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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17078, 6 July 1926, Page 6

A Press Assn, message from Wellington states that- influenza, which is still very prevalent in Wellington, is said to be improving and there will be no need to close the schools.

A Press Association message from Blenheim this morning states that a succession of earth shocks were felt here 1 art ween ton and eleven last night. Two severe ones, followed by mild tremors, and then another severe jolt. Two others were felt between three o’clock and five o’clock* this morning.

It is a very common occurrence for a bankruptcy meeting to lapse for lack of creditors, but it seldom happens that the Official Assignee is missing at the required time. Such, however, was the case this morning when the Official Assignee from Auckland, who was scheduled lo take a meeting at Gisborne, failed to put in an appearance. The three creditors and the bankrupt waited patiently until it was clear that there was going to bo “no appearance” and the meeting then lapsed.

An inquest info the circumstances surrounding the death of Phyllis .Lillian Xgamoki,, the t.wo-vear-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Xgamoki, was opened before the Coroner, .Mr. E. C. Eevvov, S.M., at Gisborne this morning. Medical evidence was taken, and the inquest was then adjourned. Dr. R. M. Gunn stated that in his opinion death was due to gastro-cntcr-itis, evidently of an acute nature, deajh being hastened by convulsions.

In connection with Thursday’s Barry Cup match, the Poverty Bay senior selector, Mr. J. Hall, is credited with the intention of making abrupt departures from the lines adopted in the selection of teams in the past, and interest will centre upon the announcement which he will make after the assembly which takes place to-night at Common Shelton’s corner at 7.30. The third grade reps, will also assemble for Gaining to-night, in order that the selector may decide on Thursday’s ;m to nv it the High School hirst, fifteen, Jo the curtain-raiser to the Wairoa-i ovi rty Bay match.

A trip around some of the Borough roads on which it is proposed that money .should be spent during the next few months was made by members of the Borough Council yesterday afternoon. There were present: The Mayor, Mr. G. Wildish, and Crs. T. Todd, T. K. Toneycliffe, H. IT. DeCosta, C. E. Bickford, H. E. Maude, and D. W. Coleman. A visit was paid to Salisbury road. Crawford road, and Maki street, all of which are in need of attention, and also to some of the other main roads, on which eventually portions of the loan money for permanent roads will be spent. The members of the Council who made the trip were the guests of Mr. T. E. Toneycliffe at afternoon tea, and in a. few well-chosen words the Mayor returned, thanks for the hospitality which hacl been shown.

A request from the Wairoa sub-Union, in connection with, the Barry Cup match on Thursday, found the Poverty BayUnion committee in a generous mood last evening. The sub-Union asked that a player named Lawton, who represented Wairoa last year, hut who has recently been on the East- Coast, be allowed to turn out. for his old district, it was explained that just over a week ago he had returned to Wairoa to live, but his official clearance from the East Coast Union’s jurisdiction would not he available until Saturday next, at the earliest, whereas the Wairoa challenge for the Barry- Cup will be out on Thursday. The Poverty Bay Union decided to place no obstacles in the way of Lawton playing, on the condition that his removal from the Coast to Wairoa was permanent.

There was a fair attendance at the meeting of the Manchester Unity Oddfellows last evening, Bro. H. Sinden, N. presiding. Visitors were present from Manurewa, Otahnhu, and Rangiorn lodges, and wore accorded a very- warm welcome. Reference was made to the death of the late Bro. O. V. RusSbl!, a member of Tasmania’s Hope Lodge, and also the wife) of Bro. A. D. Young, P. 0., O. Pukekohe, resolutions of sympathy being passed, A committee consisting of ait officers was appointed to interviewall non-complying members with a view to preventing their being lost to the order. Tho sick visitors presented n lengthy report, showing an exceptionally heavy run of sickness, twenty members being laid up. A report from tho social committee was brought forward by Bro. R. W. Cook, P.G.. and it was decided to consider it at next meeting.

