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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 6

At the schools throughout the- Hawke’s Bay district, proficiency examinations are now in full swing.

A Taranaki farm of 12-5 acres, fenced and with a two-roomed building, was sold for 15s an acre. It is covered wtili ragwort and blackberry. Tlio firewood on it is said to be worth £2 an acre. The property is five miles from the railway and on a good road. Fanners have been continually, troubled by sportsmen who shoot over their land.' and the question of offering rewards for the conviction of trespassers fin private lands during the shooting season was discussed _at a meeting of tlio Auckland Acclimatisation Society. No action was taken regarding the matter, with the exception, however, that tlio clubs should l be asked to point out. to sportsmen the advantages of considering the farmer.

An interesting scheme is about to be tried in Hastings. This is the erection in two or three important centres of the town of what are termed pictorial guides. They consist of wooden pillars some 20fi. high, with projecting representation of the particular attractions and their designation. Attached to each arm is a board containing details of Dm different tilings to be seen and their location. The’ posts are so arranged that the arms can be detached from time to time and new pictures added.

“I couldn’t help being struck by the expeditious manner in which the American oil tankers discharge their cargoes at Wellington and dodge out on the return voyage, to come back (in a few weeks, it seems) with oil tanks filled,” said a Wellington merchant to a reporter. “The same point would apply to almost all foreign vessels, and I understand that in Australia the records for quick handling go (o vessels from the United States, Holland (ilie Dutch vessels particularly), and Germany. Against this, British vesseds are held up and harassed until one wonders how they can compete in the business. It must be having a- serious clTeel on our intercolonial and on British oversea trade. Duo wonders whether that is n. 4 the real reason of all the trouble!”

A somewhat disconcerting happening took placo at Mr CL Leighton’s auction marl. St rat ford x ( reports the Post). During Die progress of a sale a lady laid In r handbag, containing about £lO, on a couch, and when she again turned round was dismayed lo find flint- it had disappeared. Air Leighton, on being informed, slopped (lie .sale and announced lhe loss, but without result,

anil the lady went home to procure more money. When walking along Die street she met a woman who had been seen in the mart previously, and from the handbag carried by this person she noticed protruding t-tic handles of her own bag. The return of the bag was demanded, and needless to sav the demand was complied with, but it, was accompanied by the explanation : “T took it for a joke, and was going to take it back I”

A tliroo-yccir old chi'd was admitted to Opotiki hospital as a result of an accident, with a lawn mower. The second and third fingers were cut off at the first joint by the machine. Passengers by Die daylight express are loud in their complaints about the dust nuisance, and the discomforts experienced by travellers on this train through the King Country.

It is reported that a number cf pigs in the Dannevirke district are succumbing to a disease which is prevalent, wlijch is one of the reasons for the visit to the district of Mr Gorringe, of the Swine Husbandry Department. A charge of •riding a bicycle on the fnnthpatli in Awapuni road was preferred against. Alfred Edward Drayton before Mr. E. 0. Levvey, 831., at the- Magistrate’s Court this' morning.—The defendant put in a written plea of gui.ty, and was fine! 10s and costs 7s. There was an unusual happening at Dio Timaru railway station on a recent afternoon, the third express for the south departing without the guard. To rectify the matter the express stopped at Pareora, and a shunting engine was sent to Timaru for the missing man.

For being in arrears lo Die extent of £2 10s in'respect-of an order for the maintenance of his wife., George Ferguson Tweedio, was proceeded against before Air. E. C. Levvey, S3L. at the Magistrate's Court this morning. -An" oi-dca- for one month’s imprisonment was made, the warrant to be suspended on payment of the arrears. The hearing of the action in which G. 8. Bruce and- 00. (Mr ,T. R. Kirk), , claimed from Donald Gordon (Mr-L.T. Barnard) the sum of £73 10s, alleged to be due as commission on the sale of a ;house property, was completed before jMr E. C. Levvey, 8.M., at the Magis (rate’s fanirt yesterday afternoon. After hearing lengthy argument on the non. suit- points raised, his Worship reserved his decision.

At the last meeting of the Tauranga Hospital Hoard a letter was received from the Controller and Auditor-General covering tvo cheques at £4 16s each, received from two members of the board, being refunds of travelling expenses drawn by them on occasions when travelling in a private car owned by a fellow member of Die board, requesting that they he placed to the credit of the hoard, and receipts forwarded. When two hours out, from Liverpool, i n route to Auckland,-three stowaways were, found in tho coal bunkers of the si earner Port Bowen. The men were taken before the master, Captain W. Gilling, and offered to work their pas sages to New Zealand. They said they had been unable,.to secure employment in England. Work was found for them on the voyage and on arrival in Auckland- they were handed to the police.

