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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16806, 12 August 1925, Page 6

The Napier-Wairoa road,-is to be closed during - August and September to all traffic exceeding four tons in weight, a decision to that effect being hrrived at by the Hawke’s Bay County Council. Tire decision was the outcome of a discussion on the classification of county roads prohibiting heavy traffic from using certain of the roads during the winter period of the year. >-

A question as to the delay in connection with tlie repairs to the Peei street bridge surface was asked by C'r. DeCosta at the Borough Council meeting last evening. He understood that the electric cement had been here, for tlie last two months, and nothing had beet, done. The Deputy-Mayor said that lie wotild ask that* the subject be taken in committee, because matters would come up which should n'«t, bo published.. He had good reasons for asking that. The matter was referred to the works committee.

The missionary work in the Many Peninsula, a land of which litt.e is known in New Zealand, formed the subject of an interesting, address by air. H. F. Marks, at : the Gospel Hall, .Grey’ street, last evening. Mr. Marks spoke of the work in general among the people of the Malay Peninsula, arid amongst the lepers and prisoners, demonstrating the many opportunities they- had, and the blessings received. To-night Mr. Marks will deliver another address dealing with the work in the adjoining coun» tries, and all are cordially invited to attend.

Tlie question of straying stock in the Borough Was discussed at the Council meeting last evening, several of the councillors mentioning that the trouble was very bad. Cr. Coleman said that tlie poundkeeper was working very hard, but was up against people who watched for , him all the time and shifted their stock off tlie roads when they knew he was about. He felt that the poundkeeper was doing very efficient work. It was decided that in those cases .where the poundkeeper had reason to believe that a man was persistently putting his stock on the road,, he should prosecute tho first time the offender was caught.

Seven degrees of frost were registered in Gisborne this morning: 1

The New Zealand rainfall,returns.for June of this year show that the heaviest fall, for the whole of the Dominion occurred at Mautotara, Te Afaroa, where 32.02 inches fell on 22 days. At Gisborne, 9.69 inches, on 25 days , were recorded.

“There is every possibility that next year the Government grant for maintenance work by local bodies to riiain highways will be increased from onetlurd 1 to one-half,” stated Mr. T. Masori Chambers to members of the Hawke’s Bay County Council. ■ '

An old resident of the district used to say no the result of many, years of observation Hint snow, would always, bo found on the Whakapunake' range., bn August 10. The prediction vyas verified ibis year, for the snow which, fell on Saturday lay thick on' the - range -on Sunday and; Monday.

Motorists have reason'to complain,at the carelessness of stupe peopje. in allowing nails to be dropped- on the street: This morning a pedestrian, without majiing any special search, picked ,up atvarious points along Gladstone Hoad between Peel street and Grey street H 6 less than a dozen nails. ' V J j. ..

The" death occurred' at; the residence of Canon Keretene, at Ngararatnnua; near Kamo, of Hori Puriri, aged 75,. a notability among the Maoris in the far north. lie was closely related to Hone lleke. A son and' daughter survive, the son being married" to a daughter of Canon Keretene, and the daughter to the Rev. Mr The days when steam trams were ' the aristocrats of the Christchurch H tramway services and horse-drawn ') trams were used on many lines, -.were recalled when “Puffing Billy” Was Requisitioned to relieve the situation in consequence of the breakdown of the Coleridge power. The trailers wore lighted by hurricane lamps and the passengers accepted the position goodhumoredly. . ■ Mr. J. Jrnkson, Inspector of Factories for the Gisborne .district, leaves on Friday next for Wellington, to attend the annual conference "oh the New Zealand public Service Association, of which heis a vice-president o!' the executive council. Mr. 1), O'Neill, of the Stamps Department, will also attend the conference as delegate from Gisborne,-and he leaves here on Sunday. Mr. Jackson • expects to be absent for about a week.

Dean Lane, who has been transferred to the Catholic, parish of Ellorslje at Auckland, left this morning for Napier, travelling overland. Dean Lane takes his first service in his now parish next Sunday. Father. Murphy, who is taking over the charge of the Gisborne parish, arrives" front 'Auckland by the AYninui to-morrow, . rind takes the services at 'Sr. Mary’s Ohurc-h on Sunday. Ful her Downey, who has also been transferred to Auckland, left; by train this morning, and* proceeds overland ya Tauranga. 1

