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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 6

A report from Murchison states that the blockage of the roads in many parts of the district is causing the settlers great concern. In the Lower Maruia Valley farms are being abandoned and the stock is being driven to the West Coast. in other parts also the cows are in milk, and there is no way of getting cream to the factory. Swinging easily at her moorings at the new Haiti berthage, the motor ship Margaret W was a source of interest in shipping circles to-day. She js the first vessel to berth at the new wharf, at which she will discharge a quantity of cement to be used in concreting the floor of the Harbor Board’s new cargo shed and the. decking of the wharf. The Margaret W arrived from Auckland on Wednesday evening, and proceeded to the old berthage to put out general cargo. No trouble Was experienced in berthing the vessel alongside the new structure. Dog fanciers from many parts of New Zealand have indicated their intention to compete in the dog classes at the Poverty Bay A. and P. Show, in connection with which the Poverty Bay Kennel Club- lias undertaken the general arrangements. Though many show dogs in this district have been lost through poisoning and disease during the past tew months, it is believed that the kennel classes will comprise one of the largest' shows of dogs for the year in New Zealand, and special interest in the event is 'being shown by the officials of the New Zealand Kennel Club. Members of the Poverty Bay club will hold a meeting this evening to finalise arrangements for the section.

Once again N. 11. Bull and (5. M. Dodgshun meet in the final of tiie Poverty Bay golf championship tournament, which will bo decided to-morrow' on the links at Awapuni. N. H. Bull is the present holder of the championship, and his rival in to-morrow’s match is a past champion with many line performances to Iris credit. Both are very steady players, and it is anticipated that their game will he closely contested In deference to Ihe interest that has been shown in the representative Rugby match between Poverty Bay and Taranaki, set down for to-morrow afternoon, the golf final will commence at an hour that should enable the gallery to see the football after the championship lias been decided. The second, annual reunion of the Wuikohu R.B.A. was held last evening in To Karaka, Capt. 0. Parkinson, president of the local association, being in the diair. The evening was spent in a happy atmosphere of leminiscen v, and some of the anecdotes related were worthy of permanent record as typica; ot the men of the “Silent Division.’’ Many musical items were, con.ributed, and ui especially good tarn was provided by visitor, who proved himself a master ot legerdemain and who successfully 'Veed himself from a mass of rope bindings applied by men experienced in, the handling of cords. The function was voted an outstanding success, the presence of a party from Gisborne adding much to the enjoyment of the reunion.

At 5.52 yesterday the fire brigade was .vsiod out. to attend to a burning chimney at Mr. H. P. Hamilton’s residence in Wi Pore street. There tvas no danger to property in the outbreak, which was allowed to burn itself out, the brigade standing 1 1 v in the meantime.

Orders of separation and guardianship, and for the maintenance of his wife at tho rate of £1 a week and two children at the rate of 10s a week each were made against Leonard Hilton Lowndes by Mr. P. 11. Harper, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this inornin;;.

Mr. ,R. G. G. Bain appeared fur the complainant. The Otago University Council received £ISOO from the dean of the medical faculty to be used as the nucleus of a fund from which loans may lie granted to students who have passed their second professional examination and have shown exceptional ability, but who may have financial difficulty in continuing their studies. It i,s hoped later on to make similar provision for all students. Professor 11. B. Kirk, Professor of Zoology atVictoria College, announced to the Acclimatisation Societies’ Conference at. Wellington that his report for the Government; dealing with the question us to whether opossums wore destroying native bird life, would bo completed in about six weeks. He also stated that he had as yet found no trace of egg shells or feathers in any of the beasts whic!\ he had examined.

Reporting upon the Technical Education Conference which lie attended recently, Mr. C. IT. Nicliolls stated to the Wellington Education .Board that. Mr. J. R. Kirk, Gisborne, was strongly opposed to the use of the- word ‘‘bias’’ in the education system. There should be no bins in our education. The chairman, Mr. M. 'l'. Forsyth: “lie must be a bowler, I think.” (Laughter.) Mr. Nit-bolls proceeded to urge that delegates who gave their time to attending those conferences for three or four (lays should at least be reimbursed their out-of-pocket expenses. —Dominion.

Tho men’s hockey match played yes terday on the Reserve prod .teed surpris ing results, but this was accounted loi to some extent by the fait that the beaten teams were not up to full strength. Y.M.C.A. defeated Forester by two goals to one, Grafts and MeKeaguo scoring for the winners, while Brown lnit.hed Foresters’ goal. Waerenga-a-liika. got the bet.or of Do fence, by two goals to nil, scores for tin winning team being registered by McKay and Hall. With the major engage monts of tho season disposed of, some of the players are inclined to allow interest to lag, but the majority of hockey men are keen to finish the season in good style.

