Mr. Bransby Williams at the Hastings Rotariau luncheon. “I tell you that anything you do for the boy to-day is going to come back to you in full recompense, because there never was a time in the history of the world when there was greater need for steadying influences. ’ ’

Members of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce on Monday met Colonel Greenhough, representative for Armstrong, Whitworth, Ltd., who was visiting New Plymouth to study local harbor conditions, it being the intention of bis firm to tender for the proposad harbor works. Colonel Grecnliough spoke in favor of the contract system, provided the work was undertaken bv a good, sound firm : in other words, a firm sound financially and that had a reputation to lose. “Although hundreds of British ships are in dock wauling work. New Zealand is employing Scandinavian vessels and crews (says the Tapanni Courier). Somu time ago a Norwegian vessel was bringing iarrah timber from Run bury, W.A., including electrical poles for Southland. Now a Swedish boat is carrying timber from the West Coast of America to Otago ancl other provincial ports. Sweden was virtually a neutral enemy to Britain in the big war. Denmark diverted her butter and bacon from London to Germany. Despite these facts Now Zealand is now employing Scandinavian men and vessels, when Britishers arc idle.”

Last year the sheep of New South Wales cut wool averaging about 15s per head. In a. few cases, in districts favored by good seasons, the figures reached 20s, and slightly over. If wool prices hold in the vicinity of the values recorded at the sale last week, the stock on the average should produce 18s to 20s per head. In 1923-24 the production of wool in New South Wales was in the vicinity of 855,000 hales, worth over £26,000,000. On the most conservative estimate the clip of 1924-25 will he 10 per cent, larger. Monetary returns for it on present-day values should reach the £30,000,000 mark. In 1913-14 the gross value of the New South Wales clip was £13,000,000. Hawkers are a nuisance to housewives and might very well be done away with (observes the Taranaki Herald.) Apart from the annoyance, attached to pcfsuasive attempts to sell things, a woman who is alone in the house sometimes finds .herself in an awkward position when one of these itinerant traders calls and is not disposed to accept, her refusal to inspect iiis wares. The other day in New Plymouth a man had the impertinence to suggest that he should “just step inside and open up his bag.” It was “one of the rules, of: our company,” lie said, not to display the goods at the door.

Seeking for a motive for the destruction of tho totalisator-house at Avondale, the Star says: “The modern totalisator is an electrically-controlled mnehino which automatically shows the sale of a ticket on the dial. The Avondale system, tlie auxiliary older roller one worked by hand, lias been one feature of the racing at the popular meeting which has caused adverse comment. It takes up to seven minutes to finally adjust and ring up the wagering after the machine has closed to the public, and this is rather a tedious delay to the anxious ones who have invested their money. It is hardly conceivable .that any individual would vent his resentment of the system by attempting to destroy it. Yet. this reason was freely advanced by patrons who have no very great admiration for the system. There were others who thought they had a clue in the dilferaice of opinion which arose over flic verdict in two very close and exciting finishes.

Tlie spectacle of forty Maoris picturesquely adorned in feathers and mats walking tho streets of Geneva was certainly enough to startle- delegates to the League of Nations Assembly (says the Christchurch Star). The statesmen, il is reported, were relieved to learn that the visitors were merely sight-seers and not active champions anxious-'to revive the confiscated lands controversy. Comment has recently been made on the comprehensive tour of Europe arranged tor Ratana and his party, and it is suggested that the cost, running into thousands of pounds, is likely to prove a heavy drain on the resources of Rat ana’s followers. both rich and poor. Expensive building sclieineu are meanwhile being pushed ahead at tho camp in New Zealand, and, whatever was said in Geneva, the liopci is still held out fo the Maoris that some dav they will get .large fin an - rial results from petitions which have hem forwarded, or are supposed to have been forwarded, to the Imperial authoriths in connection with their lands. The Wanganui Chronicle goes so far as fo predict that there mav he a sad day of a wakening for many of the Maori people. Tlie view is undoubtedly held by wellwishers of the race that, while the Ratana, movement %may he a finei thing, the Ratana encampment kinds to little but a waste of time and money.

The, Rev. Goo. Frost conducts both services in \Voslcy Church, Bright, street, to-morrow. At the ''morning service the subject of the address is “Presumptions Sins." find the Saeraniont of Baptism will be observed. .Tn the evening. “Our Money and our Giving” is the subject of the address. The choir will render Barnby's anthem “0 Lord, How Manifold.”