The tramway manager's, report to the Borough Council last everting showed that during the past-'fortnight the traiA-j carried 22,697 passengers and collected £224- 10s 2d in fares. On The Gladstone read section 14,865 passengers were carried and-,.£]47 19s 8d taken in faros, while the .Wh-ataapoko trams., carried 7832 passengfers and collected £76 10s- bd in .fares. f Thc returns per car mile, ware slightly better on -the Wbatonpoko service than pit tlie Oindetone road route, tho fares’, per ■e.-ar riu'e-e-n Wliataupoko being 16.787 d as against 15.555 d bn tlie Gladstone, road route. The report abo stated that the side lamps had now been filled to, all the cars. The : fact that: thoMnfw side lights, on tlie trams have not proved satis-factory'-from the viewpoint of the.pul*-, lie was mentioned at the Borough Council last evening. The Town Clerk stated that- the lights had been- placed ift the exact, position- ordered by the Council. Or. DeCosta said that they should have a green light- on the sides. Cr. Coleman : “The tramcars have, always been mein or leas of a joke, but we ate how verging on the ridiculous.: If We are going to alter them agaiii, let; us put them up on top. Two green lights look like two eves coming along in the dark.” (Laughter). It was decided that the matter he deferred for, a. fortnight.

■ ■ ■ 'Tlie subject of the fees, to he.’charged 4 taxi-owners by the Borough Council was discussed again last- evening, when councillors expressed tho opinion that t)io Council had no-option but to collect lliti fess. "Cr. DeCosta said that the manager of one of motor service companies had interviewed; the. Prime Minister on thci matter. The Prime Minister had said that the present legislation could not- be altered, but seemed to.be of tho opinion that there should bo a petrol; tax. Cr. Colonian said what they were concerned about was what tbey'eo’uld do at the present, time. There was no . doubt in the minds of the committee that they had to impose the regulations, Cr. Bickford said he- understood . that some taxi-drivers in other centres had not paid the fees. What would be the\ position if these men came to Gisborne . and competed with the local men? The Town Clerk replied that if they came to Gisborne they would, have to pay the ’ fee. • It was*decided to charge the fens.

The Wairoa local bodies conferred recently upon the question of building a light tramline to the beach for the transport. of shingle. It -was explained; by the Mayor, Mr Corkill. that 'beach shingle was now costing 10s 6d per yard delivered in the Borough', and the tramline would effect a direct saving by lowering the cost of transport, and an indirect saving by removing shingle traffic from the ICopu road. Afr Nolan, chairman of the County Council,- rc~’ minded the conference that there were depots at. Turiroa and Frasertown, %vhere the metal cost only 7s 6d and 3s 6d per yard respectively. He did riot see.the benefit of a tramline to the beach; '

Another suggestion, made hv Mr Stunmerfield, was that a clay and plank road should be laid on to the beach, and the lorries run down to load, saving a double handling. It was eventually decided to. await the submission of a report-and estimate from the county engineer ris .to tlie relative costs of the proposed tvamline and the clay road, and the feasibility of the two schemes. It is proposed by, the Hawke’s . Bay County Council to adopt methods sitnilar to those of last year to keep down the number of rooks in the district. MR T. • Mason Chambers, chairman, stated that last yeaivthe Council.arranged for.sliooting parties to visit the rookeries, and those efforts gave satisfaction to the fanners. Mr T. E. Crosse voiced • the opinion that efforts should not- be made to exterminate the rooks. “I am .of the opinion,” he said, “that these rooks: arid other birds are the best friends we. have in this district. The rook is ;the only bird t hat deals properly with the' Wire worm, and fanners know what damage that- worm can do. The maize,crop is about all that the rooks do damage to, but the good they do to grazing land hy attacking the wire worn outweighs the damage to the maize crops by thousands.” Mr Chambers remarked that .the Earners’ Union opinion was that the rooks should be kept down to certain numbers, but not exterminated. Personally he thought the rooks a menace when they increased beyond a reasonable number. Mr Crosse he would not object to the spending of money so long as they are dealt with in the sn-me (manner as.last 1 year. . It was tlieri ag- ' reed that the same methods be adopted.-

In 90 minutes Mr Wyvern Wilson, jS.-Jl",' • dealt with over 90 offenders under The Dtifence Act at Christchurch. About half the charges were, for wearing parts of military clothing when the wearers were not on military duty, and ih each case the defendant was ordered to pay 7s. costs. Prior to the commencement of tho business at the Waikohu County Council to-day the acting-chairman, Or. Id. Doyle, extended i\ welcome to Or. \V. B. jlardiiig, who was taking his scat for: tlio'first time.'in place of Cr. 0. V. Rhi&ell, who recently resigned. Cr. Harding, thanked those present for tlioH welcome. „

i\n interesting lease has just been made by a Southland grazier,, who has 'secured* tiip greater part of Ruapuki, islind for a three year term (states the Southland Times). He intends to buy a boat for transporting stock and pry* dupe to and from the island, which has been somewhat neglected: from a glazing point 'of view. Bov Scouts are to play a conspicuous part'during the two Weeks of the Exhibition;. for a jamboree, covering almost evlry’ branch of athletics and all scouting activities, including conferences, Sow. kows, campfires, liakas, etc., has. een arranged. The jamboree itself, however, is only incidental to the Exhibition, and the greater part of it. will take place .away from Logan Bark. Speaking to-day with reference, to the report of the Meat Commission, Mr. W. D. Lysitar, M.P., said that the report had been handed to. the Govern rtor-General, but be could not. say that «ad been handed to the Government yet. The method adopted with report of /a Royal Commission was for it. to be handed to the Governor-' and then passed on to the Government'.

