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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17610, 28 October 1931, Page 6

Of the 400 builders throughout Southland registered as union members 200 are at present engaged on unemployed relief works, revealing tho degree to which the trade has been affected by economic conditions. No trace has been found of the missing youth, Arthur Wellsted, 16, who is believed to have been drowned as tho result of the capsize of a small sailing boat and dinghy in the Rangitoto Channel on Sunday morning. On Monday a further unsuccessful search of the* shore of the island and the outlying rocks wns made by the youth’s father, Mr. A. W. Wellsted, and a party of friends. St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Dunedin, has decided to do away with the long-standing practice of taking up a collection during church service. In future worshippers will place their offering in a box as they enter the church. It is recognised that many at the present time are finding difficulty in . making ends meet,” and the decision to eliminate the taking up of the collection has been made to save them any likelihood of embarrassment in attending the services.

Flowering clematis by the roadsides makes motoring a particularly pleasurable experience in the Rotorua district at present. Huge white clusters hang from tho trees on both sides of the Marnuku Bush road and around the lakes in the thermal district, making a very beautiful sight. Far from diminishing, the clematis appears to be increasing in the Rotorua region, and the public has evidently awakened to the harm that accrues from indiscriminate plucking of this beautiful native creeper.

The abolition of lower-grade schools and the substitution of correspondence classes for the pupils may bo adopted by tlie Coalition Government as one of the means of making economies in education, it is stated by the Christchurch Sun. By doing this tho Education Department would he saved the expense of salaries for the teachers engaged, and also incidental costs in maintenance of buildings, although, of course, this would be partly offset by the increased cost of enlarging the correspondence system.

Two examples of the severity of the gale recently were shown to an Ashburton Guardian reporter the other morning. One was a number plate taken from a motor car. There was not a trace of the yellow enamel on it, the surface having been cleaned off by the stones and sand blown against it while the motorist was driving against the wind. In the of her instance, the painte i sign on the public telephone outside the Post Office had been more than half obliterated bv the sand swirling against the building. The extension of the Kaiti bus route to Grey street has not produced very eneouraging results, according to the bus manager, Mr. K. G. Ball, in a report to the Borough Council at its meeting last evening, for, although a few passengers travel, others who are accustomed to boarding tlio bus at the Post Office do not wait tho extra few minutes until the arrival of tho bus from Grey street. Mr. Ball suggested that the trips to Grey street should be discontinued, with tho exception of the 5.35 p.rn. trip on week days, and tho 4 to 5.35 p.m. and 9 p.rn. trips on .Saturdays. The suggestion was adopted.

Fat lambs of particularly high quality were received at the Kaiti freezing works this week. Tho works opened on Monday, and continued killing yesterday. the total put through being in the. vicinity of 6000, which will be loaded on to the liner Cornwall, at present in the bay. An inspection of the carcases revealed a particularly high standard of early Southdowns, and tho success attained should act as an inoentivo to the securing of early drafts in future seasons. It- will be the earliest shipment of lambs ever dispatched from Gisborne.

‘‘ln my boyhood days it was quite a recognised tiling that boys should earn pocket-money by raising a pig or per imps several pigs.” remarked the chairman, Mr. C. Thompson, when the agricultural inspector’s report was he ing discussed at the monthly meeting of the Southland Education Board.

‘‘Nowadays, that sort of thing is apparently infra dig. At any rate, it is not done—why, I don’t know. If a boy grows his own greenstuff he- can rear a pig at practically no expense. It’s easy money.” Mr. S. Hire agreed with tho chairman, saying that this was an instance in which parents could give children niu'fii more encouragement.

Armistice Day, November 11, will be observed in the customary manner throughout the Empire, and tho Gisborne Borough Council has been requested by the l’riine Minister to make suitable arrangements in deference to the wishes of tiis Majesty the King. In a letter to tho council at its meeting last evening the Brinio Minister stated that the following cablegram had been received from the {Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; "ill's 'Majesty has approved of arrangements for tlio observance in this country of Armistice Day on tho same lines as in previous years, namely ; A short service will be held at the Cenotaph on tho lines adopted in previous years, including the hymn ”0 God Our lielp in Ages l’ast” ; two minutes’ silence will be observed at 11 a.m., and local authorities in this country will be asked to arrange for the suspension of all vehicular traffic for two minutes from 11 a.m., but rail and water transport will not be suspended.” The council resolved to comply with the request.

After discussion and controversy extending over many months, the Gisborne Borough Council at its meeting last evening resolved to instruct its engineer, Mr. G. K. Barton, to install a plant as early as possible for the chlorination of the borough water supply. The Mayor, Mr. 1). W. Coleman, stated that lie had conferred again with the Medical Oflieor of Health, l)r. 11. B. 'Unbolt, who had informed him that he had referred tlie matter to the Board of Health, which had given him full power io act; Dr. Turbott had intimated that tie ’nremlod to enforce that power. He was definite that a chlorinating plant must bo installed to deal with the whole of the water. The engineer had received advice, that it would be possible to install such a plant., and the speaker felt that there., was no other course but to install it. The engineer explained that his only objection was to the chlorination of tno Aral water for the whole of the year; ho agreed that chlorination was necessary when water was taken from one of the pools in the Aral crook. The Mayor stated that if the plant was installed it could bo brought into use at such times ns the quality of the water made it necessary. A motion by the Mayor that a plant should be installed was carried, an amendment that the matter should be held over until the next mooting being lost,