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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17407, 4 November 1930, Page 4

Seven members of the New Plymouth Aero Club have succeeded in securing their' A diving licenses. A five-storeyed concrete building in Anzac Avenue, Auckland, known as Bagnall’s buildings was sold by auction last week for £13,009. The building is on a freehold section containing 14.7 perches. Telephonic and telegraphic uomniunication between Napier and Wairoa was interrupted for a short time this morning commencing at about 11 o clock. 1 tie nature of tlio, trouble- was not known in Gisborne up till a late hour this morn.

A now coal mine will probably open at Whareroa, about seven miles from Wiiungarei. It is estimated that a seam of betwfre'ii four and live feet- ini thickness runs through about 14 acres. Llie proved, seam is 35ft. from the ,surface and lies at the, foot of a hill, soj that tile coal is water dry.

Extra, taxes and duties imposed by the Fijian Government are expected to yield £536.720. The Government recognises that -the' veti'r’s transactions must leave a deficit, 'but owing to the surpluses of the past few years and the credit surplus which the colony has lying in London, some £1134,000. no serious position is likelv .to arise.

By arrangement with the Amalgamated Wireless Co., which has installed broadcasting apparatus on Sir Douglas Mawson’s ship Discovery, there will tie weekly descriptive accounts of the work sent. The ship Sir James Clark Ross wjill enable the Discovery to refuel with 100 tons of Westport, coal from New Zealand.

An adjournment until Monday next was granted by Mr. P. 11. Harper, S.M., in the Police Court this morning on the application of Detective McLeod in a case in which a middle-aged Maori woman. Puke Turei. was charged with the theft on August. 27 of a pair of shoes, two reels of silk, arid a silk veil to the total value of £1 Is 6d, the property of Daisy Amai. Mr. T. A. Coleman appeared for the accused.

Information is still awaited by the municipal authorities, regarding the fate of the Macrae bath proposals at the hands of the Government, to which an application for unemployment relief sut sidy was made. The plans have now been in the bands of the Public Works Department for some time, and while it is realised, that there are many more pressing matters to be dealt with, from the department’s point of view, the local importance of unemployment relief is increasing with the passing of the days and the accumulation of sustenance debts on the part of the unemployed. The travelling public appears to be deriving great benefit as a result of road and rail competition in England and Scotland, according to the Rev. Jus. Ait ken, who returned home last week from a visit to Scotland. He said he was again greatly impressed with the beauty of the country, and with the efficiency of the public services. “It is a sheer .joy,” lie added, “to travel down from Scotland by the Royal Scot or the Plying Scotsman. With motor competition, the railways are doing all they possibly can to make travel expeditious and agreeable. Some of the engines are most impressive, of immense size and power. They have resumed the non-stop run between London and Edinburgh, a distance of 400 miles. The latest L.N.E.R. enginel has a water tube boiler, and is the last word in locomotive efficiency. ’ ’

