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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 6

Charged with driving his car in Gladstone road last evening without being the holder of a license, William Lionel Harrison was fined 10s by Mr. P. 11. Harper, S.M., in the Police Court this morning.

Holiday motorists experienced no difficulty on the southern outlet. Those who went through at the time of the rain found they bad to use chains on unmetalled sections, but the road stood up well, and no serious delays were experienced when proper precautions were taken. .Motorists returning yesterday found the road in good order, except that the surface was rather rough at (lie Napier end. Apart from that, however, it was discovered that travelling time approximated that possible before the earthquake.

A minor accident occurred in Gladstone road at 0.10 o'clock last evening near the Lowe street intersection. Mr. Harry ITopkinson stepped off the kerb to walk diagonally across tlfe road just as a car driven by Mr. William Lionel Harrison came round the corner of Lowe street into the main road. The driver endeavored to miss tho pedestrian, but the mudguard struck the. man, knocking- him down. His injuries were purely of a superficial nature, however, and after receiving medical attention he was taken home.

During the flood in ihe Inangahua last week the water rose half-way to Hawk's Crag. A number of Australians who returned to Hie Commonwealth by the Otra.nto last week had their trip abroad curtailed by the high rate of exchange. The Australian gliding record ' was beaten by five minutes by F. L. Garrett at Knrioi. The previous record of 1 hour SI .minutes, was made in September last.

The Hutt County Council announces (hat the road, to Akatarawa has been blocked by, a heavy slip and it is dangerous for motorists to attempt to get through.

In a race for the Australian motorcycle championship, a rider travelling n't 70 miles an hour crashed into the crowd. The rider was injured and two spectators received severe abrasions.

Frequent earthquake shocks arc si ill being experienced in the FrnsorInwn district, and distinct rumblings can be heard from the direction of Mohaka, states the Napier. Telegraph.

fftie of the main features of "CheerUp. Week," wli'di will be held al Auckland the end of April to celebrate the COth .anniversary of Oueen street, will be decorated processions through the citv'.

The Federal Commissioner of Taxes has announced that no exemption will now bo allowed to New South Wales taxpayers for taxation paid the State for family endowment or unemployment relief.

More Australian wheat has been shipped to China this season than to the linked Kingdom. Growers are concerned about the report that the Shanghai municipality has imposed an embargo on foreign wheat. . It is estimated that 300,000 people visited the scene of the wreck of the steamer Malabar at Long Bay in the past few days. 'Scarcely a stick of wreckage which strewed the beach for miles remains, so strong has been the desire to secure souvenirs.

Two hundred casual laborers employed by the Post and Telegraph Department at Auckland for the past six months have been dismissed. Some have been engaged for many years on laboring work on telegraphs and telephones. The Railway Department has imported seven petrol engines of a new type for use on velocipwdes, and they will be fried out on branch lines in Canterbury, [t is hoped they will effect considerable saving in patrolling of the lines. An cxpbsion on Kingston! Smith's speed boat Miss Southern Cross completely destroyed the vessel. Kingsford Smith's nephew, aged 20, and a companion named Gray, were thrown into the water, the former sustaining severe burns on his face and right leg and the tatter escaping injury. The boat was burned to the water's edge. The Celtic Football Club dispatched a team to *Napier for its annual match with Marist Old Boys, the game being played on Saturday! The Gisborne side ' did not have the condition of their opponents, who shone out in the second half and won by 14 points to 3. The Napier <olub members treated the visitors with great hospitality.

Some indication of the intense heat of the earthquake fires was given visitors to Napier, when the twisted remains of many huge steel girders which once supported buildings in Emerson street were pointed out. Girders 12in. in width have in some cases given way to the heat and have been bent as if they were made of lead.

Quite a presentable road linking up Napier and the breakwater is Hearing completion, taking the place of the splendid bitumen surface which was buried under the gigantic slide of February 3 last. A large gang of men is engaged on this work and every day sees considerable progress made. A roadway was cut out of the )nouiitainous / pile of debris at the foot of the Bluff, and now shingle has been spread over this.

