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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18179, 29 August 1933, Page 4

At the weekly meeting of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union last evening the chairman. Mr. G. H. Sceats, congratulated the Celtic Football Club on winning both the senior and junior competitions of the union. Judgment for the plaintiff for £l7B 9s Id and costs £9 Is 9d was given by Mr/E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning in an undefended civil action in which the' Public Trustee proceeded against Alfred Lindsay. On account of the travelling of a mixed team,-to Tolaga Bay on Thursday next for the sports meeting to be held there, and as a team of cyclists will journey to Hawke’s Bay to take part m the Hawke’s Bay road cycling championship, which will be held on the same day, the Poverty Bay Professional Athletic and Cycling Club’s road race has been postponed until September 14. The return football match between Wairoa and Poverty Bay, said Mr. G. H. Sceats, the chairman, at the weekly meeting of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union last evening, had been definitely agreed upon for September 16, when it would be played at the Oval, Gisborne. He understood that the return match between teams representative of the Wairoa primary schools and the Poverty Bay primary scliools also would be played on tho same day. In publishing an amendment of the result an the Competitions festival class 61, humorous recitation for girls and boys between 12 and 18 years, the names of three girls who tied for second place were inadvertently connected with the third placing. The correct placings in this event were: Eirene Halbert, 80pts, 1; Lola Dodd, Cecil O’Halloran and Moira McClure (tie) 78pts, 2; Lorna McNoe, 77pts, .3. Jobs for seven boys, at wages ranging from 10s to 15s per week, are available through the Y.M.C.A.-Rotary joint committee, which for the past two years has operated an employment agepey for Iwys, without charge to those -placed in employment. The jobs now available are on farms, in the country and on tho Coast. Since the inception of tho committee’s work, no less than 227 boys have been found employment of a more or less permanent character. The Marist Debating! Club’s second debate since its inception was held last week, when a number of able speakers discussed the question, “Should bachelors be taxed?” The affirmative side was taken by Messrs. E. T. Brosnaliun, F. Williams, and J. Bradley, and Messrs. J. Hogan, D. Patterson, and E. Ward supported the negative. Most of the members of the audience joined in the discussion, and an interesting review of the debate was given at its conclusion •r the chairman, Mr. O. J. M. Alley. The audience included a number of ladies. The club’s third debate will be held to-night, when the question, “Who makes the better wife —the country girl or the town girl?” will be discussed.

The 42ft. twin-screw launch Omati, which left Gisborne on Friday morning, arrived at Wellington and berthed at the Aotoa quay breastwork on (Sunday morning. After taking in oil and stores the small vessel was to have sailed for Wanganui, Where she will be used in the work of lengthening the two moles at the entrance of tho harbor. The Omati left Auckland last Saturday week, but had to shelter at Tauranga for three days on account of unfavorable weather in the Bay of Plenty. Captain J. Williams, -who wiis in charge, was at one time master of the small motor-ship Kotiti, which was lost last year with all hands while bound from Greymouth to Foxton.

Individual protests by local authorities and incumbents of public posts having failed to secure an improvement in the situation of Class B unemployed in Gisborne--married men without children —a public meeting of protest has been arranged for Thursday evening at the Opera House. The chair will be taken by the Mayor, My. John Jackson, and among the "speakers will be Mr. I). W. Coleman, M.P., and the Rev. F. I. Parsons, lion., custodian of the Central Relief Depot. An effort is being made to secure the co-operation of the business community in the direction of impressing on tlie Government and the Unemployment Board the equity of the claims advanced on behalf of the class of unemployed married men whose earn: ings from relief work are limited to 18s 9d per week.

In a letter to the Mayor, Mr. John Jackson, an English lady journalist who spent last week in Gisborne, Mrs. Adams Taylor, has expressed her warm appreciation of hospitality extended to her during her brief stay in the district. Mrs. Taylor remarks upon the beauty and characteristic British features of the own and its public and private life, and mentions that this was her second visjt . Gisborne, the first having been paid several years ago when a team of English cricketers were touring the country. The pleasant impressions registered on that visit had been more than confirmed on this occasion, Mrs. Taylor intimates, and at leaving, her desire was to return at some future date to sample again the of knowing “this delightful retreat, , its happy people, and congenial atmosphere.” The lady journalist promises in her letter that in her future travels she will be a self-elected publicity agent for this Dominion, and particularly for Gisborne, the most artistic centre she. has yet visited ip the course of hep fcour..

