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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16672, 27 February 1925, Page 4

The section of the East Coast main trunk railway from Athenree on to within about three miles of the township of Katikati wi'i be opened for goods traffic next week. At the English Bar examinations in December of the Inns of Court, London, Air. Keith K. Kirk, of Gray's ltm and Gisborne, passed the examination in Roman Law. The sitting of the Magistrate's Court, which was to have been held at Te Ivaraka on Monday has been adjourned until March 9. The quarterly meeting of the Bay of Plenty Licensing Committee has been similarly adjourned. “I was very much struck with the remark of a county councillor representing a district, in thci King Country,” said tho Hon, A. D. McLeod in a speech at Ivawliia. ‘‘Ho was impressing upon his hearers the newel for doing something, and concluded: ‘There is eitlnir a right way or a wrong way -of doing things, and surely a. man can do it one way!’ ” Messrs Vickerman and Lancaster, of Wellington, who were recently engaged by the Borough Council to report upon tlie Gisborne tramway system, have completed their work, and left for Wellington this morning. During their visit hero they Itjvo examined tho various tram routes, inspected tho plant, and conferred with officials con nectcd with the service. Their report will be ready in a. short time. Mr. F. M. Bart ram, M.P. for Grey Lynn, lias addressed meetings at Alanutiikc and Kaitaratahi during the week. He spoko on similar lines to these adopted at tho Liberty Hail cm (lie Fav'mmoutary Labor party’s land policy.v He will speak at Matawliero to-nieht, and «u -Saturday night ho will address an open-air meeting at 1 he. .Sievwriglit memorial,' on the* ideals of (he Labor paity. As a result of the looon! floods in the link.a hi river, the main stream, which for some time past has made a du.yi Mianne.l close to the south Lank, has mow scoured out a new month, and flows in o the set about, a mile an.l a had' further south Ilian formeily (says the Christchurch Press). The new month is close to tho Hakuja hots on ihe south hank. Sell ers in the locality have observed great shoals of conger rels coining up into ihe rive* 1 . Most of (hr. cr-K are very large, and are. estimated to be of an average weight, of 811). A .spectacular leap, remindful of the hair-raising stunts of motion pictures, was witnessed at Arapuni a few days ago by a party of workmen engaged on the road widening work two or three chains from the low level bridge. It appears that a motor-lorry owned by a well-known road contractor was being nri'-en near the bridge when the driver pulled up and went round the back, of Hie lorry to adjust something. There •s a. slight'grade at the bridge approach, mid the lorry brakes apparently failed to hold, for the vehicle ran forward and toppled' right- over tho cliff Reside the bridge, and plunged down about £0 feet into the seething rapids Tho vehicle is lying on its side almost immediately below the bridge and is probably 100 badly damaged to warrant hauling up on to the roadway again.

At the Magistrate’s Court this S morning, Stanley Smith was charged with riding a bicycle at night without f carrving a light. Senior-Sergeant Pit:;- 'J patrick slated that the offence had 1 loon committed in Roebuck road. A tine of 10s and costs was imposed.

“We were so fortunate,” said Mr J. Li. Kirk yesterday, “as to be admitted to Universal City, Hollovwood, during the ‘ shooting-’ of three pictures, and while we found the visit a most interesting and entertaining one, we could not help wishing that every young girl who was sighing for tho chance of becoming a ‘movie star’ could have been present, for I think disillusionment would soon have followed. The life is a hard and strenuous one, lived under difficult conditions, while the work itself is often niotonous, always laborious, and carried on under circumstances which in time, it seemed to us, must have a ruinous effect upon eyesight and complexion, and possibly upon health. Only the ‘stars’ make the huge fortunes so unevenly distributed, the rest being paid little more than they could obtain elsewhere. The management was most courteous to us, making every tiling that could add to our interest available, and we particularly noticed the kindly way in which all the directors dealt with the aetors and actresses. ’ ’

A misunderstanding made in an effort to belittle a person of an opposing political party was dramatically ex- • ploded at an open-air meeting at Wliangarei, states a correspondent. A Labor advocate was called upon from the crowd to answer who paid the salary of i>3 a day to a wealthy farmer, who was a member of the Soldier Settlers’ Revaluation Board, and also whether it was considered fair that that farmer should have offered only 30s a week of six working days of 14 hours each to a returned soldier, when the farmer’s son had not gone to the war? The speaker had commenced to reply when Mr Edwin Harding, of' the Dargaville district, who happened to be present, stepped forward and announced himself as the person to whom the question referred. It .was not time that he had a son old enough to have gone to the war, he declared, for at that time his son was a schoolboy. The employee referred to was a. married man, and had not been offered 30s a week, but £3 a week, with house accommodation and all iound, and the man was inexperienced at the. work v . The iirebell was clanging at the moment, but despite this predominant call many people remained, knowing Mr Harding, and clearly indicating their approval of the discomfiture of the questioner and speaker. A New Zealand professional musician of long and varied experience related the lollowing story as (he most amusing incident of his career, to an Auckland Star reporter: “1 was organist of a Presbyterian Church in a very rising district in New Zealand. The position of minister was vacant, and different ministers were on trial. It was a Wednesday evening service, and there were about 50 members of the congregation present. I had been teaching all day many miles away, and when I arrived to fulfil my duties at the organ I felt very, very tired. After the singing of three hymns the minister commenced his address, and as he preached in a ‘drawling’ fashion it hod the effect of sending me to sleep, and I lay snugly spread over the keys of the organ,, apparently dead to the world. The service finished, the minister gave out the last hymn, and I never played it over. The minister thinking I had gone away, himself started the hymn. They all sang it—six long verses—it never Woke me. The members of the congregation could see me stretched ox r er the keys of ~ the organ, but they were afraid to disturb me. However, two young ladies slipped up after the Benediction had been pronounced, and laid gentle hands upon me, and to their great- delight, and that of all present, I awoke smiling. But what do you think the title of that hymn was? ‘Art Tho a Weary, Art Thou Languid, Art Thou Sore Distressed?’ ”