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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17818, 29 June 1932, Page 6

An event ot outstanding importance to tlie medical world is reported from Itio do Janeiro, where it is stated that Professor Maro Rami - has discovered a cure for Iwriberi. —Sun Cable. The Great Northern Railway, states a San Francisco broadcast, is putting back 570 of its men who have been unemployed and is overhauling freight cars and locomotives in preparation for a revival of traffic. A protect against aviators flying over the town at a low altitude was voiced at the last meeting of the Tauranga Borough Council. It was decided to confer with the Aero Club on the subject, A Hongkong message in the American papers states that a Chinese aeroplane, mistaking the British gunboat Moorhen for an “enemy” vessel in manoeuvres .dropped six bombs, which fortunately missed their target. Snow fell early this morning on the high country surrounding the Gisborne district. At Parikanapa tho heaviest fall was experienced, the snow lying to a depth of 4in. In the Waimata, Tnnroto. Motuhoro, and Wharernta districts the fails were only light. The New Zealand Rod Cross Society, whose funds were exhausted in providing relief for sufferers from the Hawke s Bay earthquake, is appealing for money to re-establish the fund, so that relief may be available for any future disaster. The work of restoring the Napier Post Office, gutted by lire at the time of the earthquake, has been almost completed, and tho building will bn occupied in two or three weeks. In the construction wood lias as far as possible been eliminated.

Eight nurses from the Waikato llos pital sat for the State examination for maternity nurses and all passed, five securing honors. One candidate,. Miss Nancy (Jordon, tied with a Wellington nurse for first place in the Dominion, an achievement of considerable merit. American papers publish a report from Sweden reviving tho report ot the possibility of a royal romance. This states that there is a probability of the engagement of the Princess lgrid, of Sweden, to the Prince of Wales. The princess is at present visiting her unde the Duke, of Connaught in England. A large number of native trees, which were planted at the l’oho-o-Rawiii meeting house and which died during I lie prolonged dry spell last summer, have had to be replaced. It is interesting to note that of the 300 Aus : Indian scarlet gums planted there not one was affected.

Marten was struck by a cyclone on Saturday at 5.35 p.ni. The storm, travelling from west to east, swept round the outskirts of the town doing considerable damage to farm building®, hut in the town itself was not so severe. It came with terrifying suddenness, with vivid lightning and a tremendous peal of thunder,

Before a jury of seven men and five women John Curtis, who acted as intermediary in the Lindbergh case was arraigned on a charge of deliberate fraud and obstruction of justice. Colonel Lindbergh spent the day in the witness box detailing the negotiations in connection with the kidnapping of his little bov. Curtis withdrew a confession lie had made.

Yesterday’s receipts of rates by the Gisborne Harbor Board’s staff amounted to £2(142, bringing the total of this year’s rates already paid to about £9OOO. The rate demands were issued on June 1, the total rate levied being £34,491, as against last year’s £34,732; and ratepayers were offered the inducement of a f> per cent, discount; to moot their obligation on or before June 30. The response prompted by this offer lias boon surprisingly good, and actually at the close of business last evening the payments were £IOOO ahead of the total up to tho corresponding date last year. To-day and to-morrow are expected to yield further receipts, bringing the total on which the discount is claimed to well over £20,000. Payments over the counter must be made before the closing hour to-mor-row to qualify for the discount, but remittances posted in time to acquire the postmark of June 30 will bo accepted at the concession rate. This latter point is of interest to country ratepayers, who may not have the opportunity to come to town before the end of the month.

Described by 'ho main highways traffic inspector, Mr. W. 11. Scott, us

“a shuffler,” a lorry driver, George Greenstreet, appeared before Mr. 1\ H. Harper, S.M., iti the Police Court this morning charged with operating a lorry for which no heavy traffic license had been issued. Mr. Scott explained that the defendant had taken out a light lorry license in the borough for the sole purpose, he submitted, of defeating the heavy traffic provisions, paying a fee of only £1 a year. He resided in the Took County, and had taken out. his driver’s license from the Cook County Council office. The defendant’s license fixed the maximum load at two tons, and when caught, the gross weight was 2 tons 18cwt. The borough traffic inspector, Mr. Charles Ferris, stated that the object of licenses such as that taken out by the defendant was to cover tradesmen’s light delivery vans. The defendant explained that his lorrv was a very old one, and was not fit for heavy traffic work. Pointing out that the' defendant must have known that as the unladen weight of his lorry was 1 ton lewt. 2qr. he could carry a load of onlv about 18cwt., the magistrate impostd a fine of £2 and costs 10?,

The Cook County Women’s Guild, which has control of the Children’s Creche, has decided to change the name of the institution to the Heni Matei’o* Children’s Home.

“We have reached a stago in New Zealand when the Main Highways Board is merely investing its funds for the benefit of American industrial interests,” declared Mr. P. S. Bowen, at to-day’s local government conference, in the course of a lengthy address upon the question of derating of farm lands. In a parish in North Auckland lie had taken a service where there was a wonderful Maori choir of 50 voices, said Bishop F. A. Bennett at St. Mary’s Church, New Plymouth. The parish was unable to afford hymn-books but the choir had learned the hymns by heart. Ho heard them sing 20 to 30 hymns perfectly with only four hymn books among them.

A fast return flight from To Kopuru, near Dargnville, to Auckland was made on Saturday afternoon by Flight-Lieu-tenant T). M. Allen in tile Auckland Aero Club’s. Puss Moth. Mr. Allen left Auckland at 3 p.m., earring cinema films for a theatre, and owing to strong head winds/ took 1 hour 20 minutes to arrive at To Kopuru. With the wind behind him, the return flight occupied only 35 minutes, representing a ground speed ot approximately. 160 miles an hour. The same, strong winds assisted a lliglit to New Plymouth, made by two Auckland machines, piloted by Messrs. J. M. Stevenson and P. C. Lewis, on Saturday. A meeting of the election committee of Mr. D. W. Coleman, M.P., was held in Bedstone’s Hall yesterday. There was a large attendance, and Mr. (.!. It. Whiting occupied the chair. Correspondence was received from the national executive of the Labor Party, pointing out that the Government’s policy of reducing wages, salaries, old age pensions, widows’ pensions, soldiers’ pensions, and miners’ pensions was considered by it to be uneconomic and against the best interest of the people of the Dominion. The executive, therefore, had decided to circulate a petition calling upon the Government to resign. It was unanimously decided to make a house-to-house canvass throughout the electorate for signatures to the petition, and a large committee was set up tor this purpose. Further correspondence was received from the national executive, pointing out that the. Prime Minister, when replying to a deputation from the Labor Party, said that no Civil Servant would be dismissed for signing the petition. It was unanimously decided to forward a letter of sympathy to Mr. Coleman, and to Miss Barrett, a member of the committee, who arc in ill-health, and wishing them both a speedy recovery.