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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18163, 10 August 1933, Page 6

The two racehorses, Musgo and True Blood, which competed at the meetings of both the Poverty Bay Turf Club and the Hunt Club here recently, are to be shipped -by tho m.v. Margaret W to Auckland to-day. In his remarks at the annual meeting of the Katikati Dairy Company at Tauranga, the acting-chairman, Mr. D. C. D. Thomas, said that the chairman, Mr. W. Marshall, who was visiting Britain, had written from London stating that trade there had picked up considerably, and generally speaking peoplo had an optimistic outlook.

Last evening a most enjoyable function was held at the Cosmopolitan Club when a large number of members and guests were entertained at euchre. About 15 tables! wore engaged, and when play was finished there was an impromptu dance, which was greatly enjoyed. Very attractive prizes were presented for competition by the euchre players, and a dainty supper was served during an interval. Through traffic between Gisborne and Tiniroto was possible this morning, a vehicular track having been provided round the slips on the Bluff section and -beyond, and in consequence the mail contractor to-day reverted to the usual one-day return service. After the spell of dry weather which has been experienced this week it was possible to negotiate tho whole of the road without chains this morning. Tho Rev. F. I. -Parsons, honorary -custodian of the Central Relief Depot, -acknowledges with thanks the receipt of .donations for July as follows: Messrs. E. A. Evans, E. Hampton and A. Donaldson, small goods; Holy Trinity Men's -Club, Mrs Cookson, Wainui Ladies’ -Guild, Messrs. Luen, E. Haisman, J. Black, S. Gray, and J. Ball, pumpkins and marrows; Messrs. F. Colljn, Limited, and Osborne •and 'Sons, corned beef; Messrs. Geo. King, Lue’n, Geo. Foo, W. Hong, mixed vegetables; anonymous, pumpkins and marrows: Findlays, Limited, and Clare’s Bakery, bread; Messrs. Corson and Sou, onions; anonymous, kumikumi; anonymous, .clothing; ‘('Settler” and Mr J. King, swedes. Tho custodian alsb acknowledges with thanks the clothing, groceries, and other donations received per medium of the Rotary Club drive.

Plans for the spending of a considerable amount of money on protecting the Rotokautuku bridge across the Waiapu River near Ruatoria are in the course of preparation. Recently, it was discovered that the land on the Gisborne approach to the bridge was unstable, and that it was slipping slightly, one of the visible results being that one of the concreto piers, which, instead of supporting the bridge, was pushed clear of the structure. Temporary measures were taken to ensure the safety of the bridge, and a more comprehensive plan adopted, but this had to be abandoned in view of the discovery that the slipping was of more serious import than was at first imagined. The main highways estimates for the current year show an amount of £<lß6, £3 for £l, for protective groynes and £1365 for a protective wall, the subsidy being on the same basis as the otlier amount. The first sum has been expended, but the manner in which the remaining amount is to be spent is not yet decided,

Although a good effort to clean-up the white butterfly pest was made in Hastings last year in connection with the competition organised by the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society, indications are not wanting that the pest will be a b,ad as ■ever this year. “The nation that begins turning foreigners out of its borders to purify its people is on the surest road to cultural suicide,” said Professor J.. Shelley, in an address in Christchurch. “Germany at the present time, from a cultural point of view, is committing suicide. The best way to do that is to cut yourself off from other peoples.”

’ln response to an advertisement appearing in yesterday’s issue of the Herald calling for the services of a smart boy for its hardware department, the offices of Messrs. Common, Shelton and Company were besieged both yesterday afternoon and' this morning with over 60 applicants for the position. They ranged from 14 to 19 years of age, the majority of whom had had a good secondary school education. The final choice will be made to-day. “I can hardly help thinking that the school, children of to-day are smarter and more artistic than the children of my school days. Perhaps they surpass in artistio work because their fingers are more supple than ours were—the strap may not have the same effect upon youthful hands that the stick had upon ours,” said the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Acting-Minister of . Industries and Commerce, referring to the arts and handicrafts displayed at the opening of the Christchurch Winter Show and Exhibition.

