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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 6

London nows'pnjior.s arc publishing on Sunday, December but not on December 20.—A. & N.Z.C.A.

When digging for Maori curios in a small swamp 'at Thornton’s Bay, Thames Coast, Mr IS. M. Ilovcll unearthed a flute made of stone, beautifully hollowed out and with three stops. it is carved at one end and is 4in. Icing.

When swinging the propeller of the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club’s Moth plane at the .Milson air pageant, E. C. Potts, a mechanic at the aerodrome, received a painful cut across his right palm and a strained thumb, as a result ol the engine back-firing. The same plane was responsible'for Mr. H. Walker, captain of tlie Manawatu Aero Club, having the bones of his left hand broken. A service was held in the grounds ot Miss Maxwell’s residence, the old Mission House, Tauranga, on Sunday, in commemoration of the mlroouction o Christianity to the Bay of Plenty and the surrounding districts. it is years since Archdeacon A. N. Brown landed , in New Zealand, and he was largely responsible for the establishment of a mission station in Tauranga.

V list of the names of successful candidates in the Plumbers’ Board examination held in Gisborne on October 28 and 29 has come to hand. IL Dudfield secured a pass in the written examination, and C. A. Mitchio and J. A. Moss were successful in the practical examination W.. Brunton and Vt ■-1 arkei passed in both portions of tlie examination. and qualified for registration. “Nature is certainly doing her best to help man to overcome his troubles. This lias been the best reason 1 Have experienced in my 27 years’ residence m the district. My wool and lambs ai e splendid, both in quality and quantity, whilst my farm has never looked better, and 'yet, look at prices ! Surely it is' man who has made a mess of things, said a sheepfarmer when speaking to ■ reporter of the Taihape Times. “In Napier we have a dearth of timber and where are we to get our firewood from in 20 years?” asked Mi j $ Barton, commission for Isapiei when submitting a proposal for a small afforestation scheme-in connection witn the extension of Kennedy road. Mr Barton referred to the city of Brussels where magnificent avenues of trees had been planted and had proved not only beautiful, but of great value.

The ManawatuOoua River Board ha? decided to give permission for the reinstatement of the damaged lagoon banks at Hamilton's line to their original lipijrl>t. however, if tho settlers and interested local bodies desire the putting into operation of either of the Public Works Department schemes they are to be requested to agree to the Whirokino cut proposal teing carried out to safeguard the settlers lower down the river.

A new system of navigation has been evolved bv Mr. F. C. Chichester, the Wellington airman. He stated on his return from England that he had to make frequent use of this system when crossing the Tasman Sea, without which, he said, he would never have found Norfolk or Lord Howe Islands. He also had to employ it while crossing the Yellow Sea. The principal instrument used was the sextant, which had not been used before by solo flyers. He also has evolved an original method of calculating drift.

Contending that a proprietary dairy company had contracted to pay to its suppliers a price for butterfat equally as good as that .'paid by its competitors, F ank Robinson Hibson, farmer, Matamata, sued the Te Arolia Dairy Company, Limited, before Mr. Justice Herdman in the Hamilton Supreme Court on Tuesday for the recovery of T 123 7s 7d. the difference between what plaintiff received and what lie considered was a reasonable price. Mr. Northcroft. for plaintiff, said although the claim was for a comparatively small amount, limin’ other suppliers had the same claim a.s plaint iff. arid the total amount likely to lie involved was a large one. The case, which is regarded as a test, is part heard.

Writing in the Spectator under the heading, “From Hamilton to Wiltshire,” Sir William Beach Thomas expresses

amazement at the information received hi a letter from a young Englishman in New Zealand. “This young emigrant," he says, “is already milking 50 heifers in his first few weeks on the farm, and expects to milk 120 before long. The farm, which is to support all these milch cows and a few hulls and other stock, including hens and bees, consists of IPO acres of grass—that and no more —and most of the fodder is to come off it as well ! Such heavy stocking, made possible by continuity rather than lus'hiims of growth and the absence of severe frost, onsets nnv easv comparisons between the price of land there and he'e. Nevertheless it is still a fair contention that land is absurdly cheap fas it is ruinously understocked) in England ; and it is not even yet as cheap ns it should be in our Antipodes,”

The need of rain to revive pastures is becoming urgent in the Waikato. A party of Wanganui men intends to start prospecting for gold in tbe Kaimanawa Banges this month.

An emphatic protest against the proposed local bodies amalgamation, substituting evidence before a commission lor a poll of ratepayers and householders, has been entered by the Mount Eden Ratepayers and Householders’ Association.

The remainder of the railway sleepers originally intended for use on the Gis-borne-Napier line and which were sold recently by the Public Works Department to the Railways Department, will be shipped by the m.v. Pukeko which is to sail for Auckland, via Napier, tins afternoon. The first, shipment of the sleepers, which totalled over 6000. was taken to Auckland by the s.s. Tiroa, and the second by the s.s. Wainiea. Today’s shipment is in the vicinity of 2200 sleepers.

The Mayor of Invercargill has received the following letter from the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. VV. Forbes:—“l desire to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter advising me that you have paid into the public account the sum of £399 14s 6d lor the Wairoa-Gisborne earthquake relief fund. I wish to express to you my sincere thanks and also that of my colleagues for the interest which you have displayed in making the appeal, and I feel sure that the inhabitants who suffered as a result of the earthquake will be greateful for the practical sympathy shown to them.” Within a stone’s throw of the Cornish settlement at Byng, the cradle of the Methodist Church in the Orange district of New South Wales, an interesting ceremony recently took place at Bethel Rock, a great pile of rock on an eminence between the once famous mining villago and the Springfield homestead. The Methodists of the district assembled _ in large numbers to witness the unveiling of a marble tablet to mark the spot where Mr William Tom, known throughout the west as “Parson Tom,” conducted church services 100 years ago. A number of descendants of pioneers were present. Large-headed tacks on his taxi stand and a boycott by members of the Waitara Freezing Workers’ Union of bis billiard saloon are the penalties Mr. W. A, O’Donnell, a. Waitara resident, a lieges be has bad to pay for dealing with free laborers at the works. r i bo boycott, be alleges, lias been in progress for a week, and the tin-tacks were discovered spread on the road. Since Mr. O’Donnell commenced to serve free laborers be lias not bad any patronage from union members. Some unionists had told him they would have _ frequented bis rooms, but were afraid of lieiug seen.

“As was only expected in view of the times, the demand for dried fruit for Christmas cooking this year has not been up to that of last year,” remarked a representative of one of the wholesale firms this morning. The majority of the business in these lines, he explained, was conducted by wholesalers during October and November and the demand could be fairly accurately estimated now. In the case of his firm, and he-thought it applied generally, stocks had been kept down to a bare minimum as it was evident that people were now spending considerably less on food requirements for the festive season.