Mr J. Drummond. F.L.S., F.Z.S., in some recent Nature Notes, discussing perfumes in flowers and 1 plants, remarks that Maeterlinck confessed that ho, could not understand in w-hat way perfumes are useful to flowers, any more/ than he could explain why human beings perceive perfumes. Tho sense of smell, he admits, exercises several important functions. It is the keeper of the air people breathe, the hygienist or chemist that watches carefully over the quality of food offered for human consumption. It detects enemies and reveals the presence of suspicious or dangerous germs; hut, in addition to this practical mission, it has another one, which corresponds to nothing at all. He believes that the sense of smell is lilt- last-born of the human senses, and that perfumes are utterly useless to the needs of people’s physical lives. As to flower, their perfumes, he states, are their souls.

The following officers for the ensuing vonr woi'e elected at the adjourned annual meeting of the Poverty liny Horticultural Society last- evening, at which Mr. .1. Harvey presided: Patrons, Mesdamos F. Barker, J. I!. Murphy, V\. G. Sherratt ; president. Mr. F. J. Rowley: vice-presidents, Mesdames E. H Mann. J. W. Nolan, 1). G. Robertson, T. It. Spence, .T. Barns-Graham, H. Ken way ; Miss E. Nr. Williams; Messrs. A. Thomson (life), I). G. Robertson, It. 0. Crawford, G. T. Bull, F. C. Bull: hcrt. treasurer, Mr. R. G. Crawford; hen. auditor, Mr. M. J. White; lion, solicitor, Mr. F. W'rey Nolan: executive committee, Mrs. D. Cl. Ronemou, Messrs. W. R. L. Williams. G. 11. Molndoe, 11. Johnston, J. G. Graham. H. S. Thompson, T. G. Johns, W. McKinnon; hon. secretary, Mr. M. R. Fry; hon. assistant-secretary, Mr. A. W. Gough,

Considerable damage &vas done by floods in the Thames County last month, die bridge was partly washed away, and will cost £4OOO to replace. The Christchurch City Council last night decided that the general rate should be 3jjd on the unimproved value, the same as last year. The Taranaki Power Board’s loan of £75,000 to complete 'its hydro-electric scheme was carried by a poll of ratepayers by 392 votes to 61. Full power is expected by Christmas. A firm of financial brokers advised the Thames Valley Electric Power Board that they have received a cablegram from London stating that money to any extent was available for Xew Zealand ’local body loans. “I must express admiration for the sportsmanship of the crowds in Xew Zealand.” states Captain Cowan, of the Indian Army Hockey team. “In New Zealand the* crowd seems more pleased when the Army team scores a goal than when their own team does.” At the inquest at Opunake eon- * ccrning the death of Henry Coombe, 19 years of age. resident of Oaonui, who was killed through his motor-cycle crashing into a bridge near Opunake on Sunday Mr. Tate, coroner, returned a verdict of accidental death. The “offside rale” for motor traffic is included in a new set of by-laws now being drafted by the Christchurch city solicitor. Many Christchurch .streets are notorious for abrupt crossings, and) drivers of all vehicles will welcome » definite rule enabling them to pass intersections with less danger. The workers of the Waerenga-a-hika stall at the Winter- Show are feeling very gratified with the results of their labors, the takings amounting to £llO. In the cake-estimating it was found that- three people correctly estimated the Weight, 7lh. 50z., Mesdames Barrow, It. Wilkinson. and A. M. Shanks." Owners may have the rake by railing at Messrs. Common, Shelton and Co.’s. Tho Government of Quebec has invented a new way of helping the hospitals. Everyone who eats a meal at a restaurant costing more than four shilling.s is to be taxed, if the Government Bill passes. The tax will be five per cent of thrr cost of the meal, and the money is to go to hospital funds. Thus people who have too much to eat will help to pay for the cure of people who may become ill through having too little to oat!

While motoring last evening through Woolston, Pavlova, the famous dancer, en route to Lyttelton, found a man .lying on the road beside a motor-cycle. She stopped her car, and members of the party picked the man up. He could not stand, and it was feared his legs were broken. Pavlova offered to vacate her car, and send the man to hospital, but he regained consciousness and was able to walk. The famous dancer then continued her journey over the hills to connect with the ferry steamer.

Decently the safety devices on the high tension wire at To Rehunga were put to a practical test, and responded splendidly, states a Danncvirke message to the HAL Herald. A goose came into contact with two high tension wires while flying in the dark at 5.15 p.m., and plunged the district into darkness Jor a period of 18 minutes, the automatic devices ciftting off the power. -The goose was electrocuted and the consumers in the darkened area probably blamed the Government!

