SECOND EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16662, 16 February 1925, Page 9

SECOND EDITION.

The maximum temporal lire registered in Gisborne to-day was 84 degree.;.

Owing to tlu* difficulty of obtaining plasterers and other tradesmen, slow progress has been made with the erection of the Memorial Home at Mangapapa. The building was to have been completed by the end of January, but it will be well on into March before it is now finished. It is expected that the building should bo ready for opening about the end l of March.

Passenger traffic on both the Napier and Coast roads lino been very heavy during the week-end, and the Gisborne Motor Service, carried no less than 250 passengers to Napier and W'airoa. o'cer 120 returned to the Coast during the week-end’, many of these no doubt lining people who were returning from I lie races. The recent rain has made the Coast road very sticky, but the cars have been able to get. right through.

Dredging operations were continued all day on Saturday at the on trainee lo

the river, good progress being made. By 6 o’clock in the evening, however, the swell had increased to such an extern that if was impracticable to continue the work which would otherwise have gone on until 8 o’clock. Delay was experienced in bringing the dredge back to its berth, the vessel foulinj the moorings. No damage was done and this morning the vessel again went to the’river entrance on the high tide.

The position with regard to the acquisition of Gray’s bush is still rather unsatisfactory, in that several of the lists of subscribers have not yet been returned. There remains a deficiency of £l5O on the total purchase price, but instructions have been given to close the deal in anticipation of this’amount, being raised. Application will later be made to the Government, for the promised subsidy, and it is hoped that the balance will then be raised and the purchase completed.

Towards the end of the annual gathering of South African veterans, held on Saturday evening, the chairman, Mr J. B. Poynter, took the opportunity to present the. secretary of the Gisborne Association, Mr J. .Scott, with a handsome cheque as a tribute from the members in recognition of his valuable services. in fostering the interests of tiie association. Many eulogistic references were made to Mr S'cott’s sterling qualities, and “For he’s a jolly good fellow” was heartily sung. Tiie recipient suitably responded. During the progress of the last race at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting on Saturday, Prowler, who was then in the lead, stopped suddenly, and later came down on .his knees, ile was unable to finish the race, and it was feared that he had broken the main bone in his leg. A decision was then made to destroy the animal, but (he owner, Mr C. Morse, after making an examination, found that only a smallbone in the fetlock was fractured, and that the destruction of the horse was unnecessary. Mr Morse then made a present of the horse to Mr G. Muir, caretaker of the course. Although Prowler will never again be able "to race, he will make a useful hack, and in three oivfour months should be able to do a certain amount- of work.