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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 6

The Popo on Saturday.inaugurated a wireless television station which transmitted a photograph of himself to 1 ans m six minutes. From Parikanapa yesterday it was reported by Mr. Creswell that three to four inches of snow had fallen and during the morning three earthquakes were experienced, one being a severe jolt

Of the aggregate of 11800,000 in loan money raised by the Harbor Board since 1923, a balance'of £8554 remained at the disposal of the board at. 9 a.m. to day. All work at Victorian abattoirs was expected to be resumed to-day, the trouble which arose at the Footscray works on, Friday having been straightened out. Tho Australian battle cruisers Canberra and Australia, arc to bo equipped with lighting pianos as soon as catapults can be lilted. Tho Admiralty is reported to be standardising catapults fur the navy. The London Daily Mail has pointed out that if .Don Bradman accepts the Accrington offer lie could not play in England before 1933. He must reside in the country for two years to qualify for play, and would thus 1 'completely' sever his connection with Australia. Supporting the “Back to Work” movement, Mr. Hogan, Premier of Victoria, stated that provided the Unemployment Bill was passed tho Government would spend £200,000 in an endeavor to get all unemployed men back to work before Christmas. Tho storm clouds of Saturday night and' early Sunday morning left only a small quantity of rain in Gisborne. Several heavy showers foil, and helped to replenish tanks, but there was insufficient to do much good to gardens or pastures. The total fall for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. yesterday was only 25 points in Gisborne.

Basketware, chairs and mats, manufactured by the Blind Institute at Auckland, are to be on sale at the showgrounds on Tuesday and Wednesday, tho proceeds to go entirely to the Blind Institute. The sale is to be. supervised by members of the Rotary Club and tile public should find many useful articles for the home, the purchase of which will aid a most deserving institution. Wall Street gains on Friday were pushed further upward, states a. Sun cable from New York, advance being made of from 2 dollars to 5 dollars a share over a wide front. Traders are satisfied that the British Government will win with a. large, majority, and have one eye. oil the British election and another on the Laval-lloover conference, which they consider may mean a levelling up of financial conditions.

As illustrating the part which artificial stimulation must play in the development of the coastal belt of country and the necessity for cheap transport for fertilisers, ono farmer from Matahoura, with a block of 2500 acres, told a Napier Telegraph reporter that since lie hail been able to utilise tho rail for the traw.sport of lime and manures, lie. had increased Iho carrying capacity of his property to the extent of an extra 1200 stieep. Local gardeners have reason to feel grateful to a change in the direction of the wind last night. A cold southerly that had been blowing all day died down towards. evening anil a dear sky and sharp atmosphere gave every indication of a frost this morning. The thermometer fell steadily during the night and had actually reached freezing point when a light westerly breeze sprung up and averted what might easily have been a disaster to gardens that were well advanced as a result of the unusually warm weather of the early spring.

Following the sounding of the siren at the fire station at. 4.15 p.m., on Saturday, rumor went around that an outbreak of fire bad occurred at the bulk store in Peel street of the Vacuum Oil Go. Pty., Ltd., and streams of motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians, anticipating a spectacular blaze, converged upon the company’s premises. There it was found, however, that a heap of rubbish outside a fence surrounding tho store had caught fire, and was sending up a column of smoke. The fire was extinguished in a few minutes, no damage being caused.

In his monthly report to the Gisborne Harbor Board 'at Us meeting to-day, Captain A. Carson, harbormaster, stated that very fine weather had prevailed in the roadstead during the past month. The depth of water in the ship channel had been maintained, with slight shoaling making itself noticeable at the sides. The aggregate gross tonnage of shipping handled at the port for the month was 35.245, and tho aggregate net tonnage 21,268. Captain Carson also referred to the success of the tests made with the new radio-telephone system of communication, recently installed as an improvement in the port facilities.