‘‘lt does not look as if we need to worry about Esperanto,” said Mr. Cecil Bonnington, who has returned to Christchurch from a six months’ sojourn in the Far East and tho Pacific Coast countries of North America. “The teaching of English is compulsory in all the schools in Japan, and the number of Japanese who can speak English is surprising. Even the (coolies are proficient. We had no trouble in going up to anyone in the streets and making them understand us. It is very easy to travel in the East. There are English-speaking Japanese in all (he hotels, and they can understand you in any shop you go into, although, of course, they do not speak just like we do. The Chinese seem to speak English just as much as the Japanese. We had no trouble at all making ourselves understood in Hongkong.”

The coal strike in Australia is not making work any easier for the engineers at the Wanganui city gas works. Their plant is particularly adapted for Newcastle coal, or rather Newcastle coal is particularly suitable for their plant. The West Coast coals which nave had to be used in place of Newcastle swell too much in the vertical retorts, and can only be worked mixed with lignite, which while producing little gas or coke, keeps the charge ■‘(/pen.” However, the whole vertical retort plant, and also the water-gas plant, going at- full pressure, are necessary to maintain the supply, whereas with Newcastle coal the demand could be satisfied with one-third fewer retorts, and without the water-gas plant. Consumers of coke have had their patience severely tested, both with regard io quality and also time of delivery.

Mary Malmanehe applied for a separation order and maintenance against her husband, Leonard Malmanehe, before Mr. S'. L. Patterson, S.M., at Opotiki. Plaintiff stated that she was married in 1927 and a child was born in 1828. They lived at Toa Toa for live months. She was struck by her husband, and left him and went to Opotiki to live with her own people. Her husband lived with her at her people's place for about a month. He did no work and was a great drinker, lie threatened to murder her and produced a pocket-knife, which he opened; her people came home shortly after the incident. Her husband then left her and went to Gisborne. He had not given her any money, but had given her mother £l. The bench granted a separation order, maintenance and guardianship of the child.—Guardian.

A very fine address on New Zealand’s poet, Thomas Bracken, was delivered from 2YA, Wellington, last evening hv Mr. G. W. Ofterson, clerk of the Legislative Council, in the course of which he gave information supplied by the veteran journalist, Patrick Galvin, a close friend of Bracken’s, and quoted from the poet’s works. In concluding Mr. Ofterson urged that New Zealanders should take some steps to honor one who was entil led to rank among the first of the world’s poets and who had done so much by his verse to make the attractions of this Dominion known to the world. He suggested the formation of Bracken clubs in various centres to study the works of the poet, and that replicas of a bust of Bracken recently found in Christchurch should he made.

A reply to a letter sent by the i’alme -stou North Hospital Board to the Director-General of Health, asking for advice regarding the shortage of house surgeons, was received at a meeting of the. hoard this week. “1 may say 1 have been in communication with Sir Undo Ferguson, Dean of the Otago Medical School, with regard to the question of house surgeons,” wrote the Director-General (Dr. T. IT. A. Valintine), in reply! “Sir Linilo Ferguson holds out no hope of there being more Ilian thirty young doctors qualifying at the forthcoming final examination in September. The lack of house surgeons has been a considerable embarrassment to hospital hoards throughout the Dominion ; nevertheless, 1 am extremely reluctant to advise that applications should bo made for house surgeons to Australia or elsewhere. There arc some hospitals with less claim than yours which have a larger number of house surgeons than your hoard possesses. T hope to take an early opportunity of discussing this matter with the hospital hoards. There is no doubt, that something will have to bo done in the matter.” In view of the inquiry being made by the Director-General, the hoard formally received the letter without taking any action.—Dominion.

A pantryman! who washes plates used in the dining room of a restaurant or tearooms lias to be paid a kitchenhand’s wages. This is the effect of the Arbitration Court judgment on appeal, which upsets, the decision of Mr. Wvvern Wilson, S.M., on the point.— Auckland Sun.

Fishermen in the Thames gulf complain of the extraordinary abundance of jellvfisli, known to the netmen as “Shamrocks,” during the past week. One fishing boat lojt four nets and anchors worth about £2O. The weight uf the jellyfish causes the nets to break a wav

By virtue of a. special convention between the Italian Government and the Holy See, which was signed on July 29 last, the Pope’s own post office was opened on August 1. Sets of commemorative stamps were sold to the public at the fixed ration of four to each applicant. Mrs. K. Bjerring. of Whangamala road, Waihi, lias received a message from Mataura Bay stating that the missing natives who left Bowcntown in an open boat on -Sunday landed safely at the bay. after spending two nights on Mayor Island. The men lost control of the boat, owing to one rowlock breaking. Mr. H. E. Hamlin, native school master at Mataura Bay, was one of the party.

An effort was lecently maid to induce the .State Minos Department to restart their sawmill at Dunollie. writes a Greymouth correspondent. After inquiring as to tlie amount of bush available, and cost of two miles of tramline to obtain access to it, tho Minister of Mines stales that as timber could be purchased at 3s 3d per KXfi’t cheaper than if cut at the department’s mill at Dunollie, be could not see bis way to put the mill into operation again.

