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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17079, 7 July 1926, Page 6

Eight degrees of frost were registered in C’isborffe this morning. Frost fish have been -picked up on the Opoutarna beach every night, now for the past week, as many as eight being found in a night. An elaborate scheme, for a civic centre for Wanganui, prepared by Air. S. Hurst Reager, of Christchurch, is under consideration by the Wanganui City Council.

A striking form of war memorial is proposed by the To Kuiti branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association in the form of an avenue of trees. 11 is proposed to place, a stone bearing the names of fallen soldiers from the district under each tree. The Borough Council is warmly supporting the scheme. The Agricultural Department, working in conjunction with tho Education Department, have formed a Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Club. The Agricultural Department, supply the seeds and fertiliser with full instructions for planting to the pupil, The crops are visited twice within the year and judged.

'The St. John Ambulance Association will commence the men’s first aid classes on Friday, July 9, at 7.30 p.m., when I)r. 11. M. Gunn will deliver the first lecture at the Gisborne .School, Derby street. All students who are successful in qualifying for the first aid certificate will have the opportunity of becoming a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Referring to the establishment of an agricultural college, which he stated definitely would be located in the North Island, the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. O. J. Hawken, said that probably £SO,CCO would be required to buy the farm, and probably £IOO,OOO for buildings. while the staff would cost from £iS,OCO to £20,000 annually, though he did not lay that down definitely.

At the weekly meeting of members of the Gisborne Chess Club, on the motion of the president-, Mr. C. Blackburn, seconded by Air. J. H. Bull, it was unanimously resolved to subscribe one guinea o'ut of the club funds towards tho public memorial to be erected at the Te Hapara school in memory of the late schoolmaster, Air. F. C. Faram, who was also president- of the Chess Club. The work on the breakwater approach is going ahead steadily, and good foundations have been made, says the Opoutama correspondent of the Wairoa Star. In another month or so the work should be well advanced and the gap filled. The old Talune seems now to be quite settled down in her bed, and is serving the purpose for which she was put there very well indeed.

The work on tho cable station at Seddon, Marlborough, where the new telephonic cable across the Straits terminates. will be completed about the end of next- month. The machinery to be installed should arrive from England aboutthat date. Some little time must elapse before the station is in complete working order, but when it is, telephonic communication between the two islands will be easy.

The ecccursion train for the purpose of conveying Waikato farmers to the llawera Show was evidently not such a huge success as the Railway Department anticipated, as it was patronised by less than 150 excursionists, says the Wanganui Herald. Great prepartions had been made at the Aramono station by cheerful young ladies to feed the hungry travellers, and it is stated thp.t all the farmers required was about four ham sandwiches.

The proposal to establish an additional training college in some centre of the North Island, other than a present university centre, and that it should specialise in some important feature of tha work of women teachers, was strongly supported at a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay branch of tho Now Zealand Educational Institute in Hastings. The meeting was also of the. opinion that arrangements should! be made for the extension of university work to such Training College students.

With a view to getting a fair portion of the current year’s rate collected immediately, the -Gisborne Borough Council has allowed a 2.1 per cent, rebate on all rates paid by July 30. The rate demands were poster! on July 1, and already the sum of £I2OO has been paid at the Council office. It is anticipated that between £IO,OOO and £15,000 will b t j collected during the month, and if such proves to be tho case, the Coivticil will ho in funds all through the year, instead of having to work on the usual overdraft..

"Farmers must get away from tho habit of purchasing seed from samples,” said Professor Stapledon, in answering a question after a lecture at Canterbury College. “This has been the curse of things in the past. Strain and variety should be put. before quality of seed. Neither the farmer, the "scientist nor the seedsman can tell by samples, no matter how attractive they look. They all have to begin together and back one another up. New Zealand can compete quite well with Denmark in the matter of butter, so why not in seeds?”

Pastures on the flats have received a set-back as the result of the many frosts that have been experienced during the past few weeks, and dairymen are supplying very little cream to the factories. It,tli the. "local dairy factories are still making butter regularly, but only a very .small quantity is being made each time, and the butter from the cool store is being utilised to sustain the town supply. Farmers who are supplying cream during the present month receive a slightly higher rate of payment than those who send in cream during the season.

