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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18025, 28 February 1933, Page 4

A garden fete held in the grounds of the Westland Hospital realised £44 net.

One petition in bankruptcy was filed in Gisborne both in February of this year and in the corresponding month last year. In a tenancy case, the Public Trustee v. John Francis Wooster, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, Mr. P. 11. Harper, 'S.M., made an order for possession of the dwelling on or before March 28, and gave judgment for the plaintiff for £2O 2s 6d rent and costs £2 19s.

Modern classic is the style of the new building in Tennyson street, Napier, which has been erected for the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company and which is now in the final stages of completion. Two Mofti machines imported recently by the Government to issue on loan to aero clubs to encourage the training of pilots have now been assembled at Wigram airdrome by the Air Force staff. Two others will probably be delivered in New Zealand this week.

Twins do not always excel in the same sport, and it is unusual for them to dead-heat in an event; but this was what happened in one of the races in the Queen Margaret College swimming sports at Wellington. Twin sisters under nine years of age staged a neck-and-neck race and divided first prize.

iSir Charles Kingston! Smith and the Southern Cross were busily engaged in making passenger flights at Milson aero.home, Palmerston North, on Sunday, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. There was a strong wind blowing, which assisted Hi r Charles in taking off and landing the huge plane.

His Honor Mr. Justice Blair resumed the adjourned sitting of the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday. The case between New Zealand Fisheries Limited and the Napier Harbor Board, which has already occupied 2i days, was continued. When this is finished the court will continue with the hearing of remaining cases on the list, which is fairly lengthy. \ Because they contain certain advertising to which the Customs Department objects, on the, ground that it is indecent, it is almost certain that, after next month, about 30 different American magazines and periodicals will be banned altogether in New Zealand. The type of journal most affected is that, dealing with motion picture news, for which there is'a big sale.

The Opotiki-llicks Bay road was blocked Ivy heavy slips ami Washouts in consequence of the heavy rain last week. The flooding of the Raukokore River has seriously interfered with the construction of the low-level bridge. The water rose Bft. above the level of the bridge, washing away portions of the plant and material. The contractor is a heavy loser.

There are so many inmates in the °unnyside Mental Hospital that, recourse lias had to be made to the, use of barred attics for sleeping quarters for many patients, and at the present time balconies are being altered so that the accommodation may be extended. It is said that the attics now used were disapproved of many years ago, though they are spoken of as clean, airy, and roomy.

Three trainees of the Wairoa Aero Club, who completed their instruction with'the Manawatu Aero Club’s ucting-pilot-instnutor, Captain W. H. Lett, at the Milson aerodrome, Palmerston North, were granted their “A” licenses last week by Flight-Lieutenant Nevill, of Wellington. The pilots, Messrs. J. Allen, A. Jleckitt, and J. Iledley, commenced their training at Wairoa Under Captain Lett and went to Palmerston North to complete their instruction.

Dairy farmers of the Gisborne district who depend to some extent on the sale of their own butter have suffered severely by the recent decline iri prices. Last week, the factory product was reduced by Id per lb. down to Is, and dairy pats were selling at lid. Now, however, dairy blitter has been reduced to 9d over the counter, farmers receiving 7d. At tlie reduction, there Is a ready sale for dairy butter, which is being snapped up almost as soon as it reaches the shops. Homo apprehension lias been expressed that the new wasps that are being' liberated to fight the white butterflies may eventually become a serious pest. .Replying on the subject the Department of Agriculture states: “The insects being liberated for the control of the butterflies are not wasps, the vise of which term has created many erroneous views in the mimls of people who know little or nothing about the subject. There is.not the slightest .danger that the insects being liberated will in any way become a pest in this country.” An unusual case came before Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., at Invercargill when a charge “that being a person engaged in the handling of meat lie did permit such meat to come in direct contact with his head and neck contrary to the regulations made under the Health Act,” was preferred against an employee in a butchery business, states the iSoutliland Daily News. The defendant stated that when carrying heavy quarters of beef it was dangerous to wear a head covering. The magistrate: Not if you have a proper covering. TII9 men engaged in carrying meat in other parts of Ne\v Zealand can comply with the regulations, why can’t they here? The defendant was fined £l, with 10s costs.

The party of prospectors which is operating in the Motu lulls has had little success so far in discovering any minerals in payable quantities, according to latest reports. What they discovered, however, was sufficiently encouraging for the Unemployment Board, to grant an extension of time for the purpose of testing out theories formed during tho investigations made earlier. It was reported that members of the party had discovered a reef that promised to contain minerals in sufficient quantities to warrant further working. The time granted by the Unemployment. Board would have expired by now, but a fortnight’s extension was' granted so that a tunnel could be driven. No further information lms been received in regard to results obthined from the tunnelling operations, but prior to that traces of gold had been found in the hills, and there were good indications of securing minerals other than gold.

‘‘New Zealand has established a reputation for social legislation and educational efficiency,” said Mr. T. B. Strong, Director of Education, at Christchurch. “We are in danger of losing the latter,” he declared. “I won’t say anything about the other.” Reporting to the Otago Harbor Board, the harbormaster stated that the Cornwall, which berthed at Victoria wharf on February 2, was the largest and longest vessel to negotiate the Victoria Channel. Her dimensions were: Gross tonnage, 10,940; net tonnage, 6603; length, 495 ft. The Port Ahuriri distress fund organised by the Mayor of Napier, Mr. J. Vigor Brown, has now reached most gratifying proportions, and should bo a material "influence in the provision of relief for those made destitute by the Doris launch disaster on December 28, 1932. Altogether £1369 18s lid has been subscribed.

