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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16491, 8 November 1927, Page 11

Sydney, November 8: Arrived, at 7.45 a.m., Ulimaroa, No sales took place at the auction of civic centre leases at Auckland. In every case the offers failed to reach reserve prices, at which they will now be available by private negotiation with the agents. The Minister of Mines has notified the native owners that arrangements for opening the gold-bearing country at Tarawera for prospecting have now Jieen completed. —Tauranga. Times. The Gisborne Orchestral Society, which has now disbanded for a recess, last night held a combined practice and social, songs and instrumental items being given by the members. At present the society numbers about 30 members, but it is expected that at the end of jiest year the total will be considerably larger. During tin; past few weeks the position of conductor has been filled by Mr. M. L Foster, who relieved Mr. R. Wyke. It is expected that the practices will bo resumed in February next. No doubt if will take some time to adapt the children to the altered clock, some of the Gisborne parents finding that it is difficult to get their young ones to bed! at the usual hour as .shown by their timepieces. The case of one niother with her four-year-old child is quoted. The usual bedtime for this little fellow is 7 o'clock, and on Sunday evening, when it was past this hour, tlio mother tried to entice her son to bed, telling him that it was 7.15 o'clock. " But it's not dark yet," protested the child'. " that does not matter," the i mother replied; "the clock has been p'nt.on an hour." Of course the child did not understand. " Who put it on?" was his next query. " The King did," he was told. " What's the King got to do with it/' was all the satisfaction the mother could get from him, and thereafter she had to lists more than persuasive measures.