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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17450, 24 December 1930, Page 6

'Hie Herald will not be published tomorrow, Christmas Day, on Friday, boxing Day.

* meeting of dairy company delegates held in Palmerston North to consider the price charged to farmers by the Manawatu Electric Power Boar I for electric power unanimously passed a resolution advocating a reduction.

The importance of freezing works to the trade of Hastings is marked by the fact that between £17.000 and £IB,OOO is being paid out in wages by three companies for the. fortnight prior to the Christmas holidays.

In respect to the request ol the. Liverpool authorities, several business people in Gisborne have already displayed flags and bunting in celebration of Christmas, but the Mayor, Mr. 1). W. Coleman, trusts that by this evening everyone in possession of flags and bunting will, display the decorations.

It is not every indigenous shrub or tree that can ;be taken from its native habitat in the busli and made to adapt itself to the conditions of urban horticulture, hut Mr. J. B. M’Dougiall, of St. Clair, Dunedin, has been fortunate enough to get good strikes from three cuttings of a manuka bush of rare beauty and unusual profusion of foliage which he found on a recent holiday trip in the back-country of the Chtlins district, says the Otago Daily Times. The species, which had not previously been registered, is, at the suggestion of Mr. H. Hart, to bear the name Sir George Fenwick.

Once again at the general committee meeting of local body representatives held last evening the question of payment for Secretarial work in connection with the unemployment relief board was discussed. It was agreed that the Unemployment Board, in laying down the stipulation that all efforts on behalf of the local committees must .be organised without cost to the board had placed a severe handicap upon the whole scheme. The Mayor, Mr. D. W. Coleman, stated the committee was much indebted to Mr. W. Oakden for his work as acting secretary, pending Mr. A. F. Rowley’s taking over the duties of that post, and a hearty vote of thanks was conveyed to Mr. Oakden. The Gisborne R.S.A. president, Lieuten-ant-Colonel R. F. Onmbrill, mentioned that while Mr. Oakden had been on loan to the relief committee the R.S.A. had to employ another man to keen the office work going and meet applicants for relief from other troubles '■"sides those caused by unemployment The action of the association in lending Mr. Oakden to the relief committee. was warmly acknowledged.

The occupants of the fishing launch Wren, owned by Captain George Thompson and JVIr. C. Parkes, which was wrecked at .Muriwai on Sunday, liad a fortunate escape from drowning. The party left the wharf on Sunday morning for the Muriwai fishing grounds, with Captain Thompson in charge of the launch. Everything went well at the start, and two sharks and a sehnappor were hooked, but a heavy soa arose, and the plight of the party, of whom one could not swim, became serious. It was obvious that the only /•ourse to adopt to save the lives of the fishermen was to run the launch up on to the beach, and the members of the party felt that they owed their lives to tiie manner in which Captain Thomp son handled the vessel. Once on thr bench, the launch quickly broke up, but Ihe occupants reached tlm shore in safely, and, wet through, commenced n wearisome tramp hack to town along the (reach. . Mr. Parkes did not share their discomfort, and owes his escape to the fact that lie slept in, and was not one of the party. Captain Thompson and Mr. Parkes are heavy losers ; they purchased the launch only recently, and had spent a considerable sum in repair ing awl improving the vessel.

On the last day of receiving the Dunedin City Corporation’s rates a total of £54,000 was paid in, leaving about £30.000 outstanding. This is about the same as last vear.

Suffering from burns, received, it is understood, when his motor-cycle caught tiro near Matawai, Harry Haydon, 20, a laborer, of NCotu, was admitted to the Cook Hospital at 2 a.m. yesterday. His condition to-day was reported to be fair.

At Morrinsville last week a complete flax milling plant which cost £2300 was sold by auction for £35. The bidding commenced at £lO, and rose by 10s bids until the figure quoted was reached. The plant included two 35 h.p. engines.

With the four Diesel engines arriving in Lyttelton in January the installation of a stand-by plant for Canterbury is now being pushed forward as a work of urgency, so that 6000 k.w. may be expected to bo available from it by the time winter comes. The site of over an acre in area at Lyttelton has been taken over by the Public Works Department from the Harbor Board, and lias been cleared.

“Originally Christchurch was 640 acres in extent, and only 300 acres were available for cutting up,” said Mr. George Harper, at a meeting of the Christchurch Rotary Club in an address on “Early Canterbury.” “But provision was made eventually for the magnificent town reserves, including the 600 acres of llagley Park. The first tree to be grown in the park was not planted until 1864. Look at tho difference to-day!” he said.