An epidemic of- distemper is prevalent among the dogs of the district, and numbers of deaths have, been reported from this cause. Sheep dogs are mainly affected, although in the town, too, cases liave occurred. .Some owners in Ihe country have lost several animals, including valuable dogs. Although the present outbreak is serious, it does not appear to be nearly so bad as the epidemic which occurred a few years ago.

Although the search by air for the Southern Cloud has been discontinued. planes of the National Airways on the Sydney-Melbourne service will make detours from the regular route and one plane is held in readiness to investigate any rcjxirt received. Land parties of 40 men are still searching in the northeastern section of the State. The party at Mount Disappointment has returned to camp, 'finding it impossible to penetrate the dense bush on the face of the mountain.

As the result of representations from Dargavifle protesting against the stoppage of railway works and the cessation of the railway service the Minister of Public Works and Prime Minister have Announced that the order for suspension of the service will be cancelled till they have had an opportunity of personally investigating the matter. The figures of freight carried on the railway, it is stated, have shown that the traffic has been increasing each week and it is now hoped that the rails laid down will not lie removed.

The demolition of the old fellmongerint; works at Awapnni, on the area purchased by the Gisborne Borough Council with a view to the development of an auxiliary water supply, is now well forward. The removal 'of the building is a precautionary measure against its loss by fire. The 'fact that the building has escaped fire during the considerable period in which it has been closed is apparently more due to good luck than to any deeply-marked sense of responsibility on the part of people who have occupied the structure from time to time without authority. Messrs. Brown and Robertson, two Auckland youths who formed part (if the crew of the yacht Teddy on the trip to Sydney, returned by the Aorangi. They state the vessel was frequently becalmed, at one time for 40 hours. Before sailing from Auckland, the captain, Mr. Tambs, was presented witli a penny by the Mayor of Auckland, and after a time this was regarded rather as a hoodoo than as a lucky coin. Finally Mr, Tambs threw it overboard in a south west direction, ami immediately afterwards a breeze sprang up and the yacht bowled along in great style, "We went right through the old British sector of the Western Front, hut we had lo come home to New Zealand to see anything in the nature <>f ruined towns," commented' Mr. Hen Tavlor. of Gisborne, in a discussion regarding his experiences abroad, fie mentioned that all through the area formerly wrecked by bombardments, new towns, roads, railways and other public utilities have been built, the trench system completely, wiped out by the plongih, and all but the smallest evidences of earlier devastation removed. Only the splendid war memorials, and the. silent cemeteries, exquisitely tended, remained to indicate the gigantic expenditure of life involved by the Great War. The towns of Napier and Hastings, which Mr, and Mrs. Tavlor inspected on their return to New Zealand recently, pro-, vidod the first spectacle of. ruin seen on "their tour. ' .-'■• -•••'

For the week ended to-day no notißcacations of infectious disease were received in the East Cape Health District, which has its in Gisborne. This is. the second successive week in which no such cases have been reported.

There was apparently little interest at an offer of sale by auction of the Terraces Hotel, Taupo. There were no bids forthcoming, and it is probable the hotel will now be disposed of privately. The building is part of the estate of the late Mr. Matthew Morri-

A Wangajtui .resident .reports that splendid work is being-done by the Tauwharetoa Trust Board, who act on behalf of native owners' 'at Tokaanu. Between 3000 and 4000 acres have recently been cleared of ■ manuka and blackberry, and are to be-ploughed and sowe-d in grass. , The Id ml is to be farmed on a scientific basis.

"When meat prices go down, butchers' shops spring pp. At the present time there are 2f» per cent, more butchers' shops operating in Wellington than there'were two,years ago, and in addition meat .is being sold at auction at several places in the city. Hams were sold for (Id a lb. by auction at the markets last week.

Although negotiations have been pursued by the committee of fire policy-holders, which was set up in Napior to confer with the insurance companies, there is little likelihood that the companies concerned will go beyond making a grant of'£lo,ooo which they have forwarded :tri the relief funds, according to Mr. John Mason, chairman of the -committee.

