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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 6

The Otago and Southland list, for the Obstetrical Chair Endowment Fund new exceeds £3OOO.

Football gates on the East Coast tor representative games played last season returned £420 to the East Coast union. Tho principal item of expenditure was £264 paid for travelling expenses of visiting teams and teams dispatched from the coast to Gisborne and Wniroa. It is not intended by the East Coast Rugby Union to send a team on tour during tho current season, but an effort is being made to arrange for matches with outside teams already engaged for visits to Gisborne. Next season may see an East Coast team departing on a fairly extensive tour, returning the visits paid to coast centres by outside teams.

Tho Kahutia Bowling Club’s series of euchre tournaments was continued last evening, when card enthusiasts spent a thoroughly enjoyable time. There was a large attendance, and the prizes were distributed as follows: Ladies, Mrs. L. Robinson 1, Mrs. Lamont 2, Mrs. O’Donnell 3; gentlemen, Mr. J. Lamont 1, Mr. L. Griffiin 2. Owing to Anzae Day, tho next social entertainment will bo held on tho evening of Wednesday, April 23, An example ot the care wilh which (he Forestry Department officials resident at the'Waipoua State Forest guard their charge was apparent to a party of visitors to the forest, says the North Auckland Times. On tho run through the forest a tyre of tho vehicle “blew out" with a loud report. Later, when the visitors stopped further on in the forest, a Forestry official overlook them in a car and inquired whether any oT them had been shooting. The cause of the loud report was explained and the ranger went on his way. The Cook County Women’s Guild acknowledges receipt of the following gifts to the Children’s Creche: From To Arai, I’atutahi, and Matawhero Presbyterian harvest thanksgiving services, fruit, vegetables, and produce of all kinds; Mrs. M. Fitzgerald, butter; Mrs. R. Nolan, dolls’ house, flowers and toys; Miss P. Nolan, gramophone records and neeules: Miss Tucker, butter; Miss Almond, clothes; ‘‘lrresistible,’’ buns and scones; Mrs Paulgrain, grapes;

“A Friend," clothes; Mrs Holden, fruit Mr. O’Meara, cocoa; dir. G. Moore clothes; Nelsons (N.Z.) Ltd., mutton G.S.F.M. and M. Co., mutton.

Though tho attend, 'line at. last night's meeting, convened by the Mayor to dis cuss the extension of (lie appeal on he half of tin* school dental clinic in Poverty Bay, was much smaller than the importance of the subject, would have led any person to expect, those present were animated with it spirit of interest and enthusiasm that must have been most gratifying to the sponsors of the appeal. To Kuraka and Ormond schools were represented unoliicially, as an indication of the interest of the country districts, where the value of dental attention to children in the schools is apparently more generally recognised than in the town of Gisborne After the meeting had decided to form itself into a clinic committee and proceed with the appeal on a wider basis, the Mayor. Mr. I). W. Coleman, took occasion to remark upon the keenness of those present, as a good augury for success. "1 have never known any initial meeting held to promote any cause in Gisborne to lie a success from the point of view of attendance," lie added. “The most successful movements ever carried on in this community have started horn iust such sparsely-attended public meetings such as this, and 1 am quite sure that we need not feel discouraged because our numbers ate at present small.”

The Mastei ton. Racing Club made a profit of approximately £SOO over their recent race meeting.

Captain J. J). I Jewett, with Miss .1. Gardner as passenger, took off in Ids Moth plane at 6 o’clock this morning hir Auckland, to attend the aerial pageant there to-day.

The annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychology and Philosophy will be held for the first time in New Zealand, at Wellington on May 12 and 13. After six weeks of dry hot weather, welcome rain fell at Opotiki this week. The butter-hit supplies have commenced to drop and now probably it is too late for the rain to arrest the decline. The maize and new grass will benefit.

The imposition of a rate over the whole ot the Napier Harbor Board’s district to bring in £16,000 is the proposal of the chairman. Mr. A. E. .lull, to meet tin l deficit of £16.145 estimated for the year ending September 50. The following subsidies on voluntary contributions to schools have been approved by tho Education Department: Awapuni £4 ss, Motu £7 7s 6d. Te Hum Springs £5, Manga pupa £B. Tokomaru Bay £5, Waipiro Bay £2 10s, Mukaraku £ll 7s.

In its annual report, the Auckland Acclimatisation Society deals extensively with the work of improving the quality of trout in New Zealand waters. It is stated that in various streams and rivers 250,000 rainbow fry were liberated, and 430,000 ova planted.

