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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 4

In the ordinary course the next fortnightly meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council would be held on January 1, but at last evening’s meeting of the council it was resolved that the next meeting should be held on January 15. An invitation to members to_atfend the jubile* celebrations', of, the Makaraka School was received by the Borough Council at its meeting last evening from the Makaraka School Committee. The invitation was accepted with thanks. A resolution to impose the statutory 10 per cent, penalty on rates for the year eliding! March 31, 1935, remaining uupaifi after February 15, 1935, was passed at last evening’s meeting of the Borough Council.

All work on the Robinson Memorial Clock lower and its surroundings lias now been completed, and atldst evening’s meeting of the Borough Council it was resolved that the unveiling ceremony should take place at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow. The ceremony will he a brief one, and it was agreed that to-morrow afternoon, when there will he many people in town for the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, would be a suitable occasion for it.

Best wishes for a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year were extended to the members of the Borough Council by the Mayor, Mr. John Jackson, at last evening’s meeting of the council, the final meeting for 1934. Mr. Jackson expressed a hope that the incoming year would be a brighter one than that just past, that the prediction of the Minister of Finance that the Dominion had struck rock bottom and was recovering would prove true, and that next year would oring greater prosperity to the Dominion and tlie people as a whole. The Mayor’s good wishes were heartily reciprocated.

Proposed improvements to the Kaiti Hill park set out in a letter from Mr. John Fraser lo the Borough Council at its meeting a fortnight previously were the subject ef a report made by the reserves committee to the council at its meeting last evening. The committee stated that the engineer had been authorised to attend tc repairs to the seats on the hill, the other improvements suggested to receive consideration when next year’s estimates are being framed. The committee had also decided that a letter of appreciation should be forwarded to Mr. Fraser for the interest lie had displayed. The police authorities are more exercised over the well-being in public of the Duke of Gloucester than he is himself, remarks the Dominion. A photographer with an elaborate hand einenla camera while preparing to make a picture of the Duke at Trentham on Saturday attracted the attention of a police inspector, who examined the machine with more than casual interest. He was puzzled by a number of projecting parts, but after a few moments satisfied himself that it was precisely what it was. For his part the Duke went where he chose with complete unconcern. He chose, for the nonce, to be one of the people and thus be became.

The Dog Registration Act requires not only that dogs must be registered, hut) also that the collars issued must. b<s worn. In a report to the Borough Council at its meeting last evening, the works committee stated that tho dog poundkeeper reported that there were many dogs about the. town without collars, although registered. The owners of these dogs held that the wearing of the collars sf oiled the appearance of the dogs. The committee recommended that the poundkeeper should be instructed to see that the provisions of the Act were complied with, in that all dogs net wearing their proper registration; label should be impounded, and if not; claimed and expenses paid, should be sold or destroyed in accordance with the Act. The council adopted the recommendation.

Reconsideration of ’the scale of fees charged for butchers’ licenses was sought in a letter from the Poverty Bay Master Butchers’ Industrial Union of Employers to the Borough Council at its meeting last night. Attention was drawn to the fact that in Gisborne the fee was £5, whereas the fees in other towns were as follow:—Wellington, 10s; Auckland, ss; Cambridge, Wanganui, and Ngarauwahia, £1; Hamilton, £1 10s. Tito union asked that the fee should be reduced accordingly, and also that all grocers selling butchers’ smallgoods should be required to pay the same license fee as the butchers. The union asked that the abattoirs committee of the council should receive a deputation ot butchers in order that certain matters in connection with the management of the abattoirs might lie reconsidered. The matters mentioned in the letter were referred to the abattoirs' committee for a report.

Children, teachers and school committee of the Gisborne Central School made presentations to Miss A. A. Allen, a' members cf the staff in the' infants’ school, on the occasion of her approaching marriage. The presentation from the school naff was made by the headmaster, Mr. J. E. Shimmin, who wished Miss Allen every happiness in her married life, and referred to the many happy associations she lmd formed while at the Gisborne school. These sentiments were endorsed by all present. The other gifts were handed to Miss Allen at. the Christmas tree held in the City Hall yesterday afternoon for the primer children. The presentation of a fruit howl from Ihe children was made by Santa Claus, who made appropriate remarks. Mr. J. H. Sunderland, chairman of (lie school committee, on behalf of the committee, handed Miss Allen a fruit howl, expressing regret that the school was losing so able a teacher, biU congratulating her and wishing her every happiness. Three months’ imprisonment was, the sentence imposed by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court this morning on Samuel Saxon, 60, an old offender, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a shearing handpiece valued at £4, and a saddlebag and contents, the property of Puraki Ahnrangi. Gcnior-Sergcant Wade stated that the accused had stolen the bag, which also contained the handpiece, from a shop doorway, nnd later offered the handpiece (for sale pt a secondhand shop. The accused explained to the bench that he had yielded to temptation while drunk, ami appealed for leniency, giving an undertaking that ho would refrain from crime in future. The magistrate remarked that the accused had made promises before ; theft was a tiling that' could not be passed over lightly, and the accused would be sentenced to three, months’ imprisonment. John O’Connell, 41, also was charged, with the (theft, (of ;the handpiece. He pleaded not guilty, and ft Remand until Saturday was granted.