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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17943, 22 November 1932, Page 4

■Mails for t'he United Kingdom am! Europe, which left Auckland on October IS, per R.M.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, arrived in London on November 10.

An Australian party of teachers and students will visit New Zealand m the school holidays, leaving Sydney on December 30 and reaching Sydney on return on January 3d. Holiday excursions for teachers are common m Australia. The programme for this year includes trio- io Tasmania, Barrier Keel,, and oven China'.;

As the result of being thrown heavily to the ground when the forks o; h'is bicycle snapped on Saturday, Mr Archibald McGregor, of Vigor Brown street, Napier, sul'l'ered mjiinfs wawli resulted in his death in the A'-Vpior public Hospital on 'Sunday. Mr McGiegor had been employed by Messrs. .1. J. Niven and Company.

A plea for a reduction of duties on certain imported manulactured goods was made by the importers’ committee of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. In urging relief in the matter oi duly on brown wrapping paper, Mr Camor Jackson, chairman of the committee, said the duty on paper imported Iron) Sweden amounted to 117 per cent., winch was absurdly high.

After rolling SQft. down a. precipitous bank, and then falling over 20it. in a deep pool, narrowly missing a sharp rock, a woman, who was climbing down ■i cliff overlooking a small bay at Waiheke Island, had a fortunate escape from serious injury on Sunday. Sue escaped with scalp wounds, a deep cut over one eye, extensive bruises, and shock. The injured woman, Mrs. Julia Mundy, 42, of Ponsonby, Auckland, was one of a party who visited Mataitai. Waiheke Island.

The continued dry weather is having a serious effect on the strawberry - crops of the district. The season commenced well. Although there was not a greatdeal of rain in October, Hie ground was still damp and the frequent light showers had tbe effort of inducing a good setting of early fruit. Since then, however, practically no rain has fallen, and the strawberry is a plant that requires a large amount of moisture to induce a heavy bearing. The result is that the crops now being gathered arc lighter than at the outset.

In an undefended civil action before Mr. ]>. 11. Harper, S AI., to-day, the ,\ew Zealand Motor Manufacturing Company was a Aarded £2 10s against James Forshaw, with costs 245. Orders were made on judgment summonses as follows :—Gisborne Sheepiarmers .Frozen Meat and Mercantile Company, I.united, v. Tobi Pokai, £3l Is 6d, in default 28 days’ imprisonment; 11. 11. Miller v. ■|'hos. Bindley, £8 5s 6d, in default eight days’ imprisonment; Goldsmith and Whinrav v. Richard Reach. £37 Os Hd, in default 28 days’ imprisonment.

In anticipation of the arrival of Mr. Zano Grey from America < n Deeembei 5, the ja rye ocean-going motor-boat Frangipani, built by Messrs. ( ollings and 801 l at St. Mary’s liav, Auckland, for Mr. (!rey, is to be launched tins week. Private business detained Mr. Zaue (drev in the United States last veai'. causing him to miss the New Zealand fishing season, but he will join a mailhoaf this week and expects to reach Auckland on December 5. lie will go 1.0 Mercury Bay, where he is to establish bis fishing camp. The lias an overall length of 46ft, and a beam of 12ft. 9in. She is of I lie flushdeck type and is designed io give comi'orluhle accommodation to a t aiid y large party.

At. a ennl'oroueo between tin 1 eomi,iillce of the Kailaralnhi Sports Club and a deputation representing the pioI'essiomil atlilei ie. eon) rolling body in this district, held last evening, proposals for the inclusion of cash athletic events at the annual sports meeting of the club were, discussed. The athletes’ representatives tabled a tentative programme providing for three men’s tint; handicaps, two ladies’ flat handicaps, and three cycle events, and ■outlined for the benefit, of the club s committee the probable number of nominations for each of the suggested events. The committee was strongly impressed by the representations made, and agreed to oiler a. total of A-. 2 , s in prize money, it being calculated that nomination fees would recoup the club for a least two-thirds of this outlay.

Ryegrass threshing in (iishorne threatens to be protracted this season. Some ,of the maiden seed paddocks shut up on 1 lio areas silled by last •February's flood are coming to maturity earlier than usual and should be ready for cut ling within about a week; they should bo ready lor threshing about 10 days later. On the oilier band some of the mother ryegrass areas may be later in coming to mat nr ity than was the ease last season. Toe result would appear to be an early start and a late finish. ft is believed, however, that the mills in the district will be kept busy throughout the wlfolo period, for the crop should be a large one. Applications for certification closed yesterday. Definite figures are not yet available, but there appears to be an increase on tho area applied for last year, while in addition a heavier yield is expected,

As a gesture to Australia’s oldest industry the Canberra University College Students' Association has adopted the woollen tie for students.

The sum of £SOO from the proceeds of the Merry Christmas Art Union, to be drawn on January 14. has been allotted to the Thames Prospecting Association.

Work has been so far advanced on the power house at the Waitaki hydroelectric works that the two alternators.

or generators, are, now installed

“The apprenticeship problem is not as serious now as it appeared a year ago,” mi id the I’riine Minister, the Ivt. ll oil. ti. W. Forbes, in iflie House of Representatives last week. Reviewing the land development activities in the area near Rotorua, the Hon. Id. A. Ransom, Minister of laimls, said that the results obtained from the demonstration farm last season were most encouraging, and six additional

farms are now in full working order under a share-milking scheme.