Judging by the muddy state of tho Btiller River, which has not run clear siiwe tho earthquake, as every shower of rain brings more streams over mudstrewn fields, there will be no need for (he Government- to declare a close season for whitebait fishing, says a- Westport paper. Almost- any whitebait caught'-.so far has been bv blind stabbing. Many fishers who usual 1 v by this tune have a few' pounds in pocket have not this season earned a penny from the industry.

In about six weeks the contractors will start paving in bitumen concrete the 14mile stretch of the I’ieton-Bli-ff main highway in the Wainiate County, from the Pareora River south. This will ho the biggest bituminous concrete reading coni rant ever carried out in New Zealand. and the contra-tors have designed and built a special plant for the job, which thov claim to be the most tip-to-date in the Domiiuoii. It is capable 'of a huge output. The road surface lias been thoroughly consolidated by trallie during the winter.

A gale approaching tornado fore swept- down upon Mr. C, P. Goulte’property at Feel don, Marlborough. ■ • cently, leaving considerable destrerHon in its train. Such a gale had never Inexperienced there before and the peculiarity about the visitation was that, tho destructive force of the wind was limited to a well-defined track across the property. Trees, buildings and stacks in the path of the tearing wind all. suffered. The woolshed and grain shed were both partially unroofed, while some 59 trees on different parts-of the property were levelled. The principle of computing the unimproved value of a section was expounded by Mr. ,T. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., in fhe Assessment Court, in Christchurch during the hearing of an objection. “We have (o consider the section as if it had nothing else on it,” Mr. Hewitt said, “and the rest of New Zealand just as it is to-day. Then we have to ask if this section with nothing on it were put up for sale what would it fetch? If you have spoilt your section with the improvements, then it comes off the improvements, but not' off your section. Sometimes the court takes into consideration that a man has put his building in a bad place, but it is wrong m principle.”

“It seems perfectly clear to me that the interest claimed by the plaintiff is exorbitant. I shall allow interest at 15 per cent.,” said Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., in the Napier Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, giving his reserved decision in favor of the plaintiff in the case in which 11. E. K. Bourgeois, of Napier, proceeded against C. H. and P. C. Bartlett, claiming £6O, the amoijnt due on a promissory note due on February 17 last, and on which the amount of £52 was paid out on October 17, 1928. The magistrate stated that while between the two defendants, P. C. Bartlett might have been recognised as a surety, he was hound by the dcscument which bore his signature. Judgment was entered for £47, with costs, £7 11s.—Telegraph.

A most unfortunate accident occurred on the Ulimaroa during the run across from Sydney when the members of “The Desert Song’ company were having a playful time on deck, reports the Dominion., Ono of the men picked up Miss Violet Turner, a member of the ballet, and was carrying her along the deck when his foot caught in the leg of a deck chair and he fell forward, letting Miss Turner drop with some force. It was found that she had sustained an injury to her back, which prevented her moving without pain. On the arrival of the Ulimaroa at Wellington Miss Turner was conveyed to hospital in a motor ambulance, and it is hoped that she will recover in a week or two. Every member of the company was upset by the untoward accident.

Runaway horses are not uncommon, but a motor-cycle careering riderless at 30 miles per hour is unusual and very thrilling. This incident happened at the showgrounds while Christchurch Motor Club members were practising for their sports. A rider was standing on the seat of his machine, proceeding at about 25 miles per hour down the football ground. The machine gave a wobble and unbalanced its rider, who jumped clear. The machine, at an increased pace, sped on for about 200yds., when it described a perfect arc, doubled hack and headed straight for the secretary’s office. Narrowly missing a spectator, if, crashed into a fence, broke through, and finished up on the verandah. The machine’s front wheel and forks were damaged bevond repair. In all. the cycle covered about 500vds.

The policy of keeping the tug Kanui was questioned at the last meeting of tho Wanganui Harbor Board. Mr. I). Ross pointed out that she was seldom used, and was only an ornament, costing £2500 a. year. It was explained tho i fverseas Shipping Committee had insisted on a certain depth of water on tho bar, a. turning basin, and a tug, before they would send their vessels in to Wanganui. Now the situation was that t hey had not yet sufficient water on the bar, so the tug and turning basin wero of very little use, hut a tug of some kind was absolutely necessary. Mr. J. Morrison said that the river was a great deal better to-day than ever before. The secretary stated that the revenue had gone up steadily. Mr. Ross said that he had come on to the board to try and improve tho policy, and it was useless going on in the old way, spending money and getting no return. “It will take half a million of money,”

he said, “before the tug can be used and wo have a harbor. Sell the Kanui now and get your harbor, then buy a less expensive boat.” After a general discussion it was resolved that the harbormaster and the engineer report on the Kanui, what she earns, what it costs to keep her, and how often she is used. —Dominion,