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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 4

The infectious disease notifications in the East Cape Health District for the week ended at noon to-day were very small, and comprised one case of pneumonia and one deatli from typhoid fever.

The Hon. H. Atmore, Minister of Education, notified the Mayor, Mr. D. W. Coleman, this morning that he intends to visit Gisbornc on February 17, and on the following two days he will inspect schools in the Poverty Bay district. From here the Minister will proceed to Whakatane.

An interesting novelty was presented to radio listeners on Saturday evening by the Sydney station 2FC, whose announcer spoke from a plane, the Southern Moon, (piloted by Kingsford Smith, which was passing over Sydney. At Manly a beach carnival was in progress, and the (plane circled overhead and dropped a pyrotechnicbomb, which threw brilliant lights over the festival. The announcer's description of the flight and of the gay scene below him, heard clearly above the hum of the plane's motors, made a very remarkable .broadcasting feat.

Butter exports from Gisbornc for the season to date total 31,519 boxes. these being distributed as follow: August, 1597 boxes; September, nil; October, 7891; November. 10,591>; December, 2847; January, 8588. The grading figures, which formed the basis of comparison of the district's production with other years, and which are not now available, showed 36,071 boxes for last season up to the end of January, but there is no means of making an accurate comparison with the exports of this year and the grading figures of last season, for it is not known how much remains in store. It is likely, however, that a fairly substantial amount still remains to be shipped, for during the past two months only a little more than 11,000 boxes were exported, while in two consecutive months earlier in the season, October and December, the total was more than 19,000 boxes.

In the junior grade cricket compe titions oil Saturday at the* High School ground, Celtic defeated High School on the first innings by a margin of 138 runs. School batted first, and compiled 46 runs, the top scorer being Flavell, who knocked up 39. not out. Celtic scored fairly freely, and ran up 'i total of 184. Bro. Hernadine retired when his score, stood at 92, and Stevens contributed 2."., N. Code IS (retired), S. White 12, and L. Scholium 10. Batting a second time, High School compiled 48 for the loss of four wickets before time was called. At the Domain, Turanganui secured a victory over High School B by an innings and 33 runs. Turanganui batted first, and several of their men did well with the willow, Campbell compiling -15, Weatherloy 37, Robinson Hi, and Shaw 10 (not out). Kinder was the top scorer for High School in the first strike, his contribution being 36, while Stewart, with Hi, was the only other batsman to reach double The total for the first innings was 77, and following on, High School were able to compile only 24. The list of winning owners at the Gisb'orne Racing (.'lull's meeting was headed by Mr. D. .1. Barry, whose representatives earned £3BO for the club president, exclusive of the value of the Gisbornc Cup. Miss K. M. O'Grady, whose Te Awha won the Hack Gold Cup, was well down the list in the matter of actual stake winnings, but, the trophy is likely to appeal to the lady owner far more than the cash represented in the stake. The winnings of the respective owners who figured in the distribution of stakes D. J. Barry £3BO, .1. Carr £IBO, Mrs. Ponton £165, Jas 'Williamson £l3O, A. Harris £IOO, W. Moore £IOO, W. A. Smith £IOO, A. T. Smith £9O, Miss K. M. O'Grady £BO, A. D. Adams £7O, ,1. C. N. Thomas E7O, H. R. Peacock £55, T. White £SO, W 'Wilson £45, A. G. Tumbull £4O, R. J. Brown £35, V. E. Rick its and 11. B. Cowan £35, Lady Carroll and P.' Matu £2O, A. R. G. Henderson £2O, J. H. Pearson £2O, R. W. and R, McG. Todd £2O, A. McKeeman £ls, R. C. Fisken £lO, Morrison and Smith £lO, L. A. Mcintosh £lO, 11. K. Swan £lO, ami S. Kirkpatrick £lO,

