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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18181, 31 August 1933, Page 6

Three bankruptcy petitions were filed in Gisborne during the month which ends to-day. No petitions were filed m I August of last year, i Mails for the United Kingdom and Europe which left Auckland on July 25. R.M.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, arrived in London on August 21. i The cribbage party held by the KaJiutia Bowling Club’s social committee in the Carroll pavilion last night was well attended, and a very enjoyable time was spent. Miss Robertson was successful in carrying off the ladies’ prize, Mrs. i Gambling being second. In the gentlemen’s section, Mr. R. .W Cook was the winner, with Mr. Marlow runner-up. The usual euchre evening will be held to-morrow. ! When the Bluff Harbor Board learned that the Commonwealth and Dominion Litle was building a new vessel for trade with New Zealand, it wrote to the company requesting that the ship be named Port Southland or Port Bluff- The hoard has received a letter fiom the company, thanking it for its friendly gesture, but advising that a decision had previously been reached to call the new ship Port Chalmers, which in addition to honoring Otago's port was the name of a very old vessel in the company's service. The Bluff Harbor Board's request had, however, been noted for future reference. Whether the circumstances can bo taken as an indication of an easier money market is open to argument, hut the Gisborne Borough Council and the Cook County Council have experienced a more general response this year to the offer of 5 per cent, rebates upon prompt l paid rates than in recent- years. In the case of the Borough . Council, the payments have been substantially greater in volume than for the last year at the same time, while the Cook Council has had a larger number of individual demands met by the small ratepayers, and at least a slight increase in the amount received for the rebate period. In both instances, the rebate is available until' office closing hours this evening, when the comparisons will be even more in favor of the current rating year, it is expected.

Thousands of shellfish have been washed up on the Ohope Reach, near Whakatane, probably ‘as the result of some deep-sea disturbance.

A successful “shot” was fired on Friday at, the Otago. Harbor Board’s quarry, some 40.000 tons being brought, flown/ including a large proportion of excellent stone. • • A fire occurred on Saturday in the office of Paterson, Michel and Company, merchants, Hokitika. The brigade made a good save and the damage was confined to the office.

Satisfaction with the position in the Hawke’s Bay district as far as fireblight is concerned was expressed by Mr. A. M. Robertson, chairman of the fireblight committee, to the provincial conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, held at Hastings. The Foxton Harbor Board’s dredge Herinessy has been dismantled and- the machinery stored. The. dredge has been out of use for some years. It- was acquired from Patea in 1919, but proved to be a white elephant. A start has been made with the demolition of Messrs. _ Hallenstein Bros’ premises on Lambton quay, Wellington. These wooden premises, now some 60 years of age, were occupied by Messrs. Hallenstein Bros, as men’s and boys’ mercers for many years. The company is to build a two-storey commercial blockon modern lines.

While a young man, Jack Bevan, a baker, was * driving a motor-van from Levin, he struck the Waitohu bridge. It is thought that after a strenuous day’s work he dozed at the wheel. .The, van hit the bridge with force, breaking the planks and completely damaging the front of the van, the driver being pinned to the seat. Mr. Bevan suffered a dislocated hip. An alarming experience befell Mr Thomas Brown, a baker, of Kawakawa. when .an explosion occurred in the furnace of the oven in his bakehouse. The side and the back of the oven , were blown out. The door was lying on the floor'of the bakehouse in ,a heap of debris, and the chimney was seriously cracked.' Mr Brown is unable to account for the explosion. Cecil W. Spencer, a Taneatua hotelkeeper,' pleaded guilty in the Whakatane Police Court to charges of supplying a native woman with liquor at' Ruatoki, within a proclaimed area, and to a second charge of taking liquor into a Maori pa.. The police stated that two kegs oi beer were taken to the Maoris inside one of the pas. Counsel explained that defendant was, a recent arrival in New Zealand and was ignorant of the fact that lie was violating the law. A lino of £5 was imposed, with costs 15s.

