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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 6

The financial statement of the Oooli I Hospital dairy farm for last month shows . receipts totalling £lßl. -6s I<J> £lO7 19s 8d being for milk and cream. The expenditure ' amounted .to £BS 10s 9d, the, excess of receipts over expenditure being £95 15s 4d. The putting down of the bitumen road between Napier and Olive promises to be a big undertaking, but given fine weather the work should be completed well within the specified'time. Already £IO,OOO worth of plant has been assembled on the road. ■ v > , ■ ■ Perhaps the-' enthusiasm displayed by many.' motorists over the new registration plates is a little premature (remarks the Napier Telegraph). A Napier _ motorist, while adjusting his newly-acquired plate, chanced to spill some oil on it. Using a little benzine in wiping it off, he was hot a little chagrined to find that the socalled stove-enamelled paint'also came off, leaving the bare metal exposed. One of tire all-red Delicious apples taken from (he freak tree at Mr.. J. .Haskijis’ orchard,, aud given, to a. Herald representative on a recent visit, lias been handed to ,the Farmers’. Union, where it is now op view. The apple is not an absolutely perfect specimen, as most of the best had been taken by other: growers,vbut it js sufficiently red to indicate the startling difference between the ordinary Delkuous and the all-red apple. • > The deer stalking season is now in full swing, but the-takes-so far have been very disappointing (writes the Waikaremoana correspondent of the Wairoa Star). Stags are not as - numerous as expected, and anything in the way of a good head is Tare. The heavy shootingduring the last two i seasons is surely having, its .effect. If there are any old stags left they must be keeping well back in the bush, where'it'is almost impossible. to follow them. The magistrate at ;Kotorua was not. at all satisfied with the' replies of F. Fisher in the Courthouse, reports the Chronicle. Defendant was appearing on"a judgment summons case for £3O for liquor supplied to him while he was keeping a store at Jluatahuna. He said he got the liquor Tor himself. Thirty pounds’ worth was delivered on March 14, 1924. and more on March 19. He had paid part of the account. The magistrate expressed doubts as to defendant, having consumed all the liquor himself, whereupon defendant said he had given it away. The magistrate said he must have been a millionaire to do that. , Finally, he said he did not believe defendant’s evidence, and ordered him to produce,his books and a statement- of accounts on May 3.

On account of bat; atWairqa and not having a regular boat to Wiikokopu the storeshere at .present ate procuring a goodly pottion of their needs from Gisborne warehouses by jn'otoylorries.—Wairoa Star. •' . ; The matron of the Cook Hospital acknowledges receipt of the following gifts :—6ofbs. Of grapes, Mr P.- Qiierskfl, Manutukc • two /cases apples, Mr Barnes; playing cards, Messrs Mick Pettit- and P. Gartshore,; papers, Canon Packe. ' ' Being in possession of liquor while under aprohi bit ion/ order resulted in James Frederick Kernot appearing before Mr. E. C. Levvey, nS.M., at- th<^ Magistrate’s Gourt this trioming. The : defendant admitted the offence, and was fined, £1 and costs 14s. - ■' Whilst engaged on ,a “buzzer" plane at .Wharmby and,; Williams’ joinery, .factory, Waipukurau, Mr, James Smith, 21, was unfortunate enough to . have his. fingers caught in the “buzzer." One!finger of the left hand wsjs. taken’ off, at the,first, joint, whilst another' linger was nipped off at the top. ~ ; y ■ An accident which occurred in Dominion road, Auckland, . resulted in • a motor car being badly ..'damaged:, A lady who had. purchased :& car the previous day, essayed to take it out on Sunday. The car got out of control and crashed into another that came,'"round a. corner, the driver • escaped uninjured. v The other car suffered minor, damage.// ' Following its decision to continue in- [ stalling-, v electwcaL,*; wateri-;h^ters ? /the Auckland Electric Tower Board Has decided to sell curient for them upon a new system: ■ Accounts- 'will 1 - be’•rendered’,: on eaißh. quiirter:day; but;the'cli’iixgeiivill-be an annual. one based.' ori" the I 'capacityjof tbedieater, without apportionmenttaririy periWi'M.leßslthan^riei : ;j]ear< ' ‘.'