The Wellington Winter Show, which will be opened* on Saturday, July 10, piomises to eclipse all previous records. The show will be open for .a fortnight, until July 24, inclusive. Nagging as a ground for divorce was upheld in the Court at San Fancisco, when Claude Hannan was granted a decree against his wife. He stated that she was in the habit of sitting in the back of his motor car, nagging him and telling him how to drive. At- the Alangapapa school committee meeting on • Monday night, _ on the motion of the chairman a vote of condolence was passed with Air Cuff, a member of the committee, who had recently suffered a) j family bereavement, members present-standing-in silence as a mark of respect. In his annual report on forestry Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Government Statistician, states that the following were the numbers of trees planted during the period:—Linus radiata (insignis) 970,000, Eucalyptus eugenoides '7700. Eucalyptus saligna 700. Eacalvptns pilularis 700; total 979,100. “L have learned recently that the legation and introduction into New Zealand of the natural enemy of the woolly aphis has saved the Nelson district- alone £IO,OOO for the year. Other parts of the Dominion where fruit- is grown extensively will benefit accordingly.” This statement was made in the House by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. O. .T. Hawken), while stressing the value to New Zealand of agricultural research.' The observation of meteorological conditions is a special study at- the Mount Somers School (says the Ashburton Guardian), for which purpose the department has granted a number of instruments, including maximum and minimum thermometers, wet and dry bulbs, and a hydrograph sheet patented by the headmaster, Air. P. 11. Jones, who is a keen student of meteorological matters. Storms are frequently forecasted by those budding “weather prophets,’’ and the time may not- ho far distant when the school’s forecasts will gain a higher degree of reliability as further knowledge and observations are gained. There is a prospect of a modern electric rail car being used on the ThamesFrankton line twice daily (says the New Zealand Herald’s correspondent). This would permit passengers from Thames to Auckland to cover the journey in four hours or less. Such a service on thafline has been rumoured for some time, and it- is now semi officially confirmed bv Mr. O. M. Samuel, ALP. for Obinemuri, in a telegram to the effect that he thought iic couid safely say the department. had decided to run a rail car nightly from Thames. It is understood that the new electrie ear will be of the storage-battery type, capable of a high rate of speed, and with chair seating accommodation for 60 passengers. “We have gone from no autumn at all into a very hard winter,” remarked a well-known Hawke’s Bay farmer to a Daily Telegraph reporter, “and as things are at present the stock which fanners sent away during the dry weather to more favored feeding grounds can only come back 1n October or November, at the earliest, and then only if tne spring is good.” He went on to say that at the present time there was still a decided shortage of rough feed in tho district. The color was there all right, due to the reeent rain, but there was no depth in it, so that even when the new feed did come, tho stock, so long deprived, would eat so quickly that there would be no chance for the growth to come awav.

For sorno ten days past there has been in Palmerston North a greater number of lions than is to be found anywhere in New Zealand, except in the Auckland Zoo says the Manawatu Standard. The lions are stated to be the property of Airs. Baker, the surviving principle of a former well-known circus. Mrs. Baker joined with another combination for the Palmerston Winter Show season, nnd upon finding that the animals "had not been unloaded from the railway trucks, immediately paid tho necessary charges, and attended to the transport of the lions to the grounds. There was a severance of partnership between Airs. Baker, and the proprietors of the other circus and vaudeville at the Winter Show, and it is understood that the former is now endeavoring to sell the lions, and have them temporarily accommodated in the Wellington Zoo. She went to the Empire City with a view to effecting the necesssarv arrangements. Some interesting details about- the new Australian city, Canberra, come from a Melbourne source, and it is stated that 3COO people are engaged in fashioning this great city, and three million pounds have already been spent on the works there. It is said that the city itself occupies a vast amphitheatre, with beautiful vistas. It is favored with an equable climate, and its wide spaces reflect- Australian vastness. Its citizens of the future will have every opportunity of the wide outlook. The people who are working there have a whole-hearted faith in its future, and predict a great destiny for the city begun in 1901, and to he finished in 1927. The new whitefaced Parliament House is a most prominent object, a fine structure which will cost about £230,000- There is a great public hall, in which will be a statue of the King, and around the walls of which will l>e portraits of the bestknown men of the Commonwealth and time. A resident- of .Timaru, who, in his youth was an enthusiastic boxer, remarked the other day that all his enthusiasm for personally engaging in boxing had met a udden death when he visited Boston. At a boxing school there he had met a Swedish girl, 23 years of age, and she had asked him to have a round with her. With a gallantry befitting his years and his race, he had “scorned to iiit a woman,” but after much persuasion he was induced to change his mind, in order to oblige the girl, who complained that her muscles were stiff and she wanted to, “loosen them up.” Under these circumstances ho had entered the hempen enclosure determined to deal gently with his opponent; but he had not been in the ring five minutes when he was hard up against- the ropes “seeing all the stars in the heavens.” He promptly threw in the towel, and with the loss of his pride he had also lost any desire to again put on the gloves. He. still liked to watch a good, fight, hut participation in one had no appeal for him now. “Authorities on traffic transport agree that- 'buses cannot hope to cope with congestion successfully on their own. Trains are the better lor this. While 1 would not say that the future is bound up in either ’bases or trams, I believe there is room for both.” said the general manager of the Christchurch tramways (Mr. Frank Thompson) in an interview. Tho Transport Board in London, continued Air. Thompson, reported recently that there was no other way of handling transport in the busy streets than by trains. This decision was come to in' order to minimise the congestion, and the British Government transport authorities had "ut out from 700 to BCO ’bases in the last year or two. In other words, they found' that the amount of street occupied by passenger 'buses was greater than that, taken by trams. Another interesting view of the situation, continued Mr. Thompson, was that- shares in tramway companies in America —mast of the tramways there were privately controlled—«uffe'red a decline with the invasion of ’buses some years ago; but it was significant that these shares were now on the upgrade, which would scarcely have been the case had trams been regarded as obsolete.