The Wellington branch of. the British Drama Society has a membership ot 418, the annual subscription*-totalling £877 16s. It lias its own studio. How many seeds does a ragwort plant produce? According to one. speaker at the East Waikato Rabbit Board meeting, a schoolmaster had. the seeds from an average ragwort plant counted by the scholars, and the total was 12,806. “That’s the whole trouble with our industrial legislation in New Zealand — wo have blocked up every hole,” declared Mr. D. I. Macdonald, one of the employers’ assessors, in the hearing of the timber and coalyards drivers’ dispute at Christchurch. “If a man is killed in a lift somewhere on the West Coast, for instance, we bring in a set of regulations to apply to every lift in New Zealand. We have gone to the. extreme with our legislation more than any other country in the. world, and we are carrying a burden that we cannot afford. ” 1 The policy of the Government in pegging the exchange rate at a,premium of 25 per cent, was defended by Mr. F. W, Freeman, the Coalition candidate in the Lyttelton by-election. Mr. Freeman declared that when the whole story was told it would be found that the step taken bv the Government would save the Dominion millions of pounds. He denied that the higther exchange had resulted in an increase in the cost of living, or that it had caused a fall in the prices of our products in England, and said that the question of high exchange had been.grossly exaggerated.. An interesting relic, of Thomas Brunner and his historic trip to the West, Coast in 1846-47 is at present on view at Murchison. This is a large piece of greenstone, 18in. long, 9in. wide, and from lin. to Him thick. It was. picked up by Mr. William Hunter on the bank 1 of the, Buller River near its old junction; with the Matakitaki about 20 years ago. Brunner, a Government surveyor, was detailed to explore the whole of the West Coast, which he did, making his Sas far south as Milford >Sound. srence to the diary leaves little doubt that the stone is indeed the same piece which was thrown away by the explorer 90 years ago.

In view of the confusion that appears to have arisen in some quarters or. the East Coast regarding the tour of the Rugby team of Wellington colts, it -was made perfectly clear by Mr W. ■S. McKee, secretary of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union, when interviewed this morning, that the team would not have the time to visit the Coast. An effort, he understood, had been made to secure a match against East Coast ■at To Araroa, but this had not been successful, as with the present itinerary the players would be absent from Wellington for approximately a fortnight. -A‘match will be played against Poverty Bay on Saturday, and from here the team will leave for south to meet Wairoa on the following Wednesday. One more match will be played before the team returns to the capital, and this will be at Pahiatua. At the provincial conference of fruitgrowers held at Hastings on Saturday, the delegates at which included the Poverty Bay representative, Mr. J. C. Hardy, some discussion arose in connection with last season’s exports ot fruit to South America. From the latest information available concerning these exports, it is understood that the fruit from Ne w Zealand was subject to an import tax of 5s 6d per Case, which, on top of the costs of assembly in New Zealand, and the ocean freight and commission at the selling end, rendered it most improbable that there would be any final return for the growers in the Dominion. At the time the fruit was shipped, it is believed, the existence of the import tax was not known in New Zealand, and those who participated in the shipments doubtless will do their best at the national conference next week to clear up the question of liability for any losses that may have been incurred in the South American market. Though the cheapening of the American dollar has made it possible to import fruit cases at less than the New Zealand costs of manufacture, the fruitgrowers of the Dominion are keeping their money in the country by continuing to use the Dominion-made cases. In doing this, the fruit industry is making a sacrifice of about Id per case, it was made clear at the Hastings conference of the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers’ Federation on Saturday. • When the dollar dropped recently, those interested both in fruit and timber were fully cognisant of the effect on the case trade, and after some preliminary discussions a conference was held, at which the Unemployment Board was represented, as well as the two industries affected. The issue of the conference was an agreement to which the growers of fruit receive a portion of the benefit of the exchange drop, as between New Zealand and the United States, and the millers of timber in the Dominion receive some assistance from the Unemployment Board in meeting the costs of production of their cases.

The Auckland schoolboys’ soccer team, representing as many as 15 schools, arrived in Gisborne last to play matches against teams selected from local schoolboys in the primary division. This afternoon a practice match was to have been played against Gisborne' City, which will be more of a try-out, and beyond its purpose as a basis for the selection of a team, it will not be regarded seriously. The first important match the i Auckland team will play will be against Gisborne United to-morrow afternoon, while the following afternoon it will meet the. Poverty Bay primary representative team. All the matches will be played on the Childers road reserve, where there will be an additional attraction in a hockey match between Wairoa Old Girls and Kia Toa to-mor-row, and in a match between a men’s representative team from Wairoa and Y.M.C.A. on Thursday afternoon. Accompanying the Auckland Soccer players are Mr. G. C. Ballantyne, a member of the minor divisions’ committee of the Auckland Football Association, and Mr. Lange, who is the first assistant teacher at the Grafton Road School.