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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 4

The rainfall at Gisborne last month totalled 2.21 inches, which fell on ten days. “In the corresponding month last year 1.83 inches fell, on eight days.

A landmark on the Auckland waterfront, for 40 years, the chimney-stack of the Northern Roller Mills, is now being dismantled. A conference of delegates from the Taranaki, Stratford and Hawern. Hospital Boards decided to appoint a bacterialogist at a salary of £4CO per year, to be stationed! at New Plymouth.

Both the Customs duty and the beer excise) duty figures for the past month show a decline on the figures for the corresponding month of last year, the Custims figures being £1024 below those of February, 1924. The figures for tha past month aro as follows, last year’s figures being given within naren'heros: Customs, £7204 15s 6d (£8223 14s 3d) ; beer, £983 15s 2d (£llls 16s 6d).

The births for the first two months of the present year are considerably in excess of those of last year. The deaths show a slight decline, and there have been a third less marriages than last year. The figures are as follows, last year’s being' given in parentheses: Births 47 (32); deaths 10 (17); marriages .13 (18). For the two months of the year the figures are: Births 95 (75); deaths 25 (31); marriages 22 (33).

On Friday afternoon the wharf and head office staff of the Gisborne Shecip farmers’ Co. met Captain .1. W. H. Holmes, who lias severed his connection with (lie firm, and presented him with a solid silver teapot as a token of fie esteem in which ha is held. In thci unavoidable* absence of the manager. Mr \V. F. Ccderwall, Mr. E. Lewis made the/ presentation, and in doing so 'referred in eulogistic terms to the capabilities of the recipient, and to the pleasure of their associations. Several other members of the staff also spoke, and Captain Ho’mes thanked them for their gift and for their good wishes. Captain Holmes intends to undertake marine survey and agency work, and will be remaining in Gisborne..

" gwjgiy, The expense involved in preparing a racing car for an event such n# the New Zealand Motor Cup runs info anything up to £2OO (states the Auckland Herald). The friends of Rev. D. B. Malcolm, vicar of Gonville, will regret to learn (states the Wanganui Chronicle) that hd is suffering from an illness, which will keep him confined to his bed for some time.

A total of £54,000 is to be spent in erecting a hostel in the Tongariro National Bark. An effort is to ho made to eradicate the heather now growing there, and sites for bungalow.! are to lie let.

The record daily run of the Aorangi while crossing the Pacific was 436 miles, or over 18 knots an hour. The total length of her trip is 16,000 miles, and the cost to the passengers for all cervices is about 2d per mile. The members of the Gisborne City Band were to leave Auckland this morning on the homeward journey. They reach G.sborne to-monow’ night. They will he accorded a welcome atNihe baud room on Friday night.

Although the complete statistics for the year are not yet available, it is anticipated in the Department of Health that the death rate for the Dominion and also the rate of infantile mortality for the year 1924, will be the lowest on record.

A motorist who recently travelled through to Napier stated that he noticed there was more than usual activity on the roads at the present time, and he counted 15 gangs at work on the highways between Woodville and Napier.

At the conclusion of the, sixth race of the Waiapu Racing Club’s meeting'' on Saturday Mr J. Wicksteed's old mare Oturaumii, who had come in am easy winner, was put up for auction, and was sold to Mr C. Babbington at 28 guineas.

The future of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Club is in doubt (reports the Press). It will not be decided until the National War Funds Council meets in April. In the meantime an extension of the present mortgage has been obtained', and the club is carry-

ing on as usual. All fruitgrowers are advised to note that a Royal Horticultural Society Banteian medal is offered in the show conducted by the P.B. Horticultural Society, to be held on the 11th and 12th March. Intending exhibitors are requested to note regulation No. 25 for regarding this medal.

A second shift has commenced work on the dredging operations, and it is now hoped to push tho work ahead more consistently. This morning operations were continued opposite the Harbor Board’s offices until tile tide was sufficiently high to allow* the dredge to proceed to the river entrance, where work will proceed as long as weather conditions will permit. A very fine crop of barley has justbeen threshed* out at the Central Development Farm, Weraroa, eight acres averaging 63 bushels to the acre. Four acres each of the Cape Barley and Russian Black skinless varieties were grown, the former variety of which gave a return of 67 bushels. The only manuriiig given was one cwt. of superphoshat.e to the acre.

The well-known lake steamer Tongariro, which has, for many years, carried the mails from Taupo to Tokaanu, has made her last trip. The vessel has been dismantled and sent to Auckland for sale owing to the liquidation of the Lake Taupo Shipping Co., the owners. The vessel was built in 1900, at Taupo, by Messrs Bailey and Lowe, of Auckland. * The negotiations in connection witYi tho slaughtering of meat at- Hastings and the controversy over the terms of the new contract submitted by Messrs. Nelson’s (N.Z.), Ltd., came to- a conclusion last weak at a conference between all the master butchers of Hastings and Dr. Reakes, Director of Agriculture. The happy termination of these negotiations will mean, among other important itetns, a saving of £20,000 to the borough. In the old days, when the Manawatu Gorge was of a dangerous nature, tho motorist exercised more than usual care when negotiating it. How that the road has been widened enough to allow two cars to pass, the same care* (says the Wanganui Chronicle) is not exercised, and it possibly will he tho scene of a serious accident if tho authorities do not take steps to prevent speeding.

That harvesters cannot bo too careful this year when smoking in tho paddock, was learned by a Arno farmer recently. A fire evidently got a start by a cigarette or match carelessly thrown down during lunch tiinc. When work was resumed the fire had a considerable hold and culminated by making a clean sweep of the paddock, ’destroying a stack of wheat and two or three stacks of oats.—-Waimate Advertiser.

Outs have been made in prices of „ several cereal lines in Dunedin, states the Post's correspondent. The price of oatmeal has been lowered by £2 per ton, the reduction making the price per ton of 251 b. bags £2B, and the price for 2001 b bulk £27. Rolled oats arc now 20s per dozen 4lb. as against 21s. Cerco costs 19s iijP stead of 20s per dozen 3£lb bags. The lower prices cqme into effect on Wednesday.

An Oamaru man who has had much experience with cattle told a North Otago Times’ representative that tho movement by the Board of Agriculture in favor of the dehorning of cattle was totally unwarranted. He said that it was against the laws of natufo that cows should be dehorned. Moreover, horn was a marketable commodity, and beasts travelling in trucks were more likely to suffer injury when dehorned than when possessed of their horns.

In reply to the good wishes of the Grand Jury at the Napier Supremo Court, M r Justice Alpers, who was educated in that town, said that as a matter of coincidence, he was made Danish Consul for tho South Island, just previous to receiving his appointment as a judge, and consequently he decided l to relinquish his post as consul in order to be able to take the other appointment. “I have,” continued His Honor, “advised Ilia Majesty the King of Denmark, through the Danish Minister, of my resignation front the post, and pointed out that, during nty tenure of office, some 14 hours, I have made no mistakes.”

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