Untitled

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 4

The annual police examinations wore commenced in the Gisborne IJo Station to-day, and will occupy, truce days. Three candidates are sitting to the examinations, one for the rank o sub-inspector and two for the rank ot sergeant. The examinations are being held under the supervision of Inspector L. K. O’Halloran. The first step towards summer was taken cm Saturday when the spring equinox occurred, states the los . u ' the next three months the days wd continue to increase in length, the sun henceforward being above the homon each day for a longer period than it is below it. When summer time comes into operation again on Sunday, Oetobei 8, the second step, so to speak, will have been taken.

Samples of the uncertainty of spring weather have been experienced in Gisborne during the past two days. Despite periods of bright sunshine, ram lias fallen in heavy showers, while at times the wind lias reached almost gale force. A sharp fall of hail took place this morning. At 9 a.m. to-day the ram recorded at the signal station for the past 24 hours totalled l.ffilin. The rainfall recorded at Hangaroa for the 24 Jiours ended at 9 a.m. to-day totalled lji.un.

I Judgment for plaintiffs by default was given bv Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning in the following civil actions: —Hamel and Simpson v. It. S. Johnson, £lO Bs, and costs £2 16s; Urry and Company v. B. K Taylor. £4 9s 6d. and costs £1 os; Jessie' Fuller v. George Brown. 17s 6d. and costs 10s; J. Fuller v. Robert G. Fenton. £3 16s 6d, and costs £! 7s 6d. On a judgment summons, Finlay K Ken/ic was ordered to pay the Gisborne Sheenfanners’ Frozen Meat, and Mercantile Company. Limited, £5 10s Bd, m default five ‘days’ imprisonment.

A request that all reports relating to the Rust Coast railway should be made available to the committee which is investigating the possibility of completing the line was made to the I’rime Minister in Wellington last week by a deputation comprising Mr. C. (). Morse, Mavof of Napier, Mr. \\. E. Barnard, M.l'.. and Messrs. W. C. Whitlock ami It M. Chadwick. In connection with this matter the Mayor of Napier stated yesterday that all departments interviewed were most helpful, and the Prime Minister promised to do Ins best to make the reports available. The committee had no proposition to place before the Government and is at present engaged.in investigating the cost and revenue involved in the project.

'lVrliaps we can put it down to the cable news—things do not look too good and the people are realising the necessity for a navy,” said the secretary. Mr. C. J. Trelouven, at a meeting of the general committee ot the Canterlimy brunch of the Navy League, when reporting that public interest in the branch had been considerably stimulated during the last, few weeks. "R may have Ijeen the visit of the Australian ship,” suggested Mrs. 11. T. J. Thacker. Mr. Tv-eleven added that a further sign of renewed interest was the large number of enquiries from boys as to how to obtain admission to Die uavv.

The Knox Sunday School anniversary celebrations concluded lasi nielli with a concert contributed to by I lie children themselves. They were entertained at tea at the church late in the afternoon, and despite the heavy rain there was a large attendance, hut tlni weather kept many of tin* parents away from the concert, which provided some 1 excellent items. Prizes won at a recent examination were presented by the Rev. J. 11. Boyd, who also made a presentation of a hook on behalf of the Sunday school teachers to Mrs. P. Sehwahe for the splendid manner in which she coached the children for the combined singing at the services the previous day. She was also handed a bouquet from the scholars. The following contributed items to last night's programme:—A. Tapping, A. Cousins, N. Bedstone. B. Rignall, B. Sutherland, M. Wallen, d. Carnegie, Tj. Murray, May Bedstone, I). Taylor. S. Ca.roetoe, 0. Walker N. Morgan. P. 'Tate, R. Nossiter, L, Sehwahe, M. Redstone, E. Nelson, E. Clark, P. Mills, and M. Neild.

While ironing some clothes recently a Dunedin housewife had a most- unenviable experience. Owing to there being some fault with the electric iron the wire fused and caused a shock which, instead of going through her arm, stopped at the gold bangle she was wearing and burnt its impression around her wrist. .According to the doctor who attended the victim, serious injury would have resulted had she not been "wearing the bangle.

The introduction of the chain system of killing lwd proved a great success, declared Mr. IF. E. Worsp, chairman of the, Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company, at the recent annual meeting. A greater number of lambs qould be killed on the same floor area, A man new to the work very quickly mastered his own particular part of the dressing and as he became an expert, on that particular job, “110 dressing of the carcase was carried out in a very sat isfaclorv manner.

Owing to the very had visibility near Wanganui lasi Thursday alternoon. Major lsitt. with a passenger, Mr. Hell, could not pick up the Wanganui aerodrome. when on his way from Auckland, lie ticw out to sea. hut the thick misty lain blotted out every landmark, so lie headed for llawera There he lound that, sheep had invaded the landingground. and alter circling Ihe course he again set out for Wanganui, this time making a perfect landing. The whole trip took some four hours.

