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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18500, 12 September 1934, Page 4

A small area at llornebush settlement, Hexton, was offered for sale at auction yesterday by the Lunds Department, but failed to attract a bid. The section was one of 5j acres, and an upset price ot £'2Bs was placed on it. A recent telegram from Wellington announced the death of an old man, Alfred Robert Carey, who had been living under squalid conditions and had been discovered to be worth neatly £I7OO. The Wellington Hospital authorities state that deceased made a gift To the institution about two years ago of £l5O.

In the presence of 200 people, the Wanganui mobile dental clinic, the lust of its kind in the Dominion, was declared open on Saturday. Through the energy, and enthusiasm of a committee of coun tiv residents, supported by districts from Maxwell to Turakina, this clinic has come into beiim to serve the interests ot dental hygiene in the primary schools within tile area named. The seasonal outbreak of influenza which has been prevalent in Auckland for some weeks is reported to be gradually abating with the advent of more sunny add settled weather. However, the trouble continues to affect a large number tf families in all parts of Auckland. and the cases have not decreased sufficiently to .justify any reduction in tho size of the staff of tlie St. John Ambulance Association’s nursing division. which was recently increased.

At a clearing sale held yesterday on the farm of Mr. J. G. McCliskic.. at licit on, there was an attendance of peteen 40 and 50 farmers and dealers, despite the unfavorable weather conditions. Grade cows brought from £1 to £6 ?.s 6d, pedigree cows from 6gns. to 16|gns., and one bull, a four-year-old, went for Bgiis. Portions of the milking plant were disposed of, hut there was no general clearance of the farm plant. The sale was conducted by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.

Speaking at the Napier. Rotary Club. Rotarian N. Kettle referred to a cartoon, entitled “An Empire's Lamentation,” which had appeared in Punch shortly after the earthquake. As the result of the interference of the Government of the. time, he said, the people in England and other countries had been advised that it. was not necessary foi them to subscribe for the benefit of the enrthnuake sufferers, as the country could pay for the loss. “We considered that that cartoon in Punch was worth between £1,000,000 and £1,500,000 to us,” he said. CJodwits commenced to arrive at Dargaville at the end of last week. Late on Saturday afternoon large contingents made their appearance. 1< urther flights flew over the town at regular intervals, and well after dark the cries of the birds could be heard. It was a great sight to see the god wits coining up from a south - westerly direction in spear-head formation and pushing steadily on toward the north without a break. It- was also peculiar to watch how intervals were cept between the different detachments, not unlike battalions of soldiers marching). The main body of godwits does not seem to have arrived, but it is a little early yet. Liability for the payment of borough rates on its properties was disclaimed, by the Gisborne Harbor Hoard in a Tetter received by the Borough Council at its meeting last evening. With reference to the council's demand for £278 9s Id as rates due on the board's office and on two Kaiti basin sections, the secretary-manager of the board, Mr. 11. A. Barton, wrote stating that the Harbors Association's solicitors had advised that in their opinion the propertes were exempt. The Read's quay section was used only for harbor management purposes. The Kaiti basin sections were taken under the Public Works Act to enable the provision of harbor offices at the wharves and the extension of the wharf facilities. L’p to the present they had been used as holding grounds for shipments of sheep, and were also made usn of as required for storing timber for harbor works. The council, decided to refer the matter to the Municipal Association's solicitor for an opinion. Routine precautions are being taken in the locality at. Tolaga Bay affected by the recent outbreak of cerehro-spinal meningitis, arid officers of the Health Department are awaiting any fresh developments that may show the trend of the outbreak. "Bo far" there lias been no sign of a spread of the disease which last, week ijosu'lted jins the death of one child and the severe illness of three other members 1 of'"thir same household. To-day and to morrow should show whether atiy of those exposed to contact with the original sufferers have contracted the disease, in a virulent form, the period of incubation of cerehro-spinal meningitis being four or five days. Naturally there has been a great deal of alarm felt in Tolaga Bay regarding the possible spread of the illness, and the Wigan School, which was attended liy children of the .Tames family, is being given a wide berth by all but Health Department officials, while the isolation of the .Tames household and of two others with which the sufferers had contact prior to their removal to hospital, is complete. The condition of Mrs. .Tames and her two children, under treatment in the Caol< Hospital, showed no change during last night and the early hours of to-day.

The vicarage of St-. Andrew’s, Cambridge. was vacated by the Rev. G. G. Bell last week-end. Air. Bell has taken up his residence in a private house '-u Cambridge.

Nurse Grant, of New Plymouth, has been appointed district nurse at Nuhnkn, in succession to Nurse Bennett, by the Wairoa Hospital Board. — Special.

Under the will of Mr. Charles William Gibbs, a fish merchant, of Dunedin, whose estate has been sworn for probate purposes at less than £3500, bequests, amounting to £4OO, are made to the Methodist Church.

The excellent response by members of the Auckland Rotary Club regarding the forum to he held at Rotorua on September 21, 22, and 23 was mentioned by the president, Air. ,G. L. Taylor, on Monday. He announced that more than 40 members proposed to attend, and there would also he present Rotanans from several other clubs. Sports attractions, notably golf, had been arranged. Charged with exposing Jice-infested sheep for sale at the Matawhc.ro saleyards on .Tunc 22, Phillip Percival, of Waipaoa, was fined £1 and costs 12s by Messrs. John Jackson and W. 'Hamilton Irvine, J.Ps., in the Magistrate's Court this morning. The inspector of stock, Afr. J. D. Anderson, prosecuted on behalf of the department.

The Mayor of Wairoa, who is at present visiting Wellington, has advised that as a result of an interview with the Public Works Minister, lie has been informed that work on the new Wairoa courthouse will be put in hand as soon as possible. Plans and specifications for the work are now' being drawn, and it is proposed to call tenders shortly.--Special.

The view that the, tariff concessions granted by the Government toward reciprocal trade with Great Britain were in no way commensurate with the generous treatment received by the Dominions in the past, and fear that the economic life of New Zealand might he. jeopardised by the policy of self-sufficiency as embodied in the recent tariff revisions, were expressed in a motion passed by the Waikato executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at a meeting in •Hamilton.

A vote will be taken among members of the public visiting the Auckland Horticultural Society’s spring show to obtain an opinion as to which of New Zealand’s native flowers is most suitable to he adopted as a national flower. A similar ballot was taken in Wellington recently, when the order of favoritism was kowliai, polmtukawa, manuka, clematis and rata. It- has been suggested that similar votes should be taken by horticultural societies throughout New Zealand.

A narrow escape from drowning was experienced by Mr. Michael Lennan, 54, a well-known fanner of Hikuai, near Thames, when his half-ton motor-truck was swept downstream in flood waters as he, was endeavoring to cross-.the Waiawa ford at the loot of the Coroglen Hill. Heavy rain had fallen, and when Air. Lennan wits halfway across the stream a sudden surge in the flood waters caused the truck to overturn. Mr. lonnan, who is a powerful swimmer, jumped clear, and struggled ashore.' The truck, which became completely submerged, was recovered next day.

Australia’s death-rate has been greatly reduced, yet population and birth-rate are declining so rapidly that there .will cease to he any increase when Australia’s population has reached 8,500,000. This statement is reported to have been made to the Canberra Mothercraft Society by the senior medical officer of the Commonwealth Health Department, Dr. Cilento. When the population had reached the number staled, 8,500.000, there would,-he said,- be no hope of adding to the population, except by immigration or invasion. Mothercraft. which was an attempt towards national survival. had become a factor of outstanding importance to the community.