In the Bolieo Court this morning Peta Matahiki, who had been in tlie lock-up since 2 p.m. on Saturday, was fined 10s by Mr. J'. JI. Harper, 6.M., for his second offence of drunkenness. Notice has been given by the District Engineer at Taurangu, Air. H. Watkinson, of the closing of the Waioeka road, between Uponao and Opotiki, between .Monday mornings and Friday evenings until further notice. There are about V2D men engaged on widening and regrading portions of the road between these points and it has been found that the passage of stock and other traffic holds up their work for prolonged periods, hence the decision to close the route for through traffic save at the week-ends. In glorious weather and in the presence of a large assembly of tho public, some of whom had journeyed from Dunedin in a special train, a dedication ceremony of a new threestoreyed building, an addition to (he Christian Brothers' SI. Kevin's College at Ouinani, was performed yesterday afternoon by Dr. W'hyto, Bishop of Dunedin, the occasional address being delivered by Dr. Listen, Bishop o!' Auckland. The building is a handsome edifice, comprising dormitories and refectory. Though to the eye no great progress has been made towards driving the new diagonal road from Lambton quay to Bowen street, Wellington, and the removal of buildings to form the open triangular space as an adequate setting for the citizens' memorial to those who fell in the war. the way is at last fairly well cleared as regards legal preliminaries as to the acquisition of properties. The land and buildings which will be affected are being taken over by join! action by the Government and the City Council, and in all but two or three cases agreement has been reached as to the prices to be paid.—Post. AH traffic on the main north highway between Te Karaka and Puha will be suspended to-morrow for two hours while the Waikohui County overseer's stall makes the change-over from the old route along the face, of the bill to the new deviation. The deviation runs along the riverbank, between the river ami the railway, and the alteration in the route cuts out the overhead bridge ami a difficult turn where the old road used to cross the rails. The length of the deviation is 10 chains, and the necessity for closing the route to traffic (lining the change-over is due to the limited space within which (lie operation has to be performed. I'faying in the final of the Poverty Bay and East Coast Lawn Tennis Association's combined doubles championship on Saturday afternoon Miss Phyllis Hopkinson and T. K. D. Watson beat Miss Molly Bull and N. H. Bull, 5—7, o— 2, 9 —7. The match was played on the Gisborne Club's courts before a good attendance of spectators. The main feature of the game was its closeness, though the standard of play was lower than usual. Bull ami Miss Bull had a splendid opportunity of winning the final set, and at one stage they were leading, 5 —4. However, Bull lost Ins serve, and thereafter Watson and Miss Hopkinson never left the issue in doubt. The question of men engaged for firewatching duty at theatres and picture houses was raised at a meeting of the Wellington City Council. The Mayor stated that tho City Council was the licensing authority, and the firemen had to be engaged by the theatre company as one ot the conditions of the license. It was contended that it was the duty of tho City Council .to watch the interests of citizens, and see that they were properly protected when congregating in these, places, and that no extended powers in this direction should be passed over to the Fire Board. The status of the firemen so engaged had been questioned, and in one case the license required a "qualified fireman" to be engaged, and in the other a fireman. The Mayor said he would ask the city solicitor to give a considered opinion. Much interest is being evinced by VVaiapu County ratepayers in the proposal to change the location of the county headquarters, now at Waipiro Bay. The ratepayers are to be asked to vote on a proposal to raise £2OOO to establish the county offices on the main highway at Te Puia, where the county workshops and the dwellings of the engineer and foremen are at present located. The Waipiro Bay turn-off is adjacent to Te Puia, and under existing conditions any person wishing to visit the county offices is obliged to make a dolour of about four miles from the highway. The project of the council, now about to be put to the test of a ratepayers' poll, lias been long contemplated, and it is practically certain that strong opposition will be raised by residents of Waipiro Bay when the poll is taken.