A novel suggestion which has. been made by a local resident regarding one of the worst streets so far as road-surface is concerned was told yesterday afternoon during Borough Council trip round some of the roads. It was suggested that the pot-holes in Grey street should be left as they are, so that the ground' could always be used as a testing ground for the’springs of new- motor cars. It is doubtful, however, whether the Council will be willing to agree to the idea, which is possibly even too original for adoption. __ A Sunshine League, similar to the* Waikato Hospital Patients’ Sunshine League, has been formed in Auckland during the past month, this being the outcome of a deputation which Waited on the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergnsson, and Lady Fergusson when in Hamilton, which asked! their assistance in forming leagues in the torn- centres. His Excellency graciously promised to do so, and the result was that last Friday Auckland had a Sunshine League, which was to make its first efforts felt at the Auckland Mental Hospital. Nearly- SCOO people attended the various sessions of the Winter Show-, which was held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. The door takings totalled £192 3s 6d, being £9O in excess of last year's figures. It is apparent that the show is gaining rapidly in popularity, and already a number of people intimated that they will be making extensive displays at the next show. Of those who paid for admission at the door, 1320 were childreft and 3179 adults. The remainder of the entrances were made up of members’ tickets.

Having run its opposition ’buses, the “vellow peril,” off the road, the Wanganui City Council is proud of its achievement (says the Chronicle). At a meeting of the Council, Cr. W* M. Falconer moved that the Tramways Department and staff be congratulated on the efficiency with which they have dealt with the opposition. lie pointed out that Wanganui was the first and onlycentre in -which opposition -’buses had been beaten in fair and square competition. The motion was carried. The yellow “opposition” ’buses, it may . be remarked, have given up the ghost. Activity is being shown by farmers in tho Wanganui district in applying electrical appliances to their holdings in preparation for the time when cows will come into full profit again in the early spring. Farmers in the Turakina district and the Wangaehu Valley in particular, the Chronicle states, have realised the advantages of installing dairying motors and hot water services in their cowsheds. The nominal charge of 3d per unit for current, without the flat rate usually incurred in other districts, is obviously appealing to the farming community.

The committee of the Turanganui l’ublie Library acknowledges ■ witiU thanks ihe gift of three books presented by Mr. E. Innes. of Patutahi, the titles being “The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday,” “The Days Before Yesterday,” and “Here, There and. Everywhere,” all by Lord Frederic Hamilton. It is gratifying to find public-spirited people willing iri this way to help such an institution as the Public Library, which exists for the use of the reading public. Books for the juvenile library are always most acceptable, as the children are eager readers, and soon exhaust the available stock of hooks.

Advice that the Government is alreadytaking steps towards conserving all remaining native bush situated adjacentto main highways and tourist resorts, by creating special reserves, has been received by the Napier Thirty- Thousand Club front tho Minister of Native Affairs, the Hon. J. G. Coates, in reference to the Club’.s pleadings that tho destruction of New Zealand native floha should be avoided if possible. The Prime Minister statrs that the Tntira. Lake is within the Tutira block, which is being acquired by the Crown, and it is hoped that on the partition shortly to take place, that the lake will be included within the Crown interests. Tho question of the extension‘of the scenic reserve at- Tangoio is to he placed before the Minister of Lands.

