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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 4

A Mnslcrton milkman was fined fid and costs for selling milk below standard. A sum of over £(>o was raised by the < liristmas fair held by the Mnst-crton Methodist Ladies’ Guild last week. The opinion that, there should lie a reform in .New Zealand’s monetary system was strongly expressed at a meeting of the Waikato executive of the New Zealand Farm civ;’ Union. A very rare gum tree, in the garden of Mr. T. Rowe, Bell Block, New Plymouth, is covered with bloom. The tree, which is supposed to lie the only one of its kind in New Zealand, is 40ft. high, with a spread of 30ft. The branches sweep the ground and the gorgeous cream-colored flowers are over 12in in length. The opening for traffic of the new reinforced concrete bridge across the Mangawara Stream, on the Great South road near Tau’piri, on Saturday, eliminates one of the most dangerous corners on the main highway between Auckland and Wellington. The new bridge replaces an old structure, which was situated in an extremely difficult position for motorists to negotiate. Two fatal accidents occurred through motorists failing to make the turn on to the old bridge, and plunging into the stream. The work cost. £5500. The first of the new K-elass locomotives to be built at the Huff railway workshops for passenger train work in the North Island is being put into commission this week. Owing to the fact, that engines, unlike motor cars, are not standardised in respect to the position of the controls, it will be used on the Frank ton run in order that driver and crow can become accustomed to the engine. At first only goods traffic will be hauled, because the new engine is considered to he still in the trial stage.

Arrangements have been finalised in Auckland for the game fishing trip which Mr. Zane Grey is to make to Mercury Bay. Mr. Grey will reach Auckland to-day, and as soon as his luggage, and fishing equipment have been transferred from the mail boat to his boats lie will leave for the camp which has been prepared for him at Mercury Bay. The fishing camp has been established at a. site on the mainland about nine miles from the Mercury Bay wharf on a terrace shaded by giant pohutuvrl trees. There is good shelter for launches arid a good cove for landing. ”1 paid a short visit to the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, and they are the finest f have ever seen,” remarked Lord Saivesen, a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the course of an interview in Christchurch. “I have never before seen a collection of roses to equal the one I saw in the gardens. I was told that there were over 700 kinds, and I have nowhere else seen such marvellous varieties or such wonderful blooms. The Christchurch climate must bo very suitable for rose-growing, for although you get all your varieties from us I do not think our blooms attain the same size. You have more sunshine hero, and that is what makes the difference..” Further heavy showers over the weekend increased tank supplies of water in t..ose parts not in the reticulation area of the borough, although it would appear that in some areas there was insufficient rain to give much benefit to gardens or pastures. The Gisborne guage registered only 19 points for tho 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday, with a further two points for Friday’s .showers. In parts of the town the showers early on Sunday morning appeared to provide a greater rainfall than this, while in some of the country districts the fall was quite a useful one. Te Karaka had 47 points of rain as a result of a warm shower during the early part of Sunday morning, while a change in the direction of the wind about 7 a.in. brought a brief downpour.

An evidence of the breaking down of British manufacturers’ conservatism noted by Mr. T. N. Horsley, of Christchurch, during his recent visit to England, was the manner in- which manufacturers are throwing open their works and factories for inspection jby the public. Mr. Horsley told a reporter that, bo visited the Morris motor works at Coventry, which are open to the public, for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. Visitors entered a reception room and were •shown over (he works by a member of the stall'. Mr. Horsley found these, perhaps, the most modern works of their kind in England, very interesting. He also visited the Kodak Company’s works, where cameras and other photographic equipment, formerly imported, wore being manufactured.

Striking testimony to the quality of the country northward and north-east of Gisborne, to be seen from the main East Coast road, was offered to-day by a Palmerston North resident who undertook- a brief tour of the Coast as far as To Arnroa last week. He stated that lie had formed his anticipations upon the several passages he had made previously between Wairoa and iQishoroe, and had not expected to see land much bettor in than that which may be observed from the main south road, lie was astounded, therefore, to see what splendid land lay along the coastal route, ho said, and his experience had given him a much better appreciation of the district’s potential wealth and of its claims for development on the same scale as other districts more favored at present,

About 700 pupils of Christchurch secondary schools are presenting themselves as candidates for the matriculation examinations.

Nurse Davies, of the Temuka Maternity Hospital, broke both her wrists when she crashed while riding a motorcycle at Milford. The value of life-saving of the apparently drowned as practised by the Sydney Surf Club members was demonstrated' at Narrabcen recently when Clifford Jackson, a member of the South Narrabeen Surf Club, magnificently saved the life of a girl.

