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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17527, 23 July 1931, Page 6

Four degrees of frost were registered in Gisborne this morning.

The. Cook County Women's Guild acknowledges receipt of an annual donation of £5 for the Children's Creche from Mrs. C. V. Browne,

The Gisborne Air Transport Co.’s Desoutter plane, which conveyed Canon H. Paeke to Auckland yesterday, is expected to return to Gisborne to-day.

A consignment of fat sheep and cattle of a particularly good type was dispatched by the Parer a for Lyttelton today. There were 474 sheep and 50 cattle. They are destined for the Addington sale."

Notice of his intention to move at the next, meeting of the Borough Council that the resolution’passed on February 8, 1921, fixing tlie Honorarium of the office of Mayor at £250, be rescinded, lias been given by CT. If. 11. DeCosta. Ait explosion of gas in the silencer pit at. the Power Board's station at Carnarvon street last evening produced minor damage to windows and one wooden wall of the boiler-house. The power station staff were not alarmed, as explosions of gas accumulations have not been unknown in the past.

Representatives of the New Zealand Shearers’ Union and tho Sheepfanners’ Federation were in conference at Wellington yesterday to consider the 1 raining of a* new agreement covering rates of pay and conditions for shearing, that which is now lapsing having been arranged on a sliding scale according to the price of wool. In the cycling division, the. Gisborne Amateur Athletic and Harrier Club has arranged the following programme of events for the balance of the road racing season —August 6: Road championship over the Wnihirero circuit, approximately ]o miles. August 20: 30-mile handicap over the Wailiirere circuit (19 miles) and thq King’s road course (11 miles). September 3: Te Karaka road race, approximately 44 miles.

Household tires are blamed by Mr. A. It, Galbraith, city engineer, for much of the fog that is found in Christchurch. When ’ speaking at a meeting of the Town-Planning Institute he said that 11i,., city was peculiarly lavorably situated "for studying the pollution ol the atmosphere, for one could witness tnc slate of the air from the hills. He was of the opinion that if by some means electricity, could lie supplied cheaply enough to heal ail the houses b\ radiators it would be a great step toward the solution ol the fog problem. The ladies’ auxiliary of the, Gisborne hruocli of the New Zealand Politieal Reform League met yesterday afternoon in eonmntioii wil.li the. campaign to further the interests of the Reform candidate, .\| r . ||, DcLnuluiir, at the general elections. Mrs. ,1. Blair ami .Miss Eva Marker were elected' \ ire-presidents, and Airs. Blair took tho chair for the time being. Miss Mclldowie was elected secretary, ami a sub-committee was appointed to arrange for the election of a permanent president ol ttie auxiliary. A proposal was put forward hv Mrs. Blair that a sub-committee should be appointed for each district. The president and secretary of the auxiliary automatically become 'ex-officio members of the men’s league, and in addition the auxiliary lias the” right to appoint two delegates to attend the-meetings, and the delegates elected yesterday wore Mrs, H. A. Barton and* Mrs. Richardson.

The Lang Government has introduced a bill in 'lk; N.S.W. Assembly to prevent landlords evicting tenants. Damage to the extent of £IO,OOO 'vas done by a fire, which destroyed the Hibernian Hall and other buildings at Roma, Queensland. A Winnipeg report estimates that Canada's wheat yield this season will be the lowest for 24 years, due largely to the drought. Passengers by the Auckland Express arriving at Wellington yesterday reported that snow lay Heavily on the ground at Oliakune. and even on the low levels between Taihape and Mangaweka.

Though detectives have combed Sydney no trace has been found of the missing man, Joseph Harold Evan, who'disappeared shortly before his name was called in the Quarter Sessions, where he was to stand trial in connection with the £IO,OOO robbery from tho Canberra mail train. An endeavor to beat Mr. 0. W. A. Scott’s record flight to England is to bo made by Mr. J. A. Mollison, who hops off from Sydney at 8 a.m. on Saturday. He takes with him 11, gallons of water and a parcel of compressed food, but will have no firearm. From Wyndham he goes all out to beat Scott.

A 13-year-old boy, Roderick Montgomery, sun of Mr. .). Montgomery, of Morison's Rush, is at present an inmate of the Mastertou Hospital, suffering from a severe spinal injury, received during a football match. The boy was playing in a Carterton District High School team, and received the injury through players falling on him when a scrum was breaking up. 111-luck has dogged the family, as a second hoy was hurt in a football match recently, and the- father -is suffering from a serious eye injury.