A distance of approximately 2000 miles lay air, involving visits to 15 towns in both the North and South Islands, was covered bv Mr. R. K. B. Worth, of Sourport, England, Mr. H. T. Merritt and Captain J. D. Hewitt, of Auckland, who returned to Auckland on Saturday afternoon after a. business trip of 10 clays

At the meeting of the Ashburton Unemployment Committee a report was received of the ease of a farmer who was

employing a man under the Unemployment Board's scheme while the employer had taken up outside work. It was stated that the employee was really acting as manager of ihe farm. The contract was cancelled forthwith hv the committee.

When (.‘he Diomede undergoes her short retit. at Auckland, commencing probably in May, more or less permanent

work may lie. found for over 200 men lor about two months. I'lie weeklv

wages bill for civilian labor may approach UIOCO. ipiite apart from the fact Unit many of the supplies required will be purchased in Auckland, with consequent benefit to trade.

To one man who went on a "mystery train" excursion recently the "mystery” ended in disillusionment. He lived at Bluff and on the Saturday travelled to Invercargill and stayed at a hotel overnight so as to be in good time in the morning to catch the "mystery train.” When tlm morning came be embarked in the train with pleasant expectations of an unknown destination. To bis amazement the train bore him homewards and the end of the ‘''mystery bike” from (Ireenbills was liis own home.

A tine example of New Zealand workmanship, the Ii Ist of the new “K’ class locomotives, left the Halt railway work-

shops on I hursdav on a trial run. With the exception. of roller hearings and a few special lilting's, every part was manufactured from raw material in the railway workshops. The new engine weighs 135 tons as compared with 85 tons for the "A 15" class locomotive, and its pulling capacity is £0 per cent, greater than that of the existing type of heavy duty engine. Two weeks ago Mr. -J. >S. Barton, chief commissioner for Napier, an liotmcpd that debentures would shortly In' issued in Napier to the extent of !.'3O.C'JO to raise sufficient money to complete the four main services essential to tin l restoration of the earthquake area. A prospectus was prepared and was placed in the hands of the printers. It will not he used, however, for Air. barton stated that the required sum had been raised by him in one sum at terms considerably more advantageous to Napier than those which would have been offered had the debentures been issued.

The improved conditions and greater optimism of liie people in England were commented upon by Mr. H. I’. Hassell, a retired London solicitor, who has arrived at Wellington from Sydney in the course of a world tour. Air. Russell said that the National Government had inspired confidence in the people, who felt themselves to be in safe hands. At this time last year the position was avery anxious one. Clothing prices in London at flic present time were lower than in Sydney; in fact, they were lower than at any other time since tho wa r.

A si ray dog, which was befriended by a Ponsonby woman in poor circumstances, was responsible for the appearance of the woman before Air. W. lb McKean, S.AI., in the Auckland Police Court. She ploaded guilty to a charge of keeping a dangerous dog. The evidence showed that the animal appeared

to have no owner and was fed by the defendant. Three months later, the dog attacked another woman. In con

victing (ho woman, (lie magistrate said that, under the circumstances, he would not impose a penalty. The dog had been destroyed as a result of the complaint The diversion tunnel at Arapuni was opened on Tuesday for the purpose of lowering the level of file water in the headrace to enable the coffer dam built last August to be removed. The dam was -used to enclose a strip of lining' in the headrace which had given way and had cal used a. serious leak. Referring' to the position at Arapuni, Air. T. Rabone, the officer in charge, stated that the leakage in the headrace bad been

stopped by gmti::ng. There was a litllr discharge of water from the drainage tunnels, hut this ( was the normal flow collected by the underground drainage system from the seepage of tho country.

“The farmers are really robbing themselves. Butter is coming in from Auckland and other districts and being sold at id a pound below the ruling price for the district, ’’ said Mr. X. Campbell at a meeting of the Manawalu Dairy Farmers' Union, when consideration was being given to the (idling of butler prices in Palmerston North. It was

slated that the ehiei' factor was tile long distance freight concession on sixfoil lots of butler From the Auckland district. The union decided to send a telegram to the Prime Minister pointing out that tile long distance freight concession on butter for export was being used lo cut prices in the local trade.

The world had been learning ovai again that human life was built on sncii stem lines that neither men nor nations could with impunity “play the fool” with their heritage, declared Die Rev. E. D. Patehott, chairman of Die Auckland Synod of the Methodist- Church hooking back to the extravagances am) ostentatious of the period of false values which followed Ihe war. one could now see how the way was paved for calamity From a battlefield the world was turned into a playing field, until the discovery was made that in indulging in an orgy of pleasure the world was only dancing the “dance of death” |o another tune. Financially, during the war and alter, the world sowed the wind and now reaped a whirlwind.

Wliai is really remarkable aihout the new health stamp, now on sale, is that ;•( is Die first New Zealand stamp engraved and printed by the intaglio process. This means that the design as etched on copper, and the lines so made are filled with ink which is transferred to the paper in i’ho intaglio printing process. This process, not generally used, in New Zealand, is the highest form -of craft printing, and, as a rule, is associated with the 'host of mate-rial —good paper and high-grade ink. Air 11. T. Peat, who engraved the design, made one master plate, from which two G()-imagc plates were made, so that every time tho double-plate is printed 120 stamps arc produced,