“This case is a bad one, and I have been instructed to ask tor a _ heavy penalty,” stated Mr. It. It. liurridge in the Magistrate’s Court in Masterton, when Jack Hiroti was charged with dangerous driving. Mr. liurridge explained that the borough traffic inspector, Mr. McGregor, had been on duty at the puni triangle when defendant had passed him travelling at between 40 and 45 miles an hour. Two little girls had had to race for the footpath, and the car had nearly collided with a butcher’s van which emerged from a side street. “1 understand that delendant explained that he was hurrying to Wanganui, where bis sister was alleged to be dying,” said Mr. liurridge, “but it is significant that ho was convicted in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui for being drunk in charge of this car next day.” It was explained that defendant’s license had been cancelled at Wanganui. Mr, J. Miller, S.M., imposed a fine of £7. Manufactured goods are more likely to increase slightly in price rather than decrease, according to views expressed to a pressman to-day by the head of one of Gisborne’s leading drapery firm*. The low prices paid by manufacturers for the raw materials had little effect on the manufactured article, and this aspect was more than offset by increased duty and exchange rates. '1 be goods under the new tariff were flow coming to hand, and increases were inevitable, he said, deferring to the complaint made by <ome woolgrowers that they bad to sell a bale of wool before they could buy a suit, the informant said that a suit contained about 48 or 49 ounces of wool. At tho cheaper rate of wool to day compared with two years ago, tho saving on a suit would amount to only about 2ls 6d. lie maintained that Urn labor charges were so important a factor that even without increases in other respects the consumer would benefit little from the low values of the raw material. Manchester Unity Oddfellows, Loyal Gisborne Lodge; 6087, held a most successful meeting last night, Bro. W. T. Rica.rd, N.CL, presiding over a fair attendance. A motion of sympathy was passed tn the relatives of the late Bin. G. M. Stuart, whose death took place in Wellington last Thursday, members standing in silence. The initiation ceremony was '•'inferred on u member. Bro. ,i. G. Me Kay,'N.G.. and Sister M. A. Hohb, I’.tL, being conductors and the various odes being well rendered. The final address was deliverd by Bro. 0, 11. Amhridge, IMhG.M., who presented the candidate with a badge of' the order. Nominations of ollicers were received for the ensuing six months, great interest- being shown. The election Likes place next lodge night, which will lie the last quarterly financial meeting of tin l year. Considerable discussion took place over merit hoards and it was resolved to hri/ig the present one up to date, and also that a new merit hoard Ito obtained showing past financial secretaries. IMhG.M.. and Grand Masters, xvhi It would he a record of high offices attained liy members of the Loyal Gisborne Lodge during the years of its existence. Tho sick visitors' report was more favorable than for some mouths. The arrears list was considered and it was resolved to leave if with tho secretary to bring forward the names of any who were really feeling the hard times through hick of work so that assistance could be rendered in the payment of arrears,

As the result of an affray at. Lithgow (N.S.W.), P. Green was removed to hospital with severe abdominal wounds. ft is estimated that 700 tons of paint will bo used in coating tlio Sydney Harbor bridge.

'Fhe Industrial Court at Brisbane is hearing an application to reduce tbo basic wage from £4 to £3 3s. With amazing audacity two robbers attacked John Fitzgerald, licensee of the Captain Cook Hotel. Sydney, snatched a. bag containing £42 in silver, and escaped.

Proceeds from the Free Ambulance art union, which was drawn at the Wellington 'Fowri Hall concert chamber on Friday night, are in the neighborhood oi £14,200. Believed to be suffering from a lapse in memory, a resident of Hinakura, Martinborough, Mr. Millar, left Hinakura bn October 4, and although lie. is reported as having been seen in Gladstone or! October 16, no trace of him has vet been discovered.

Tn recent months the small army of house-to-house canvassers who com!) the city and suburbs for business lias greatly increased, says the Christchurch Press, and complaints from householders, concerning the activities of the more undesirable have been frequent.

'Fhe Wellington Town Hall lias been booked for the week commencing February 23 for the 1930 .Dominion band contest." Mr. J. J. Kelly, oi Australia, will be chief adjudicator, and Mr. ..A. Schrtack, of Christchurch, lias been appointed assistant judge. ' Nearly ICXX) bandsmen are expected to assemble for tlie event.

A fight between a, thresher shark and a whale was seen off New Plymouth recently. The whale was. cruising close to the shore when it was attacked. The light went on for three hours, by the end of which time both the whale and its opponent, had made their way well out oil' tin* coast. At times the thresher was seen to lift its tail high in, the air to beat the whale, and a,t intervals they were both under vfliter -for long periods. Judgment for the plaintiff for £2 15s and costs was given by Mr. I*. H. Harper, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court this morning in ail undefended civil action in which the Official Assignee proceeded against Thomas Dennis. Judgment summons orders were made as follow: William George Penning v. Charles Westrupp, £5 ss, in default live days’ imprisonment; L. G. Barton v. Thomas Bennett, £l3 ss, iu default 12 days’ imprisonment. A spar of North American spruce, 100 ft long, tlie longest “article” ever dispatched from Auckland by rail, was sent to Hardly on Friday evening. The spar is to be used as a jib of a. special derrick for handling the water tube boilers at the Waihi Grand Junction Gold Mining Co.'s steam power plant, which is being removed and re-erected at ] 1 imtly. ,A second piece of timber, Vlft long, to form the upright post of Hu* derrick, was also railed.

