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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 4

The. Herald will not be published on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. A visitor from Christchurch, Miss C. Smith, arrived in Gisborne by air during the storm on Saturday. She had travelled by air all the way from Christchurch, changing aeroplanes at Hastings for the journey to Gisborne. She left almost immediately for Opotiki on an urgent mission. The birth-rate in New Zealand has been fallings consistently for the last 15 years, and it is now a third less than it was in 1920. This decline, if continued for another 15 years, is likely to ~mean that the population of the Dominion will stop increasing, and may thereafter even begin to decrease. The cutting of paddocks closed up for Tycgrass seed is now in full swing in the Gisborne district. The field inspections of paddocks entered for the Department of Agriculture’s certification scheme have been concluded by the fields instructor, ,Mr M. A. Black. Threshing is expected tocorarnence about New-Tear,

A large mako shark, weighing 4951 b., was caught off Cape Brett by Mr. H. Slater, of Hawera, from the launch Ozone.

The latest Gazette announces that in Te Puia native township section seven of block 111 has been temporarily reserved as a public hall site. Chemists’ shops in Gisborne are iii future to be closed during the whole of Sunday. A notice to this effect appears in the latest Gazette. The closing on Sundays takes place on and after January 7.'

Ail accident, fortunately without serious consequences, occurred at Rotorua on Friday evening, when a car containing visiting police collided with another car. The police car, except for scratched paintwork, was undamaged, but the other vehicle suffered damage to the steering gear and front axle, and had to be towed away. The dry weather conditions prevailing in the Waikato are without parallel in the memory of many old-established set* tiers, and are giving rise to considerable anxiety among farmers, owjng to a threatened shortage of feed later in the summer. Pastures throughout the district, and notably in the tract lying between Hamilton and Te Awamutu, are already scorched and in some cases are turning brown. Disappearing while bathing with some companions, a young girl, Ora Hudson, 9, daughter of Mr. M. Hudson, of Opotiki, was drowned in the Ohara River, Opotiki, on, Friday. The girl, who was able to swim a little, was missed by her friends after swimming for some time. Fler father -,vas sent ■ for, and after diving for several minutes he succeeded in reeoverng the body. A doctor was summoned, but liter employng resuscitation methods it was found that life was extinct.

While preceding the Royal party to Whakatano cn Friday afternoon a car containing five members of the police force met with an accident in the Waimana Gorge. It appears that the accelerator' jammed and the car got out of control and collided with the rocky bank, tearing away the top body work of the vehicle and crumpling the mudguards. Fortunately none of the occupants was hurt and they arrived in Whakatane with little delay and apparently none the worse for their experience.

The P. and 0. liner Strathnaver, 22,283 tons, which is making a tourist cruise of New Zealand and Australian ports, passed down the East Coast last evening. The vessel, which is making her initial visit to the Dominion, arrived at Auckland on Friday afternoon from Brisbane with over 1000 passengers. She left Auckland at midnight on Saturday and , was seen off Whangara at 4 p.m. yesterday. She presented a fine sight as she steamed south, her white-painted hull looking resplendent in the bright sunshine.

On the motor trip from Gisborne, His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, had a taste of real New Zealand bush scenery, romarks the Auckland Star’s correspondent. After leaving Mata'wai at 11.30 the party climbed the Matawai Hill, which is 23£Oft. above sea level. For the next 35 miles the cars passed through some of the best native bush and river scenery in the Dominion. Numerous waterfalls were to be seen falling down hillsides, in some places on to the road. In the course of his reply in Rotorua the Duke said he had greatly enjoyed the journey through the wonderful mountain scenery between Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty.

Two very promising finds of goldbearing quartz have been reported in the Moonlight area, on the Paparoa Range within 15 miles of Blackball. A party of four subsidised prospectors brought into Greymouth last week over 690 z of gold, Worthy bout £SOO, obtained in the past fortnight from 601 b of quartz, and a quantity, of ,r tho • , 3prr<sinding ; rubble, which' was ” IWeaitetr with' prlthitjv6 “dolly” methods. Anothfer J '“g«id “discovery has been made, also in the' Moonlight district,,byMessrs/ J: 'MclVbr and Sutherland, who are working -at the head of Ten Mile Creek, riestiCithe old Croesus quartz mine. The find l is really the re-discovery of the noted'lost leader, called the “Taffy, ’’ worked 30 years ago with good results. In Ten Mile Creek the remains exist of the battery formerly used. The locality is about 10 miles from Blackball.