A representative gathering of. electors in'Dunedin South electorate waited upon Mr. D. C, Cameron last week with a request that he allow himself to he nominated in the Reform Party interests at' the next general election. Mr. Cameron stated his willingness to place himself in the hands of the party supporters, and assured the deputation that whether selected as the official Reform candidate or not, his efforts would he, directed toward returning the party-to power.

Nature does not often throw out gold for picking up by passers-by, but such an occurrence is reported *by a fish trawler’s crew that visited The Nuggets last. week. Fine gold glittered on the scales and skins of the fish that came up in the net, and after their dying flappings some of the dust was swept up from tlie deck—enough to enclose and take to Dunedin for the convincing of the sceptical. It is conjectured—no other cause being assignable—that the gold came out of the Molyneux River with fine sand that was stirred by the net.

In describing some of his experiences in tho United States, when be was attending the recent international Congress on Mental Hygiene, Dr. R. Noble, an eminent Sydney psychologist, said in a lecture at Wellington that first of all he had to explain where Australia and New Zealand were. In America they did ndt seem to appreciate the fact that it took three days and a-half to .get to Wellington from Sydney. It was thought perhaps it was a matter of half a day. They had the idea that New Zealand was full of Maoris and kiwis, and Australia was full of aborigines and kangaroos. “Of course,” he added, “they had the old idea that most colonials were descended from convicts sent out for the good of their health.”

A design by Mr Henry E. White, a Sydney architect, has been chosen by the Dihvnrth Trust Hoard for a new school which it is proposed to have built at Wiri. The jury of award made the following decision: —First prize, £500: Mr. Henry E. White, Sydney. Second prize, £000: Messrs. Tole and Massey, Auckland. Third prize, £200: Messrs. W. Martin Hutchinson and R. A. Lippincott, Auckland. Three prizes of £100: Messrs. Bloomfield, Owen, Morgan, and R. W. Mnc.luurin; Messrs. Roy A. Lippincott and Lo Pettit; and Mr. McGowan, all of Auckland. A permanent school will take the place of the present wooden structure. ,

Satisfaction with the decision of the Government to place a ban on coupon and free gift schemes was expressed by members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and representative business men. It was considered that the public vbould be. well rid of the schemes, and that those concerns involved in them would have nothing to regret because of their prohibition. “I think the Government is to he complimented on taking Ihe action it lias to do away with the schemes,” said an ex-president of the Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the present council of the chamber. ‘‘lt is a most unjust form of trading, and I feel confident that those who have taken on the gifts will be pleased to see the system brought to an end.”—Dominion.

“Any objection which has been raised against New Zeaand conducting research into cancer on the ground that we are only doing what might be done by a larger country is met by the fact that there is a central organisation in London for an interchange of ideas,” said Dr. J. S. Elliott in his presidential address at the meeting of the New Zealand branch of the Empire Cancer Campaign Society in Dunedin, reports the Otago Daily Times. He added that the New Zealand branch, together with other branches, sent to London its programme of research work for the following year, and if other branches contemplated similar work they were put into touch with one another, so that there was no waste of energy or misdirected effort.

Starting with £IOO and a section five or six years ago, when employed by the Christchurch City Council as a laborer at Ids a day, Charles Frederick Pr.vlco undertook speculating in properties, and in three or four years handled about 200 properties profitably. One deal then fell through, and, as a result lie met his creditors in Christchurch. Pryko claimed that if he were allowed to handle all the properties, subject to the supervision of the Official Assignee, ho could realise equities and raise more than sufficient money to pay all his creditors ami annul his bankruptcy. The creditors agreed to this course, giving bankrupt six weeks in which to sell sonic of the properties and make an offer to his creditors.

Among questions argued in tho case of Alfred Edward Storey, the subject of an appeal to the Court of Appeal, was the right of the judge at the trial of a criminal case to submit issues to the jury. Dealing with this point in his reserved judpmont, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said that in his opinion there was nothing to prevent the nidge putting specific questions to the jury, but the jury was not bound to answer them, hi other words, a jury mieht he invited, luit could not be compelled, to answer specific issues. As lias been said by a hiuh legal authority, it was better to leave (lie ueneval issue to Hie jury, save, he would add, jn exeonlionnl nrcumstances, where in (he interests of justice it seemed desirable Hint specifi-’ questions should he put. Rvnn when thev were put. the jury was nn+iMed if it thorn-lit fit to return a general verdict instead of answering the ■ssees. His Honor said that lie bad dealt with the point at some length because of its general importance and of the fact that it was much debated at the Bar.