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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 4

Wet weather again prevented the Gisborne Amateur Athletic and Harrier Club holding its weekly sports meeting last night. The sports will be held as usual on Friday next, when the programme arranged for the Diomede visit will be run off-

No fewer than nine bicycles—five women’s and four men’s—are now lying at the Gisborne Police Station awaiting claimants. These are machines found abandoned in various parts of the town and brought to the station, where they

Iu view of the growing activity of the. Labour Party in municipal and local body elections, a Dunedin Citizen ’s Association has -been formed.

A decision not to grant April 2d and 26, the. days immediately before and after Anzac Day, as holidays, was made by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board yesterday.

A complaint of inequality in the incidence of the sales tax on the. baking trade was made in the animal report of the New Zealand Alas ter Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ Association at Christchurch.

So great was the beat engendered liv the sun’s rays striking ou the roof of John Edmond’s. Limited, one day last week, says Ihe Southland Times, that at 1.22 p.m. the automatic fire alarm began to ring. The brigade arrived, but the nature of the false alarm was soon explained. The attention of school committees to the condition of drinking water given to children in the schools during the dry weather was directed by the Education Department in a letter received by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board in Napier yesterday. The department stated that committees should ensure that, all school tanks were thoroughly cleaned out. As the outcome of a fatal accident which occurred on the main NapicrHnstings road in July last, £3500 damages is being sought in an action which was commenced before Mr. Justice Smith and a jury in the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday. The claim arose out of the death in a motor accident of William Rigg, formerly secretary of the Carpenters and Joiners’ Union of Hawke’s Bay. The plaintiff is Emma Dorcas Rigg, of Hastings, widow, and the defendant Eeslio Mathoson. of Hastings, school teacher. Dissatisfaction with the accommodation offered by some hotels in Now Zealand to tourists from overseas was voiced by Mr. D. G. Davidson, a retired London banker who is making a tour of New Zealand, and who is at present, in Christchurch. He said that. .British tourists, who were used to the comforts of European and Canadian hotels, would hardly bo satisfied with the accommodation now available at all points in New Zealand. Older travellers were in the majority; and for them in particular, the living conditions were nol always pleasant. *

An interesting arrival yesterday by one of the coastal vessels was the launch Margaret C., recently purchased in Auckland by Afr. L. Illingworth, Russell street. The Margaret C. is four years old and was constructed of kauri on the latest American design, with a V-shaped hull. The craft has handsome lines and looks an exceptionally comfortable boat,. Stic is 24ft. long, with a 7ft. beam and is powered with a 23 h.p. engine, which should give Iter a cruising speed of 12 knots. There is also a 7ft, dinghy belonging to the launch, which will prove useful to her owner, for sue is to bo berthed in (lie boat harbor. Mr. Illingworth intends to use the Margaret G. as a pleasure craft. In conjunction with the overnight train services between Napier and Wellington it lias now been decided that there will lie a mail service, the mail closing at Napier at 7 o’clock each night and at Hastings about half an hour later, arriving in Wellington private boxes before 9.30 each morning, while those from the south will he delivered into private boxes before 9 o’clock each morning. There have been suggestions that possibly these trains may also be made use of for. the transport of passengers, but inquiries made of railway officials at Napier elicited the information that so far there had been no suggestion that this will come about.

As part of a nationally-organised effort to secure a more liberal distribution of relief pay to unemployed, petition forms were being circulated in Gisborne to-day. by means of which electors were offered the opportunity to ask the Government "to grant, an immediate increase to all unemployed in New Zealand of 10s per week, without additional wqrk, as we conscientiously consider that the unemployment fund surplus warrants this additional increase without any resort to extra taxation being imposed upon the taxpayers of the Dominion.” The wording of the petition closes with a respectful submission that the interests of common justice would be served if the Government can see its way to gran! the increase immediately.

