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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18687, 22 April 1935, Page 6

In keeping with its policy of making periodical tours of the railway system ot the Dominion' in order to assist in the administration work, the Railways Board will make an inspection of the StratfordOkahukura and Paeroa-Taneatua railways at the end of the month.

The annual sports meeting of the Waikohu Returned Soldiers' Sports Club, which was to have been held at Te Karaka. t.o-day, were abandoned owing ;o inclement; weather. This was the first occasion on which the club has had to hold over a meeting in 16 years. The sports dance, arranged for this evening, will proceed as advertised, despite the ibqndonment of the outdoor meeting.

Among the functions planned for tolay, but postponed owing to (wet vveaher, was the combined picnic of the Scottish Society and the Poverty Bay Dancing Association, which was to have heen held on the Patutahi Domain. The organisers of the funci ion acknowledge gratefully the assistance received in the matter of trophies and medals.

Large numbers of Gisborne motorists went on tour during the holidays, several of them taking camping equipment. Camping parties from other districts have also arrived in Gisborne, and over the. week-end six tents were established on the Park racecourse camping ground, where conditions are most favorable for camping at this time of the year, for there is plenty of accommodation in the buildings during wet days such as today.

Passengers carried by East Coast Airways last week, when every trip was made with a full load, included the following : Mesdames Tiifen, Mahon and child, Falconer, Brown and child, L. Ross, Matthews; Misses J. Stevens, Morris, E. Friend, Fishbach, Robinsom Bayliss, Scddon, McNeo, V. Burnard, E. Matthews, M. Ratine: Messrs. H. Pettit, A. H. Monk, P. White, K. T, Hine, W. Wright, W. Cole, Mendelssohn, F. Goodman, Kennedy, Brice, Matthews, Samson, W. Scaton, V. OMlalloran, M, (I. Gardner, L. Miles, Clark, G. Scddon, J. Hawksworth, P. Chee, and F. J. Burton. During the week-end the plane made a special trip to Napier carrying Miss West, Gisborne, Dr. Budd and Mr. G. Moody, of Opotiki, and Mr. 0. S. Burt, Gisborne,. who returned later in the day. This morning's regular service plane for Napier, leaving Gisborne at 7 o'clock, carried Mrs. W, J. Bishop, Gisborne, and Messrs. F. R. Bishop and W. Brice, of Wellington, while, bookings for this afternoon included Messrs. H. Due'-. F. Field, and Dickson (2), the- latter being Masterton residents-

A charge of vagrancy was heard today by Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., against Ernest Paul Crombie, 27, who was remanded until to-morrow.

A block of 92 acres of bush land adjoining the Cascades Park and the council's water reserve is to be purchased by the Auckland City Council' for £SOO, with the object of saving the kauri trees on. the property.

A collision occurred on the Makaron Beach section of the Coast road on Saturday evening between a car travelling northward and a light truck coming towards Gisborne. Both vehicles were slightly damaged. No otie was hurt.

The persistence of droughts over a large area of cattle country in the United States hits led Australian exporters to inquire into the possibilities of a market there for Australian meat surpluses. It has been suggested that the prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, on his return journey through the United States and Canada, will discuss trade aspects with commerce authorities at Washington.

In a cricket match at. Wanganui, decided on Saturday between 'the Wanganui and Gisborne gas companies' respective staJ'f teams, Gisoorne scored .an outright 'win by a margin of IKS runs. The visiting team led on the first innings, and declared their second with a good score on foi live wickets, and then succeeded in dismissing their opponents for a moderate second innings score.

There is a psychological reluctance en the part of Rotorua residents to pay rates," said the Mayor, Mr. T. Jackson, when stating that he considered that the 79 -per cent, of rates paid a. very satisfactory state of affairs and better than the percentage with which any previous council had ended a financial year. Ho said that the people had been so long under the control of the. Government that it was difficult to educate them into the necessity for paying rates.

The impression that the dispute letween. New, Zealand and Australia over the importation of citrus fruit in exchange for potatoes is nearer a settlement to-day than it has been since it began, has been gathered by Mr. IT. E. lladley, of the fruit auctioneering firm of Radley Bros., who returned to Christchurch last-week after five weeks spent iu Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. Radley now feels that there "is the chance that the Australian Government will look at the problem in a more equitable light. The Guardian, a literary and musical journal published in Sydney, is conducting a popular winter competition, and enthusiastic Australians and New Zealanders, it states, are working hard for the cause of local literature. For the writer and dramatist competition New Zealand has three candidates—"the Mystery Girl," Mrs. G. M. Shakespeare, and Mrs. Douglas Blair, "well known throughout New Zealand for her very fine writings and literary work." Mrs. >Blair's friends who desire to support her candidature will be interested to know that copies of the paper with voting coupons may be obtained from her. About 150 young men and women from the combined Presbyterian Bible classes from the East Coast, Gisborne, and Hawke's Bay districts are in camp at Morere. The camp is directed by Mr. A. Huston, of Turiroa, as director of youth work in the district. Special speakers are attending the camp, including the Rev. 11. B. Waugh, of Havelock ISorth, and the Rev. J. McKenzie, of Auckland. The Rev. C. J. Mackay, of St. Andrew's Church, Wairoa, also visited Morere and gave the Sunday morning address, while the Rev. J. McKenzie took the services at the Wairoa church. Had the weather condition? been favorable it was expected that a large number of people would have visited the camp to-day.

