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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 6

sharp earthquake shock was felt at Tauran® at 3.35 a.m. on Wednesday The shock was of short duration and appeared to come from a southerly Election. No damage is reported. Under the will of the late Miss O’Keeffe, who died m Auckland on bep temher 18. a legacy of £2OO is left to the Mathr Misencordiac Hospital. Mm O’Keeffe had resided m Auckland foi the past two or three years, prior to which she was a resident ot le Aioh.i. The sum of £152 was raised at the final community singing concert, of the lp:;;t session at the Civic Theatre, Christchurch, on Wednesday evening, making the total amount by which 1m relief funds have benefited Irom the community singing up to £1149. Statistics prepared by the secretary of the Waiapu Hospital Board, Mr. J. Todd, for the first, half of the financial year ended September 30, show that at the commencement of the period there were 24 patients in the Te Fuia Hospital, and 183 were admitted making a total of 207 patients treated during the. period. The total collective days stay was 3465, and the average individual days’ stay 18.9. I \ luro-e draft of Gisborne cattle is at* present passing through Hawke’s Bay hound for the West Coast districts These were purchased at the Gisborne Cattle Fair about, a month ; ,o-o by Mr T. A. Duncan, of Hunter* 1 ville 'who has' about '7OO in this mob. Several thousand Hawke’s Bay.cattle also have been sent to West Coast areas during the past few months, and Wanganui interests were buying in Hawke’s Bay last week. The theft of benzine and oil to the value of £7 10s, the'property of the le Araroa Trading Company, on or about November 30, 1932. was admitted by Henrv Houkamau before Messrs. 1). J. McNauglit and M. Ryan, J.F.s, at a sitting of the Police Court at le Araioa last week. It was explained by Constable Strawbridge. who prosecuted, that the accused was the last of five men to appear before the court in connection with the theft, the other four having previously been convicted. As the accused had not previously been in trouble, Constable, Strawbridge suggested that he should lie treated in the same way as the other youths, who bad been admitted to probation for 12 months. In adopting this suggestion, the bench stated that the accused and tho others deserved a, term of imprisonment, and warned him that if lie clinic before the court again ho would be shown no leniency. Discussing to-day a recent message from Christchurch, in which reference t 0 abuses of relief distributions was made, the secretary of t.ho Central Relief Committee, Mr. W. Oakden, stated that the surest safeguard against abuses of the kind in Gisborne is the fact that officers of the committee know the majority of those to whom relief is issued. There have been a few complaints alleging that some’men in receipt of relief are on a “better wicket than the majority of the unemployed, and that they.are not entitled to assistance, but these allegations generally have been disproved by investigation. In larger communities, where the individual circumstances of applicants for relief cannot bo readily investigated, the opportunities for abuse arc more numerous. but in Gisborne and towns ot similar size each applicant is known to some among bis fellows, if not to the officers of the relief depots, and there is little chance for successful exploitation of the public. generosity winch maintains the depots. There have been a few cases in which men have been put off the relief list since the opening of the Gisborne depot, added Mr. Oakden, but the proportion has been very small, compared with the number of men assisted, ! Bishops, like the most humble of! pioneers, have to face the environment I of their jobs, and to their credit they do it with brave hearts and a smile, writes the Brisbane correspondent of ! the Melbourne Age. The. Church ol j England Bishop of Melanesia, the IU. i Rev, W. 11. Bnddeley, has been giving some illustrative remarks to hospitable folk who have welcomed him in connection with mission work. At St,. Andrew’s, South Brisbane, speaking j of the necessity of u journey of 700 ; miles in getting from the Torres! Group to the Solomons in Hie temporary absence of a, mission steamer, he said lie had seen pictures of the Archbishop of Canterbury with his train bearers, and of the Bishop of Zanzibar with two priests to hold his coat; but the Bishop of Melanesia had to climb J mountain tracks clad in khaki shorts | and a sports shirt,, and followed by, natives carrying his blankets, mosquito net, billy, frying pan, and food supplies. Bishop Bnddeley is regarded ns a right-down missionary, and he speaks of a wonderful native brother-hood-grown from seven to 42 members —“pledged to celibacy, poverty, l and obedience,” owning nothing but their loin cloths, who were preparing ' the way for native teachers and minis- ( tors in tho heathen villages. Tho bishop is an M.A., and his war services wero recognised by the Military Cross and the Distinguished Servico Order,