“The day ot parties is over; there is a definite change of opinion,” declared Mr. E. L. Hills, the Independent Labor candidate for the Lyttelton seat, speaking at Woolston. Mr. Hills was replying to a questioner who had asked him why, if ho had the workers’ interests at heart, he was standing against the official Labor candidate. “I want to tell you that everyone of us has the right to contest the Lyttelton seat if we so desire,” he said. “No party has a right to say whether a man can or cannot contest the seat.”

Proposals for extending works in the Tirnarn harbor brought forward by Mr. R. S. Goodman were discussed at the last meeting of the Timaru Harbor Board, and were eventually withdrawn. The chairman, Mr. G. T. Dawson, said the plan of the Dashing Rocks scheme, was already prepared, but the board’s hands were tied until 1937, for the reason that the 1923 commission had stated that if, no unfavorable record of range occurred until 1930, the board would be well advised to delay any improvement work until .a favorable period of finance in 1937.

Unknown to most of the people who pass within a. few yards of it,' an old Maori canoe is slowly rotting in the bush at Titirangi, Auckland. The canoe is on the steep side of a bush-filled gully about 50yds. from the fluia road, and only 30ft. of it remain. A short distance above it is a small flat where several totara trees ate growing, and one of these probably supplied l the material for the canoe, which appears to have been abandoned before it was finished. It is a good distance down a steep hill to the nearest navigable water in Little Muddy Creek.

Arrested in Lowe street early this morning, two young men, whose names were suppressed in the meantime, appeared betore Mr. E. L. Walton, b.iVi., m the Police Court to-day, and were remanded until ISeptemoer b. One was chargea with being found drunk, and witn resisting Constable Gedye in the execution of Ins duty, and the other with being found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car. In applying for the remand, Senior-Sergeant Wade mentioned that the two accused were arrested at 1.20 a.m., and the police desired to make further inquiries into the matter.

The “huge quantity of flour and wheat allowed to come into the Dominion, allegedly for mixing purposes to nnprove , tile quality of the loaf,'’ is referred to in the annual review of Messrs, rayne, Gould and Guinness, Limited, of Christchurch. The report adds; “surely under present conditions, the consuming | public could live on bread made solely i from Ne w Zealand-grown wheat. This ! would obviate the necessity of exporting New Zealand-grown at low prices and paying high money for the imported article. During the year several- ! new mills have been or are being built. This threatens a war in the nulling industry, which further aggravates the position, and we submit that an embargo should be placed on all imports as long as New Zealand can be selfsupporting.’’ The price of bread in Gisborne has been stabilised at 6d per 21b. loaf for cash over the counter. This is announced by the Master Rakers’ Association in an advertisement in to-day’s issue, and will take, effect from to-mor-row. About 18 months ago the price of bread came down in Gisborne to 6£d per loaf cash over the counter to comfensate for the reduction in flour prices, u March this year the bakers reduced their price still further to 6d cash over the counter, despite the fact, that flour prices did not warrant the reduction. A mild bread “.war” has been going on since then, and in some instances bread came down to 5d a loaf this week. However, the Master Bakers' Association has come to an agreement, whereby bread Avill be selling at id per loaf less than prior to March last, namely, 6d per 21b. loaf cash over the counter, and 64d delivered for cash.

I Those competitors who contributed songs by Charles Willeby in the ladies’ i solo, New Zealand composer, section of the Wellington Competitions festival are not the only people to be surprised at the announcement by the judge, hr. Cyril Jenkins, that Willeby was not a New Zealand composer but an American. A Gisborne resident who was a 1 neighbor and very close friend of Charles Willeby when he lived in High street, Cnversham, Dunedin, recalls that if Willeby was not actually, horn in New Zealand he came to Dunedin in his very early infancy, and spent all iii,s early life in the Dominion, being educated at the Wellington college. He left New Zealand as a young man, and spent many years irr America. Dr, Jenkins remarked at the Wellington Competitions that it was the first time that he had heard that Willeby , was a New Zealand cothposer. ,