Hut for the prompt action of a lady employee of the Hank of Australasia, the consequences of an unusual type of accident might have been much more serious than they proved. Descending a staircase in the bank premises, Mr. Malcolm Scott, whose parents, Mr. and Airs. E. Scott, are well-known residents of the Waikohu County, tripped over a mat and fell headlong on the. stairs, sustaining ;i dee)) scalp wound from -'broken fragments of a glass utensil he was carrying at the time. He endeavored to make his way back to the head of the stairs, but apparently again lost his balance, this time from the effects of his injury. For some time he lay bleeding copiously on the staircase, until lie was found and his condition noted by .Miss Walker, who fortunately was able to stop the flow of blood from a severed artery, while calling for assistance. Had' the rescuer acted with less presence of mind, the injured lad might have bled' to death before expert assistance arrived. The doctor who attended Mr. Scott intimated that had he remained unattended for another few minutes the loss of blood would have proved fatal. Mr. Scott is now almost fully recovered from his painful experience.

The second annual meeting of the Gisborno Fire Police and Salvage Coips, will lie held in the social hall at the Fire Station at 7.30 o'clock this evening, and will be followed by a social at S o'clock. The following report for the year ended January 31 will be submitted by the secretary, Mr. G. K. Pnslcy: "During the year 38 liros were attended by members of the corps, as against i>7 hist year, and it is pleasing to note that not one alarm was sounded without some members being on hand to render service if required. lit .Tune last we had the pleasure of welcoming back our chairman, Mr. E. T. Doddrcll, after his trip to England, and at a later date ho gave an account of his trip, and his impressions in relation to the unemployment dole, transport, and marketing of the Dominion's produce, having collected both facts and figures when interesting himself in these matters at Home. At the March meeting lire extinguishers were discussed, and some very useful information was brought out. A suggestion that a reward of £3 bo offered by the Fire Board for the detection and apprehension of the culprit giving false alarms has been adopted, and it is hoped it will be the means of quelling the nuisance."

A ledge of rock jutting out from Quarantine Island into the harbor channel has for many years given the Otago Harbor Board and its officials considerable uneasiness when large vessels have been proceeding to or from the Lower Harbor. The board has decided to remove a pinnacle of rock which was partially removed last year, and has asked the engineer to report in regard to removing the whole of the ledge. 'the question of aeroplane regulations, now that New Plymouth has its own plane, was raised by a resident, remarks the News. There was a danger, he felt, from stunt flying over the town. Recently a visiting aeroplane had begun to do the falling leaf straight over his bouse. He suggested that it would be just as interesting to the public and not so stimulating to himself if the stunting were done over the sea. There is always plenty of excitement at .Monica Park when motor-cycle racing is held, remarks a Christch'urch exchange, but on Saturday night an unexpected thrill was given by a riderless motor-cycle, which dashed at the fence protecting the public. In the semilinal of the open handicap I). McKenzie lost his mount at the 'bend near the stand. The machine careered wildly for about 30yds. and dashed against the harrier.

Some time ago the Wellington Rotary Club sent a gavel made of New Zealand timbers to the Wellington Rotary Club, Shropshire, England. The president, .Mr. J. M. Ilott has received a letter from the Shropshire Wellington acknowledging the gift with thanks, expressing good wishes for New Zealand Rotary,

;\uA saying that in the near future they would he happy to reciprocate in some way to the Wellington Rotary Club. New Zealand. "I have smoked some New Zealand .tobacco during the last few days, and I believe there is a future for it if it is only worked in the right way at Rome,'' said the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Viscount Craigavon, at the dinner of the Ulster Association >f New Zealand at Wellington. "You. have difficulties to overcome," he added. "In the right hands, however, your tobacco might become as famous as your butter or your lamb."

