THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16942, 26 January 1926, Page 11

THIRD EDITION.

Air U. Parkinson, of Kaitaralahi, the popular huntsman of the Poverty Bay hounds, judged the horse competition at the Waipukurau show.

“The work of installing the automatic telephones, is proceeding .satisfactorily.” states Nlr R. W. Lye, district telegraphic engineer. “The material, with the exception of Ihe. 10 ton battery, which is on its way from England, is on the spot, and everything is going on quietly."—Napier Telegraph.

In the near future there will be a thriving sawmilling industry established Ui the vicinity of Whakalane, the preliminaries being now well in hand for three companies to start operations on some 20,000 acres of magnificent rimu bush at Nlatahina, near Te Telco. Tile throe companies concerned are the Mataiiina Rimu, Ltd.; Byrnes, Ltd., of Hawera; and IL NY. Smith Ltd.

Birds occasionally build in queer places, hut a note of special originality has been struck by a sparrow, which ifVonlly raised its family in the totalisntor hell at the Wanganui racecourse (states the Chronicle). 'there have been no races since September, and the brood litis reared in tranquility. What would have happened find the hell started to ring it is difficult to conjecture. “New Zealand is the best country going. The only kick T have against it is that there are too many easy-goinu Scotchmen lieie. What is wanted are more Englishmen with a kick in them." The above views wen 1 expressed by Uomiriissioneig 1). C. Lamb, immigration officer of the Saivation Army headquarters staff. London, in an address at the conference hull of the Dominion Fanners Institute. Wellington.

A small proportion of the people of Rotorua— setting aside tourists—have any conception of tin- beauty ol the redwood groves at the W hakarcwiirewa plantation (states tile Chronicle). I licsc magnificent trees—within a mile oi Whukarewarewa post-office— have attained a girth of 6ft. and a height of 6011. Their cash value at present prices, if they maintain their growth inr 2o years, will ho in tile neighborhood ot £1(1)0 per

“We would lie taking over what is clearly a white elephant,” said Mr \\. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board in reference to a suggestion that the board should take over St. Helens Hospital at Auckland. The above statement was made at the board's meeting,. A report forwarded by the Health Department to the board shows that a loss of approximately £6400 Has been incurred by the Department in the administration of St. Helens Home during the past two years.

Dr. Valintinc, inspector-! tenoral of Hospitals, speaking at Waipukurau, said that 1,0 had returned from Europe impressed wi'lh the number of beds available. in hospitals in ibis Dominion as compared with other countries. I*or instance, in England there, was one bed to icon population, whilst in New Zealand there were six beds to each 1000 (ion. We had more beds, said Dr. Valintine. per head of population than any other country in the world. He regretted flint ho had been forced to teli boards that, they Were going too far. There were 6000 beds in New Zealand which cost £1,500,00) a year. In three years Die capital, cost had been £1.5v,0,OCO.

As much frozen produce now goes through Auckland in a. week as was handled in twelve months a couple of years ago, and (‘Very year sees a marvellous expansion of Ihe industry. Owing to its position, Auckland must always he the; shipping port for many square miles of territory, and provision lias to bo made for storing tile produce between the. time, it is landed in Auckland, either by rail or by steamer, and Die time that it is shipped on hoard a Home liner. Every handling means a rise in temperature, which is specially had foi butter, and it also means added expense. Owing to the rapid increase in the dairying industry the storage room available in” Auckland during the flush of Die season was not sufficient to hold. all the butter and cheese that was coming forward. Some of it had lo lie sent out. to Southdown, and some ns far away as Horotiu in the Waikato.

Ashore in Napier from one (if flic visiting vessels at present in port, a sailor procured a push bicycle with the intention of making a. cruise around the city, and during tlie passage unfortunately collided with a woman who was pushing a perambulator containing a small child. The woman and baby sustained no harm but the sailor was capsized and offered the following apology. “I’m sure I ought to be scuttled for it, mum, but I couldn’t get your signals nohow. I saw you shaping to port and altered niv course accordin’ and then 1 couldn’t see what was happenin’, no more than if I was feeling through a log bank. I sounded my siren once to let you know I was altering again to starhoard hut my craft refused to answer her helm and 1 couldn’t' get clear.. II you’re all right I’ll take my little hooker down to dry dock and get. her upper works straightened out. The railway aulhorities report that Wai.rio, suite the establishment of the station and tfummus there has become a busy township. Tim Nightcaps people are carting to and from \Vairio. arid to judge by .some new houses which are being built in Nightcaps that township does not seem to he suit'ding so greatly as ,t result of Wniriu bemg made the terminus of the line. Nightcaps, however, is not completely cut oil, as the trains, mi the Thai Hallway Hoard's line meet the night and morning train on tlm (lovernmeiit lino and take goods and passengers to .Motley township. wli:rh ts close besides Nightcaps. A large amount of traffic'-goes through Wniriu station, a-, many as ICO waggons a day passing through the hands o! the stall on busy days during the winter time. In summer as the need for coal decreases, me traffic goes down to about BO waggons a day.—Soul bland News.

No doubt the best way to weather the elements in a downpour of rain is by donning one’s bathing togs, hut in a niain thoroughfare this would look, in fact did look, rather peculiar far away from any lieaelt or bathing place. A motorist", wlm was evidently reluming from the beach, was stranded otp the main road near Morrinsville in a thunderstorm the oilier day. He, however was not a stickler for convention. One of his lyres was Hat and it, had to la* replaced. He had a ear load of passengers, who were impatient to get home. At least they had no desire to shiv on a. country road merely to wilness n. lightning display or hear deafening peals of thunder and wonder whether the hood would keep out the deluge. So somel liiug had lo he (lone, lie slipped on his bathing costume and revelled in Hu* shower-bath supplied by the elements. Motorists should remember that overloading is extremely had practice with any kind of tyre. There, is a relation between weight and pressure that should not he exceeded. It in aid. he considered that reducing pressure in the high pressure tyre from 75 to 60 pounds is a re duiilic.ii of 15 pounds, or 20 per Cent., while a reduction of 15 pounds in a balloon lyre m which Z 0 pounds is recommended, would mean a reduction of £0 per cent. Much risk can lie avoided by having tyre pressure regularly checked at the Tyre Surgery—it’s worth it. and it’s free.*