■' i/tring to the accident to Mis* Alavlo • Darke (leading lady), Mr Warde Mor gan (leading man), and other members of the Company, in the recent train smash in Australia, the Williamson Comic Opera Company playing “Katja” has been disbanded for a time. The thirty dwellings being erected by the Railway Department on Somme Parade, Wellington, to the value of £21,0C0, are nearing completion. It is understood that a further twenty dwellings of a similar type are to be erected on the Paul Estate site in the near future. In Australia a passenger can travel 5500 miles on one continuous line of railway, from Dajarra in Queensland to Meekatharra in West Australia. Again, one day last week -Mr. Brown, the Director of Postal Services, conducted a telephone test between Townsville and Wyndham, W.A., a distance of 67C0 miles, with good results. The time-honored cap worn by the boys of the. Wanganui Collegiate, School will undergo a change next year. Hitherto the cap has been of the type commonly worn by New Zealand schoolboys, with narrow blue braid running up the crown. The new cap trill carry a pronounced English flavor. It will be shaped rather like the present- school cricketcap, and will be distinguished by blue rings round the crown. “The greatest laborer of all is Uic farmer, ’* declared the Hon. G. .T. Anderson at the Hawera Show. “He has to work hard for long hours; he has to fight in the markets of the world, and must live largely on hope.” Some years, the honorable gentleman con- /^ r ?inued, the farmer had good times. The speaker had seen the industry' grow in New Zealand, and would say that the man who farmed his farm and did not speculate was the man who to-day was free of creditors and doing well. “Where did you get that crutch? I haven’t seen you using one before,.” asked counsel at. the Magistrate’s Court this morning, of a Maori judgment debtor who said that he was suffering from gout. “It belongs to niv father,” was the reply’. “How long havio you been using it?” enquired counsel sharply’. “This morning’s the first mmc,” answered the Maori, with a knowing look. “See that you eome back without that crutch,” remarked the Magistrate, in adjourning the ease for four months. A tribute to the Press of New Zealand was paid by Mr. John Alexander, who had- the presidency of the Auck land branch of the Navy League conferred upon him. “ When one goes from New Zealand and reads newspapers,” he said, “ one is struck not only by the different types of news treated, but also by the different methods used. The New Zealand Press produces informative literature, and rarely., if ever, descends to journalese. New Zealand is a country of about one million inhabi tants. but it has many things to bo proud of. The Press and the Press Association of this country are some of them.” A correspondent signing himself Passchcndaclc ’l7 writes to one of the Wellington papers making an appeal to the Prime Minister to introduce a Military Titles Extinction Act, making it an offence- for non-combatants to use their military rank for advertising purposes. He states that many citizens in their civil occupations are using their titles of military’ rank which they held in tho war. This is not so objectionable when the officers were in the fighting line but it is obA jectionable to the “Diggers” when the holders served only on the nonfighting “fronts.” \

How manv rooms must there he in a hotel? At the last meeting of ihe Duller Licensing Committee tlie question arose as to whether in the six rooms that must be provided in hotel premises for use bv the general public, to comply with the Act, the bar-room should count. Mr. J. -T. Moloney submitted that it did. and quoting from the Act the phrase “ exclusive of the billiard room ” stated that this indicated the intention of the Legislature. The police held that as the bar was closed from 6 p.m. until. 9 a.m. tlie bar could not be counted. Tlie chairman remarked that this room was not closed to boarders, hut cited a Suureme Court judgment, in which -it had been find that the drinking room was not included in the six rooms.

Seeing that- the farmer of the present day has so many difficulties to contend with, how is it that to live cn tile land appeals to so many? An explanation is somewhat difficult, but judging from personal experience (writes Primrose McConnell in the July issue of The New Zealand Farmer) a .life on the land is. attractive to the real farmer because mucli of the richness of his life is the product of circumstances that no amount of' money can buy. The genuine fanner takes a pride in his work. lie musthave straight furrows, clean, well-culti-vated crops, good live stock, well kept and fed: in fact, everything on his farm speaks loudly of the love that he has for his calling. And it cannot be too strongly emphasised that such a line of action on the part of the farmer not only yields an immense personal satisfaction, but results in increasing agricultural production, which must further result in increasing the farmers’ income. Among many of primitive living conditions of the Central African natives, the most, vivid example quoted at a League of Nations Union luncheon at Auckland! was descrilred by Mr 1). N. McDiarmid, of the Sudan Unites.! Mission. He said that the mother in the Lower Sudan performed daily ablutions upon her child by a very rudimentary method associated with the lower animals. Tha native mother does not wash her baby’s face with soap and • water, he said; she follows the example of the domestic cat, and licks it. clean. People, he said, were so primitive that they went about unclothed, and in their agricultural pursuits followed the customs of tho Stone Age. A party of native boys with whom he was once travelling were never so awestruck as when they beheld a bullock waggon for the first time, and had their progress barred by a wire fence. The fence particularly puzzled them; they could rmt > understand how white people could waste so much good- wire, which would have provided the whole of their tribe with “clothing.”