A specimen of miniature writing, claimed as a world’s record in this respect, has been completed by Mr. E. Dull, of Devonport, Auckland. It is an ordinarv-sized postcard. 4in. by 6in., on one side of which Mr. Bull has written the Lord’s Prayer 286 times. Mr. Harry Clonston, the New Zealander who is walking round the world, has spent a week or two in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and is now heading northward for the Orkneys, the original borne of bis parents, writes a London correspondent. Excellent progress is being made in the Waikato land settlement plan. Mr. D. V. Bryant, of Hamilton, who is the promoter of the scheme, stated that only EISOO remained to be subscribed by the public in order to reach the total of f ' r OOOO that was necessary to put the scheme on a workable basis. Fire totally destroyed the old butter factory adjoining the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company’s cheese factory at Eureka, near Hamilton, on Thursday. The building, which was used as a garage and coal storehouse, was erected to replace the wooden factory destroyed by fire 20 years ago. A bucket brigade prevented the flames from reaching the big cheese factory. The Christchurch Hospital now has three women house-surgeons out of a complement of nine, and Mr. H. J. Ofley, chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, told a reporter that- the proportion of women housesurgeons was greater than it had ever been before, for the simple reason that the services of men were not forthcoming at. present. Fire destroyed an old farmhouse known as The Cascade in Botany road, l’akuranga, early on Thursday morning. At the time of the outbreak the occupier, Mr A. Bradbury, and his two daughters were in the milking shed, but the housekeeper, Airs N. M. Cate, and her infant son were in bed. Awakened by the smoke, they made a hurried escape in their night attire. “I do not know any foreign resident in' Brazil who is pessimistic about the country’s future. The progress sinco the beginning of the century, especially in the south, has been amazing,” declared the Rev. Alexander Reese, a former Christchurch man, who has been working for 23 years in Brazil under the Presbyterian Church of the United States, and who is leaving Auckland by the Mataroa on December 14 on his return.

A pathetic circumstance in connection with the death in Auckland of Air. 11. Ifendriksen, a keen trotting enthusiast, was that his pacer Cleno left to fulfil her engagement at the Hamilton trotting meeting on Saturday, at his special request. Mr. Hendriksen died on Thursday and next day Mr. T. G. Reynolds, secretary of the Waikato Trotting 'Club, received a letter from him stating that be thought his end was near, but that whatever happened be wished Cleao to start on Saturday.

The perils of missionary life in China were exemplified by Aliss Beryl Steven, a Chinese missionary, who spoke at a missionary rally in Christchurch. On one occasion Miss Steven was informed that some Chinese travelling on the same road as the missionary had been molested by bandits. Later in the same day Aliss Steven narrowly escaped being taken bv some of the same bandits, hiding in a creek bv the roadside until the bandits had passed along. The Hastings carnival was brought to a successful conclusion on Friday night with a repetition of the procession and athletic and swimming carnivals. Mrs. Adamson, 99, was again taken up in an aeronlano. The carnival, which opened on Tuesday night, proved a singular success. On Friday night people thronged Ihe streets in fancy dress, and the gaiety continued until finally “King Carnival,” with due solemnity, handed back control of the town to the Mavor.

The nurse at the Loeston dental clinic. Miss Larsen, had an unpleasant, "xpericnee recently. Having just turned on the current, she proceeded to fill an electric kettle, and with one hand on the water tap and the other holding the kettle, she received a shock sufficiently severe to render her unconscious. There was no one else in the clinic at the time, but Miss Larsen loon recovered and managed to reach her lodgings in a ven- shaky condition.

As a sequel to a fatal collision which occurred at Te Uku on October 13, Alexander McGlashan, a fisherman, of Raglan, was charged in Hamilton, before Air. Wvveru Wilson, S.M., with' driving his motor-van in a negligent manner, causing the death of Charles Edward Belcher, laborer, Te Uku. Belcher was riding a motor-cycle which was involved in (lie collision, and died in the Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, four days after the accident. Accused pleaded not guilty, and wus committed to the Supreme Court in Hamilton for trial. Bail was allowed in one surety ol £SO.

Proposals for the afforestation of tho sand dune coasts of Wanganui and adjacent districts were approved at a public meeting in Wanganui when a report on the subject was received from the State Forest Department's ranger, Mr. .1 R. Field, and it was decided that a representative deputation wait on the f.ovonimeni and the Unemployment Board with a view to having the scheme undertaken. Quoting from the report, Mr. I). Dustin, chairman of the Wanganui Development League, said that tho approximate cost of the scheme would be £5915, while the ultimate value,of, say, 500,000 trees would 'be £250,000.

Criticism of the Public Safety Conservation Act. 1992, was expressed by moniLo.rs of the Waikato executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. A mol ion was passed urging the deletion of part of sub-section 1 of section 3, which reads: “In any prosecution for any such offence the Court may admit such evidence ns it thinks fit, whether such evidence would be admissible in other proceedings or not.” The president, Mr. J. 11. Furniss, said that a suspected murderer was given greater protection by the courts than was a man who was prosecuted under the Public Safety Conservation Act.

Questions containing widespread ramifications are raised by a petition presented to tho House of Representatives by Sir Apirana Ngata on behalf of Hawke’s Bay Maoris claiming the right to certain territory on tho Ahuriri lagoon or a share in benefits which might accrue from the land thrown up by tho earthquake of last year. The petitioners state that they aro descendants of Maoris who formerly owned land which was included under the name of the Ahuriri block in the sale to the Government in 1851. The boundaries of the block did not then include, but skirted, tho shores of a largo lagoon which was called Whanganui-o-Rotu, later referred to as tho Ahuriri lagoon.