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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 6

A '.'no.more war" meeting at Timaru took an unusual turn when the audience passed a resolution disagreeing with the sentiments expressed by., the principal speaker. The address was marked by frequent interjections. The Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury, proposes to set aside a reseme of 64 acres as a motor camp near where the smith road strikes the sea. bench north of Brighton This camp is an ideal one.

A curious episode occurred at the Waihi Hospital the other night, and it all came about owing to a. mistake and ringing up the wrong 'phone, number. Some interloper was noticed by one of the staff roaming about the grounds after midnight, and she immediately rang up what she .thought was the police station. A few minutes later tlmsc on duty were much astonished to witness members of the firo brigade pouring into the grounds looking for fhe seat of the expected outbreak. Explanations followed, and it is assumed that the. midnight prowler, bearing the roar of the approaching fire engine, made off in a hurry.

Work on the new Pavilion bath house at Rotorua is well under way, and with Us completion before the end of the year the building will be ready iii time for the next tourist season. The famous spa will then possess accommodation and facilities in keeping with the natural bounties that are to be obtained there. "Motor camps are now real competi tors with the private hotels," said a witness in the Arbitration Court at Wellington, in the closing stages of the private hotels dispute. There was one at Rotorua, one of the finest in New Zealand, with fine appointments put in bv the council. The hotelkeepers hud to pay for all that, and lost the business as well. Mr. Justice Frazcr: "They are taking your business from you?" Witness : "That is so."

Expensive parking fees were imposed in the Police Court this morning on a motorist, a stranger to the town, who left, his car in Gladstone road all night recently, without lights. The defendant was Mervyn I). Vickerman, who pleaded guilty 'before Messrs. G. Beere and T. Corson, J's.P., to charges of leaving his car in Gladstone road for a period greater than 30 minutes, and leaving the car without lights. Senior-Sergeant Wade explained that the defendant was the advance agent of a theatrical, cone pany, and had been staying at the Coronation Hotel. Recently on two successive nights he left the car parked in Gladstone road outside the hotel with lights, although be could have placed it in the hotel yard, and had been warned not to leave it in the road. Apparently ho did not know the by-laws, bat ignorance was no excuse for the offences. The defendant explained to the Bench ibat he did not know that he should not have left the car there, and when a con stable told him at midnight on the second night to shift it he did so. fines of £1 and costs 10s were imposed on each charge.

"He is apparently in love, and when a man's in love he does a lot of peculiar things," stated Senior-Sergeant Wade in Iho Police Court this morning, when Tsak Edward Teir, 30, a native of Fin land, pleaded guilty before Messrs. A. G. Becre and T. Corson, J's.P., to a charge of trespassing on private pro perty, and refusing to leave the premises when requested to do so. The senior sergeant explained that tho accused had been before the uourt nine days ago on the charge, and had been remanded until to-day. He had fallen in love with a young married woman, and had been "hit pretty hard," the girl a-ctmg as a magnet to draw him wherever she went. When she left a position in which she had been employed and went to live with her husband in a private house the accused followed her and made a nuisance of himself. Ho had had eight or nine days to. meditate over the matter, and now recognised that ho had been a fool, and promised that ho would not go hack lo the house again. "He is all ri<rht now," added the senior-sergeant. The Bench convicted the accused, and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

Summer time began in Great Britain at 2 o'clock yesterday morning.—A. and N.Z.C.A. "

The public-debt of- the Borough of Palmerston North, as at March 31," 1930, was £966,540 10s 7d.

Regulations outlining the procedure to be, followed in the election of the Music Teachers' Registration Board in October next appear in the current Gazette. The work of the Commission appointed by the Government, to investigate cases of hardship arising out of the imposition of the super-land tax is nearly over. The, tender of a. Wellington firm of monumental masons lor extensive conciele work at the Soldiers' Cemetery, Featherston, has been accepted by the Government.

Over 500 applications for work wero received in person by the Wellington Red Cross Unemployment Relief Committee during the last 12 months. In 105 cases the applicants were returned soldiers with dependents, but, no pensions. The committee, distributed £232 in urgent cases during the year.

Describing the Rangitikei roads as the worst in the North Island, and the council as unprogressive, a Wanganui deputation waited on the county council urging that something should be done immediately to have the highways tarsealed. The chairman declared the council was alive to the question. They would soon have tar-sealed roads.

Ihe Shipwreck Relief Society will not receive a contribution from the Lyttellon Harbor Board this year on account of the healthy financial position of the society (states the Christchurch Times). The society's accumulated funds at .March 31, "1929, totalled £13,866, and during the year it paid out £3222 to those who lost possessions iu the wreck of the Manuka.

