SECOND EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 8

SECOND EDITION.

Miss Josephine 8011, of Matawai, Jcft last wct'k for Auckland, whore slio intends to reside. London, June. 26: Arrivals at. Lnnilon, Cl» in null, Huronui, Nortlnimberland and Angla-Egyptian ; at l’annma, Mataroa-. trailed from London, Themistocles, Osterly and Port Ljuon ; from Liverpool. Woodavra. A Taihape message reports: A motor lorry owned liy Messrs Brown and Barnes was being loaded with metal at Pimgataua when it started down an incline without, its driver and plunged about 100 ft. into the Moa-whango River. Mr. <}. T. Guide, ZIFB station, Opotiki, reports receiving the special hroadeast from WLW, Cincinnati, U.S.A., last night. The music came, in clear and hmd on a two-valve receiving set. Other radio enthusiasts report good results.—Special. The question of enlarging Calliope Dock to accommodate proposed new motor vessels for the N.Z. Shipping Co., was raised by the engineer, Mr, W. I). Holderness, at the meeting nf the Auckland Harbor Board. The matter was referred to the hoard in committee. ‘‘Are you in favor of closing hotel bars at the hours when other business premises close?” was a question asked of Mr. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, at Hamilton. The Minister replied that he saw no reason why hotel bars should not close at the same hours as other businesses. A voice: And have a late night, on Fridays. (Laughter.) The large number of voting women desirous of becoming nurses is indicated bv the fact that the Auckland Hospital Board lias received 29 applications for the position of probationer at. the hospital. Two applications are from Queenstown. one from Te Kuili, and the remainder from the Auckland district. Tlie number of applications is believed to be it record for such a position. For many years the parish of All Saints’. Ponsonby, has been accumulating a fund to erect a permanent church in place of the wooden edifice that has served as a house of worship for three generations. The fund now stands at about £7OOO. It is estimated that about £20,000 needed to carry out the scheme, and the parish authorities have obtained, in anticiuation. a very beautiful design. The last few days have been busy ones for the Harbor Board officials in receiving rates. Up to Saturday 1800 had met. their, obligations, and this morning there was a continuous stream of ratepayers who up till noon paid the. sum of £I2OO. It was expected that, fully £2OOO in small sums would be received to-day. The 5 per cent, rebate is evidently appreciated by the ratepayers. Property owners are warned that, unless rates are actually received in the Harbor Board office by Thursday afternoon the rebate cannot, legally bo allowed.

Special reference was made in several of the churches in Australia and New Zealand last evening to the great army of listeners-in, who were addressed directly and referred to in the prayers. One cleric welcomed the opportunity of being able to extend the influence, of the church so far abroad, and unother, more commercially-minded, requested listen-ers-in to forward their contributions to a certain address. One Sydney station holds a children’s service every Sunday evening, which is made very bright and attractive. It is calculated by the stall that there are anywhere between 5000 and 10,000 children in Australia listen-ing-in to this service.

“How can you build up a self-support-ing church when the average earning per person is 2d per week?” asked tire Rev. J. L. Gray at the Presbyterian missionary conference, when speaking of tiie outcast problem in India. “And yet I have seen tlie.se Christian outcasts take the rings from their fingers to put in the collection box; poor trumpery pieces of silver, hut valuable to them. 1 have seen them put little bundles of grain into the collection box, and 1 have known them to go without, a day’s pay in the harvest- field to he present when one of the preachers was taking a service in the village. How many people in New Zealand would forego a day’s pay to be in the House of God?”

Tiie use of mechanical hares has robbed coursing of its cruelty and given ita tremendous vogue in some parts of the. world. At Sydney on Saturday evening, though it. was a bitterly cold night for 'Sydney, there, were 30,000 people present at the coursing park. Huge braziers were placed about the grounds, and these, burning brightly, gave an appearance of warmth to those in the crowd who were not able to get near them. There was great excitement over the various events and some wonderful finishes, not a head separating three dogs in one instance. The mechanical lures were described as being very lifelike, hopping right off the ground, and the greater the speed the greater the hop. With regard to the estimates for the harbor scheme to which some reference was made in our leading article of Friday, it being stated that Ah' Reynolds had never been given an opportunity of proving that his estimate of £750,000 was correct, Mr Reynolds writes: “My estimate of £7B2,CtiO, as per my report of Alay 21, was for the first instalment which was voted and endorsed by the Board and ratepayers. True, I remarked at the time that it might be reduced to £750,000 in view of costs of materials falling. However, the case is entirely thus: The ratepayers voted for my scheme; that scheme has been altered and the methods of execution totally different and evidently more expensive than I ever deemed necessary. My estimates were fully checked. I certainly did not expect to impose upon the undertaking such items ns Whareongaonga, nor what I consider a considerable over-abundance of plant. That the Board did not see its way to find a method and design to come within the £750,000, or in near touch with that amount, it is surely not my fault.”

The faulty action of a registering device over a- period of two years has resulted in over-charges for that period being refunded tcMiie Shannon Co-oper-ative Dairy Cb. by the Hoyowhenua Power Board, states the Dominion. The refund is a considerable one, amounting to £2OO. Explaining the position at the last meeting of the Power Board, the chairman, Mr. G. A. Monk, pointed out that for some time it. had' been apparent either that the company's load, as compared with that of any other dairy company, was extraordinary, or that the connections wore not properly linked up. The board’s engineer, Mr. J. A. Smith, was instructed to make investigations, which revealed 1 the fact that it was the latter assumption that was the correct one. Thus the company's over-payments to the hoard extended oyer a period beginning in the March quarter of 1025— 0 r, in other words, over a period of eight quarters. Very careful calculations, said the chairman, showed that the company had over paid a little ever £2OO. He considered that under the circumstances the only thing to do was to make a refund of the money. The company had notified its willingness to accept that sum in lull settlement of its claim against the hoard, and he moved that a refund of £2OO should he authorised. This motion was carried without dissent.