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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18336, 2 March 1934, Page 6

A reduction of Id per lb. was made to-day by tlieKia. Ora Co-operative Dairy Company in its retail price of butter on the local market. Kia Ora butter is now selling at lid per lb. for cash and Roseland at lOd. A wild horse jumped from the bank on to the Taupo road late on Wednesday night in flout of a motor-car driven by Mr, H. Galbraith, of Waiotapu. The horse was struck and seriously injured and had to be destroyed. The car was extensively damaged, but Mr. Galbraith escaped injury. Reference to tho popularity of tramping in the South Island, particularly in the Christchurch and Dunedin districts, was made by Dr. I). A. Bathgate, speaking to members of the Napier Rotary Club. He said that some, tramping clubs had' come to an agreement with farmers, whereby Hampers could stay the night at houses every 20 miles or so along a particular route, thereby making travelling cheap. A poll was taken at Milton last week on tiie Borough Council’s proposal to raise a loan of £7OOO for a gravitation water supply scheme from Glen Stream, north branch, a distance of approximately six miles, to replace the pumping system direct from Tokornairiro River, which has been in vogue since thd collapse of the water tower in 1925. The poll was carried by a majority of 274 votes. Suffering from injuries to his foot, Mr. Walter Albert Beets, 26, of 60 Stanley road, was admitted to the Cook Hospital yesterday afternoon. Mr. Beets, who works at the box factory, was removing the flitch from the saw bench when he slipped and the heavy piece ot timber well on to his foot, crushing his toes. He was quickly taken to hospital and later underwent an operation. His condition to-day was reported to he comfortable. One part of New Zealand which had a special interest for an English visitor, Mr. C. A. Kilkelly, who is now on a motor tour of the country, was the Nelson district. Before he went there on holiday ho was in charge of 400 hoppickers in Kent. He told how one farmer in Kent this year cleared £6OOO from 50 acres of hops, with a brisk demand from America tor his product. There were two bad seasons before that, however.

One of the surprises sprung on the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage, in his tour of Christchurch industries was the fact that motor spirit, suitable for use in tractors, is manufactured in Christchurch. Samples were seen at the gasworks, the spirit being a by-product of coal. It was explained to Mr. Savage that the supply is limited by the amount of gas manufactured, and that the whole of the available amount was sold to farmers for use in farm machinery. The large amount of work entailed in scone shifting was briefly referred to lust night after the Gisborne Repertory Society’s production of “Baby Cyclone.” When the producer, Mr Frederick E. MeCftilum, was thanking all those who had helped with the production, he mentioned the handling of the scenes during the intervals between the acts, and said it. would be interesting some night to leave the curtain up to let the audience see just how hard those flout fellows worked and how much they had to do in a very short time.

An extraordinarily forthright ,reply to a demand for rates was read at the i monthly meeting of the Waiapu County I Council, and a member of the council commented that the original of the letter 1 should be carefully preserved, or framed. I The letter was as follows :—*‘l am stating clearly that 1 will not pay rates as you wrote to do so, on account of firstly, there is no council road to my residence, 1 and secondly, the Treaty of Waitangi, which I have signed, you must understand, states that all Maoris are not entitled to pay rates. Furthermore is not 1 necessary, as this is final. Signed, Mrs. i M., Hiki'tapua.” The council decided to , forward a copy of the letter to Mr. K. S. Williams, M.P., with a. covering letter | asking him what took place at Waitangi ' recently regarding the question of rating I

The question of • whether Methodist ministers should be permitted by the church to occupy civic positions was a question debated by the Methodist Conference at Wellington. Some speakers opposed the principle of ministers engaging in outside activities, *urging that the ministry was a whole-time job, while others contended for a larger view of the sphere in which the ministry could exercise its gifts and calling, in view of the demands of the age for social service from the church. It was resolved that no minister shall accept nomination for any civic position without the sanction of his circuit quarterly meeting, and the approval of the president’s committee of advice, in consultation with the chairman of the district.

In an interview in Christchurch, Sir Hubert Wilkins said that if Mr. Ells? worth decided to return to the Antarctic, a decision which would not be made for another few weeks, he would attempt a flight over the area from the Graham Land end instead of from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea and back, as had been originally intended. This change of plan was logical, because, by starting from Graham Land, he would be able to obtain weather reports from Admiral Byrd’s expedition at Little America. A flight from Graham Land along the Weddell Sea and across to the Ross Sea would actually be over a slightly shorter distance than the originally-planned flight from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea and back. Besides settling the problem of the continuation of the Graham Land archipelago, the flight would open up a considerable area of new territory nearer to the Pole.

A defence of democratic government was made by the. Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage, in the course of his reply to speeches of welcome given during a civic reception in Christchurch. He said that in theso days of crumbling democracies one is entitled to say that anything might happen. Those who wished to safeguard file principles of democratic government could not afford to split straws in defending these principles. It was better for the people to make mistakes a fid pay for them than suffer for the mistakes of dictators; the man had not yet been born who was able and fit to do the job of the people. “In my passage through the country,” said Mr. Savage, “I want to put this idea foremost: Parliament may make mistakes, but after all, it is not the fault of the machine. The theory is being put forward that Parliament is not sufficiently up to date, but it is generally a bud workman who finds fault with his tools. I want to warn you against dictatorships and other reactionary redherrings, and I want to tell you that the Parliamentary machine is capable of bigger things than it has achieved even in the past. You have no greater privilege than the right to govern yourselves, and it. is to be hoped that all New Zealanders will refuse to neglect the great principles laid down sq eloquently by Abraham Lincoln." -