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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 4

Sheep-worrying has assumed alarming proportions at Te Karaka. Tins morning one sheepowner found 15 hoggets dead and several others injured. When questions were invited at the conclusion of an address at the 'Auckland War Memorial Museum by the director, Mr. Gilbert Arehey, who spoke on the native frogs of New Zealand, a member of his audience asked how was it that live frogs had been found in solid stone. Mr. Arehey expressed the opinion that the frog at'some stage must have crawled through a. crevice in the stone. Me mentioned that in Australia frogs were found in the dry river beds in balls of clay, and that the aboriginals were, clever" at finding, them and getting the small supply of water that the frog had atored in.side tlia day*

A total of 29 ribbons will be competed for at the Gisborne Alsatian Training Society’s ribbon parade next Thursday. Eighteen have been donated by the society, while other donors are Mesdames Black, Birch, Coker, Johns and Griffin, Miss Quinn and Mr. G. Clifton. An instructive evening was spent in the reading and discussion of the Douglas credit .book at the recent meeting of the women’s auxiliary of the Gisborne branch of the Douglas credit movement, when a large number ol ladies gathered despite the unfavorable weather conditions. It was arranged that the next meeting would be held at the home of Mrs. Hopkinson. The National Children's Home and Orphanage, Highbury Park, London,, will benefit by a legacy under the will of the late Mr. James Edwin Lock, of Paparata, Bombay, whose death occurred at Auckland last week. Mr. Lock was a single man, 75 years of age, and came to New Zealand from England. The estate is bequeathed to the Highbury Parti home, and is of a value of approximately £SOO. A remarkable escape was experienced) by a young woman who almost fell under the wheels of a tramcar at Auckland on Monday. She attempted to board the front, platform of a moving tram, as it, was about, to turn into, iSymonds street, but- missed her footing! and fell. It appeared for a moment that a fatality was inevitable, but she fortu-i natelv rolled just clear of the front wheels. The erection of a new theatre in Napier, on the Emerson street .property owned by the Saleh estate, is projected by interests in which Napier Amusements, Limited (proprietors of the. Plaza Theatre) are concerned. It is intended that a start will he made with construction immediately, and that the building, which is to cost approximately £8750. will be ready for opening about, Christmas.

An invitation for one delegate from the New Zealand branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association to visit* Victoria for the Melbourne Centenary celebrations in November, has been received from the Victorian branch of the association. The delegate will be selected at the annual meeting of the New Zealand branch on August 8. The, proposal is that, the New Zealand delegate should leave Wellington by the Wanganella on October 25. Even cats can be air-minded. Buddy, Miss Jean Batten’s famous mascot, knows what the sound of an aeroplane engine means. While the kitten was being nursed by a- friend when Miss Batten was refuelling her machine at New Plymouth, the motor had to be started to run the aeroplane nearer to the petrol pump. The kitten, evidently believing- that it was to be left behind, clawed and bit to escape the restraining hands of its temporary master. Tim New Zealand Bridge Union has been formed, with headquarters in Auckland. The president is Dr. E. Moil’, Epsom avenue. Twenty-eight countries are now represented in the International Contract Bridge Union, which has its headquarters in New York. A number of international matches have been played already, and it is hoped that in a year or two the New Zealand organisation will lie sufficiently strong financially to meet American, Australian end other teams in international matches.

“All-in” wrestling at one of Gisborne’s suburban schools has become so popular among the pupils, and so severe in its effects upon some of the scholars that the headmaster has been compelled to rule it out ns a -school-ground sport. Numerous complaints had been received from parents of pupils who suffered minor iujurios from , the application of punishing holds, and the headmaster has undertaken to apply a punishing hold osi any budding mat experts who are found trying their skill in the school grounds. When Don Bradman was making his big stand in the Australians’ first inn-ings-at Leeds, a Gisborne enthusiast- satin his ear outside the Herald office and inquired details of the scores from those gathered about, a notice displayed in the window. On learning that- Bradman had made a little short of 300, he remarked: “They said his vision was going!’’ A friend in the group about the window capped the observation. That’s right, too. Don’s playing from memory now!”

The rainfall during July at- To Karaka totalled 4.60 in., the average over the previous 20 years being 3.85ii1. This brings the total fall for the first seven mouths of the year to 16.68 in., compared with 29.29 in. last year. There .were many very cold nights, the average minimum temperature taken 4lt. above the ground level being 35 degrees. Rain fell on 12 days in July, the heaviest fall being 1.99 in. on July 27. Show fell on the ranges on several occasions, and much still remains immeited in shady positions along the hilltops.

An impudent theft of a radio set was carried out at the, Radford Radio shop, High street, .St. Kilda, the other night, reports the Melbourne Age. While several persons were standing on the footpath outside the premises listening to a broadcast description of the test) cricket match, two men alighted from a motor ear. To the astonishment of the, crowd they pulled the plug from the: set, arid carried it to the waiting car. There were cries of “Stop thief,” but) by the time the manager, who was at) the rear of the shop at the time, had hurriedly made, his way to the front) the car in which the thieves were seated! was disappearing in the distance. The) Russell street police were informed, and a motor patrol made a search of the locality, but without success.

It is on record that Christchurch narrowly escaped being a completely Scottish city. In the very earliest- days of settlement on the Canterbury Plains, a surveyor named Tackett made his way from Nelson to Canterbury in search of

a suitable site for a Scottish colony. There seemed to him to be possibilities in the land on which Christchurch now stands, but he became bogged or lost in the swampy marshes between Lyttelton and the farm established at Ricenrton by the Deans brothers. This experience led him to abandon Canterbury and make for Otago. There he chose the site for Dunedin. Mr G. H. Holford related the story when speaking to young farmers who are attending the educational course in Christchurch. “That is why Dunedin is Scottish and not Christchurch,” he said.