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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17133, 8 September 1926, Page 6

The Waikohu-Motu road, via Poatutu, was found by motorists to-day to be dry. except for a few stretches "near the Motu end. Due deep ford and a bad idip near Poutut'tt handicap motor traffic.

At a recent meeting- one of the councillors suggested that it. was not fair to place too big burdens on posterity in connection with the borough trams. A reply to this was given last evening by Mr. W. l>. Lysnar, M.P.. at his meeting at the City hall. "Never mind about posterity," lie said, "let posterity look after itself. I'ou are doing enough by looking after the tram service." (Laughter). A graphic description of his ride in two different buses in Auckland was given by Mr. W. D.«Lysnar, M.P., at his meeting hist evening. "Tf you want ;t good shaking up at any time, my advice is to get on a motor bus,*' said Mr. Lysnar. "On the other hand, if you want a good easy ride for yourself and your wife, get on the tram. Why," he added, "there isn't room I'm a pram on the buses, hut you can put l here on the trams." (Applause.! The present spell of line weather has been hailed with delight by orchardists throughout the district, and in all the commercial orchards growers are busy with their spraying. A litrle priming still remains to be completed, but generally speaking spraying is now well under way. Present indications point to good crops of stone fruits, but :i- these have not yet set it is too carl}- to say whether the crop will be a biimper one. Orchardists also expect that thete will be a good harvest of pears and they anticipate exporting some to England for the first time.

With the advent of the warmer weather the epidemic of mild influenza in eiisborno has practically passed away. There are si ill isolated cases of influenza but all these are of a mild nature, and the town evidently escaped more lightly than most places in the Dominion. "Throughout the whole epidemic only two eases-of pneumonic in-fluotu-.a were reported, the reason doubtless lying in the fact that as soon as people found they were suffering from influenza, they took all the necessary precautions to prevent complications. «