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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 4

Only two eases of infectious disease, both being of diphtheria, were reported from the' jSnst Cape health district, to headquarters at Gisborne for the week ended tit noon to-dav. No deaths were reported from infectious diseases during the week.

. A resuscitation of boxing activities in tho Waikohu County centre is foreshadowed by efforts now being made to arrange for a professional match between a Gisborne lightweight and an outside opponent, to be staged by the Waikohu Boxing Association at an early date. The association believes that it can count on the services of many of the most expert amateurs of the district for its preliminary bouts, and despito the difficulty of financing such enterprises at this time, the officials are confident of success with their scheme. During the past few days there has been an improved response to the appeal made for infants’ clothing, for cases under the special care of the Salvation Army in Gisborne. Practically the whole immediate requirements of tho indigent families have been provided for, and through the generosity of many Gisborne people another very pressing need has boon disposed of. .1 bo of the Salvation Army would appreciate further donations of clothing for infants, however, as there are periodical requests for assistance to be met, and a reserve of such clothing would be most useful.

“I have sat, still for three years watching bright girls, qualified by birth , and training to occupy some position in the world, leave school with nothing in front of them. Their luture is a blank. The young men who ought to marry them cannot make a career or a home. Their parents come to me for advice, but what can I advise them ? There is no place for such a girl except to remain dependent on her parents, and how long can they continue to support her ” —Miss M. 11. King, principal of the Otago Girls High School, in a public address.

“Chamois” leather does not come from chamois, but from sheep. That was one of the things demonstrated to tho Minister of Lands, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, when lie visited the Woolston tanneries at Christchurch. It was explained to him that although long ago chamois leather came from the skins ol chamois and deer, nowadays practically all of it came from sheepskins. The skins were split, and the flesh side of the split skin was used to make, the soft polishing leather known for household purposes as ‘‘chamois.” True chamois lfatlier was used only for special purposes. ‘ There is not a single university or technical college in New Zealand, to my knowledge, that offers a thorough and complete course in the theory and practice of photography,” said Mr. Gerald E. Jones in an address to members of the Auckland Society of Arts when an exhibition of his photographs was opened. Mr. Jones added that the neglect of photography by educational institutions was remarkable, since it had manifold applications to the daily practice of almost every branch ol science and industry. This was quite apart from its importance from the standpoint of pure science. Satisfaction with the efficiency of the road signpost system in North Taranaki was expressed at a meeting of the Taranaki Automobile Association at New Plymouth. Since the beginning of the year, said Mr. F. Amoore, one hundred new signs of every variety had bceh erected, and for thoroughness, efficiency, and neatness they would be difficult to better. He had recently been through the Auckland district, lie said, and in his opinion the service in Taranaki was certainly as good as that afforded by the Auckland association.

Amongst tho applications for goods service transport licenses heard by the No. 4 District Transport Licensing Authority at its sitting at Opotiki last week were the followingß. Pearn, Opotiki: ' Area license for Opotiki, Whakatane, Rotorua, and Waikohu counties, and route license Waiotahi to Opotiki. M. K Debreceny, Opotiki: Area license for Rotorua, Whakatane, Taupo, Opotiki, Waikohu, and Cook counties. W. J. Walker, Waihau Bay: Area license for Rotorua, Taupo, Whakatane, Opotiki, Waikohu, and Cook counties. W. A. Hooper, Whakatane: Area license for Whakatane, Rotorua, and Opotiki counties. The authority reserved its decision in each case.

During the week-end members of the Salvation Army organisation in Gisborne welcomed Lients, Kathleen Bickford and Pingelley, of Auckland and Wellington respectively, at the Citadel in Gladstone road. Lieut. Pingelley is a veteran officer of the army, and for many years was drummer to the Wellington band, fie is now on furlough, and is paying bis first visit to Gisborne. Lieut. Bickford, who is engaged at one of the army’s institutions at Auckland, is on her annual leave, and is visiting her family here. The welcome to the visitors was addressed bv Captain V. J. Dick, on Iwdialf of the Gisborne corps, and Lieut. Pingelley was also welcomed by Bandmaster Stein and individual members of the Gisborne band.

The Japanese people ’were well trained in the benefits of hygiene, as was evidenced at the public baths, declares a Tatunarumii resident, Mr. L. G. Godfrey, who has returned from a visit to the East. Smoking under 21 years of age was illegal and no children under 12 years of age were allowed in cinemas without their parents. Even when they were accompanied by adults, such children hud to leave tho cinema by 9 p.m. The “spring cleaning’’ of homes and shops was compulsory twice a year in other than the westernised parts of the cities, where large commercial buildings were erected. All rubbish was dumped into the streets and burned or carried away by the authorities. Mr. Godfrey said' he witnessed one such spring, cleaning.

