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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17176, 5 February 1930, Page 11

. -*■ ' jJKain»«l» i> IMIriUiM an efideßUC "You New Zealanders are of a dif- ■ frbm the average Australian. .{ 4 hme horse, bat the New Zealander ia bit in every way, physically included. My wile and I have very pMir‘ feccflieitkmfi of meeting some New Zealander*, fine Jfcen and charming fellow*, who passed through Sydney on iSMpr way back after the war.”—Mr. Cecil Mordant, a .prominent business : man, in *h in Christchurch. Mrs N. Hooper and Miss JSttid Hooper have returned from an enjoyable ’ motor camping 'holiday in the North Ijj&iiwid. ladnded in their itinerary were Auckland, X»w Plymouth, Mount Kgmont, Wanganui, Chateau Tonga riro, Tanpp uUd Rototua. Mr. Welwyn Wood and Miss Claire Wood, of Fapakara, Auckland, accompanied thorn on the Diadtwridbtt coal It the Haiti wharf » the Cuion Steam Ship Oo.’s col Her Ngatoro, which arrived her. yesterday morning from Westport. The NgatoroV presence at the wharf again detnomtrales the improvement which ha* iweti made in the condition of tho harbor channel and inner basin, bat more tangible evidence of this was ; gained when the company’s steamer Waipahi berthed at the new wharf last 'M«k. ■ The Ngatoro has a gross tonnage of IMP tons, making her the fourth largest vessel to berth here for* many vmn, Within the past two month# the foltowilig steamers over 1000 tons have berthed at the Haiti wharf: Waipahi, 1783 tone; Kamona, 1425 tons; I . Xabika, 1172 tons, and Ngatora, 1120 ' tons. S , > 0 The friendly spirit prevailing be- ; tween the 'Minister for Mines and the 'representatives of the miners’ organisations waa very notieeabl* during the lgMDem.ee held at (Ireymonth, and comffplimMll* were not lacking on both sides ' ourjug the two hoars’ discussion, states th* Urtiy Star. The Minister also expvimiril appreciation of the fact that the K tbe citiscens. “After all, said fitch, “We are more or less hardheaded men of the world, and have to i:; tight our war along and meet all sorts 4f dMculties. Wd are all human and older aid more experienced, we appreciate the friendships that grow up :• .round Us in <iilr daily Work as the years k*'” go uy. > i Two firemen on the steamer Mahana, ■phah» l>wv« and William Lambert, were charged before Mr. Mewlem, S,M., At the Napier Magistrate’s Court yesterday with assaulting tho chief officer tin Imrt the ship at Wellington on 29, and with using obscene lan--M.ee. Dwyer pleaded guilty, and Lnmpot guilty. Richard Edmund ’iltnmpaon, chief officer, gave evidence libit the offences were committed on K#§ck oft Jantttty 29 when he was sUmnoaml to intervene in a fight between W ship’s carpenter and Dwyer and ’Smhm.. The lastnamed struck wrtWtM, earning . broken nose, and Dwyer "'Jstrack him from behind. Accused were - ttksn to the police station in WellingIHT but were allowed to rejoin their '•bip on condition that they pleaded Gritty on the ship’s arrival at Napier. 'lliuubiestiTr evidence was heard. Lambert denied that he struck Thompson, denied the chief behind. ’lhe Magistrate uSuawd Dwyer to two months’ imWiirf'“it on the assault charge, and JhSbim £5, hi default one month’s imon the second charge. His Worship said he was satisfied that Lujn')iSSft’i a« 11 - had been proved and senfeMeed hW to one month's imprisonment.