A charge of leaving a motor-car unattended with the engine running was,, preferred against Robert, Thomas Williamson at the Magistate’s Court this morning.—Tlio offence wns admitted,— Senior-Sergeant Fitzpatrick stated that the car had been loft in Gladstone road for fifteen minutes, the engine running nil the time. This was the first prosecution of this description, and was made as a warning.—A fine of 10s, and costs 7s was imposed. A pleasant function took place at To Kara kit recently when Mrs. A. Leckio tendered a gift afternoon to Miss Vida Stevenson, who is shortly to be married. Miss Stevenson is superintendent of’ St. John *» Sunday School, and organist of the Church, and has always been most popular among Tc Karaka residents. At Airs*Reekie's function there were about, 50 guests, amt Miss Stevenson was tho recipient of manycharming and us'etUl gifts. ■ .

“In a country like this more depends on (he roads than anything : ‘else>D remarked Colonel Symonds,- of England, in the course of a brief address to visiting engineers at Wanganui. He supported his contention by pointing out that people could stay on lhe land if they wfere happy, but if they felt they were cut off from civilisation they would not stop on the land. The work on the roads was of tremendous national benefit, more so than anything eKe. lie added.

A meeting of the Patutahi School Committee was held on Tuesday evening, there boing present; Messrs Smith (in tho chair), East-, Thody, atid Hamilton. The headmaster, reported that the roll number stood at 163, with an average attendance of 143. A communication was received from ; the Hawke’s Bay Education Board grahtihg a subsidy on money raised to improve tho school grounds. Arrangements were made to commence the improvements at an early date. It was decided to hold tile annual picnic on December 18, and to give prizes in tho usual way.

The steamer Matakana, manned by a volunteer crew, mostly Alaoris, left Auckland for Wellington a few days ago to complete loading for London. On the wharf there were a number of former members of the crew who went on strike, but beyond a few remarks showing their displeasure, there was no demonstration. When the ship had drawn several loot away from the wharf a Maori- pushed his way through the crowd and scrambled up a rope hanging over the side. lie was followed a couple of minutes later by a European, who rushed on to the wharf and made a hazardous leap. He managed to grab the rope and was hauled oil board.

For the first time for 25 years Air AI. Foley, clerk of the Christchurch Magistrate's Court, formerly of Napier, voted at a general election. This must be a New Zealand! record. It was‘not that Air Foley, did not want to use tho blue pencil on a voting paper; unfortunately, ho could not, as he has been a returning officer for 25 years. In all parts of New Zealand Mr Foley has watched over ma. y general elections. He has been returning officer for the Patea, Stratfoul 1 (when it w,q>a, :i first- created an electorate), Hawke’s Bay, Dunedin West, and Masterton electorates. Mr Foley was this year, and asked to bo returning officer for one of. the Christchurch electorates, but he refused, and. on November 4 he recorded ,his vote as an ordinary citizen.

Alany were astonished when early in the week sonic thirty divorce cases were disposed of in two or three hours at the Supreme Court, at Auckland, but (states the Herald), the same thing will Occur and occur again, said tho chairman of the Relief Committee of the Hospital Board and there is no remedy so long: as foolish young people get tied' up in tho bonds of matrimony -without eonsiderinrr the duties and obligations of married life- It bad been his' duty lately to comment forcibly on the number of young people just over twenty years of age who had got married on a brief acquaintance, and after living together for a year or two had separated, often tho wife being left totally unprovided for, wilh two or throe young children to look after. There had been half n dozen cases this week brought under his notice where young wives not yet twenty, had! been cruelly deserted and left with babies fo look after, and in some cases another woman had been tho cause.

Afatawai Parochial District — Ser- : '-v, fnr Ist Sunday in Advent, Nov. 29th:. .Ho'.v Communion, Matawai, 8 a.m.; Matins, Mataevai, 11 a.m.; Evensong, Kakauroa, 2.39 p.in,; Evensong. *"RnG>. 7.3-9 p.m. Offertories lor Maori Mission Fund. —Rev. C. G. G. Salt, Vaisa v* '