About 40 members of the Headquarters Wing and B Company, Hawke’s Bay Infantry Regiment, left Gisborne this morning for Waipukurau to enter a week’s camp on the racecourse there. Tiie total number of officers and men in camp will be about 800, approximating the war-time strength of a battalion, and during the latter part of next week tactical work will be carried out on a battalion basis. The period of training should be among the most- interesting offered the military trainees for some years, and the experience should compensate in some measure for the disappointment felt last year, when troops assembled from Wellington, the West Coast, Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay were forced to abandon camp after two or three days of almost incessant rain. One month’s imprisonment was the sentence imposed by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court tins morning ou Ernest- Trimmer, 66, who pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and the theft of an overcoat belonging to James Black. .Senior-Ser-geant Wade stated that the accused was arrested for drunkenness near the Police Station last evening, and no sooner had he been confined to the cells than a man called at the station to report the thi-lt of iiis coat from his uoai dinghouse. Asked whether tic liait any idea who took the coat, lie stated that he had just seen the thief being brought, into the station, wearing the coat at the time. After perusing the accused’s list- of previous convictions, which included six. offences of theft, the magistrate sentenced him to one, month's imprisonment on the theft charge, and convicted and discharged him lor drunkenness.

Motorists will be afforded an excellent opportunity on, Monday of discussing with the principal officers of the Automobile Association, Auckland, the several problems confronting car owners and drivers, and proposals that the association should advocate additional improvements to the main highways of the district. Mr. A. Grayson, president of the association, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary, and Mr. R. E. Champtaloup, touring manager, usually endeavor to be present at the annual meetings of Gisborne members, but this will be the first time that so large a party of headquarters officers as that now en route from Auckland will visit Gisborne. The three officers named will he accompanied hy Mr. M. H. Wynyard, motorists’ representative on the Main Highways Hoard, and three members of the council of the association, so that the annual meeting of Gisborne members, which is to he held in Findlay’s lea-rooms at 8 p.m. on Monday, should furnish an excellent opportunity for a full discussion of the problems and proposals of motorists of this district. The will have made a thorough inspection of the principal highways of the district, when they attend the meeting, and thus will have the topographical knowledge necessary to enable them to appreciate its needs.

A .further concert "ill be given by tlic W.E.O.M.K. Bond from the Trafalgar Rotunda to-morrow evening, after eluireli hours.

A run-hoJder from the back country of 'Marlborough who visited Uhristchurch recently told the Christchurch Press that his snow* Josses last season were very small,- but the destruction caused by ihe Icons was staggering.

Mountaineering activities in Canterbury during the past two months and particularly during the ’Christmas and New Year holidays were .probably more extensive ami more notable than for liiauv years.

A well-known Te Puke farmer, Mr. Ralph Cox, was found dead with a gunshot wound in his head. Mr. Cox had gone shooting early in the evening, and, from the position o'f the body it appeared that he had stumbled over a log and accidentally discharged the gun. An unusually large quantity of work, for which the five-year plan of permanent sealing adopted by the Hawke’s Bay County Council is largely responsible, is at present in progress in connection with the roads and bridges of the Hawke’s Bay district. “Now I know how you can plough so straight in New Zealand,” said a New South Males farmer to a .Southland Times reporter. He pointed to ,a hillside on which a man was using a single furrow plough. On the horse which was drawing the plough sat the farmer’s daughter, guiding it with ex-' pert hands. Fashion’s dictates are peculiar, but an Australian visitor told a Dunedin Star reporter that; he had seen more women in the Dunedin streets without stockings in 24 hours than would be met with in Sydney in six months. •‘What’s wrong with the stocking industry?” he asked. It seemed that everybody wanted to follow the fashion, and he had noticed the same thing in Wellington and 'Christchurch as well as in the country districts. Close competition was a feature of the tenders received for the construction of the new Wauitaugi washout bridge, Hawke’s Buy, to be erected over the channel of the diverted Tu taekuri river oa the seaward side ot the present railway bridge, thus eliminating the two level crossings at the Waitangi dip. The price at which the contract was let to the Rope Construction Company, Auckland, was just under £OOOO, six other tenderers submitting prices less than £IO,OOO. ‘Confirmation of the cabled report from Australia of Squadron-Leader T. W. White’s intention to make a flight to Japan from Sydney shortly is contained in a letter received from the airman by Mr. 11. M. Mackay, states the Otago Daily Times. Squadron-Leader White, who was associated with flying in ’J imaru before leaving for Sydney, and was recently appointed chief pilot for Gisborne Airways, writes from Mascot Aerodrome that lie is still doubtful as to his movements in Sydney. lie feels pretty certain, however, that his flight to Japan will take place.