A capacity house rewarded the Regent Theatre management at the re-opening programme on Saturday night; the patrons in turn were rewarded with an excellent programme. They were inn pressed, too,' with the appearance of the transformed interior. The gold and deep blue of the proscenium was made more striking bv most effective lighting an alignments, while the walls of the theatre were daintily tinted to provide a most pleasing effect. Attention also was given to oilier parts oi the theatre, which has been reconditioned and modernised in every way. The anxiety of the public; to gain admission was shown by the fact that ifc queue commenced to form over an hour before the entertainment commenced.

Tho sudden snowstorm which swept the Gisborne hill country early yesterday morning did not cause any mortality among the flocks, so far ns could be gathered this morning. The lambs were sufficiently well forward to withstand such severe conditions, while shearing is not general among the high country flocks. Some of the sheep had been shorn, but when the cold change became suddenly apparent on Saturday afternoon flockowners took the precaution of putting the newly shorn sheep into tho sheds. The snow began to fall at about 4 a.m. yesterday, and in some places it continued for two or three hours. Under the action of the warm sunshine and the wind, the snow soon melted, and had almost completely disappeared by about 11 a.m. Tiniroto township appeared to feel the effects of tho snowstorm as severely as places on tho hills. The fall of snow was preceded by a severe frost, and when the residents awoke in ■ tho morning they were surprised to find the snow lying to a depth of from three or four inches. It melted quickly, however.

Much satisfaction with the new facilities provided by the Gisborne Harbor Board for ship to shore communication' was expressed in a letter received bv the board to-day from the branch manager of the New Zealand Shipping Co.. Mr. 11. V. Bell, the contents of whose letter to the board were as under:

‘Wo li.'ivp much pleasure in expressing our appreciation 'of tin* remarkable .success of (lie radio-telephony installation nt the signal station. Frequent use and varied tests were made with this new service in connection with the Kent, when that liner was loading in the roadstead on October 14 and 15, and we think the results exceeded the most sanguine exportations. We think great credit is line to Mr. I. (I. O’Meara and to your Mr. It.'J. l'atty-for the satisfactory results they have'obtained.” Commenting on the letter, the chairman, Mr. J. Tombleson said the board should communicate its thanks to Mr. O’Meara. A motion to that effect was proposed hv Mr. A. 0. Steele, and carried. Mr. T. Corson stated that the shipping interests generally were keenly interested in the now facilities, and most pleased with the results obtained. The secretary, Mr. 11. A. Barton, reported that the radio teleohono installation had been the subject of a number of inquiries from other port authorities In New Zealand,

People will again.be given the opportunity this year of buying Christmas seals or charity stamps —combined postage and anti-tuberculosis stamps—in 3d and 2d denominations, blue and red respectively. The Melbourne singer, Walter Kirbv, who was charged at Westminister Court with indecency, and remanded for medical observation, was later sentenced to ■2l' days’ imprisonment in the second division. Arrangements for the disposal of scholarships under the Emily Lilias Johnston gift of £2OOO wore discussed by the Victoria University College Council. A small drafting committee was set up to prepare the terms of the scholarships. The agency' of bees has been responsible for a most extraordinary instance of mixed pollenation on a farm at Whakamara. A cabbage cut by a housewife contained, beneath 3in. of cabbage leaves, a perfectly-formed cauliflower which has puzzled ‘ gardening experts. Definite steps are being taken by the Anti-Sweating League of Victoria to launch a campaign designed to curb the operations of the sweater, not only in the clothing business, but in all other trades. The Federal Government intends to appoint three inspectors to police awards in Victoria. A verdict exonerating the pilot from blame was returned at an inquest at Blenheim last week concerning the death of Mr, C. W. Cory-Wright, of Auckland, who died on June 1 from injuries received on the previous day thlough an aeroplane crash in the Woodbourne aerodrome. Relief labor has not proved an immixed blessing to' the Wanganui City Council’s tramway department, as was proved in a report by the tramway engineer to the City Council, on the satisfactory condition of ' some sections of the tramway tracks which had been reconditioned. The steamer Port Waikato called at the Mount, Tauranga, on Thursday, to take in material for the Mohaka railway bridge, consisting of portion of the steel bridge towers. There were also some big lifts included in the cargo. Sixteen steel girders 60ft. long by Bft. deep and weighing eight tons each were handled

