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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 6

A frost of three degrees was reported in Gisborne this morning.

"This era/e for changing designs is a factor in raising the cost ot textiles in this eounii vcommented Professor l>_ If. Murpliv at a sitting of the 1 unit Commission at Christchurch, when a witness referred t«> the ditliciilty caused bv the changing ot designs in upholsteri coverings. "Who do these changes ot designs’"'n-st with the mamifacluivrs? asked l‘iolcssur Murphy. t\ itimss . Yes. Professor Murphy’: I think they are a perfect curse, and something m,mu facturers should look into.

Farmers of the Gisborne district arc already benefiting by the recent improvement in pig prices at Smitldield. Advice was received in Gisborne this morning from Mr. . \\. A. l’hi.ll rj>s, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Go-operative Big Marketing Association, that a higher final payment to suppliers bad been deckled upon. This message was received through a member of Hie local committee, who had a telephone conversation with Mr. Phillips. The directors bad previously recommended a final payment, of ]d pel lb., but at a meeting yesterday it was reported that realisations of stocks unsold at the time the balance-sheet was prepared had since, sold so well that it would be possible to increase this payment by t fd per II)., making it

A certain amount of deterioration lias been noticed in the surlace ot that portion of the (toast road which was laid down in 193')-31 under the Main Highways Board’s first (.‘oast road bitumen contract. According to I lie district engineer, Mr. (). G. Thornton, the damage is not of a serious nature, however, ami it, is expected that it will be cured by the application of a bitumen seal coat, which will be carried out next summer. Tlio Coast route passes through difficult country for road works, numerous springs giving rise to a considerable amount of trouble, and this coupled with the fact that _ the Wliangyira metal which was used in the first, contract, has not proved entirely satisfactory, is largely to blame for the condition of the road at present. h'ov the second contract, now in progress, Whangara metal lias again been used, but as it has been laid down to a greater depth than the specifications for the first contract provided, it is anticipated that this new work will prove satisfactory. As the Whangara quarry has now been worked out, the contractor will obtain the small balance of metal required for the completion of the contract from Mangatokernn, when- better quality stone is available. The proposal for the completion ol the Fast Coast railway, at present under consideration, is referred to as follows in the annual report of the Napier Chamber ,J Commerce: “Legislation having been passed permitting the Railway Board to lease sections of railway lines to private enterprise, it- was felt the, time was favorable for further representations to be made to the Government for the immediate completion of the section Napier to Wairoa. The completion of this portion would undoubtedly make the chances of leasing more favorable, and at the same time find useful work fur unemployed men. as it is estimated of the .(175,000 required to link the two towns over (140,000 would be spent in labor, It would also be an important step in furthering the ultimate object of linking Napier with Gisborne by rail. Representative committees are now at work preparing data both in regard to the estimated cost of the railway, and the revenue which might lie expected to be derived from it. We sincerely hope that the result of the labors of these committees will result ill a scheme being formulated for the completion of the railway at least as far ns Wairoa,"

j The Educat ion Depart men t lias made a grant to tho ( nntorbury Educai ion I Board for the strengthening <• £' tin (ireymonth Main School. This school, a bride one, was shaken in the Mur chi.-iori eatthquako.

A moat enjoyable time was spent at the Carroll pavilion last, evening, when the Kahmin Bowling Club's soeial eoln initlee belli a enbbage tonriiauieiil, some very keen games eventuating. .Mrs. Hannah won the lirst, prize in the holies’ section. Mrs. T. Gordon being second.

whilst, Mr. I!. Lament accounted for the gentleman s prize, with Mr. It. Cook as runner- up.

Probably Hie largest and most representative display of New Zealand native spring (lowers ever collected at one time, tile second Cheeseman Memorial exhibition, was opened at the Auckland War Memorial Museum bv Sir Kdwin Mitcbelson on Saturday. The show was inaugurated last year at the suggestion of Miss Lucy Cranweil. botanist at the museum, as a lilting memorial to the late Mr. Thomas C. Cheeseman. i-uratm of the museum for 50 \ears.

