THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 11

THIRD EDITION.

Mr. A. E. Davy, organiser of the Deform Party, has resigned. Two hundred master bakers from Australia are expected to visit Rotorua shortly. There will be. six district courts at the Auckland Winter Show, entries having been received from Onelnmga, Franklin, Thames, Gisborne, Te Knit i, and Taumnrunni.

A lengthy meeting of Cabinet was held in Wellington on Friday. Tt is understood that the principal business bad reference to the Govermfieiit’s programme for the coming session of Parliament. Various types' of sickness are still prevalent amongst school children in Hawke’s Ray. Mumps and whooping cough are very common, whilst the Ta-ka-pau school lias been closed on account of an outbreak of measles.

At a land sale held at Waitotara last week bidding was very brisk, the property belonging to Mr. Newman ( hanging hands at the very satisfactory figure of £BO per aero for 82 acres. Another section of bush country was also sold at £2O per acre.

“It, is understood that Sir Frederick Chapman will dhbrtlv resign his position as chainnail of the War Pensions Board, and that- Mr. Justice Stringei will occupy the chairmanship, says urn annual report of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association.

A decision of interest to motorists was made by the. Rangilikei Count J Council last week when it resolved 1.0 cancel permission already granted lor petrol pumps t-o be erected on the roadside. Pumps ii nW operating on county property have to bo removed within I** months.

The commission set up to inquire into the Auckland water supply has repbrted to the Governor-General and its report litis been released by the Minister ol Health. The cost of the commission was over £ISOO. The commission opposed the Taupo Scheme, and favored development at Hunua. That there is moiiey available for investment in Auckland is shown by the fact that the £75,000 worth of debentures issited by the Glen Afton i Collieries have all been taken up m a, few days. There were two lots of debentures, the interest on those free of income tax being at the rate of 6* per cent-., and those not- free at 71,- per cent-. < A debating team of three members from the United States plans to tour the British Empire for nine months, and to take part in debates against teams from universities and other institutions. It is proposed the team should set out about- October 1, and visit New Zealand, Australia, India, Egypt, England, Scotkind and Ireland.

Just prior to the big football match between Hawke’s Bay and Wairaiapa, it is alleged, flowering gum trees at the south end of McLean Park, Napier, ’wet 1 © topped for a leiigth of four or five chains level with the iron boundary fence. The matter has been investigated in responsible quarters, and will, it 18 understood, be followed by sonic action against the alleged offenders. A remit from the, Tutira branch of the Dominion executive of the New, Zealand Farmers’ Union points out to the Government that lands taken lor the Frist Coast railway, and fenced, are now idle, and that the settlers are paying rent rates, interest, etc., on these lands, but ’are not- getting tiny returns therefrom, nor have they as yet received any compensation for these lands. “We want- to do business with those who do business with us,’’ said the Prime Minister, Hon. J. O. Coates, •at the motor trade delegation dinner in Wellington, “and thus wc can keep our trade balance right. If our money goes to Great- Britain, then the people there will have that much more, money to spend in the purchase of our primary ,products.” (Applause.) The growth in the volurnne of mail matter Both' inland correspondence and from overseas, delivered m the Dominion is shown in the following figures • In 1874 the number ol letteis was just, over 4 000,000. In 1884 the number increased to neailv 20 000,000. In 1894 it increased to uearlv 29.000,000, in 1904 to more than 66.000,000, in .1914 it .exceeded 124, 000, and in 1926 147,000,000. “It- would be a sorry state of affairs if a person could not#leave ..i cycle outslide a hall or any- place of amusement without the risk ed it being taken said Mr. A. M. Mowlem- -fcj.M., at the Napier Magistrate’s Court, when sentencing a young Maori, Frederick Edward Chase, to B seven day s imprisonjxient, to be followed by six month s probation, on a, charge of converting a bicycle to his own use at Puketapu on May 26.

Mr F' B. Logan suggested at tho last meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board that clinics for health sun e>s should be established nL hew Zealand. They could be attached to hospitals, he saidf and would enable disease, hi many oases to bo discovered in tlie stages. Mr. H. Hill said a hospital board was set. up for the purpose of tiy in, r to prevent the growth of disease, and he saw no reason why the board should not start such clinics themselves The Board decided, however, to refer the matter to the Health Department.

The new sinking pump tor unwatenng Muir’s mines at Te Puke has been instal.■j Tlie pump lids a capacity to del ivei 1 POO callons of water per niiriute, and tlie Jhs 2 proved eminently satisfactory S ™° ‘JUm ® frs s. 1 isss that period the pump lifted water from a. depth of J/btt im tola] lieiul to wMi* e£t"i: SSASWTw toe “""“H™’s •3 5» «|» i» c-Wfj! "SaTW developing the lodes at the 500 ft. lex el will he vigorously pushed on.

A delightful address, sparkling with humor was delivered at the Rota y be'ing one of the weakest, was one ot the mo’st loveable ol mankind. he declared, had all those graces SfcW «t ttabody, .*» , ~4 nd need no introduction, but logic and and become somehow win men w ,v , . never out bf season, never out of place> always welcome and never distaste ul. The early life of Hold smith was a stnißule against, poverty; his sympathy and foveable nature were briefly sketched by the speaker, with frequent references to ins 0 writings. “His works are the eversc of his biography, said the Can . “His life was one side of a medal, and when lie wrote he turned it over. He wrote beautiful things, but tised ‘them. . . In 'The Vicar of WakeHeld’ is the greatest gospel of foigneness ever preached. Goldsmith s influence on Goethe was marve ous. Shakespeare; made hclnller. bhake sbeare and Goldsmith—wli.at more can old England want? . . ' Always poor, always in debt, always cheerful, a a ay's generous, forgiving, merciful. I am thankful God sent Oliver Goldsmith into the world to teach by bis life and writings that mercy, charity, and slowness to anger which through all his sad, miserable life he never failed to show. Upon the motion of Hotanan Wrey Nolan, Who mentioned that when in England last year he had visited Coldsmith’s rooms'in the Temple, and also his grave, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the lecturer. Rotarlan IfEoOte presided at the luncheon.