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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 4

Pleading guilty to a second offence of drunkenness within six months, James. Alexander Denny, 56, was lined 10s by Mr. 11. Kenway, J.P., in the Polieo Court this morning. Owing to the fact that the next fort nightly meeting of the Borough Council would fall on Anzac Day, it was resolved at the last meeting of the council that tho meeting should be held on the following day, April 26. This will be the last meeting of the present council. Eight cases of infectious disease were reported from tho East Cape health district to headquarters at Gisborne for tho week ended yesterday. Four of these cases were of diphtheria, three of tuberculosis and one of typhoid fever. No deaths were reported during tho week from infectious diseases.

The rye grass threshing season in the Gisborne district is now practically over, and only a few paddocks of certified seed remain to be done. Some of the uncertified paddocks are unthreshed in view of tho very low prices for certified seed making the remainder of the seed almost valueless, unless it is of particularly good quality and appearance. In the past 12 years tho general situation of the Presbyterian Maori Missions in tho North Island has changed greatly. Every station except one can now be reached by motor car. Good roads have altered the outlook in many ways. 1 lie missionaries are no longer in remote isolation. The raiding of the country has led to an influx of pakelia settlers into what was formerly exclusively Maori territory, and in most oi' tho 13 stations to-day the Maori missionary is called upon for services not only to the Maori people, but also to the pakelia.

Three good heads were secured by a party of three deer-stalkers from Hawke’s Bay on Mahia Peninsula during tho Easter’ holidays. The best was a 17-pointer and tho remaining two 16pointers, all being good specimens. The party reported that although deer were plentiful, thero was a scarcity of firstclass heads, and this would be more marked as time went on owing to the fact that there was ovidence of inbreeding. With three lilies a large bag of deer could have been obtained, but tho stalkers were content with bringing down only the best specimens. “Two men had a fight yesterday, with the result that the accused finished up in the lock-up and the other man in the hospital,” said Sergeant Clarke when Jack Morris appeared before Mr. H Kenway, J.P., in the Police this morning charged with assaulting Robert Fyfo. In applying for a remand until Monday next, the sergeant explained that the extent of the complainant’s injuries had not yet been determined, and he could not lie interviewed for the present. The remand was granted, and bail was allowed in the sum of £5 in the accused’s own recognisance.

! This season Gisborne has exported approximately 8600 -cases of fruit, almost entirely apples, with a few pears. The remainder of the season should produce a further 3000 cases of apples to bring the season’s total exports up to 12,000 eases, or only about half of last year’s tally. The latest shipment to leave Gisborne was last Thursday, when 805 cases of apples were loaded ior the United Kingdom and 47 cases for the Continent. The main varieties in the United Kingdom consignment were Sturmers and Granny Smiths, with also some Doughertys, Rome 'Beauties and Simmonds’ Winter, while the small quantity of Continental apples comprised Doughertys and Stunners.

The Southland Acclimatisation Society had before it a letter from the secretary of the Gore District Angling Society, containing the result of an eel drive run by the club. Tho drive was held over a period of a fortnight, U" which they were unfortunate in striking bad weather. The majority of the eels were taken out of the Mataura River, while about 200 were caught in tho Otamita. The competition resulted: D. Graham (Gore), 283 eels, 1; M. Sexton (Gore), 257, 2:_B. Waddell (Mataura), 200, 3; J. Ferris (Gore), 50, 4. 'ihe secretary of the Mataura Angling Club stated that „so far over 700 eels had been taken in the eel-pots. The club members had had a drive on March 19, when 48 eels had been killed, five of tiiese being over 201 b. each.

The number of campers at Morere ; during the Easter holidays provided evidence of the popularity of the resort and illustrated the need that exists there 1 for the provision of better facilities. This , was commented upon by a number of parties encamped there, who were of tho opinion that the attractions of the place would lie more availed of by the travelling public were a camping ground with all the up-to-date conveniences of other grounds provided, People, they held, would be only too willing to pay a small admission fee to the ground were it fenced off and suitably equipped. At present campers are able to use the ground without charge and under those conditions improvements cannot be expected. Yesterday’s police raid on Gisborne business premises suspected of being ns-d for gaining purposes bad a. more far-reaching effect than was expected when tho raid was organised, for it resulted in tho arrest of a number of men i Wairoa After searching the premises of one of the men arrested in Gisborne yesterday, Detective McLeod established h'niself at the telephone, and in half an hour, without- disclosing his identity, he accepted bets on racehorses aggregating £35. Of these bets, approximately £25 worth were telephoned through from a man in Wairoa, and on his return to tho police station, Detective McLeod communicated this fact to the Wairoa police. I'n consequence of this message, Sergeant Oiiayln and Constable Tuck raided business promises in Wairoa, and arrested the proprietor on a charge of conducting a common gaming house, and three other men on charges of being found on tho oremises. It is understood also that tho police seized a quantity of betting material. The four men were brought before Mr. V. E. Winter, J.P., last evening, and were remanded on bail to 1 May 18, their names being suppressed 1 in the meantime. i

The Canterbury Rugby Union has again banned the broadcasting of mulches played under its control during the coming winter. Delegates from various parts of tho Dominion wero present at the fourth annual conference of the New Zealand branch of tho British-Israel World Federation, which opened in Wellington on Saturday. Big recording has now been in use in New Zealand for some time, and reports from the Manawatu and Waikato Big Recording Clubs would indicate that the value of such a system is being recognised. Big recording is now being used as a help towards increased efficiency on the Continent.