“As county council chairman I must say that, the men in the camps are doing splendid work,” stated Mr. T. R. Anderson at the meeting of the Stratford Unemployment Committee. They were, he said, doing work that' was building up a national asset. The Unemployment. Board has decided to purchase an additional 70 acres of land for the purpose of establishing the small farm settlement scheme in Hastings. Arrangements have already been made to purchase 30 acres, and the additional 70 acres adjoin the 30-acre block on the Hastings side of the Karamu bridge. The firing of guns on the Australian and New Zealand warships in the Hauraki Gulf on Thursday was heard on the North Shore and the windows rattled from the vibrations, although the ships were some 20 miles away. A plate-glass window in front of a shop in Lake road was seen to quiver to such an extent thaat people standing near hurriedly moved away. Nearly 50 surgeons from various parts of New Zealand assembled at the Christchurch Hospital on Thursday for the annual conference of the New Zealand section of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and there was a full programme for a two day’s conference. Sir Louis Barnett, of Dunedin, vicepresident. of the college and chairman of (lie New Zealand executive committee, presided.

Under the subsidy scheme there are now about, ICO men employed on the Golden Hope goldfield area, Nelson, which includes the Maud and Maggie Creeks. The field is situated on a plateau about. 300 ft. high rising out of the Upper Buffer Valley a few miles from the. river’s source at Lake Roto-iti. Although the men are riot getting very much gold from their claims they have a good community spirit. A protest against the Post and Telegraph Department issuing summonses against reputable persons for failure to renew wireless licenses is raised by the Wanganui Herald. The paper contends .that reminder notices should first be given. There is as much justification for suing right and left for non-payment of telephone and private box subscriptions as for wireless licenses, but this it does not do, presumably because it would be bad business.

The new Robinson Redwing aeroplane, at present in use at Hokitika, had a lucky escape from crashing recently when it collided with the transmission lines of Westland Power, Limited, where they cross the Hokitika River at Kanieri. The three conducting wires, composed of steel cord and copper, were severed, but the aeroplane did not get out, of control, and although slightly damaged, was able to return to its aerodrome, three miles distant. The electric. current supply was cut off for 28 minutes.

The fact that in normal times approximately 140 teachers left the service of the Auckland Education Board eacli year through retirement, death or marriage, was mentioned by the chairman of the board, Mr. I’. U. Wells, at a meeting when the question of unemployment among teachers was being discussed. Mr. Wells added that since the depression, however, that number had been greatly reduced. At present, there were about 420 teachers in the Auckland board’s area without permanent employment, but of this total only approximately 140 were without temporary or relieving positions. When a radio inspector visited tho home of a Christchurch listener-in. who had been warned previously to license his set, it was found that tho set was connected to a wire bod mattress, which acted as an aerial, and which enabled the set to give fair reception. When the owner was asked to explain in the Magistrate’s Court his failure to license tho radio he said that he was unable to use the set, lrecau.se his mother lived in the house and was so ill that she had to receive several injections of morphia a day; she could not bo worried by music. “If she had so many injections I am afraid that she would not, bo able to hear any music,” remarked Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M. The. explanation was not accepted, and the set-owner was fined.

“The demand for badge’s in New Zealand is growing,” observed Professor B. E. Murphy, when examining with interest specimens of Dominion workmanship presented to, the Tariff Commission at Auckland by Mr. J. A. Young, who asked for the retention of the present duty of 25 per cent, on imported badges, medals and medallions. In reply to questions, Mr. Young said that the demand* for badges in New Zealand was anything up to 200,000. For example, there were 25,000 members of one society for which his firm supplied badges. The maintenance of men in employment, witness added, was the principal ground for his representation.

The threat of arrest had to be made by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch to silence a defendant in a case, and even that did not succeed, and the court finally adjourned, first until the atternoon and again until Thursday. The reason for defendant’s talkativeness was explained in an aside from the magistrate to Sub-Inspector Edwards, “He’s been loading up a bit.” The defendant persisted in addressing the court, although represented by counsel, who made vigorous but ineffectual attempts to keep him quiet. Tilings came to a head when the man proceeded to roll himself a cigarette and was about to strike a match to light it. It was then that the court adjourned for the first time.

A very valuable work in the development of North Auckland is being done by relief workers, in the recently-estab-lished camp at Waimatenui, 40 miles from Wbangarei. The Waimatenui road, which branches off from the Mangakahia highway at the twin bridges, is being widened at its upper end and formed, prior to metalling and bridging. The total length to be done is over 12 miles. The road, when completed, will be the only east-west connection north of Dargaville, and will bring the people of that district within 1J hours’ travelling of Whaugarei. Residents of Tutamoe and Donnelly’s Crossing will then be 30 miles nearer town. The Waimatenui road will be the shortest, route between Wbangarei and Hokinnga, and the most direct wav' to Waipoua and Kauri forests. Tile area which the artery traverses is mostly in very large holdings, some over 5000 acres, and the land is eminently suitable for closer settlement.

An insight as to how the police system operated in cities in the United States of America was given by Mr. Harry L. Bell, Washington, U.S.A., when speaking at a meeting of (lie Wanganui branch of the W.C.T.U. “Each eily has a law to itself,” lie said. “If a man is elected mayor he selects his own chief of police. Ho goes along to a good friend and says, ‘I want 'you to be chief of police.’ The arrangement being made, the friend goes along to 12 of his friends, who might even be dealing in bootleg whisky, and asks them to join him us police, so that the town is in the hands of those 14 men. I know of many towns in 'Washington that have had a mayor, chief of police, and policemen, who, during the past live years,, have been runners of beer. That is no Yankee tale. . It is plain fact.”