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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 9

When the motor liner Rangitata was on her way to New Zealand, she received a call to render assistance to ap, injured Pitcairn Islander. The ship’s surgeon, Dr. F. E. Graharn-Bissell, and the fourth officer wept ashore, and attention was given to a man who had suffered concussion in an accident. - : > “la 1932 United States citizens spent £64,000,000 in touring Europe. They are looking for new places to , travel to. New Zealand is an ideal spot Give 4he.rn tho ships and tho service and they will come,” said the trade counsellor to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Mr. J. David liarsofl, in an address to the Hamilton Rhtary Club.

.Tobacco-growers in the Nelson province are busy harvesting their crops, which in most districts are the heaviest vet produced. There has also been a considerable increase in acreage, and there is consequently an enormous amount of leaf to handle. Slight frosts have been experienced in one or two ot tho tobacco-growing districts, but no damage has resulted to the leat. Growers,, however, have been rushing the harvesting in order to get tne leaf safely in before a damaging frost occurs, though in the ordinary course such a contingency should be a few weeks off yet.

iLieut. P. A. Warren, liaison officer of headquarters’ staff, arrived in Gisborne to-day for tho officja,l, re-forming of the Legion of Frontiersmen and tho swear ing in'of new members at Lo Grand * Lounge to-night. :i Major J. C. Findlater, 1 cbjef. of staff, and Colonel Q. N, Bickeridge, divisional commandant, wlio were also to have been -present, have telegraphed to thq secretary, Mr. 11. B. Green, that they regret that they will be,unable to attend. Major Findlater, however, will be here next month, when he will give two public lectures, oqe on tho (Empire and the other,on questions relating'to Frontiersmen.