As an indication that the unemployment position in Christchurch is improving. even if only slightly, Mr. .1. \V. Ileanland. i bailsman of the works commit tee of Ihe Christchurch City Council, states that several relief workers are leaving relief works and getting hack into their own jobs. During the lasi fortnight, he says, at least ztO men, some

employed on council relief works, and some employed on the Sumner causeway. have hit io take up |ierlual I. or semi peinianeul. work at their own trades. That the phrase, "long limbed colo iiials” is not without a foundation in fad was shown by Dr. Ada Paterson during a hwiiue to the Auckland School Commit I cos’ Association. Fig ures taken for groups of children in New Zealand and in (llasguw proved that the. New Zealand children had definitely longer limbs than had the corresponding groups, and it was a reasonable inference, that the figures for Glasgow were typical of those for many parts of Great Britain. During Die hearing of lengthy legal argument- in the Court- of Appeal at Wellington on quest ions arising under a widow’s will. Mr. Justice MacGregor was moved to impure if the will was drawn by a solicitor. One of the counsel engaged in the argument replied that the will was not "home-made.’’ having been prepared b.v a solicitor. No claim to the distinction of having drawn the document was made, by anyone present, said another counsel. Mr. Justice. MacGregor smilingly suggested that, nevertheless, they must he indebted to whoever prepared the will. "It was framed with an eye to posterity.” suggested Mr. Justice Reed. Formal notification of sanction by the Local Government Loans Board of the proposal by the Wellington Fire Board to raise a loan of £25,000 for the purchase of Hie Clyde quay school site for the erection of a new central lire station was received at a meeting of the Fire Board. The conditions made by the Loans Board are that the term of the loan shall not exceed 20 years, that the loan shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments of principal and interest at rates as stated in- the Loans Board, and that payments of interest and repayments of principal are to be made in Mew Zealand currency.

Three pedigree Clydesdale stallions were brought by the motor-ship Port Alma, which arrived at Auckland from Glasgow and Liverpool on Sunday. The horses will be landed at Dunedin. Two of the animals, Boseprint and Craigie Crest,. are two-year-olds, and the other horse. Birkhall Hiawatha, is four years of age. Boseprint and Birkhall Hiawatha are owned by Mr. B. Hamilton, of Kelso. Otago, and Craigie Crest has been purchased for Mr. T. Logan, also of Otago. Mr. Hamilton was a passimgei- on the vessel and attended to the horses during the voyage, which was an exceptionally line one. The animals arrived in splendid condition. Apparently an organised effort is being made to perpetrate the old "Spanish prisoner” confidence trick on New Zealanders. Recently a llelensville resident received a copy of the familiar letter from a self-styled Spanish prisoner, asking for help in obtaining 2,700.000 Swiss francs and promising a reward of a third of that sum. A similar letter has also been received hv a resident of Maketu. obviously run otf with others on a duplicating machine. The object of the let ters is apparently to get people to nun lmmirate with an address in Spain, from which requests for the definite sums ol money can lie sent, with the mythical "rewaul” held out as a tempting hail.

Tim probability of imported disease having hern ilio most potent factor in the rapid decrease of native bird life, was stressed by a recognised scientific authority in Auckland during a recent conversation with Captain F. AC Sanderson, president of the New Zealand Native I !ird Protect ion Society. Captain Sanderson said the hellbird and whitehead were now very plentiful, and probably on the increase, and it was likely that they had successfully gone through the process of establishing immunity, ft was also possible that birds like the huia and the piopio, the latter which was known to exist on a certain sanctuary, were, now going through a similar effort to establish immunity. Such matters as these were a potent argument against, importation of foreign species, and the transferring of indigenous species from one locality to another.

“We stand at the parting of the ways. Whether so-called democracy, as we have understood it during the last 30' or 40 years, is going to justify itself under modern conditions, 1 will not venturi! to express an opinion,” said Lord Bledisloe at the Dominion Day reunion of carl} settlors at Wellington. “The longer 1 live the more certain I am that it • not merely physical strength and certainly not mere wealth that is going to make any nation predominant alsive other nations m the world. Wo see, lor example, one nation that is undoubtedly the wealthiest and perhaps, on paper, the most powerful in the whole world, suffering from the most acute economic depression. In the long run it is faith in God, faith in one’s self, and in one’s country, and a determina tion that, whatever governments may do, cadi person can contribute his own part in building up the welfare of a nation that is going to toll its tale in relative superiority among the nations of the world."

“There is nothing which arouses my sales resistance so violently as standardised sales talk," was a statement which gained a round of applause for Dr. (’. K. Booby, speaking at a coin morcial travellers’ smoke concert in Christchurch. Dr. Beeby added that in America particularly there was an exaggerated idea of high-pressure salesmanship of the standardised variety. Americans had a passion for selling. lie gave an instance concern iug a visit, of his own to the United [states when lie was motored, dined and feted for the greater part of one dav and was looking for the "catch” all the time. Finally it was revealed as an at tempt to sell him a residential section. Another time he saw people paying their five cents to look through a telescope. He. too, paid his five cents and what he saw was a man sitting on a flagpole the world’s champion flagpole sitter, who had been there for some such time as three weeks. His friends below sold him at 5 cents a piece. Later the. telescone. was turned another way, and the siijht on that- occasion was a man who had hanged himself. The people below charged 10 cents for that.