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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17080, 8 July 1926, Page 6

Seven degrees of frost were recorded in Gisborne this morning.

Captain W. F. Norburv, master of the Northern Co.’s wrecked steamer Mantua, has been appointed master of the company’s steamer Ngapuhi. At Hastings yesterday four motor ear drivers and live motor-cyclists were fund sums aggregating £47 at the Magistrate's Court for speeding. The Magistrate issued a warning that ho was determined to put down this dangerous practice.

in the House yesterday, the following Bills were introduced, and read a first time: Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Bill (Mr. H. T. Armstrong), Nurses and Midwives Itegistralion Amendment Bill (Hon. .1. A. Young), ’lie Wellington City Milk Supply Amendment Bill (Mr. P. Fraser).

At the confcreuco of delegates from most of the local bodies in Canterbury it was decided that they were against the handing over of all highways to the Highways Board, and that they were of opinion that- tlie subsidy cm construction should definitely be fixed at £2 for £l. the Main Highways Board to have discretionary power to increase the subsidy when permanent- materials were used.

Mr. Cowie (Woodville) has received advice of his transfer to a school in the Gisborne district, which will take effect, at the. end of the monlh.

An old tuning whistle, used for starting singing in churches a century and a half ago, and brought to New Zealand by Mr. John Bemvick, an Auckland settler, in 1862, has been presented to the Old Colonists’ Museum, Auckland. The Bluff Harbor Board's new loan of £30,000, to be issued at the end of the, present month, is already being sought, with the result that £26,000 has been placed, leaving only £4OOO to' be allocated to complete the loan. .'-o far as buyings and sellings are concerned (states the Dunedin Star), the New Zealand Hardware Go. last week went out of business. The .stock hae been sold by tender. The liquidators have yet to dispose of the buildings at Dunedin and Timaru. Profits amounting to £4OOO, which will be devoted to the relief of rates, have been made during the year by the trading departments of the Hamilton Borough Council. In addition the electricity department is able to recommend a reduction in the price of current. Arrangements are being made for a conference of South African veterans to be held in Wellington about the end ot August. Owing to the big increase in membership throughout the Dominion, it is anticipated that the gathering will exceed in point of numbers any previously held by this organisation. Alfred Harry Jones. 25, of Ormond, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr. J. Jackson, J.P., with the abduction of a girl of 13 years of age on July 1. On the application of Senior-Sergeant Fitzpatrick the accused was remanded until Saturday next. Accused had arrived iri Gisborne late last evening, and there had been insufficient time to prepare the case.

“.Midland Lake" is the color which all the railway carriages will be painted in the near future. This color is used on the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway, and has the reputation of not allowing wear. An additional recommendation is that red is a basic color, and the department will he able to maintain a standard color. At present the carriages are painted in various .shades of green, as it has been difficult to maintain a tixed standard.

“One finds many amusing mistakes made on the annual income tax form,” said Mr. P. Cutforth, when addressing a southern accountants’ society recently. Une which caused no little amusement was made on the entry “Capacity in which I make this statement.” Home unintentional humorist had written for this: “In good health.”

trow that a settlement has been reached with the coal-miners in the Auckland district, there only remains the negotiations with the Southland miners to .complete an agreement, with the whole of the coal-miners of the Dominion for two years. The Auckland agreement is exactly on, the same lines as that arrived at- on the West Coast of the South Island. TTie conference between the Southland mineowners and the representatives of the miners will take place, next week.

At the Gisborne Savage Club’s korero last evening it was announced that a visit to the Club is to be paid next month by tho Napier Orphans, the korero for August being set down for August 7 to .meet the visitors’ convenience. It was intended later in the same month that the Gisborne Savages should return the compliment by a visit to the Orphans at Napier, calling on tlieir way at Wairoa to participate in ladies’ night of the Wairoa Savage Club.

Tho practice of price-cutting, which prevailed in Hamilton, was the subject of criticism by Air. J. Baillie, president of the Waikato division of tho New Zealand Pharmacy Board, at tho chemists’ annual dinner at Hamilton. Afr. Baillie said he maintained that it was unfair for any firm to cut into the lines of another business or order to increase trade. Price-cutting had caused many good and well-establish-ed businesses to fail. All that retailers asked for was a fair and reasonable margin on their turnover.

A rumor has boon circulated in various quarters of tho town during tho past few days to the effect that the harbor diversion wall near Waiknnae beach was in danger of collapsing on account of the piles not being- driven to a sufficient depth. The facts arc that when the piles were being driven one sank to a certain depth and then refused to go further. This was taken io mean that the pile had reached the papa rock, whereas it had boon driven into a tree stump. This log was of considerable thickness and about 30 feet in length, and as the dredger approached it was torn out of, its bed. The pile was then robbed of its foundation, and the wash of the water undermined it, leaving the point clear of the mud. it will be a matter of small consequence to replace the pile with another driven to the required depth.

The “To Let’’ sign, long a stranger in Auckland, lias made its appearance again, and may be seen here and there in the city and suburbs. The boards do not long remain in one place, however. Kents are easier, arid there is a good demand for residences. Generally speaking, it may be said that- house rent is double what it was in 1914. "There is no shortage in Auckland, or, at least, very little,” declared one agent to a Star representative. “And there would be none, but for the restrictions passed by the. Government, which interfered with the natural law of supply and demand and prevented normal building progress. Anyone occupying a house in 1914, when the war broke out, was required only to pay a rental equalling 7 per cent, on the value of the house in 1914. The point is that a tenant- who was in the house at that time can stay there for the rest of his lq'e and pay only that 7 per cent., while others are paving current rents.”

Energy is not one of the qualities in which the pakeha has had cause to admit the superiority of the Maori, -at the Director of Forestry, Mr. 1,. Macintosh Ell is, affirms that he has discovered one channel where the native can show his white neighbor some points ri haul toil. “The Maori is infinitely Liter than the European at fores.yv -ink ” said Mr. Ellis, in a lecture; “and lie does twice as much work. I think that it is because the Maori lias an in.tinetive love of forestry work. It las been bred in him for generations. A'by, o’in the women enter into the work v in a will.” Mr. Ellis also had a goo 1 card for the Maori’s love of bird and a mal life, which w« so riecosvirv f. r the conservation of forests. “'’oil have unique bird life in this country,” said Mr. Ellis, “and it is a shame to see the way it is treated; but it is not Hie Maori who is destroying the pigeons and tuis.' 1 The representative of Messrs. Parker ,vd Gray, tailors, Napier, will be at the Masonic Hotel from Wednesday, the 7th inst.. till Saturday, the 10th, and will be pleased to see old and new customers.*