Good patronage has been extended to ' the Gisborne -Air Tr'nispoi-t Co.'s service during the holidays-,! the volume of traffic between Gisborne and Hastings being satisfactory from the point of view of the company, while the pilot, Flying-officer Lett, also has been engaged from time to time in making short passenger flights over the district.

After a week's absence, Ciisborne people have seen «t great difference in the appearance of the countryside. A resident, who departed on holiday two days after light rain had commenced, and before any growth was apparent in the pastures, left the paddocks still brown and bare. He returned yesterday to a countryside completely changed in color, and harboring an almost spring-like appearance in many places. ,

Business firms have found space for conducting their activities in many peculiar locations in Napier since the earthquake. , Apart from those 'which have been able to erect temporary premises or have been successful in securing space in Clive and Memorial squares, many have taken short leases of some of the less severely damaged structures adjoining the devastated business area. The result is that motor mechanics may be found busily engaged on repair work in backyards, making use of washhouses for workshops,' solicitors' documents and books may be found lining the walls of rooms that were formerly boudoirs, and, in dining-rooms and drawingrooms, sideboard and cupboards have been replaced by formidable chests of dentists' equipment.

Visitors to Wairoa during the Easter holiday period were much interested'in the evidences of earthquake ravage, of which the most spectacular indications were the traffic bridge and shells of the freezing-works, the old flaxmifl, and the big glass-roofed store adjacent to these buildings. Many of the business premises damaged by the earthquake are in process of reconstruction, but in other instances little has been done beyond removing from the footways the materials which the earthquake spilled upon them from the building sites. Wairoa has been severely hit, and the damage to private property is far more extensive than the average Gisborne resident can have any idea of. The traffic bridge is in a deplorable state, and undoubtedly will have to. be replaced, the reconstruction of the existing »bridge being out of the question to all appearances. An interesting indication of activity in connection with the bridge is the staging at present to be seen in, mid-river, a quarter of a mile below the old traffic structure, the staging being employed for borings, directed to the selection of the most suitable site for the new bridge. Two youths who took a motor-cycle out for a run on April 4, when they had completed repairs to the machine were unfortunate to be caught by the police for breaches of the motor regulations. The offenders were Richard Sheridan, who was charged with riding without a license on a machine with no foofrests for the pillion rider, and Henry Patrick Carr, the pillion rider, who was charged with aiding and abetting his companion in the commission of the second offence. Both lads appeared before Mr. P. H. Harper, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, and after hearing the facts explained by Senior-Sergeant Wade, the magistrate, dealing with Sheridan, re-, marked that the first charge was a serious one, though the offence in this case was not as bad as in most, in that ■ it was the first time he had ridden the machine. The other charge was also a serious one; there were'enough accidents with motor-cycles even when they were lifted with footrests. The defendant.had acted thoughtlessly, however, and he did not intend to inflict any penalty. Carr j had acted foolishly in accepting a ride ! on a machine with no footresf,s. but i the magistrate said he did not want a | conviction for aiding and abetting to stand against him for life, and gave leave "to the police to withdraw the charge. The risk incurred by Napier business people going ahead with the erection of temporary buildings without the necessary written permit being first secured from the authorities was stressed by Mr* J, 8, Barton, chairman of the Napier Commission. "People always run a risk by going ahead with buildings without the necessary permit," said Mr. Barton, "and under the conditions at the present time it is especially risky. We find several cases of people going ahead without the proper written permit. There were many temporary inspectors here, some of them on loan from other bodies, and it was natural that none of these men should have' authority to bind the Napier Borough Council to giving permits. Yet some owners have commenced to build on the authority of a nod and a wink from these temporary inspectors." At the present time, continued MY. Bar- j ton, town planning suggestions were in the air, and before the Commissioners could grant a permit they had to consider the applications in the light of those suggestions, give any special warnings necessary and embody them in the conditions of the permit. The bill now before the House gave power to the Governor-Ceneral-in-Council to make regulations for the control of building operations in Napier and power was also given the Commission as to the removal, or compulsion of removal, of any building erected in the borough , at any time after February 3, 1931. ' "These conditions," concluded Mr. Barton, "show the risk that owners are running when they commence buildings or any erection whatever stflthout the proper permit by the Qgmmissiojv," - K ;■