Convicted of negligent driving, George Anderson was fined £lO by Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in the Carterton Police Court. His license was cancelled for two years. The police stated that, defendant’s car left the road about 40 yards south of Wyett’s bridge and carried -oil until it hit the end of the bridge on the wrong side. Denying that he was under the influence of drink at the time, the defendant alleged lie was dazzled by (lie lights of ,'in approaching car, which, he said, caused him to nwerve over.

Thc> population of the railway camp at Bartlett’s has not decreased to any marked extent during recent weeks, the majority of the families camped there by permission of the Department of Public Works appreciating the fact that a roof in the country is better than no roof in the town.' Most of the camp dwellem are short of cash, hut their lot is at least preferable to that of many families in town, whose rent' is beliiml-lmnd and who are dependent to a considerable extent; on public sympathy for the means of livelihood. The Kopuawhara camp, at the Waikiikopu end of the railway const ruction,. also is occupied to much the same extent as formerly, though some of the lints there are empty, whereas at Bartlett’s practically every building is occupied. At the 'monthly meeting of the Gisborne R.B. A. executive, held last evening, tho business dealt with principally comprised d'Riil work, representing progress with pension applications and appeals, applications for advice and assistance from the widows and families of deceased returned men, and allocations of R.iS.A. funds for projects authorised at earlier meetings. Lieut.-Gol. R. F. Gambrill, president of tin l Gisborne ILK.A., reported upon the. annual conference of the New Zealand association, held recently in Wellington, there being nothing of particular local application. lie was accorded the thanks of the meeting for the capable representation of the Gisborne branch at the conference, and for his comprehensive report of the proceedings.

Since the Gisborne B.S.A. uniiouncOil lost month that it would subsidise the wages ot' returned soldiers engaged for casual labor, to the extent of 5s per clay in each instance, jobs have been found for 50 men under this scheme. The average period of employment; has not been lengthy, but the work thus secured lias enabled the men to eke out their relief wages under the .State unemployment scheme. In practically every case, householders who have availed themselves of the Gisborne .11.8.AGs offer have expressed themselves as entirely satisfied with die quality of work performed, and many a resident whoso garden has become a little beyond hies own powers of control has been thankful to hand over the lulying-up process to an exserviceman whose day’s work is subsidised.

After a. perilous experience for several days two fishermen, Owen West and a. companion, returned to Maketu, Bay of Plenty, yesterday, exhausted and hungry. They left Maketu on Thursday last in their launch on a fishing cruise. A fierce gido sprang up. The engine stopped and they lost their anchor. The launch drifted iO miles, but fortunately struck Raurimu rocks, off White Island, where the men were marooned for two days without food.' Had they not drifted on to these rocks they would have been carried well out into the Pacific, When llie weather had moderated somewhat they dug with their hands in the sand to clear a passage for the launch, and after two days’ work managed to refloat it, getting away on Tuesday night, and arriving at Maketu in an exhausted condition. During the. time they were missing search had been made for them by coastal shipping.

•'‘ I am really distressed at having to but off some of these country fixtures,” commented Air. Justice Frazer at the opening of the Arbitration Court in Auckland, when a Gisborne case was mentioned, “ Perhaps they will get a new court otto of these days and then we will be able to get through the work.” The court lias a longer list if fixtures to attend to this session than is usually the case for the reason hat in addition to a large batch of compensation cases close on 40 applications for exemption from the wages “cut” have to be disposed of. Two applications for new awards have been lilul, bn! one relating to the Auckland abattoir and freezing workers hits been referred by the consent ot the parlies to Wellington and 'finally to Christchurch, where a special session of the court will be held.

Among the suggestions received as to useful expi'iiditme of relief lit nils under the. No. 5 scheme is one for the. drainage of the iviito.no road reserve, Kaiti. 'lbis reserve as an area of great potential value, and as the oilier areas of tlie borough become more closely built upon, tho value will be better appreciated. At present its use for recreation purposes is marred by the poor drainage, and it is suggested that while unemployment relief money is available, the drainage should be improved by the installation of u system of field tiles. The tiles would represent an expense for which no unemployment relief moneys would be available, but one resident of the neighborhood expressed the opinion to-day that a canvass would produce a - substantial contribution to this cost, the balance of which might be found by the Borough Council as an investment for tlio f uture. . _-. .