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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 4

Mails which! left- Gisborne for the United Kingdom on November 10, per R.M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver, arrived in London on December 15.

While two boys were playing with a golf ball at the corner of Gladstone road and Wellington street at about 8.15 p.m. yesterday, the ball struck a passing motor-car driven by Mr. J. R. Hair, of Patutahi, and splintered the windscreen.

.The late Sergeant Dick Travis (or Savage), V.C., resided in Southland before the outbreak of the Great War and was employed for a time on a farm at Ryal Bush, where he was wellknown and esteemed. As a mark of their appreciation of the conspicuous courage he displayed in the fighting line the residents of the district on the close of hostilities raised a fund and erected a memorial to perpetuate his memory.—Southland News.

The Prince does not speak as an orator. His voice does not carry far, but lie read his addresses in Wellington without hesitancy, and the suggestion of nervousness is not borne out by his evident self-possession. One should say that lie enjoyed life to the full. The reserved manner drops from him when free from official duties. His replies to addresses have been brief and to tbe point, setting an example that might, be noted in many official quarters in New Zealand.

Yesterday afternoon a woman who came into town to do some shopping made the disturbing discovery that she had lost iier handbag, containing £9 in notes, and a valuable diamond ring. Within an hour and a-half of the reporting of her loss to the police station, however, the hag and its contents had been restored, due to the observance and honesty of two boys, and the celerity with which the police followed up a rumor of the finding of the hag. The owner of the bag was pleasantly astonished to recover it. and the boys were generously rewarded.

Further donations towards the funds of the committee arranging entertainment for the Duke of Gloucester’s visit include 10s 6d each from Messrs. Chas. E. Brown and E. A. Evans.

The inscription on ail the New Zealand memorials on the battlefields appealed to all Britons, Sir Fabian Ware said at Wellington when describing how) the war graves are tended. This was, •'From the uttermost ends of the earth.” The New Zealand memorials also referred to the men who had fallen as thosq who “l-ook part” in the engagements. “You never boast of your victories,’l Sir Fabian said.

When a cemetery at Ypres was shelled on one occasion a number of Maori graves were disturbed, Sir Fabian Ware, vice-chairman of the Imperial Wat' Graves Commission, said in giving an address at Wellington on the care of war graves. A Maori labor battalion near by covered the graves with concrete to protect them, and although the concrete gradually disappeared, the graves were not disturbed further. , “i, would like to meet some of the men who did that work,” Sir Fabian said. Passing through a lane of spectators on his arrival at Trentham on Saturday, the Duke of Gloucester was escorted by Mr. Eric ltiddiford, the president of the club, and the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister in Attendance. His Royal Highness was in a light grey sac suit, with a tie to tone and white soft collar. His brown felt hat turned down round the brim he carried by his side. Bronzed after his tour of Australia, he looked) thoroughly fit. and well. As he talked| with Mr. Riddiford and Mr. Young he smiled happily, obviously glad for the once to discard gold braid. A proposal to reduce coastal freights on wool is under discussion between the Hawke!s Bay Woolbrokers’ Association and Messrs’. Richardson ahd Company. The matter of lighterage was also discussed, but no reduction was possible, according to advice received by the Napier Harbor Board from the Woolbrokers’ Association, which stated tl at the board would be advised later cf the outcome of tlie discussion regarding coastal freights. This is a further step in the efforts instituted by Ue loverly Bay provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union and the Cook County Council to divert traffic from the roads to the sea.

Precautions against the _ spread of mange in the Gisborne district seem to have been successful. The disease became established in three piggeries, in each of which a dip was installed, crude oil being used. As *n added precaution, a close watch was kept oil pigs arriving at the saleyards, the accommodation at which was thoroughly disinfected. There was no evidence that the pens at the saleyards were responsible for harboring the disease, and the steps taken there were merely to remove any likely place for its development. Inspections were made of a number of piggeries in the district, and the senior stock inspector, Mr. F. It. Bould, stated to-day tnat r.o sign of the further spread of the disease was noted.

An incipient outbreak of fire, which would have had serious consequences R it hajl not been brought under control promptly, occurred at Wainui Beach on Sunday, and served to illustrate the danger of lighting tiles near long grass at this time of the year. A VVainuij Beach resident on •investigating the origin of a dense volume of smoke rising from the southern end of the beach, found two v-omen vainly endeavoring to beat out the flames, which were spreading at an alarming rate through the dry grass. The assistance of a neighbor was secured, and the two men were able to beat out the fire with sacks — none too scon, for if the flames had spread a few feet further they would have readied a dry brushwood breakwind. and piobably would have swept the whole hillside.

Exceptional progress has been made during the past month with the building of the Dunedin post office. Only 70 tons of steel remain to be fixed in position, and, as this steel will all he fabricated by the early part- of January, the entire steel frame will be completed early in the new year. The concrete floor on which the men were last engaged was finished within three weeks of the start, thus completing the concreting to the second floor level. The programme calls for the finishing of all the concreting by the beginning of June, hut it. is expected this work will be completed early in May. The fitting on of the granite will commence immediately after the holidays. Arrangements are now complete for the ceremony of laying the corner stone, which is to be performed by the Duke of Gloucester.

Pedestrians using the Oval as a short cut between Stanley and Roebuck roads have lately caused much damage to the ground, arid with reluctance the management committee of the Poverty Bay Cricket Association decided at its meeting last evening to dose the ground to foot traffic. Recently a number of adults thoughtlessly walked across one of the wickets just after it had been flooded by the caretaker, so that their feet sank into the soft turf, and even when the wickets are dry and hard, high-heeled shoes cause considerable damage. A complaint was made by the caretaker to the committee last evening, and it was resolved that owing to the fact, that the public were using the Oval as a thoroughfare and were walking over and damaging the wickets, it would be necessary to close the ground to foot traffic. The caretaker was authorised to enforce this decision.

The claim that Hawke’s Bay was the first challenger for the Hawke Gup this season, and that consideration should have been given to this fact when the New Zealand Cricket Council was awarding dales for Hawke Gup games, is made on behalf of the southern association, whose executive members are disappointed concerning the allocation of the New Year date to Poverty Bay. The point is made, also, that both Manawatu and Poverty Bay had chances to lift the Hawke Cup last year, whereas Hawke’s Bay did not participate in the competition. This latter circumstance probably counted against Hawke’s Bay’s chances of getting a holiday match, as the New Zealand council is bound to look with favor on those associations which keep the competition going. Districts which challenge only when they feel that conditions are favorable can hardly claim preference over those which make regular efforts to lift the trophy, and incidentally spend a good deal of money and effort, in the quest.

So mo of New Zealand’s foremost medical authorities gave evidence in thei Arbitration Court in Christchurch when a compensation case was being heard.A rare form of cancer, an osteogen etu) malignant tumor, was discussed, it being held that plaintiff had contracted the growth through a leg injury. It was stated that the incidence of the disease was cue case in 83,000. Medical opinion on Ihe subject was conflicting., Dr. d’Ath. Professof Pathology at the University o.t Otago Medical School and pathologist at the Dunedin Hospital, Dr. A. It. Pearson, pathologist at Christchurch, Dr. P. P. Lynch, the natbologist lui Wellington, who greatly assisted the police by his work in connection with the Ruawaro murders. Dr. Neil Outline, radiologist at the Christchurch Hospital, Dr. Leslie Will, a leading Christchurch surgeon, and Dr. P. SFoster, a specialist, gave evidence. Two well-known counsel also appeared—Mr, P. -,T O'Regan, of Wellington, and Mr,' F. A. Kitchjnghnm, Crown Prosecutor at Greymouth.