New clothes were desired by a burglar who broke into the draper's shop of W. E. Alunday and Sons in Colombo street, Sydenham,: Christchurch, on Thursday evening. He selected a new suit for himself, changed into it in the shop, stowed his old clothes away in a portmanteau which a customer had left there a few days before, and departed out (lie front door.

“Although 1 have travelled the world three times, I have never found such attractive country scenery as in New Zealand,” said a member of an American tourist party which visited Wanganui recently. He paid a tribute to Wanganui’s Museum and Art Gallery, whoso contents he said, would do credit to galleries and museums in some of the older cities of the world.

A decrease of ICO during the past two years in the number of pupils at the Pukekohe Technical High School is attributed to two main causes. One is the establishment of a technical high school at Otnlnihu and the other is the decision of the Education Department that the practice of using school funds for subsidising bus services to transport children to and from school must cease. The settlers of some of the favorite valleys in the Ohura are beginning to realise the value of small paddocks for the keeping down of ragwort and other weeds, reports the Stratford Post. At one time large paddocks were the order. Cattle were allowed to wander over the whole section. Consequently the weeds came and multiplied. That is now being changed, and the carrying capacity of the country is increasing. Settlers no longer have the land hunger, realising that it is better to farm a small place well than a large one indifferently. Remarkable evidence of the -lasting qualities of New Zealand timbers was demonstrated as a result of the recent demolition of the old wooden church of England building at Queenstown. The building, which was constructed entirely of New Zealand timbers —rimu, beech and matai—has now been replaced by a structure of stone. The .timber from tlie old church was transported to Omaka'u, where it was utilised in the construction of a new church there. So well-preserved were the timbers that the carpenters engaged found difficulty in driving nails into them. The original Queenstown Church, from which the timbers came, was built over 62 years ago. A veteran of the American Civil War, which was fought nearly 70 years ago, is at present an inmate of a southern mental hospital. As a civil war veteran he is ent.tled to a pension from the United States Government, Mr. H, P. Bridge. United States consular agent in Christ •hureh, t .Id a reporter rf The Press, and for some time his relatives, assisted by Mr. Bridge, have been working to establish his claim with the American Pensions Department. After negotiations lasting more than a year the Government has at last agreed to pay the oension, and the old man will begin to receive it as soon as a guardian has been appointed for him by the Courts in New Zealand, a formality insisted on by the Pensions Department.

“As wo look with horror ;it the schools that Charles- Dickens wrote about, so people of later generations will look with horror at our schools of to-day, which try to squeeze all children into the same mould,” said Mr. T. 15. Strong, the Director of Education, in addressing a meeting in Christchurch on the advantages of the intermediate school system. "Our system is too rigid, and so far as the teachers are concerned it will continue to be too rigid.„ I am not going to say the Education Department’s syllabus is at fault, because it is not. It gives the widest scope for individual ability; but our present education system is not calculated lo secure the greatest efficiency or the best results for this Dominion ”

The hope that good might come out of evil in respect of the heavy fall in prices for produce'overseas was expressed by the president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, Mr. F. L. Hutchinson, at the meeting of the executive of the association. Mr. Hutchinson said he hoped New Zealand farmers would now look to the home markets in the Dominion for absorption of their pro* dints. England, with her markets flooded, and consideration for the protection of her farmers and development of her agriculture, was capable, of still more intensive cultivation. There were tracts of waste lands even near London. A restriction of imports, too, was likely. Mr. Hutchinson added that the development of industry in New Zealand and growth of the cities were necessary to absorb the Dominion’s farm products. “Obviously,, this time we speak of is coming,” the speaker added. “Why, if father smoked only three cigarettes a day and mother only two, they would spend more in buying cigarettes than they would spend in buying electricity for the whole household,” said the president of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers (Mr. F. T. M. Kissel), when giving his presidential address at the annual conference of the society at Christchurch. Actually these five cigarettes a day for each electricity consumer would account for only about a million and a half cigarettes in a day, whereas the actual consumption is about four millions a day. Which would be the greater national calamity, to do with only half the number of cigarettes, or go without electricity? I think I will then •isle you to adopt a slogan ‘electricity for a household for less than half a packet of cigarettes a day. Use it,’ or irt s mpler language, ‘no more fag for five fags a day.’ ’’ At any time other than the present the sight of an old car puffing its aged way up a lull prompted the derisive shouts of small boys, not to mention covert, smiles from bystanders as the drivers of hoary vehicles fumbled selfconsciously with gear levers and spark controls. To-day, with pocket-book contents shorn in half, small boys and grown-ups are more tolerant, and as the sunshine pours over the countryside so do mechanical “crocks” rattle their way from the garages to some nearby beach or swimming hole. On Sunday a coughing three-seater laboriously scrambled up one of the Napier hill roads, its three occupants a little apprehensive as to just how much farther they could go. Three-quarters of the way up the car naye one shuddering cough and stopped dead. One of the youths, complete with brightly colored school cap and blazer, got out. started the car, ran to the back of it, and for the rest of the climb lent his muscles towards assisting the wheezy vehicle up the incline. And nobody laughed. Other times, other manners.— H.B. Herald. You run the risk of spoiling your sauces and piokles unless Sharland’a Vinegar Is used.*