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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18070, 22 April 1933, Page 6

When cutting wood at Opotiki. Mr. Lyall Stewart, married, severely gashed his foot, with an axe. Several stitches were necessary.

All the. 11 cottages on the Bassett estate at Dargaville, settled under the small farm scheme, are now in occupation and the holders are busy in preparation for next dairying season. On Wilson’s estate 21 cottages are almost completed and will he ready for occupation early next month. A noticeable feature at the twentysecond annual conference of the United District Fire Brigades’ Association, held at Carterton, was the number of lelegates who w-ore either medals or old stars denoting long and efficient service. The total number of years’

■ rvice of the 24 delegates was 379, bus making an average of approximately 16 years’ service for each.

Efforts are being made to preserve a magnificent piece of kauri forest fringing the main highway in the North Auckland district. The bush contains large clumps of stately trees equal to anything in the Waipoua forest. Representations were made by the Whangaroa County Council to the ilons. E. A. Ransom and R. Masters during their visit to the district. A proposition to exchange the land with Crown land was discussed with the native owner. The deadlock in connection with the affairs of the Waihi Hospital continues. Three members of the board again absented themselves from the last board meeting. They forwarded a joint letter opposing the decision of the majority of the board to appoint a new matrbn in the absence of a report of the Health Department’s recent inquiry. The secretary was instructed to communicate with the' department in Wellington asking for authority to proceed with, the appointment of a new matron, the passing of estimates for the coming year, and the payment of salaries and accounts Referring to statements made at the last meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association concerning an increase in the number ,of rabbits in the Wairarapa this season, Mr. A. T. P. Hubbard, district stock inspector, Department of Agriculture, stated that, in common with .Other parts of the Dominion, -.there had been an increase of Jhe pest in the Wairarapa at the beginning of the season. Favorable climatic conditions had probably accounted for the increase. As far as the .Wairarapa was concerned, added Mr. Hubbard, the position'had been grappled with and the control of the pest to-day was in a very satisfactory state.

Two well-grown bulls walked into the shop of Mr/ A. Eliott, confectioner, pper Bank street, Whangarei, on Wed uesday. Mrs. Elliott heard a noise, and. thinking there was a customer, came out from the back of the shop to find that one of the bulls had marched to the ice cream stand, while the other, which had also entered the shop, watched. The 'irst bull had its head over the counter, and Mi's, Eliott grabbed his horns and turned his head round toward the door. The annual was> no doubt frightened and mmediat.ely went out of the shop. It fisplaced three jars, one of them being broken- The other bull followed its companion outage.