Passengers on the Maheno recently had the delight of visiting Milford Sound on the return trip. The captain of the vessel stipulated that iJIOG must be Forthcoming 'before the deviation in the sea. voyage could be made. There, was some frenzied collecting aiming the passengers, and the amount was forthcoming. The voyagers saw Milford under very favorable conditions, and delighted with the grandeur of the place. Tiie lives of four girls were in peril at the Oakura beach recently, reports (be Taranaki News. The girls were enjoying the buoyancy of an improvised raft when they discovered they had drifted far beyond their depth. Their cries were heard by ' bathers on the beach and the life-saving reel recently placed on the beach was rushed to the scene. The difficulty was to find strong swimmers to face the heavy breakers. Mr. Norman McArtney, New Plymouth, quickly donned the belt and swam to the raft with the line. The girls were towed ashore in a greatly distressed condition.

Without leaving a trace of his work, an eminent London surgeon performed a remarkable operation on the nose of a young Cbristchurch man who has just returned from a trip to England (says tho Sun). Before he left New Zealand, this man underwent an operation on the bone of his nose, and while ho was in London an examination by a specialist, who was a former New Zealander, disclosed that another operation was imperative. The surgeon repaired the nasal bone with a portion of the rib detached from file patient, and the success of the grafting process was regarded among medical men as another triumph for modern surgical methods.

That insufficient attention had been paid to ventilation of theatres in the Dominion could not be denied, remarked Mr. G. W. Davies, of Dunedin, in an address before the Sanitary Inspectors' conference at Christchurch. Many thousands of pounds were spent yearly in interior decoration, but with due respect 11) modern architecture, furnishings, and decoration there was nothing so inviting to tho theatre-going public as fresh, invigorating atmosphere. The fact was ■ being recognised by the designers of large auditoriums in Australia, and in every modern theatre mechanical heating and ventilating apparatus' were installed with adequate means for freshening the air.

Viscountess Craigavon, speaking at the Ulster farewell at Wellington, said that. generally, the women in Ireland took a more prominent part in public affairs than did the women in New Zealand. She pointed out that Ulster would not have been in the position she was to-day had it not been for the help of the women during the critical days of the past.' Ulster, she was glad to say, was happy and contented —a firm, true, loyal spot in the British Empire. When they left Ireland they carried with them greetings to the people of New Zealand, and when they returned they would convoy similar messages to their brothers and sisters at Homo. Their stay in New Zealand and the kindness and hospitality of the people they would never forget. (Applause.)

Those uninitiated in the business ol beekeeping were interested to learn many things concerning the bee during a recent field day held by bee-keepers a> Tai_ Tapu Domain, Christ-church. It

lake's about 4500 bees to weigh lib. ; that what is termed a prime swarm includes between 22,000 and 23.00.' bees; that in each hive there is a queen bee, 600 to 800 male 'bees (which gathei iii honey); that (ho queen bee lays about 4000 eggs a day in the laying sea son. and it is from these that the stock is renewed: that bees have a strong socialistic element in their make-up, ii that lliey decree that if a bee does not produce neither shall he live, and sr the 15.C0C to 20,000 working bees in

each hive refuses to allow the 600 to 800 male or drone bees to enter the hive as soon as the supply of honey begins to show signs of diminution. As •he male bees have no power to gather honey they starve as soon as they arc shut out of t he hive.

"It is one of the first aims of the department to see that the four cities of New Zealand are equipped with railway stations that become their dignity," said the lion. W. B. Taverner. Minister of Railways, when in Christchurch recently. "Dunedin already has a fine station, and it is expected thai the new building at Auckland will bo completed this year. It will be a beautiful structure." The erection of the new station at Wellington will follow the completion of the work on the new goods sheds and yards there. It is considered that two'years will be occupier! in the building of the new Wellington station. This will also be an imposing building, with a ground space as large as that of Auckland. Wellington is badly in need of a new and up-to-date station, for at present everything is all over ihe place. The city will welcome (he arrival of the new building.'" Asked if any further consideration had been given to' the provision of a new station iit Ohristchureh, the Minister rentier! that ihe department was aiming to bring the four principal centres into line. It was impossible owing io the present state of finance to do this work simultaneously, but the turn of Christchurch was coming.