The following applications for subsidies on voluntary contributions have been submitted to tin. Education Department by the llawkes Hay Education Hoard in lespect to schools in the Gisborne and hast Coast districts : Atangapapa, library and roto-rolls, £8; Tokomaru Bay, library, roto-rotis, ami nr.stant outnt, £o; Waipiro Bay, fencing and grassing tennis court, £2 10s. W T hilo in the Ohakuno district recently, Mr. I'. Eraser, M.P., noted the remarkable development ot market gardening there. Ho said that locality, and perhaps others in the iving Country, seemed to be well suited to the growing of vegetables and root crops. The prospects for market gardening in the King Country should be particularly bright, as it was situated favorably in regard to both Wellington and Auckland, and could command both markets. When Mr. Charles Todd made his very generous gift to Dunedin of a site for the municipal air port, it was hoped that tho success of aviation in that part of the. Dominion was definitely within sight. A site was purchased by the Aero Club at Green Island, but it has since been found that, from the point of view of commercial flying, the Green Island aerodrome is not ideal, and the club is now in search of a new site.

New Zealanders will lie interested to hear that the cinematograph pictures o! the Dominion which Captain Sir W. Brass, A1.1'., took when he was there in 1928 with Mr. L. S. Amery, have proved extremely popular in this country. Captain Sir William Brass has shown this film, which includes South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, over 90 times to more than : K),000 people. The pictures of Rotorua, Lake Taupo, farms in Canterbury, and a, butter factory tit Waheroa have conic out very well.—London correspondent. "The development of the fellowship of NeW Zealand writers along sound lines must necessarily bo a slow process at the present stage of the Dominion's literary progress," declared Mr. Anderson at, the monthly meeting of the council of that body in Wellington recently. It was reported that a publicity committee had been organised, covering the whole Dominion, and members could now avail themselves of this facility by sending to the secretary items of interest, concerning works published or in hand, and other matters of general literary interest.

It is generally considered that there is at present a shortage of money in the Dominion, but if such is tho case it has not affected the operations of the Christclmrch Drainage Board. Just over a week ago a parcel of debentures, bearing interest at the rate of 5| per cent., and maturing in 36 years, was offered to tho public (states the Christclmrch Press). The response was so good that between £40,000 and £50,000 worth were sold without difficulty, with tho result that further applications received last week have had to be declined, the board's requirements having been satisfied.

Tho Minister of Internal .Affairs advised the Hawko's Bay Education Board at its meeting in Napier on Friday that arrangements had been made on behalf of the Town Planning Board for a public inquiry to be held in the Borough Council chambers, Gisborne, at 10 a.m. on Mav 15, to determine the boundaries of Gisborne and -the surrounding' districts—in other words, to determine the area of which tho Borough of Gisborne might be regarded as a commercial centre in which there was a community of social and economic interest. Tho Minister expressed thd hope that the board would he represented on the committee by a delegate or delegates appointed from amongst tin members and officers to give evidence at the inquiry. Messrs. J. X. Walichon and T. A. Coleman were appointed to represent the board.

An eloquent appeal for tho establishment of a. theological training centre for Maori ministers was made by the Bishop of Aotearoa atFitzroy, Taranaki. The Maoris on the West Coast and in Taranaki, he said, were showing signs of a spiritual revival, and for the first time since tho wars of the sixties, numbers of Maoris were desirous of being confirmed. The work of revival was hampered by a. lack of funds, and partcularly by a lack of trained ministers able to speak the native language, and familiar with the native viewpoint. He had a scheme in mind for a training college to cost, about £6COO, and appealed for the setting up df an organisation in each parish to further the movement. Twenty-four young Maori men were at present trying to join the ministry, but there were no facilities to train them. One young Otaki Maori had expressed the intention of attaching himself to the bishop and assisting him in his work.

Samoan carpenters form just as close a corporation as the 8.M.A., or any other professional union, where tho etiquette is very strict. In his lecture on the Polynesians, Dr. P. IT. Buck was explaining how (he Samoans held rigidly to their old customs —more so than any other people in the Pacific (states the Auckland Star). When ho explained the organisation of the car. pentors, his hearers were reminded of some very strict unions of the present day—both of workers and professional men. Samoa had its special guild of carpenters, and its members built- all the houses. If a person decided that- ho wanted a house built, he had to consult one of the guild craftsmen, feed all the carpenters while- they wore at Work on tho "fale," and, in addition, give them a decent tip now and again. [f the owner failed to keep up the food supply or the baksheesh, workers would down tools, and the job would be boycotted by tho rest of tho guild.