.'flie; Ciislodfati- of acknowledges the ’ following gifts Tapers, magazines, , etc., Alesdames Silverwood, 1). Blair, Rev. H. Packe; and anonymous; clothes, Mesdames Sliannon and Afossman, and Rev. Packe; cups and. saucers, Airs A. Scott; flowers, Mrs Sparrow"; peaches,' Mrs 0. Cfaft^; photograph, Miss Warren. .. Parties, of surveyors ore at present stationed in various'parts of the district (states a Waikokopu correspondent). The Publio Works Department's surveyors are at Opoutama working towards. the port, while Mr. F., Mace and party, of Messrs. Saxby and ‘Mace, are at the Peninsula, and .Mf. Ross, Government official, is working on the old ,’Mahia township. A man named- Walter Claude. Pierce, who- is £2O in arrears in respect of - an order for the maintenance of his children,- did not appear '■ when proceeded against before Mr E. C. .Lewev, S.M., at the. Magistrate’s Court .this morning. The defendant was sentenced to brie month’s imprisonment, the warrant to bis f suspended upon the payment of the arrears. ; L; ; A complete marine.survey of the Coast of New Zealand, where. necessary, •is being urged by the-Harbors Associatioh . of, New Zealand. •’ The .Napier harbormaster, Captain White-Parsons,; has reported that he could not find anything wrong with, the coast line'around Napier, but a survey,-was required in; the vicinity of Cape.. Kidnappers arid Bare Island. The Napier Harbor Board; has ’decided to forward the harbourmaster’s report on to the association. > . ' ■ - 1 ■ ; . ■ ' There have been a great number of complaints made recently regarding the noise motor-cyclists, make,' especially late at night, remarks, a Wanganui correspondent;. The opinion is expressed that some of them seem to run round the city streets in order to see iiqW jnUch noise they 'can''make; Inspector.; Fear stated that a campaign hndbeeri instituted to put an end to the nuisarice, Afr. J. S', Barton, S.'M., had giveri filial warning and when three offenders crime before him be fihed them each £2 7s 6d. 'Che now sun-station, at Thorndon Quay, Wellington,, is an eUbohate nest of intricate electrical machinery of a character so modern, that the Metropolitan, Vickers Electrical C<i., Ltd., of Trafford Park, Englnrid) hayfe isritited a special pamphlet setting out iii detail many new features -new in. the? Whole of the Empire^-Which are einbodied m it. There are features in- ibe : substation that commend themselves . tb tlifc technical mind, as something right iiti the vanguard of electrica 1 ly^ohtrolled sub stations. •>■*. - ; /L--' " Charged ,svith drunkenness and : with failing to comply with the terms-qf. liis prohibition order, a middle-aged i man; Julius Dunlop Donrier, appeared . before Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., at.the Magistrate’s Court this morning., The accused pleaded guilty tri both charges. SenioriEergeant Fitzpatrick said that a; messafed had been received from itlio . accused’s home complaining that he was intoxicated, and a constable was sent up to arrest 'him. His prohibition order seethed to he honored more in the breach thah iri the observance. A fine of £5 was inflicted. .... > . . ; .• | . k ' •, The Cook Islands Department’s cool stotes nt Rarotonga baye been added to and very greatly improved.. The. rbfrigerating* plant is of greatly increased capacity, and there is enough engine power to prqvide probably a surplus fof: electric lighting in the vicinity. The cool stores are used mostly for food itfl- r > ports, and for supplying .ice to the population. The meat, butter, and cheese of this temperate, climate is purchased by the department, arid is sent to the cool store at Rarotonga, • from which . ihp Rarotongans can secure if “off the ice,’’ to the advantage of their health and comfort. ; ;■/ -,p •/■ : a- aA very old, octagonal’‘.block,, the pride of an old identity of Temuka, lias a history thdt would put: many elaborate timekeepers to shame. It dates back: to the severities, and during the tiirie oL its existence its only nrishap has been <due fpthe wearing out of the balance wheel pin. It is authoritatively stated that the clock would just keep on going uptil the ends of the pin, which are secured byhollowed screws,-wore, clean off arid t)ie balance wheel fell out of place. This-Las happened on> a couple of- occasions, and all that was required to induce the clock to resume operations was to. point the ends of the pin again and take up .the clock with the hollowed screws. As the owner., remarked; : it. spas still, going strong, though! on odd occasions, he had known it to have a fit of the sulks .arid, adopt the go-slow policy. • , In the perfectly-appointed operating theatre ana Under the ail-revealifigv mys of powerful electric lights the.' perforrriauco of an operation for - appendicitis, though marvellous 'to the . laymah. is a comparatively; simple matter .to the surgeon , buL.to n'nd oneself by .a very sick man suffering from appendicitis on board a tossing ship 1000 miles from land and. to bo compelled to operate imipediately, using a hastily improvised -iiistrument, is ri, much more difficult and perturbing problem.. Add to these jinfavorable', circumstances the cqniparaf jvri inexperience of a ship's doctor of 25. summers, and it is not difficult to imagine a situation fraught with difficulties and dangers which the strongest would quickly shrink. It was in just such a predicament, remarks' the Otago Daily J Times, that ,Dr. Walton 11. Bremner, 1 of vJ Dunedin, ship’s surgeon on the Fort ' Bowen, en route to london, found hirhself recently. Undaunted by the odds arrayed against' him, this young doctor operated, on.a member of company f6r appdhdicitis, and canaed out ' tho work with such dexterity arid efficiency, despite crude ihstrum'ents and a . heavy swell, tjiat his patient recovered without any prolonged illness.