SECOND EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16719, 2 May 1925, Page 13

SECOND EDITION.

Puppy Da y iii Wellington realised £1313. with a few returns still to come. The. Olympic Swimming Club was to have held a carnival at’ the Gisborne school baths this afternoon for the purpose of deciding the Povcirtv Hay schoolboys’ championship and the third distance for I lie Stoneliarn Cup. Owing to there being praetieallv no competitors present, the carnival was postponed until Tuesday afternoon.

A pile driven on the ICnili side of Ihe Tiiranginmi river, in connec-t ion with the railway bridge eonstrnetion, indicated by the resistance it met that there is a very solid bottom at that point. The pile itself bore tlio ramming without a mark, or the flaking off of a chip of concrete even under the test of six eight-foot drops of tin' It ton monkey. The contractor’s pile-driving derrick was today engaged in replacing a portion of tin 1 ramps on which the Harbor Hoard’s rammer is operated.

Miss Edith Howes, the favorite writer of children’s fairy tales and stories, is visiting Gisborne, and has graciously consented lo tell some of her own' stories to the children ot members of the Gisborne Worn ends Club at an evening to be given in her honor next Friday, May Stli. AH members of the club are invited to keep this evening free, and to bring the children of their households to the club. Farther details will be given early next week.

At a meeting of the No. 5 Highways District Council, held on Thursday, the first item that came up for consideration was the bitumen sealing of the Gisborne road from the Wairoa County boundary to the Cook County hound ary. The chairman stated that the cost would he £25,700, the Wairoa County to contribute £i>so(L —The work was approved of, together with other minor works at Mo re re. .11 was pointed out by the chairman that the road from the Waikare deviation to the Mohaksi river was in a dangerous state, and a great deal would have to he done in the matter of taking oil had corners and carrying out improvements to the bridge. A total of £IO,OOO expenditure was involved, and the Hoard was putting up £7500. _ He said that lie intended asking for £nbo() this year towards the work mentioned.

“I ran conscientiously say that in the Parliament of New Zealand this country has the best in the world.” said the Minister for Education (Sir dames Parr) when replying to the toast of “Parliament'’ at* the official opening of the Bunnythorpe. sub-station. “ft is an honest and hard working Parliament, coil tin u<*fl Sir Jamos. “You know Parliament- is a great school and new members find that they have, much lo learn there. To master the standing orders alone takes a year or two, arid some never succeed in doing so. ft is a school where the crank or extremist, no matter where 'he belongs, gets the corners rubbed oil’ mightly (prickly. It is an assembly of good fellows. Mr. 110 - land and myself are personal friends, although either of us may think that it the other was in power lie would rum the country.” Sir .Jamas Parr added that, the proceedings of the Parliament of New Zealand were conducted with a dignity and decorum which was not excelled 'anywhere else in the world.