The new Jmpeiial convoy sloop H.M.S. Wellington, which left England early this month to replace H.M.S. -Laburnum on the New Zealand station, will reach Auckland on May 20. Her ports of call An the voyage to New Zealand will be Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Batavia, Bali, Thursday Island, and Sydney. Like the Leith, the 'Wellington is an oilburner, and is also similar to the other vessel in tonnage, length and armament. Tlie Wellington was built at- Devonport, England, and was launched on May 29 last year. The Central Electric Power Board’s services have been requisitioned by Messrs. Zimmerman Brothers, of Whaiigamarino, Waikato, to assist, them in their farming operations. They occupy about SCO acres on the east side of the main south road, two miles south of Mercer. The land is low-lying and the occupants propose to inst.al electrical equipment with which to drain the land ot water. The chairman, Mr. T. Hinton, said he was anxious to see the board agree to the proposal. It would lie an experiment well worth following up. Messrs. Zimmerman were sheepfarmers. The pumps would be used in the winter to dewater the land, and in the summer to supply the stock with water.

In view of the continued difficulty experienced by young people in obtaining suitable employment,, the Ministei of Education has approved the extension of junior free places for an additional year for pupils at post-primary schools who have not already hold free places for more than two years, and who failed to secure senior free places at the end of 11)34, according to advice received by the Hawke’s Bay Education Department. The Ministei lias also approved the extension to the end of the present year of the senior free places of pupils who will have attained the age of 19 years during 193 d, provided that in each case Ihe parent of the pupil proves to the satisfaction of the director than lie is tumble to provide the necessary tuition fees for the child after the expiry ot his free place.

The Gisborne Builders’ and Contractors’ Association proposes to avail itself of the opportunity lo send a strong delegation to the builders’ conference to be held at Rotorua on February 20 and 21. Mr. F. Horne, president of the Gisborne Association, will exercise the vote of the branch at the conference, and will have the benefit of consultation with Messrs Geo. Smith, A. Kirk, J. Emerson, and lames Webb, who will accompany him and will act as spectators at (lie gathering. There are no matters of pressing importance to the trade in Gisborne to he raised at the conference bin the general interest of builder!and contractors benefit greatly from the holding of these gatherings, and the Gisborne •branch is anxious to show its interest by a good attendance of members from its district.

The Gisborne Technical Schno opens for the first session of 193.> on February 2d, and enrolments will In received on Thursday and Friday even ing next for a wide range of subjects All classes arc being hold at the Gisborne High School, Dominion road entrance, about 400yds from the Roc buck road corner. Besides the usua classes, new classes will be formed in wool-classing, agricultural science botany ami chemistry for pharmacy students, motor engineering, and senioi art work if sufficient enrolments are received. Students preparing for accountancy will he aide to take mercantile law, economies and advanced bookkeeping, while the requirements for shorthand* typing and elementary bookkeeping will be met. Suitable courses for students from the engineering, electrical, plumbing and woodwork trades have been drawn up, and provision is made to assist students in employment who are studying for mat riculation. -Students who held tree places at any secondary school in New Zealand until the end of last year can transfer their free places to these evening classes, subject to certain conditions. For other students fees are very low, ranging from los per annum upwards, according to the grade of class and the number of evenings on