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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 6

A large number of visitors are in residence and camping at Mount Maunganui, Tauranga, and there is every indication of a record number of visitors this season.

A large area of grass, adjoining the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. Holden at Wauiui beach, caught tire, on Saturday afternoon. The blaze, which was lierco while it lasted, gave seaside dwellers nearby an anxious time, but the outbreak was eventually extinguished before it had caused any damage.

While fishing in the Wainmta River on Saturday a High School pupil named T. S. Scott received a painful injury, a large hook entering his thumb as he cast his line. He received treatment at a private hospital, and later in the day was little the worse for his accident.

It is only now that the Gisborne post office is recovering from the Christmas rush. Saturday was a particularly heavy day, and postmen experienced just as trying a time as they did opt Hirst mas Eve. A large amount of mail matter arrived in Gisborne mi Wednesday niirht, and this, of course, was not touched until Saturday morning, when the stall" was fully oo upied to cope with it.

Gisborne residents flocked to the seaside in large numbers yesterday, the day being an ideal one for surf bathing, Wnikunne bench was thronged with bathers from an early hour, and the accommodation in the dressing pavilion proved totally inadequate. Al Waiimi bench the crowd of holidaymakers was the largest seen there for some years, while the various resorts furl hoc along the Coast were also well patronised, and, as usual, Longbush and Wuihirere proved popular with picnic parties.

In connedion with tin* burglary commit I »‘<l in Mr. T. )I!'. Shields’ premises nn the corner of Onrnarvon street and Gladstone road on Boxing Day, the two ini'ii who wore arrested by Detentive McLeod and Plain-Clothes Constable King the following morning appeared before Mr. \V. Dissent Clayton, J.P., late on Saturday afternoon, and were remanded until January 5,. on the application of Detective McLeod. The accused were Erie Lawrence Brown, 2(1, and Wilfred Lloyd Buttorill, H>, who were charged with breaking and entering the shop and dwelling of Thomas Henry Shields, and stealing therefrom 26s in money. Detective McLeod mentioned that the accused were both laborers who had arrived in Gisborne recently from Hawke’s Bnv. No application was made for bail,

Guests at hotels in Wellington for Christmas were more numerous than at last Christinas.

A total of £9OO, with subsidies, has been spent in Wanganui since the Unemployment Board’s relief schemes came into operation.

At the request of a large deputation of influential business men, Mr. B. B. Creagh has consented to contest the Napier Mayoralty at the next municipal elections, in April, 1931.

Four Napier residents made a tour of the (.outre of the North Island, covering 557 miles in two days. They visited Taupo, Rotorua, Hamilton, Waikarcmoana, and Wairoa. Four eases of infectious disease were reported from the East Cape health district for the week ended at noon today. The notifications comprised one of typhoid fever, one of erysipelas, one of pneumonia and one of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Two camps of men are still being maintained on the work of widening the Napier-Gisborne main highway at langoio. The completion of the work in a few weeks’ will result in an invaluable improvement having been made to this much-used route.

A minor outbreak of fire at 9.30 a.m. to-day called the brigade, out to a washhouse in Clifford street, next to the VVhataupoko tennis courts. The services of the brigade were not greatly in demand, however, for players from tlie courts, seeing the blaze, were quickly on the scene, and bad the fire under control in quick time. The damaged washhouse was on Mr. A. N. Pollock’s property.

As a result of damage by the, recent hurricane, shipments of bananas from Fiji will be small for the next six months, according to Mr. A. W. Allen, who returned to Auckland by the Tofua after a business trip to the Islands. Air. Allen said the damage to the banana plantations was considerable, particularly in the Wainabuka district.

The City Band limited its hours of carolling during the Christmas season to a few in the morning of Christmas Day, two parties leaving the bandroorn shortly after 6 o’clock. Their collections amounted to about £22, a favorable indication of the popularity of the band. On Boxing Night a party of 'bandsmen gave a programme in Gladstone road, and a furtlmr £5 was added to the funds

A small Maori girl, L. Tiako, was teaching a boy of nine to swim in tho Wanganui Fiver “near Koriniti pa, when the boy became over-confident and sprang into deep water, in which a strong current was flowing. The bov immediately got into difficulties, and the girl went in after him. Three times she caught and lost the boy before she dragged him ashore. She then ran to the pa for help, and by !) o’clock the boy was out of danger.

