THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16920, 29 December 1925, Page 11

THIRD EDITION.

Napier: sailed at 2.15 p.m., Kiritona, for Gisborne. Light-fingered gentry have been operating ,in Wellington and Palmerston North. At this time of the year there is .generally a band of pickpockets who,“do the rounds.” Leslie William Avers, 19,.residing at Edgeware Load, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital suffering from injuries to his, head sustained as the yesult of striking, a rodlc in a dive at the Fitzhcrbert Street bridge. , It, has been said Hint a thousand tons .of cargo discharged on one day ,itj good work for any. po|i, Iml Wellington has better lignres titan that among her daily averages. On .many occasions during the past year the port, has handled as; much as fb-om 1900 to 1270 tons of e.nrgo in n day. The .Union Steam Ship Company’s new Wellington-Pieton, passenger steamer Tamahine was the scene of an outbreak ol lire at Wellington on Saturday afternoon. The hood of a motor-car on the deck of the, vessel caught alight from sparks which issued! from'the galley lire. The Tire brigade was summoned, but the outbreak, pyas, extinguished by members < of the ship’s crew. The Tamahine sailed,, as arranged, on Saturday for Picton. The, motor-car hood was considerably damaged. . , , , , VWe’re having rather a bad time jlist- now,” remarked) a young farmer to an old Wanganui resident (says the Herald).' “A bad time!” retorted the latter. ‘‘Why, you don’t know what bad' times are. Ask your father, and be will recall the time, about thirty years ago, when I bought a lino of 240 sheep at Is a head at. Jacksons saleyards, and fifty of .them averaged 501 b. ’apiece. The farmers then had bad times and no mistake. ’Tire young man did not reply to the old .resident, ,who was formerly jn t the bUjtchering business. Much practical sympathy is, being, ex-. I, tended, by Avn'klauders .t0,,-numbers of b the Australiani Ladies’ Pinci Band, who f. will have to .remain stranded in Anck- [< land for a, i month - owing to an ,unforL tunate, oversight ,in regard to the com-, I- pletion pi’ their passports. When their., if dilemma became known they received' i many mpssagffi offering assistance,and they hope.,that They shortly willbe able. i„ to organise entertainments, which will [ velievh The pressing financial, necessities, } The .band estimate the monetary loss in Jr failing to donnect with the Aorangi at I £650. . . ~ ... ~, . .;ij ; [ Some, people. 1 talked about costs, sard F Mr. A. B. Charters,, ■ principal of the | (Whang,arei High, School, in referring ,ai | the annual prize-giving to the practice | of taking boys o,n tour to play in footI ball matches, but by taking off turnip ! fields boys who- had never before been I south of Auckland and showing them | suchi places as Palmerston North. • the M.anawat.u Gorge., Hastings, and Napier, a practical, lesson in geography was being inculcated, whereas in the class-room they would have to be told about such places over and over again before they would • remember , anything about, them. The football tours cost money, declared the principal,. but it was money well spent. —Auckland Star. The Lyttelton Times suggests that as the films exhibited in the Dominion are subjected to censorship, it might be possible, and advisable, to have flic posters viewed hy .the same authority. Such a course would protect the interests of the | .publici and those engaged in providing 1 This means of-amusement, and, possibly, a briof discussion of the matter would j result in the’ provision of the' safeguards that Sir James Parr considers 1 so necessary. , In the meantime, people will hava a right to expect that, if the Minister takes such strong objection to the posters, he will see that the protest 1 l is placed before his colleague, and the Ministry. As Minister.of Education lie , has a, (Voice .in matters discussed in , Cabinet, and shares responsibility for all acts of omission or commission.. , i 1 It is not. saying too much to suggest that it should be a; matter of Conscience with, New -Zealanders to favor the British manufacturer when- - ever opportunity offers —unless there- ‘ bgj. a particularly strong reason against ’ such discrimination—in their purchasing of imported goods.,. Superficial explanations are; sometimes given of a- disposition to demand the- foreign-made article. Thera are, fashions in .purchasing,- ana the fashion in: New Zealand; so far as imported' goods are concerned, should in--..clinchstrongly towards those of British make, . New Zealand should '..endeavor to increase .her tirade with. Great. Britain in every possible way. The question of tlioi support of local industry stands quite apart, of course, from the ques- ! tion o-f the source of origin of the Dominion’s imports, remarks the Otago Daily Times, i rAn, interesting proposal .by. the Lands i Department to establish .a, camping- , ground for motorists on a beautiful strip, of Crown land between Goose Bay and Oaro, on the Blenheim-Clii-istclnu'ch < road, was mentioned at a meeting of the Marlborough Automobile ■ Association (states the Marlborough Express). The president (Mr.- R- !’• Furness) .said there , wore .a number of delightful camping. places on the area referred to, and the , Department was talking of putting up J sanitary conveniences and-, ! encourage motorists -to camp, there. I lie i locality was a-. beautiful one, and was near enough to halfway between LlenhefliTi and Christchurch. He understood k* that the Department, was endeavoring to „ get one of the local autliuriti'es to take over control of thu area,, so as to pret vent abuse of the, camping ground, and S lie, did.not know, whether it had been i successful ia .this, jbut. motorists would S, await further information with interest. I . The death occurred in Huntly, Auck0. land,-of , Major -James . U-’Sullivan, for 0- many years .Director of- Stores for'-ithe,. | Defence Department, Wellington. Major P~ O’Sullivan, who was. a native ol Ireland, ft came to New Zealand in the.early,days, i and became attached to the old armed t constabulary, which, the Government set I' up in, the-early days as the nucleus of k- if permanent force. He was immediate-, ft !y concerned in the equipment- of. the ftt various contingents at the time of the V flnr in South Africa, and was also ft Director of Stores during the earlier v year? ol the - Great' Wav. .. Whilst in V 'Wellington tie was a member, of the §'■’ .Hibernian Socialv. and for some years f' was a member of the Wellington Bovvling Club. (In his retirement from the 5 Government some seven or eight years | ago Major O’Sullivan took up land in J- the Waikato, near Huntly, and has re--5 sided there ever since. 3*- A peculiar, accident occurred near A Newstead, on the road to Puketitiri, in S which two motor ' lorries were wrecked 5, and burned/ reports the Hawke s Bay f Herald. The two vehicles, a lorry # owned by Langley and Go. I tastings » and a. larger one owned by V\ dkie and « Austin, of Hastings were travelling toft wards Rissington with the former in # the lend. When mounting the sleep lull i on the Napier side of Mr Pattullo s f homestead the larger lorry caught fire. The driver of the other truck inunedititeD* Jy wont bgck to render aid, hut the brake on his lorry failed to hold and it, ran bade and collided with the burnV in- 1 lorrv. The force ol the impact f- started the bigger lorry running and at. Vi the same time it set tire to the smaller J * one. Both lorries plunged over the side, J i breaking the fences and falling into the J, deep gorge below. , They were coinpleteJ| ly wrecked, and their loads practically I ruined. Fortunately no one was injured. ,