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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 9

Mr. S. M. Bruce will attend the .4 It League Assembly to deal with the Mauquestion on December 6. —A. and N.Z.O.AA grass fire occurred early this afternoon in the Borough Council's plantation at Awapuni. The alarm was given at 1.10 p.m., and the fire-bell was rung as the siren was out of order. The grass was still alight when the brigade arrived on the scene, and the fire was extinguished by the use of beaters. No damage was done beyond the scorching of a few of the trees. A claim for £3 4s 3d for goods allegedly sold and delivered was heard by Mr. P. H. Harper, S.M., in tho Magistrate’s Court, to-day, tho plaintiff being Henry Duncan Humphrey, furniture warehouseman (Mr. K. A. Woodward), and the defendant Nat White, fruiterer (Mr. S. V. Beaufoy). After hearing brief evidence, the magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff for £2 2a 6d and costs £1 16s. In explaining at a lecture in Stratford how it was that New Zealand was so subject to earth tremors, Df. G. Home said that this country was the apex of a big fold in the earth’s surface, the two sides running down into the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea. Thus New Zealand was being continually pushed up. The apex line, explained the speaker, rail through Rotorua, Taupo and White Island. TJe also stated that a lot of the heat at such places as Rotorua was Caused by chemical action as well as the thermal activity. Wool which was on the backs of Gwavas station sheep, at’Tikokino, last Friday morning. Was baled ready for the Home market and on its way to catch the Port Dunedin at Auckland the same evening, reports the Napier Tele graph. This rapid piece of work, probably a record, was carried out in order that the remaining few bales of n clip xnirjlit be joined with the main body which Was^ loaded'by the Port Dunedin when that vessel was in Napier last week. Commencing shearing at an earlhour on Friday morning, the final 15 W bales of the clip were placed on lorries, to Pert Ahuriri, went through the necessary processes, and placed on the Pukeko.