Considerable interest will he added to the Auckland Aero Club’s pageant at the Mangere aerodrome to-day by Hie appearance of Mr. F. C. Chichester, of Wellington, who recently completed a flight from England to Australia. Mr. Chichester will fly to Auckland in the Moth aeroplane in which he made the notable flight.

In consultation with the Hawke’s Bay Education Board the Education Department lias finalised arrangements for the school tuition of hoys who are patients of the I’ukeora, Sanatorium. The department will make a payment of £6O per annum to an adult patient selected by the superintendent to supervise the instruction. The department will also supply its correspondence lessons. With the object of following up the work done by the special classes, the Education Department is proposing to make use of the department’s child welfare officers. These comers are trained to their work and are in close touch with employers of labor. The department intends to collect the names and addresss of children who leave the special classes, with a short report on each and then to watch their progress m later life. Following the announcement that the three cliiet taxi-cab companies in Auckland have reduced their fares, a similar move has been made by a Wellington firm operating 12 ears. It is intended to charge Is a mile lor four passengers instead of 2s 9d for the first mile for one passenger and Is 6d for each additional mile. Each additional passenger was also charged another 6d a mile under the old charges.

As was to ho expected, the East Coast Rugby Union delegates, at their annual meeting, decided unanimously ir favor of the broadcasting) of descriptions of the British team's games during the coming tour of New Zealand. The East Coast delegates also recommended tho general return to international rules for the current season. Mr (1. Nepia expressed his personal preference for the old rules.

"When I was in America,” said the Mayor, Mr. (!. A. Troup,- at the opening of a junior library, at Newtown, Wellington. “1 was immensely struck with the importance given to children's libraries. I visited one in Cleveland, 1 think it- was—some three miles away t'mm the centre of the city, yet when J entered I found it crowded with children—some changing their books, others sitting down reading, and others listening to lecturettes on literary topics—mu all intent and inierested in books, if you want children to love literature, you must catch them young, and give them the taste for it—a- taste they will novel lose.”

A point in connection with the dental clinic appeal now being made to the public of Gisborne is that a building fund'has been inaugurated, in order to create a trust lor those subscriptions directly allocated for the purpose of building quarters for the clime. One or two ot the school committees in Gislioi,'mi, it is understood, have amounts in hand which they intend to contribute to the 'clinic committee’s funds, but it is not intended that their money should be used to liquidate any expenses in connection with the clinic as it stands today. There are many residents who share the feeling of these school committees, no doubt, and who desire some assurance that any contributions they mako will not be utilised except for providing new quarters for the clinic. For some seasons the Tokomaru Bay sub-uiiion lias been handicapped in its foot mill aspirations 'by the fact that it is flic smallest sub-union in the Fast Coast district, and at the annual meeting of the East Coast union it was sought by Hie sub-union delegates to obtain an enlargement of the area by including. the Tavvhiti club and the scope of country it covers. Tavvhiti is at present in the llualoria sub-union district, and Mr. (1. Nepia, speaking for llualoria, commented that the change would •be lor the good of the game on the Coast.. though he agreed with Mr. A. U . Kirk that tile ltuatoria teams are not strong numerically as they stand. Mr H. It. Reedy, another delegate from Ruatoria, took a view divergent from that ol Mr. Nepia, stating that many of the Tavvhiti players would tine! it inconvenient) to play at Tokomaru. Eventually, on the suggestion of Mr. W. Bollock, it was decided that a committee from the union should consult with the Tavvhiti club, and report hack to tho union’s management committee. Mr. Bollock expressed the opinion that the Tavvhiti club would he in the Tokomaru subunion to-day but- for the attitude adopted by some of the officials. There was a warm discussion at 1 lie annual meeting of tin* East Coast Rugby Eiiion on the question of the selection committee, which during the past three seasons, has consisted of live members representing different portions of the East Coast union’s district. The delegates present discussed with much interest a proposal that tlie number of selectors he reduced to three, and eventually a motion was .submitted to the effect that the existing system of appointing five selectors he maintained.' Mr. D. Weeks, one of the Tolaga Bay suit union delegates, submitted an amendment favoring the appointment of only three selectors, and after further warm discussion this was carried by a margin of one vote, eight of the delegates voting for the amendment. A further amendment moved by Mr. (I. A. Neill, of Tokomaru Bay, had for its object the appointment of two selectors only, am! the vesting of arbitrary rights in the chairman of the union, in the event of a dispute between the two selectors. This amendment was defeated, and a ballot was taken for the appointment of three selectors. The nominees were Messrs. G. Nepia, .1. M. Reedy, J. B. Monro, 0. A. Neill, T. R. Tnniepo and H. W. Lambert, the successful trio being Messrs. Reedy, Nepia, and Hoare,