Following a meeting last evening, petrol resellers of Hastings and Napier decided to decrease the. price of firstgrade petrol by Id and to eliminate second-grade. The- top. price for firstgrade is now Is lOd a gallon. —P.A. “When ono realises that there are 70,000,000 people in Japan and that the country is scarcely larger than New Zealand, it makes ono realise what can be achieved in the way of close settlement,” said Mr. A. 11. Ferguson, during Sunday’s meeting at Napier at which matters of importance to the district were placed before visiting members of Parliament. A C) rev mouth Government official was locked in the office strong-room recently. He went into the room shortly before midday, and another official saw the door open, and closed it. The imprisoned man managed to open the steel shutters from inside the room, and he ultimately scrambled out by way of the window. He was, however, half an hour late for lunch. Nelson experienced a cold snap last week-end, and a frost on Sunday night in the city and country districts resulted in considerable damage to the tomato and potato crops and other tender plants. The tomato growers in the Vanguard street area suffered heavy losses hi plants, thousands of those planted outside being blackened, while even those in the glasshouses suffered con siderably. In this vicinity about eight degrees of frost were registered. One grower was. reported to have , lost 7000 plants and another oCOO. During the next five months the Hawke’s Bay County Council is to spend approximately £20.000 on the construelion of no fewer than eight new bridges at various points on the county roads, and on the construction and surfacing of concrete and bitumen roads. This sum includes the expenditure of about £6OOO by the Main Highways Board, which is to restore the Westshore embankment to its pre-earthquake condition. Further extensive works will also be undertaken shortly as a result of the diversion of the Tutaekuri River. During his recent visit to England Mr. J. ,T. Patterson, of Manaia, was astonished to find in some localities acres of thick ragwort. The methods of eradication were most haphazard, and in the majority of eases it was merely cut down when it was at the flowering stage, resulting as often as not in a fresh seeding. Mr. Patterson discussed with farmers the method taken in New Zealand to eradicate the weed, and his description of the use of sodium chlorate was followed with interest. When landing at the Hood aerodrome, Masterton, on his return from the Nelson air pageant in one of the Wairarapa and Huahine Aero Club’s planes, ZK-ABE, Mr S. Barry, of Wellington, a member of the club, met with a mishap, as a result oi w'hieli the machine was fairly extensively damaged. Just as it was landing the plane ran into the fence on the northern side of the ground, one wing being almost broken off, the other wing slightly damaged, the propeller smashed, and the undercarriage damaged. The badly-damaged wing will have to be completely rebuilt, and it is expected the repairs will take about a month. The pilot of the machine escaped injury., . . A claim for damages ns the result of a collision between a motor-cycle and a motor car was heard by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court, when J. 0. Taylor, of Alton, proceeded against D. W. Reid, farmer, of Feilding. Plaintiff cl armed £24 4s as the cost of repairs to a motorcycle, £3O depreciation, and £1 general damages, alleging that defendant had negligently driven his car and collided with the motor-cycle ridden by plaintiff’s brother, Cecil Alik Taylor. C. A. Taylor said he had borrowed the motor-cycle from his brother in order to proceed from Patea to Mangotainoka. Judgment was entered for plaintiff for £;74, with court costs and witnesses expenses. Depreciation was reduced to £2O. An excellent prospect of freeing the Haw-era showgrounds from debt within a few years was revealed at a mcotI ing of the Egmont A. and I‘. Associa-It-ion. The mortgagee, Mr. W. J. Arundel!, has made the terms on I which lie will give the association i £.7000 of the £IO,OOO mortgage even 1 more generous, and already the associ|at ion has promises of approximately 1 £2OOO of the £3OOO it will have to raise by public subscription. Air. Arundeil’s first offer was to give the association £1 for £1 for any amount; between £2OOO and £SOOO it raised by |public subscription. Now lie is willing to give £SOOO if the association Can raise £3OOO by public subscription. Preliminary steps have resulted in less than 20 residents of South Taranaki offering amounts varyingvfrom several sums of £250 and less'which on Saturday aggregated over £I9OO. | An unusual case was heard in the i Hamilton Court last week, when appiii cation was made by a firm of house I agents against a woman for possession 1 of a house occupied by defendant and her husband at Claudelands. It was alleged that defendant had obtained 1 use of the house by a trick. Ostensibly ; with the object of inspecting the place, the husband had secured tho key from the agents, and had taken possession, refusing to leave when asked. Finally it was arranged that the “squatters” could stay on at a weekly rental of £l. They had fallen into arrears with the rent, and action was taken against the wife, as it was understood her Tmsband was an undischarged bankrupt. The defendant did not appear, blit the husband represented her and challenged the authority of the agents to represent the owner in an action for possession, but Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., decided against him. The magistrate murto an order for possession, giving judgment against the defendant for £4 rent, with costs. No one could say what was the correct chronological age for a child to commence its education, said a member oi a deputation to the Taranaki Education Board, lint the age of ability varied from four to six. However, a vast majority was ready at five. The State had understaken to provide the education, and it was a hardship on the child if he could not commence that education when ready. The school work was divided into yearly periods, and it was thus a decided advantage if the child could enter at the beginning of the year. He quoted figures showing tin* numbers of children entering the New Plymouth schools in the three terms of this j year. Those who commenced at tlic J beginning of the year, he said, benefitted materially by doing the work prepared for the year. Parents were t now sending their children to - school at the first possible moment, but pro-j viously they sent them at the com- , moiicemont of the-year. Consequently! many were suffering hardship through j not commencing at the most appropriate timo, the beginning of the year.