Ppople in various counties who have n". large, amount of rates outstanding often offer to pay portion of the latest rate demand in order to save paying the 10 per cent, penalty. This fact was /mentioned at the Waikohu County Council to-day. The clerk was instructed that ih the event of any defaulters making payment on account of rates, such payment must be credited against the rates longest outstanding. This will have the effect of preventing defaulters from paying their latest rates ami leaving the oldest rates outstanding. -

, j As ono of the men working at Lake Coleridge was lcnowii to have a wireless receiving sot, the Radio Society of Christchurch offered to endeavor to get instructions through to the Lake by wireless during the recent breakdown. A message was accordingly transmitted at' intervals oC about .fifteen minutes front 5 p.m. until about half-past eight o’clock. Until telephone communication with Lake Coleridge was restored it was not possible to ascertain definitely whether or not the ' message was picked up, but. the indications-pointed'to ,it having been received and acted upon.

The indications up.‘to the present are thgt there is little likelihood of the Harbor Board receiving any tenders for the construction of the outer breakwater. Tenders do not close until September 21, but so. far such firms as are known to fiave been investigating tho undertaking are not proceeding. It is possible, of course, that some Australian firms may the matter, but it is that if they intended quoting for (he work their representatives would already have mad'e investigations locally. Three sets of plans and specifications have been applied for locally, and it is known that two of the firms by which they were obtained are going no further v ih the matter.

J ] A regular train-, service has now been commenced on tho railway between Tauranga and Taneatun, this being run oil Jtondays, Wednesdays, ' Fridays and Saturdays. Up to tho present the local service companies which run through to Tauranga to connect with the boat service,to ’ Auckland'have not attempted to avail themselves of tlic extra length of lino how opened up,'and whether they will do so, depends entirely upon the time the trains take for the additional section. At present the majority of the services from this end run through to Matata, whore the passengers arc transferred to tho train, but the extra section will doubtless be utilised if the service provided is suitable.

'“Notwithstanding the Cyrena wrecit, we anticipate soon getting direct .shipments landed at- Onstlechff. We are getting very hopeful news from the Old Country,” said Mi', Bignell. chairman of the Harbor Board, to a reporter. He added ' that it was only n, case ol ‘•pegging away,” and the English firms would givo in to the demands of the local importers. Mr. Bignell also referred to the Middleham Castle, to berth at Castlecliif. and to the Port of Dunedin, a..new motor ship, specially designed to carry a large cargo on a light draught „ and to* work the secondary ports, sueM lpw'aft' Wanganui,-- The Port of Dunedin vT class of steamer was also insulated anJ ' could load frozen meat, but Mr. B:gne;> said it was expected that the C. and D. Lin© wo-ald eventually berth at Castle cliff .the big Homo boats which now anchor in the roadstead.

The' arrival of Mr G. Pauli, producer, aiul Mr J. McDonald, business manager, of Sphere Films, Ltd. ; London, in New Zealand, is* of special interest to the people of tho Dominion. They arrived by the- Arawa at Auckland a few days back, and are now in Wellington. The purpose of their visit is to make two film stories of. New Zealand,. one a legendary story, devoted entirely to Maori life and exceedingly picturesque in character, dealing mostly with the period before the arrival of tho white people in the Dominion; the other, a modem story founded on present day conditions in New Zealand, and covering Hie primary and secondary industries. Maoris only will be engaged in the production of the first picture, and if is hoped that the caste for the other film will also be comprised of New Zealand people. Both gentlemen will first make a complete tour of the Dominion to settle the, locations for the stories, and will then go straight to work.

The annual report of the Ruapehu Ski Club says the outstanding event of the year was the death of the vicepresident, Mr. John William Gittos (“Skipper’'). Tho deceased gentle-' pan-was the eldest son of the late the Rpv. J. W. Gittos, one of the early missionaries of the Auckland district. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar’School,, and was a skilled exponent of ski-ing, and a most enthusiastic member. Despite his advanced age, he attended all the winter meetings held by the club since its inception in-1013. His interest, prnctii cal and consistent, was indicated by l is donation of several valuable prizes for competition in the skbing tourna■j merits; his final gift comprising the of his ski-ing equipment which T!r he bequeathed to the club. “In the passing of such a- sportsman and gentleman, the club has suffered an irreparable loss, and the snows of many- winters shall breach the slopes of thfc mountain he loved before his absence ceases to occasion deep regret jj[4 the meettngs of the Ruapehu Ski Club,"