Members of a stalking party who have just returned to Christchurch after a trip to the country round the upper waters of the Hurunui are rather pleased with themselves because while in camp ihey managed the rather difficult feat of shooting a stag by torchlight. It happened that they were unable to get any sleep one night because of the roaring ol this stag just across the river from their tent, about 30 or 40yds. away. One of the party, however, had a powerful torch, so while he picked up the stag with it another turned at the beast's eyes, which were glowing iu the light, and fired. The stag fell at once, and when the men reached it it was stone dead. There was nothing remarkable about the head, except the small hole neatly drilled between the eyes.

A visitor to Canterbury has returned with an interesting account, of the latest .viiui of rotary plough which he had the opportunity of seeing in action. It is an 170 horse-power Diesel implement, which can plough to a depth of from lOin. to 24in. and at the same lime do the necessary harrowing and cultivating. The machine is mounted on caterpillar tracks, and at the rear of the ploughing apparatus are two rotating tillers which revolve in opposite directions in an action that disintegrates any soil, hard or soft, wet or dry. The working width of tho ingenious contrivance is lift., and from three-quarters of an acre to acres can be tilled in an hour. The supplementary implements that can be attached behind the tillers include harrows, rollers, ridging bodies, ditching bodies, central tynes for subsoil drains, and graders.

It costs about 111' per cent, of the declared value of an American car to land it in New Zealand, says the ilawke's Bay "Tribune." This fact was given by Air. It. Anderson when an example of thfi imposts to which imported cars are subject in New Zealand was brought to the notice of the flawke's Bay Automobile Association. A letter from the secretary of the Nortli Island Automobile Association stated.

T recently had brought to my notice an interesting example of the extraordinary high taxation carried by the motor user. In March a motor-car was landed at Wellington the declared value of which was £6OO. Duty and sales lax amounted to £523 5s and exchange £153, so it therefore cost £676 5s to bring a car worth £6OO over the wharf at Wellington. It is all very fine for the Government to say that exchange is not taxation, but, taxation or not, it has to be paid by someone."

A Dunedin lady doctor who is stationed in Ireland writes interestingly to her parents of life and conditions in the Emerald Isle. "The trip by bus was delightful—past fields with large haystacks, past beautiful homes with pretty gardens, and past- woods with ivy growing up the tree trunks," she writes of a journey into the country. "And all this practically no distance from town. We went near a milk run kept by on" James Murphy, who invites visitors. The milk is grade A-'l'T, which means tuberculin tested, and il contains very few germs, and keeps for over a week. Isn't it hard to believe? A discussion arose the other day about summer diarrhoea of children, and the children's specialist here says they hadn't had a case for five years. It is due to germs in the milk. In London during weather like this they would see from 50 to ICO babies in Guy's Hospital each morning with it. And to think that Ireland has done this! The cows are kept clean, the utensils are all of steel and are boiled, and the milkers are clean and wear sterilised gowns. One of the medical men went camping for •i week and took a supply of (milk, and tlie remainder he brought horn* was still sweet."

Part of the policy of the Come to Blenheim Association is. to provide the town with a complete set of equipment for electric illumination purposes on special occasions such as Christmas and New Year and Come to Blenheim Week.

He did not expect to see many of the bank's farmer mortgagors taking advantage of the recent legislation for the assistance of such people, said Hon. J. McLeod at the annual meeting of trustees of the New Plymouth Savings Bank. The legislation was just doing what the hank had done all the timemaking it possible to keep the farmer on the land.

While working in a. public works quarry in Waimai Valley recently, Mr. A. C. Wade, of Woodhill, discovered a large shark's tooth embedded in a stone. The stone had to be broken to extract the tooth, which was found to be in a well-preserved condition. It is about long, triangular in shape and with smaller teeth along each edge. When an empty beer bottle, was thrown from a window of the returning New Plymouth-Napier excursion train it struck the clay bank of a deep cutting and hurtled back through a closed window. Passengers were showered with splintered glass, and one woman suffered such severe shock that she required rnetlical attention on arrival at New Plymouth. The parish church of Week St. Mary, North Devon, was recently struck by lightning. The force of it was so strong that the lightning conductor attached to two of the pinnacles of the tower only partially deflected it, and it burst upon the tower roof, destroying it and breaking the bell frames, and flinging the south-east pinnacle and blocks of masonry through the roof of the nave on to the aisles and oak pews, and far and wide over the churchyard and meadows.

Visitors from countries where they take their polities more seriously have often commented on the friendliness of the British House of Commons. M.P.s who have attacked one another bitterly in debate may then go off arm-in-arm to the smokeroom. There was a typical instance of such nonparty friendliness recently. Mr. Maxton, the fiery Scots Socialist, married his secretary, and liis fellow M.P.s raised a subscription to buy him a wedding present. Most of the money came from Conservatives.

James Mackel, of Spring Creek, who hit his infant daughter, Shirley, aged 15 months, with a billet of wood during a domestic quarrel on April 7, appeared on remand in the Magistrate's Court at Nelson on chajrges of aggravated assault and disobedience of a prohibition order. He pleaded guilty on both counts, being fined £5 on the major charge and discharged without penalty on the other. The magistrate, Mr. T. EL Maunsell, S.M., took a serious view of the assault, and, after telling the accused that he was very lucky not to have seriously injured the child, said he had had a very narrow, escape from gaol. While proceeding to the opening meet at Oringi of the Dannevirke Hunt Club, Mrs. 0. H. DrUce, of Kumeroa, a keen follower of the hounds, had an exciting experience in the Manawatu River, which fortunately had no harmful results. While crossing the river—which was swollen and, muddy—her hunter got into a deep water hole. Mrs. Druce was unseated and fell into the fast running water, but luckily she kept a grip of the reins and clung to the horse, was pulled to shallower water, and was able to get her feet on the bottom. Undaunted by her involuntary immersion, she proceeded to Oringi, where she was fitted out in dry clothes and participated in the hunt.