Beading of the great amount of distress in Auckland, Mr. Alport Barker, Mayor of Suva, has appealed to the public of Fiji, to send in boots and .shoes to help the relief fund in Auckland, writes the Auckland Star’s Suva correspondent. Already one large box has been sent, and Mr. Barker, who goes to tin 1 Dominion on a brief holiday (and arrived in Auckland last week), will take several more cases. The footwear in most cases has hardly been worn, and should prove'Welcome in these hard times.

The customary Christmas leniency was extended by the bench in the Police Court this morning, when Patrick Cahill appeared before Messrs. I. Mirfield and ,1. 11. Ormond, J’s.lk, charged with disorderly behavior while drunk on Saturday, having twice previously been convicted of drunkenness within six months. Senior-Sergeant Wade explained that the accused lmd been shouting and waving his arms in Gladstone road. Drink was the accused’s enemy, but the seniorsergeant suggested that in view of the season, leniency might be extended to him. In convicting an cl discharging Cahill, the bench warned him to look after himself in future. Two first offenders for drunkenness on Saturday night were fined the amount, of their bail, 10s each.

A distinctly bright Christmas story, a story of helpful striving after better .Dings, is being told of a certain citizen of Wellington, a man of standing and, incidentally, a substantial contributor to the Mayor’s Unemployment Fund, and his old gardener, states thSiPost. After very long service, the gardener a few days ago resigned bis job. Whether or not reasons were given is not stated, but it transpired later that the possibility of 14s per day was more attractive than a job so steady that, after many years, there were still a few more lawns to cut and cabbages to hoe. Certain Kelburn residents for some years have employed between them another old gardener, the usual rate of pay being 10s, with tram fares and lunch. He gave no notice; he just did not come back.

A proposal to ration work was dipcussed at the last meting of the Whakatane Borough Council. It was suggested by the works committee, that outside employees should be paid 2s an /hour for a 44-hour week, and that thfe pay of ieainsi'Ts be reduced to that of two horse drivers. The Mayor, Mr. W. Sullivan, said the foreman had suggested this course to enable more men to be employed without extra cost to the council. The teamsters’ wages were within a few shillings of the foreman’s wages, while the wages of the administrative staff were too low, owing to the past unsatisfactory state of the borough finances. The road staff had been paid above the award rates. He considered the works committee’s report was a wise one. The committee’s recommendation was adopted.

‘‘You seem to have got the worst of it,” commented the bench in the Police Court this morning, in convicting James Kelly of assault. The accused was charged before. Messrs. I. Mirfield and J. H, Ormond, J’s.l’., with assaulting Frederick Allan on Saturday, and with refusing to quit the Bridge Hotel when requested to do so by the licensee, but in view of his plea of guilty to the first charge, the second was withdrawn. Senior-Sergeant. Wade explained that the accused had been in the hotel, and though he had not been drinking there, he had evidently had liquor elsewhere, He became rather nasty, and was involved in a tight with two or three others. Judging from his appearance he had not. had the best of it. In imposing a, fine of £2 and costs, the bench warned Kelly to look after himself in future.

The fire brigade received a call to X lire in a four-roomed dwelling at 11!) Albert, street, Palmerston North, last week. The house, which was occupied hv Mr. E. Swcctman, was totally destroyed, as was a nearby shed 'owned by Mr. AY. T. Riddell. Mr. Swectman was aroused from his sleep by a crash and on making investigations found that the house was ablaze. He immediately shut the door of the burning room and assisted his wife and a young child through the window. They escaped with only a small quantity of clothing. Tho brigade was handicapped in its work by the fact that the house stood back some distance from the road, while it was also found necessary to use the pumps. ’ > I