Reports are frequently received ol the incerasiiig numbers of deer and chamois and the damage caused, particularly by the latter, to the native flora, states the annual report of the Arthur’s Pass National Bark Board. The difficulty is to discover some practicable scheme within the means of the board to check the menace. A hoy aged three years, who had fallen down an unused well at Dargaville, was discovered by a Maori boy. ■lack Nathan, on his way to school. The lad promptly informed a neighboring farmer. A rone was lowered into the -.veil and the child was brought up none the worse for his adventure. His fall had been broken by a board which had rone down the well under him.

Some people evidently imagine Mr. Clive Drummond, 2YA announcer, to be i super-man. On a recent occasion a .nan who had received an addition to iiis family rang up Mr. Drummond to know within vvliat period he had to register the birth. When the tap water rail milky white, a lady rang up Mr. Drummond to ask him if he, thought the water was poisoned. It was not at all uncommon on Saturdays for people to ring him up and ask him personally what lie thought the weather was going to be. They did not want the official report, but his own views on the prospects.

“A glorified hop beer.” That is the way a prominent Christchurch brewer described the beverage that has been legalised in America. “They will have to drink an awful lot of it.”' But then, of course, America has been officially “on the wagon” for over a decade, and that should be a sufficient space of time to work up an abnormal thirst. In comparison with Iho American beer, the New Zealand beer is very potent. The alcoholic content of New Zealand beer is about 4.5 -per cent., and seasoned drinkers have to persevere a long time beforo they are able to achieve a state of in ebnation on that.

A daring robbery occurred in Foxton last. Thursday night, the victim being Mr. C. Butty, manager of the Foxton branch of the Community Stores. Mr. Butty, who resides at the Post Office Hotel, locked up his business premises at 9.40 p.m., and in view of the holidays, and the fact that the banks would be closed for several days, carried Hie takings from the shop, amounting to over £IOO, homo with him in a small brief bag. There was nobody about the hotel when Mr. Putty arrived there, and ho temporarily placed the bag, together with other parcels, in the commercial room. Ho returned to tho room about two minutes later and discovered that during his brief absence the bag containing the cash had disappeared.

Tlio need for a less parochial outlook on the part of the people of tho Dominion was emphasised by Mr. J. G. Poison, principal of the. Canterbury Teachers’ Training College, in an address to the School Committees’ Association. "It is often said that we in New Zealand are a smug and self-satisfied people,” he said. “One reason for that self-satisfied attitude is that a few years ago we wero so often told that New Zealand was a model to the world in Certain aspects, and that it was a laboratory of social experiment, that we were inclined to think, ‘We are the people.’ New Zealanders who go overseas, however, eomo back chastened. They admit that- there is a great deal to learn from the older-established and more cultured countries.”

The experience of large numbers of unskilled amateur fossickers on the Molyneux River, between Alexandra and Roxburgh, last winter has directed attention to this stretch of the river as a source of income during tho coming season, states tho Otago Tunes, and in Dunedin at present there are several parties and individuals making arrangements to take up their posts on tho river banks in tune for tho closing of the gates of the Kawarau dam, which is expected to take place late in May or at the beginning of June. The demand i'or old huts, stone caves and other makeshift accommodation in tho vicinity of the river is very keen, and it is reported that the general standard of equipment of these seasonal miners, as a result of what was learnt last winter, will be very much higher Hi is year. It is understood that tho mining population on the Molyneux River this season will not bo -purely masculine, ns some unemployed women, notwithstanding the fact that- so far there has been no subsidy forthcoming, aro likely to bo among the fossickers.

Speaking at a meeting at Seddon, Mr. E. F. Healy, M. 8., referred to various observations be made during Iris recent trip to Canada and the U.S.A., reports tlio Marlborough Express. In tho course of iris remarks he claimed that the people of New Zealand did not know how well off they were in tho liberty they enjoyed, and in tho integrity of their public body and political system. Both Canada and the States wero absolutely riddled with graft in business and politics, and the people actually did not know what real freedom was. He had been astounded with Hie tales of graft and dishonesty, and lie could assure his hearers that he was a very glad man to get back once more to this lovely country where honesty ruled, graft was unknown and the liberty of the subject was a genuine and real tiling. As the round of applause that was accorded the speakeij died away, Mr. J. W. Sbirtliff, who had kept the meeting in a simmer of amusement all the evening, rose, and. in an innocent voice asked: “Would yon suggest, Mr. Healy, shifting the Statue of Liberty from New York Heads to Wellington Heads?” The sally “broke up” the meeting.

A ceremony of a pleasing nature took place at Morere on Saturday night, when tho official opening of an extension to the garden of the hotel was held. In the garden, which was laid out by the proprietor of the hotel, Air. E. B. Shortt, had been constructed a small rustic bridge of manuka over a pond, the whole giving a very pleasing effect. There was a large attendance of residents and visitors to Hie township and the ceremony was thoroughly enjoyed by those present. Preceding the opening, there was a procession, in which -a number of colored lanterns were carried on poles. After a detour of the whole garden had been i made, the lanterns were set among the trees and shrubs, and together with the light from the headlamps of three' motor cars, presented a beautiful scone. The first part of the opening was made in Chinese, Mr. Yen. of Hawke’s Bay, performing the ceremony, burning materials giving off red, blue and green lights, and thou casting them into the water. Air. Sandtman, of Hawke’s Bay, then completed tho ceremony in English and declared the bridge and garden officially open bycutting tho ribbon.