Residents of Picton claimed that the Picton-Grove road could be developed to become the finest scientific attraction of its type in New Zealand, when the Minister of Public Works was in Picton recently, A deputation appealed to him for assistance to the extent of £4OOO to carry out repairs and construction on that route sufficient to make it a suitable all-weather highway. In his reply the Minister said that he was more than delighted with the magnificence of the scenery, and also realised the importance of the route to settlers. He promised to secure a report. Ideal weather conditions prevailed at Nelson on Monday for the “Spud Monday” holiday. All the winter sports organisations arranged special fixtures, and many cars left the city for the country districts, while the Maitai Valley, Maungatapu, and Dun Mountains were popular with trampers. Nelson is the only place in the Dominion which recognises the first Monday in August as a holiday, the custom having been established by the early settlers, following the example of the bank holiday in England on that date. How it was named “Spud Monday” is indefinite. “I am not a veterinary surgeon, but I am more qualified 'than ,any other living Englishman, outside a veterinary surgeon, to speak on the subject of contagious disease in animals. I have studied veterinary science, and in addition to having been closely connected with various commissions dealing with contagious disease, particularly foot-and-mouth disease, I was instrumental in establishing the quarantine station on the Thames to meet the complaints of this disease from New Zealand and Australia," said His Excellency, Lord Bledisloc, when speaking to Hastings fanners during the course of his recent tour of Hawke’s Bay'. “Defendants’ action savors of defiance of the law,” said Mr. S. L. Patterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court, when Morris Stores and Motors, Limited, Hamilton,-was prosecuted for employing an assistant after 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, and for keeping the firm’s, premises open for business on the statutory half-holiday,. The inspector of factories, Mr. F. Wilson, said that'Me-' fendants had been caught infringing the half-holiday regulation three weeks in succession. Mr. C. A. Speight. Said the defendants were principally concerned witli the delivery of bread on Saturdays. His clients considered the inspector had been unduly attentive to them, as they were the only firm that had been prosecuted in this way. Defendants were fined £3 on the first count and were ordered to pay the costs on the second. An experience which befell Mr. am) Mrs. L. 11, Tingey, of Wellington, during a pleasure trip recently from Sydney to New Guinea on the P. and .0. liner Maloja showed that the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, off the northcast coast of Australia, is not without its danger to navigation, even when an expert pilot is in charge. Cruising north inside the reef the Maloja went aground and remained fast for several hours before she was freed. “It caused a bit of excitement, but there was really no danger, and so far as I could find out, no damage was done to the ship,” said Mr. Tingey on his return to Wellington. “The sea was calm all the time.” The trip occupied 15 days, and included a call at Brisbane. The big ships had only recently commenced running up the coast inside the reef, said Mr. Tingey, and it was not charted very often, so that even the special pilots were liable to go astray at times. “No photograph can give any idea of the ‘atmosphere’ of the East,” said Mr. H. E. Vaile, in a travel lecture on India at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. “Every place has an entirely distinctive smell, schemes of colon vary widely, and so does the feeling of temperature in the air.” The lecturer was showing at the time a photograph of the interior of a caravanserai in Peshawar, where, he said, camels and other livestock, men, women and children all herded together within the same four walls. Mr. Vaile mentioned that at Benares the sacred River Ganges was unbelievably filthy, yet innumerable pilgrims not only sat in it regardless of the crocodiles, but drank the water and conveyed it all over India in bottles. The Indian Government had gone to great expense to provide a completely purified water supply drawn from the river, but the Hindus still preferred the unfiltered kind.

A Chinese Presbyterian minister, working amongst his own countrymen in Auckland, speaking before the relief committee of tho Hospital Board, said that many Chinese who had formerly good businesses were now poorly off, but in trying to help them Europeans had to try and understand to some extent tho family lifo of the Chinese. In Auckland. for instance, they had Chinese widowers with largo families who could not go out and work on relief work because they had to care and look after their young children. When others attempted to look after the children, and they were taken away from the care of the" father, they simply pined to be all together again. Once the mother, who was tho centre of the family life, was gone, the husband had to take up the responsibility. There was something in tho Chinese character which made families clihg very closely together. Tho clergyman was assured that, with the means at its disposal, tho Hospital Board, not unmindful of spontaneous donations received from Chinese in tho past, would see that no human need, caused through misfortune or sickness, would go unheeded.

The new "Trocodero” in Hastings street, Napier, is representative of everything that the finest tearoom can be—in location, charm, excellence of menus and service. Visitors to Napier have expressed themselves as delighted with tho new "Trocodero,” and so will you. Call I Open Sundays all day,* - •