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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 4

When 11 lc Governor General, I.ord Galway. visits Napier lie will lay the foundation stone of »lie new art gallery. The tirst, rainless 24-lionr period for 1() days was' recorded in Gisborne this; morning. No rain fell during the first (wo days of this mouth, but on the succeeding 10 days several points of rain were registered when the readings were taken at !> o’clock each morning. As. mi earnest of the intention of the Gisborne Borough Council to make the best use of thy Park Domain for the public benefit, a meeting is to he called on Momlay evening of those interested in the proposal to establish a muiiieipnl golf-links on the domain. Information gathered by a committee of the council will be placed before the meeting.

A frost of three degrees was recorded in Gisborne this morning. Severe, injuries were sufTeied by an elderly man, Mr. Alfred Paltridgo, 73, of Epsom, whe-n he was knocked down bv ;t motor-car at Auckland on Thursday evening. When a consignment of fat cows was being loaded by the m.v. .Matgat'd \\. at the stock wharf last evening it Was' found that one of the animals which had been lowered into the hold of the. ship had broken a leg. Jn. order to remove the, cow ffo'm the pen constructed in the ship’s t liftld tho animal was lassooed and swung' by the rope, on to the wharf, where if. was shot. It. was then removed t.o 'the Ivaiti freezing works. It is thought ’that the animal broke its leg when it reared up in the race.

Ohri.stchur.ch men interested in farm finance and transfers of farming properties report a recent increase in purchasing and leasing demand to an extent that the supply ol suitable properties is hnrdiy equal to the requirements. Inquiries over a . wide field brought three main features .into prominence—that thorp was certainly a good demand coming in at present, that in some cases suitable properties 'definitely were not. available, but that in others the price asked was considerably it) excess of hovers' limits.

Unusually heavy rainfall has fallen on the Coast *in the past two mouths and the following rainfall has been registered by Mr. I>. \V. W. Williams at rtuaiigarelm. The January-Junc average 1 for -the past 13 years is 38.8iu., while the rainfall for the six months to date is 46.88 m. The average for June since 1922 has been 7.59 in., but last month’s total was 10.68 in., there being a fall of 3.73 in. on June 5. At Waima rain-fell ou 15 days in Juno, totalling d.74in., compared with 7.50 in. for the same month last year.

The average consumption of water in Hastings has always been a matter to occasion some wonderment, and it appears that even in the wettest of months there is no diminution of the public’s enthusiasm for the borough water. For example in June jast year, when the rainfall was only 2.30 in., the mtnl water consumption was 31.550.000 Billons, and yet last month, will! a rainfall of 5.49 in., or much more than louble, the consumption of water in-.-reasod by 1,60(5,000 gallons, or 478 gallons increase For each of tho 3346 connections in the borough.

An unfortunate omission occurred from t report yesterday concerning the assonations made by the three nominees front the Gisborne end ol the Gisoorite sheep district for the Meat Hoard’s elecoral committee. The paragraph should have read as follows: "Mr Roberts is i prominent member ol the A. -and I*. \ssoeiation. Mr Ho wen an ex-president if tho Poverty Hay provincial district f the Farmers' Union, and Mr Smith s a leading member of both the Farmers’ Union and the Sheepowiiers’ Union. :s well as an ex-president of the A. and \ Association.”

A committee was set up to investigate and report on the scheme of establishing municipal golt links at Hayes' Padnock, Hamilton Hast, at the. meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council this week, ,on the motion of the deputyMayor, Mr. 11. D. Caro, lie pointed out that the game was becoming increasingly popular, and another links would be, a great attraction to visitors. Mr. J. E. Held referred to his previous suggestion for subdividing the area and placing a swing bridge across the river at a cost of J32C00. He pointed out that now 5 there was little available land for building in the borough.

A request for a Wellington teiun to play Poverty bay at Gisborne this season was received by the management committee of the Wellington boot ball Association from the Poverty Buy I’out!ril Association. “The Saturday halfholiday has done a lot of good here,” wrote'.Mr. G. Quinn, the secretary. "It has brought a lot of .old players back who were lost to the game, and they are anxious to have another go at Wellington.” The committee lesolved to defer the request in the meantime but uoped that it could arrange before the end of the season to send a team--not necessarily a representative team—to ..1 is-.Oi ue.

The provision of lights to indicate the. total width of wide vehicles was urged in a letter received from a correspondent at the latest meeting of the council of the Automobile Association (Auckland). Tile suggestion arose out of the recent fatality on the Great .South road caused by a collision between a light car and a large lorry ai night. The correspondent suggested that legislation should be introduced to make it compulsory for owners of heavy waggons to fit non-glare lights on the outer edge of the platform on which goods are carried. After several members had spoken in favor of the -sugges. tion, the question was referred to the North fsland .Motor Union.

A collision between a sedan motoiar driven by Captain A. G. W. lleberr'ercy, A.D.C. to the Governor-General, viscount Galway, and a taxicab owned and driven by Mr. E. Bowering, of Sandringham, occurred near tiro junction of the Great North mad and the Point Chevalier road, Auckland, yes terday morning. Captain Tleber-I’crcy was accompanied by Messrs. A. Whitcombe, I’. Nathan," and T. Bloomfield. No one was injured. The impact forced the taxi over the footpath up on to a rockery about 10ft. from the roadway, where' it finally came to rest close to tho entrance of the Point Chevalier Hall. The body of the taxi was considerably damaged, but the other car suffered only minor damage.

The first cargo of Norfolk Island oranges to be landed in Auckland since the embargo on Australian citrus fruits was imposed in December, 1932, will arrive by the Kairanga next week. The shipment will comprise the whole of the island’s crop and will amount to up to 2CCO cases. Norfolk Island is considered io he part of Australia for the purposes of the embargo and special permission had to bo obtained from the Government before the shipment could be arranged. The Kairanga left Sydney on Wednesday and is expected to arrive at Auckland about, the middle, of next week. A sliimnent of 8000 cases of South Australian navel oranges mid mandarines will arrive hy tho Wanganella on Monday. These will be the first oranges from that source to reach Auckland for nianv months.

• A Tokomnru Hay resident. Mr. Waakn Clarke, suffered (lie misfortune of having his residence damaged by fire on Monday mooning, the cause of the outbreak being obscure. Mr. Clarke had retired to bed at 10 p.n i.. on Sunday, and was awakened at 2 a.in. on Monday to find a portion of the house ablaze. The fire seemed to have started, on a verandah, and to’ have penetrated into an empty bedroom-, strenuous efforts on the part of Messrs. Clake. Uangi, and ,1. lies Hurres being required to quench the blaze. Fortunately the (lames did not reach a tin of kerosene, which stood in a corner of the verandah, and from which sunnlies of illnminnnt were drawn periodically for lighting the house. Mr. Clarke suffered another tile recently, in Ids office, when papers relating to (lie administration of the Mnnngnhnuini estate were .lost. The residence in which Monday morning's lire took place was a newly-built house, and with Mr. Clarke there were three members of the Rev. Rang is family, who occupied the house pending the completion of the new Tokomuru Bay vicars,ere.