The fire engine will no longer have a monopoly of an electric siren, for at the last, meeting of the Invercargill City Council authority ‘Was given the trallie inspector to purchase one of these cuco phonons warning devices, says the Southland Times. Under the new Motor Vehicle Regulations a. trallie inspectors machine must lie equipped with a siren, which is -ho be used to signal motor drivers to stop or to make way to a trallie inspector, in the course ol Ins duty.

With head down and arms swinging, a figure in open-necked shirt, and trousers hearing unmistakable marks ot much use, swung along the road from Wigram Aerodrome to Christchurch. It might have been one of Die relief workers on the aerodrome job returning to his home. Really it was Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the Arctic explorer who plans to fly across the Antarctic continent in December, getting in a little more- training. Mr. Ellsworth believes in the value of walking as a means of getting fit.—Christchurch bun.

A double flight over the mountains from Christ church to the Frail/, .lose! (llacier and back was made by Mr. A. 11. Harlow with Mr. Lincoln Fllsworlh. the Polar explorer, as passenger. Mr. Harlow left Christchurch at 7.55 a.m. and arrived at the glacier at 9.45 a.m., beginning the return journey at 12.50 p.m. and arriving back at 1 lie Wigrnm Aerodrome, at 2.20 p.m. Flying conditions were good except that a slight hailstorm was met on the Canterbury side on the return journey. Mr. Harlow took a direct route over the. headwaters of the Haknia, instead of diverging to go through the Whitcombe Pass.

The fact that New South Wales butter is equal to New Zealand’s best was emphasised by a speaker who has just, returned from an Australian tour, when addressing the annual meeting ot the. Assistant Dairy Managers’ Association at Auckland. He said that a great deal of this result was due to the rigid control exercised upon suppliers producing low quality milk and cream Dairy instructors there had much more authority in the matter of eradication ol dirty milk and cream, and had the power to close the milking sheds and prosecute, the owners if improvement, was not shown in quality.

A statement to the effect that school children in New Zealand to-day were taller and heavier than their predecessors was made by Dr. Ada L’aterson. director of the division of school hygiene at a meeting of the Auckland School Committees’ Association. Improved conditions and a wider general knowledge of the rules of health were responsible for the improvement in physique. Dr. l’aterson said. The old days of cramped desks, when it was forbidden to wriggle, had gone. To-day freedom of movement was encouraged, and every effort, was made to get as much air and sunshine for the school children as possible.

The nor’-west wind was blowing at approximately 45 miles an hour at tht top of the new radio tower at Gebbie’s Pass, remarks the Christchurch Press but Mr. W. Ward, the chief erector, described the day as a nice calm one, when he came down from a height ot 50911. Conditions wore good compared with those at the Pass it week before, when the wind reached a velocity oi approximately 100 rubles, an hour. Men standing on tlie ground at the foot ot the tower at that time were hardly able (o stand up. ye I even then one of the wo; hers eliinbed some iTistance up. Conditions any day on the tower are trying enough, for with both feet and one hand needed to hold on and another hand to pick up a nut and bolt, the mouth is the only useful thing loft with which to work.

A special sitting of the No. 4 ! hstrift Licensing Authority was to no held in Napier to-day to finalise matters in connection with Hie. numerous applications to the authority tor goods transport licenses. These applications were heard at. sittings in various centres of the authority s district, including two m Gisborne, and one in Wairoa, hut a s many of the applications related to services which overlapped, the authority refrained from issuing any decisions until all aspects of the transport problem had been placed before it. Following to-day’s special sitting, decisions covering both the Poverty Bay and Hawke’s Bay areas will be made avail able. Mr. Charles Matthews, the Gisborne member of the authority, Jett yesterday for Napier to attend the sitting.

Reporting to the Whangarei Harbor Board on the dredging of the town wharf basin, the engineer, Mr. W. M. Fraser, said that suction dredging had been very much hampered on account ot a large quantity of old iron, timber and motor wheel tyres being nu t with in the work, which either blocked the mouth of the suction pipe or fouled the main pump, resulting in tlie dredge having! to stop work many times each day. The upper portion of the basin, particularly near the bridge, had evidently been used lor the past few years as a dumping place for rubbish, and (apart from the illegality of tin' practice, it made the estimating of tlie cost of dredging quite impossible. It was found, however, that as the work proceeded down channel, fewer obstructions were met with.

Many of the distinctive native flowers of New Zealand required particular locations and climate for successful cultivation, so that to develop them into growths suitable for general use would he a very difficult, and perhaps impossible matter, nurserymen told a Christchurch Kim reporter. They were discussing the suggestion of the GovernorGeneral (Lord Bledisloe), that some New Zealand plant might he brought by cultivation to the magnificence and popularity of the daffodil. The daffodil, it was pointed out. was an exceptional case. It was easy to grow and hybridise, and one of the comparatively few plants that would grow in all parts of the world. Some New Zealand plants already are popular in other countries, but their number is limited, The scarlet manuka is an example.