According to a speaker at a mooting ot Redwood's Valley, Nelson, fruitgrowers to discuss railway matters, Nelson business firms were now saving .'is a ton cartage on goods which previously went by rail to the country districts. He said that all prices were “free on rail,” which meant that cartage to tlie railway station was paid by the firm. Now, however, the country lorry picked up the goods at the business premises. The holders of .native leases in Otorolianga are writing to the Minister of Agriculture, Canada, to .find out about land available for dairying purposes. Mr. S. A. took, the secretary, when interviewed, said that his committee and various leaseholders wish the information, and in the meantime hope to organise the holders of native leases in the King ( ountrv. If the proposals horn C anada are considered encouraging to group settlement they will invite other settlers to discuss the matter with them.—Auckland Star.

The overturning of a motor lorry near the township of Waikari was followed by a spectacular fire last Wednesday, states a Napier corre spondent. Just after two lorries had passed a corner, one carrying 94 cases of benzine capsized, and immediately burst into flutncs. Tho. driver was rendered unconscious in'his seat as a result of the crash. The driver of the other vehicle ran hack and pulled the unconscious man from his precarious position. He recovered, however, and was not seriously hurt. The smoke and flames from the burning benzine reached a great height, and. presented an amazing spectacle. Nothing could be done to save the vehicle, which was destroved.

Some people say flint they find travelling in America expensive, while others see the country for a very modest expenditure, states the Christchurch Press. A Christchurch boy who is at present at college in America wished to see something of the country in his term holidays, so he bought a second-hand motor car and. travelled some hundreds of miles in it, through cities and towns, seeing a good deal of Canada, as well as of the United Stall's. For the ear lie paid 15 dollars (£3 2s 6dJ, and expended only 4s 6d on it for repairs. Throughout his long journey he did not have tlie slightest trouble with the car-—not even a puncture—and. on the journey he sold it for the same amount that he had given for it. delivery to be given in January next, when be will be leaving America on bis return to New Zealand.

Desiring to ascertain how they could compete in the Australian market with vendors of South African smoked haddock', two leading Dunedin fishmongers recently requested the representatives of the New Zealand Government in Australia to forward them a box of African fish. The box, which measured approximately' 14 x 9 x din., duly arrived, but- the dismay and indignation of the merchants may well he imagined when it is stated that the package of fish, bought for 16s in Melbourne, cost £2 5s 3d before it was in the hands of the owners. It is the steamer freight that has set Dunedin people wondering what business is coming to. Why, they ask, should there lie such an extraordinary charge for the tr.insportaation of fish from Melbourne to Dunedin? It is claimed that it would cost far less to send fish from Dunedin to London, the difference being something like that which lies between ljjd per pound and 2s lOd per pound.

The cottage of two stories, in the re* mote little town of Kirriemuir, in which Sir James Barrie was horn, is to he sold, says I lie London Times. This is the “Window in Thrums”; and a number of people among those who are lovers of Sir James Barrie’s writings are asking themselves whether steps may not lie taken to acquire tho building; with tho object, of preserving it. So far the local council has not seen fit to mako tho purchase itself. Kirriemuir, where the event which made it famous happened 70 years ago, is in Angus, at no great distance from Glands, in one of tDo. most romantically beautiful parts of eastern Scot land. To the north and north-west tho land, rising to tho peaks of the Grampians, is cut deeply by glens and watered bv rivers of rare and varied beauty. *J’o the southward Dundee stands on the Firth of Tay, faced at sea by the Incheape Rock. But romantic associations hereabouts are without number, and it- would he difficult to discover a. countryside in which romance itself might more readily flourish,