The fact that cels in a river are a menace to trout was amply demonstrated the other evening, says the Marlborough Express, when Mr. Roy (iill, 'while fishing in the Wairau River, erlight a fair-sized eel which upon • being opened was found to contain 12 young trout. Those varied in length from l|in to the size of a herring. An optimistic view of the. future was expressed by Mr. V 7. J. Lamer, when returning thanks for his re-election as a director of the South British Insurance Co. “The past year has presented many difficulties,” said. Mr. Lamer, “but my personal view is that we have, lett the worst behind and that we will shortly see better and liiore prosperous times. After an absence of two weeks in Hawke’s Bay, a Wellington propertyowner returned to find one of his houses in Kent terrace empty. On looking over the property he found, much to his' annoyance, that someone had deliberately turned off the water at the main and had then carefully unscrewed and stolen every tap in the place.

Considerably more rain fell among the bills during the week-end than in Gisborne, where only a quarter of an inch was recorded. At the headworks of the borough water supply at Te Arai the gauge reading was 4t> points for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday, or almost double that of Gisborne.

A sitting of the Arbitration Court will open in Gisborne at 10 a.m. tomorrow under the presidency' of Mr. Justice Frazer. The court will hear two claims under the Workers’ Compensation Act, and an application by the Gisborne Drivers’ Union for exemption of the general court order in reference to the reduction of 10 per cent, in wages.

Sixteen young woman, unemployed for several months in Sydney, have taken their courage in their hands and established a farming settlement at Doonside, near Parramatta, New South Wales. Their early operations have proved successful, and there is a probability that a further batch of girls will start farming operations in the near future.

At a recent meeting of all Rugby football clubs playing under the Hastings sub-union the advisability of breaking away from the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union and forming an independent body controlling its own competitions in Hastings was discussed. Not all speakers were agreed upon the matter, and a further meeting was held recently to discuss the subject further. “There is no better means of exercise than the Maori haka,” said Mr, Teari Pitama, conductor of a party of Maoris who gave a concert at Christchurch. “The haka brings every muscle of the body into play. Even the eyes and the tongue are working. The New Zealand Government would do better to introduce hakas into the than to copy the exercises of Sweden.” At a special meeting held to-day, the Gisborne Harbor Board . rescinded a resolution anent the Kaiti works lease, and adopted a new motion, in which a clause had been included with the object of securing the interests of the primary producers of the district, m the operation of the works. A further special meeting of the board will be held next Monday for the confirmation ~i to-day's resolution.

“I have been hoping for eight, years to land some of these people who plaster signs all over the countryside, and recently I caught a man red-hand-ed on one of the few beauty spots between Rotorua and Auckland nailing a sign on a free near some pretty bush. I reported him to the police, and 1 understand they are taking action against him," stated the engineer to the Matnmata County Council at the last meeting. “The To Anau-Milford road is now through to Lake Gunn, about 35 miles oast To Anau and six miles beyond the Eglington River,” stated the president of the .Southland Motor Association, Mr. .T. D. Wesney, at the monthly meeting recently. lie added / that a drive through beautifully picturesque country could now he enjoyed on an excellent road with . wide curves and Will planned grades, states the Southland News.

The fact that there were still Napier residents in Palmerston North who were receiving assistance from the relief depot was mentioned at a meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board. The chairman, Mr. J. K. Hornblow, said lie had discussed the matter with the Napier Hospital Board and had been instructed to make it public that, these men must go back to Napier, and that the Napier board would meet their expenses for the journey. If they refused to return, the Palmerston North hoard was to refuse them relief.

“Too long New Zealand and Australia, while enjoying good markets icr their produce, failed to live within their means, and light-heartedly created a false prosperity out of the expenditure of vast sums of borrowed money.” said Mr. E. R. N. Russell, in his address to shareholders of the South British Insurance Co., Ltd., “Now must he proved whether selfreliance has lost its meaning, whether bard work ' combined with' enterprise directed by efficiency are within our capacity to-day as - 40 yops ago.”