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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 6

Enterprise in the quest of employment is being shown by an elderly Aucklander. He lias compiled an index of houses where burglaries were reported in the absence of tile owners during tho last Christmas holidays, and he proposes to begin a round of visits shortly to the owners with the object of securing temporary employment as caretaker during the coming holiday season.

Owing to tho fact that ho will be acting as relieving magistrate at Napier at that time, Air. E. L. Walton, S’-M., will be unable to take the quarterly sittings of the Magistrate’s Court on the Coast circuit during the week commencing December 11. Justices of the Peace have been asked to hear such police and civil cases as come within their jurisdiction during that week, and Mr. Walton will take sittings of the court at Tolaga Bay on January 15, Waipiro Bay on January 16, and Port Awanui on January 17.

A further aspect of the Matakaoa County Council’s difficulties was ventilated at this week’s meeting of the Waiapn Hospital Board. A letter was received from the Pirocfor-Goncßil of Health that, a conference consisting of the Matakaoa County creditors had considered the report of Ihe commissioner, Mr C. If. Bull, and had decided that after administration expenses had been paid, the Hospital Board had first call on current revenue to meet current levies for hospital purposes.—Special.

Tho search for Mr. Samuel Pender Lakey, who lias been missing sinco the murder of his wife at Rmnvaro, near Huntly, is not being confined to the Auckland district, but is being prosecuted throughout the Dominion, and has been in progress in the Gisborne district for some time. It is understood that a stranger who was believed to answer to tho description of Mr. Lakey was seen in Gisborne yesterday, but that the man was ablo to establish his identity as other than the missing Mr. Lakey. A close watch is being maintained on all r oUtes leading into this district) and upon strangers coming to Gisborne.

The director of air services, Squadron Leader T. M. Wilkes, recently flew from Auckland to Thames and inspected an area at Parawai as a .site for an aerodrome.

Two particularly smart rescues, in one case averting a possible tragedy, were effected at the Ohawo Beach on Sunday by members of the Qhawe Life-Saving Corps, two men in difficulties in a strong backwash being brought ashore by means of tho life-line.

The whitebait season for the Manawatu River has olfised. The season this year was one of the poorest on record, being! no better than the previous season. Peculiarly enough, after an absence for over a. fortnight, whitebait appeared in the river m fairly large quantities the day after the season closed.

As the result of a, motor-cycle crashing into the. protective railing at Himatangi on Sunday, George Blakelock, of Wainta, and his sister received injuries which necessitated their removal to Che Palmerston North Hospital. Blakelock was unconscious and suffering from concussion when removed to hospital. Miss Blakelock’s condition is not serious. Blakelock was on his way to Wellington, having missed the Sunday excursion train.

It will be several months yet, probably about Easter, before New Zealand’s new set of pictorial stamps are ill circulation. Their production has taken longer than anticipated. Originally it was intended to have them produced by the photogravure .process, but this did not prove to he quite satisfactory, and it was decided to abandon this process in favor of the intaglio or line-engraved process. The droving scene depicted on the shilling stamp also proved unsatisfactory, arid a desiun showing native birds lias been substituted in its plage. Otherwise tiie set will appear as previously decided upon.

Hi addition to the official programme of entertainment for the officers and men of If.ALB. Diomede, which is to visit Gisborne next week, private arrangements have been made by various social organisations of the town and district. The Poverty Bay, Gisborne and Cosmopolitan clubs have made arrengoTiienis for entertainment, and officers and men will be the guests of bowling and tennis clubs. On a motor run on tho Sunday, the Te. Karaka Women’s Institute will provide afternoon tea.

Much of the criticism of conditions in public works camps in the Waikato which were voiced at meetings of Hamilton unemployed were found to be groundless by a party comprising representatives rif Waikato social welfare organisations and the press, which visited some of the camps last week-end. At Gordon - ton and Orini some 200 men are engaged on drainage, work in connection with the big Tanpiri swamp scheme. They earn on an average £2 10s a week on eontract, and are accommodated in comfortable three-roomed hutments rent tree. All of the men spoken to seemed satisfied, while their wives had few complaints. ‘‘We would not be back in town for worlds,” said one man.

The council of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce discussed the repbrt ot the New Zealand 'Technical School Teachers’ Association on juvenile employment. Mr. Fairbairn, chairman of the chamber's committee on youth employment, expressed the view that the report had been drawn up by men who were without knowledge of the improvement in the amount, of employment offering. and without adequate recognition of what was being done. The suggestion to set up another Government board was ill-advised. The local committee had, in the past, year, placed over 500 boys and girls in employment. 'Hie council requested Mr. Fairbairn to prepare a reply to the association's report for the next meeting.

“Corporal punishment is becoming exceedingly rare in the majority of our schools,” said Mr. G. <l. Park, principal of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, in an address to the Auckland Rotary Club. “T have not. ‘whacked’ a bo.V for years. If I wanted a cane I doubt if 1 could find one in my room. However, it is indicative of the part that interest plays in education that in technical schools corporal punishment has to be used more by teachers of theoretical or ‘book’ subjects than by teachers who deal with practical work. The latter never have to detain their pupils. Frequently they have difficulty in getting their classes to leave their work. ’ ’

In the course of his speech in the House of Representatives on the Budget, the member for Gisborne, Air. D. W. Coleman, took occasion to advert to the remarks of the member for Mat aura, Mr. McDougall, who had expressed his objection to being blamed by his constituents for the sins of the Government. Mr. Coleman reminded the member for Alataura that lie had been elected as a supporter of the Government, and that it was only natural for his constituents to regard him as supporting the policy of the Government. It seemed now that the member for Mataura had fallen out with the Government because of the way it was dealing with the question of wheat, .but if the Government would turn round and deal as Air. AlcDougall wished with the wheat-growers of his district, lie would overlook its shortcomings and would again be found supporting it, said Air. Coleman. —Special.

A quaint story illustrating the distorted values that the Maori of the early days in this country attached to some pakeha commodities was told by Bishop Bennett during an address at the Hastings Rotary Club. The bishop had been speaking of the period which might lie called the Maori ‘‘lron Age,” when the native was beginning to learn how to use the pakeha axe, the spade, and other iron and steel implements. A Maori woman in the Bay of Islands, he said, had a single nail given to her by a pakeha, and the woman’s husband was greatly incensed. He threatened violence on tlie innocent giver of the trifling present, to which the woman had taken a fancy, and his rage was so great, and the stir that the gift caused was so profound, that eventually a formal court of inquiry had to be held to smooth out the matter. The husband’s belief was that no man would have given ft woman such a rich gift unless he had been deeply in love with her, and he was not satisfied until the whole matter had been laboriously explained to him. I

I Now (lint tho reinforcing steel has been placed in position, an indication can be obtained of the dimensions of the base of the Robinson memorial clock tower. The contractor for tho erection of the tower, Mr. H. T. Reynolds, commenced work on Monday and by to-day the framework of the base had taken shape, the steel rods for the foundation and the base of the tower having been placed in position. The excavation for the foundation has been boxed in, and the heavy reinforcement of the base of the tower is visible to passers-by. the materials for the concrete itself are being (lumped in the enclosed yard which the contractor has provided in the middle of the ro'ad, and the con- j crete work is to be commenced immediately. The construction of the lower is expected to bo completed by the middle of January, ani the plastering work by the end of that month.