THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 15

THIRD EDITION.

The Napier High School cricket, eleven will return south to-morrow.

A London cable message announces the death of Ernest Belfort Box. — A. and N.Z.C.A.

London, November 26. —Departure, from Panama for New Zealand, Trevorian.

Excellent crops of cherries ai'd lie in g harvested in the Havelock district and the fruit is finding ready sale all over New Zealand.

j Mr. D. Munroe, of the Stock Department and Mr. Duwnes of the Wanganui River Trust, have returned from up- ; river, where they conducted e.xperimdfits |in poisoning w ild pigs. | A party of Government- surveyors, at present camped at the Stratford Mountain House, are engaged in making a topographical survey of the park area 1 for the Lands Department.

| Boys studying engineering at the : Wanganui Technical College receive tne 1 benefit- of their secondary school traini ing when- the Marine Department credits ! them with eiglit months’ practical ap- ; prenticeship for each year of study at ; i lie college. | With the advance of 'summer, in [ period, if not in line weather, motor I tourists are beginning to reappear on I the roads, remarks the Wanganui' j Herald. Several well laden cars, ob- | viously engaged on long trips, have ! lately passed through Wanganui.

I Both the Wanganui Harbor and the I City Council have recently published • folders advertising Wanganui, and the 'City Council is distributing its latest issue among city and district hotels. Arrangements will be made to have a copy delivered in an addressed envelope to each guest.

Wanganui, rowing clubs have been hard hit by a fire which occurred at Edwards' boatshed, Melbourne, recently, when two fours on order to the Wanganui Rowing Club, and one on order to the Union Club, were destroyed. Repeat orders have been cabled in both instances.

A permit -has been granted by the New Zealand Athletic aud Cycling Union for the holding of a big axemen’s carnival, including three world’s championships, at Wellington, on March 5 and 8, 1927, during the visit of their Royal Highnesses, the Duke -111111 Duchess of York.

Tho fact that if is still possible for a good shearer to make a. useful amount of money at the game was illustrated at- a shed in the Waipawa district. Dour men shore 915 sheep in one day, while in another shed, six men shore 1530 sheep. This works out at roughly £3 2s 6d per man for the first day and £3 10s per man for the second.

All interesting feature of flic Hawera Show was a motor gymkhana, in which a race for old-time cars was one of Hie principal events. The ancient chariots that turned out for the race were reminiscent of motordom s earliest ora. They rattled, and smoked, aud steamed, and fumed, and one of them finally fell to pieces in a valiant effort to outstrip the field.

The English mail which arrived this week discloses that New Zealand is being given excellent advertisement in the heart of the Empire. The London Times of October 15 devotes a leading article to “New Zealand Sea Fishing’’ and on the same page considerably over a column to a biography of the Dominion’s Prime Minister, who arrived at London that day. A fatal ease of "sleeping sickness ’ ’ —fortunately rarely occurring in New Zealand —is reported from Dannovirke. The deceased was* a young married woman, Mrs. Alfred Unsworth, voungest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I‘. Mcllvride. The sleep, which ended fatally, lasted a fortnight, all the efforts of medical attendants failing to revive her.

“We have now 9000 children attendin'' our Sunday schools,” stated Brigadier Bladin, officer-in-charge of the juvenile corps, when speaking at the Salvation Army Sunday school anniversary in Dannevirke. He added that in addition 800 young people were engaged in preparation work to enable them to carry on the activities of the Army, and from 700 to 800 were in the life-saving brigade.

Shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday officials of the tolls office of the Wellington Harbor Board were advised that a yacht was in distress on Somes Island. The launch Arahine, with Captain J. Spence, deputy-harbormaster, in charge, and several members of the police, immediately put off. Arriving at the island a search was made, hut no sign of a disaster was found'. Leper Island was next visited, and after thoroughly searching the island, the Arahine was brought-"back to town. Both the Harbor Board officials and the police now believe that they were hoaxed, but m the eyes of tlie/police department this kind of hoax is regarded as a somewhat unpalatable joke.

“ The country is now in the midst of a revolution m transportation comparable only to the relegating of the stage coach to a hack seat, which occurred almost exactly KJtf years ago, at the advent of the steam railways,” says tlm llailway Age,” of Chicago, editorially.

“ The railway, backbone ol our transportation system, is now in its turn being being superseded to an important extent, although any assumption that, the steam railway will go the way of the stage coach is hardly to he credited. The motor-bus is the successfully aggressive newcomer in Hie field of passenger service to-day. No matter what the increase m the popularity of motorbus transportation, a .large and important part of the passenger business of the railways, the .longhauT traffic, will hold its own. What is more, it will increase as population increases and 1 business expands; in fact, it is already increasing so fast that the railways losses in revenue from short distance leave) are being more than made up* The bus is not now lilted in any way for tong-lnul work. The hits i.s essentially and in its very nature adapted to the work of a short-haul carrier of persons.”

Manv of the younger New Zealandirained 'ministers’ of the Presbyterian Church tire complaining," said 1 a prominent minister of the Church who has just returned from the Assembly mcetin,rS, “ that they are not- duly considered 0 when any of the important charges become vacant. Recently in A\ idlington two of the leading congregations have given- calls to ministers from out-

side the Dominion without having seen or heard them. These churches pay high stipends, and it- is expected that the new ministers, being outstanding men. will be successful at their work. The tendency to go far afield 1 , however, seems to be spreading, and churches offering much smaller stipends are in some eases seeking information outside their own domain. ' While a change of ministers is a, good thing under certain conditions, the younger men say fliat the harder and 1 more scattered charges, where much spade work is needed, have not the attractions for the outsider that the more compact city charge has. It is the scattered charge which tests a man out at his work, and it- is by that standard that the young New \Zealander thinks very often, and rightly so. that sometimes his claims should not be overlooked.—Auckland 1 Star.