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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 4

Next Friday and Saturday the Y.M.C.A. will make its annual appeal for financial assistance, and a strong ladies’ organisation under the direction of Dr. Nina Muir has been formed to cany out (lie collection. Another burglary at the premises of the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering; Company, Limited, Ohaupo. Waikato, was committed on Wednesday night, when over £SO worth of goods was removed. The shop had been burgled each winter for five years witli the exception of last winter. In his report to the Gisborne High School Board ol‘ Governors last evening I lie rector,- Mr .1. Hutton, mentioned that a former- student of the Gisborne High School, Mr Ken 11. Black, had succeeded in winning the senior scholardiip of the University of New Zealand in engineering this year. On the motion of the chairman, Air L. T. Bnrnard, the board decided to send a letter to Mr Black congratulating him on his chievement.

The Poverty Bay senior represen t:iTve Rugby team set out this morning "or Wairna to contest tlie Harry Cup gat eh Phis afternoon with only two reserves, nail Air .1. O’Neill as manager 'ti .plane of Mr 0. S. Hurt. Last* mimito advice was received from Campbell and ATcAueney to the effect that t’nev would not he .able to make the trip and their places "were taken by p. McKinley and W. Hargreaves, two of the origintil emergencies. The smart appearance on parade- of the High School cadets, who provided the guard of honor on the occasion of this week’s visit of the Governor General, Viscount Galway, was commented upon at last evening’s meeting of the High School Board of Governors. Mr 11. K. Bright mentioned that Colonel 11. P. Cnmbrill. officer commanding the Second Now Zealand Military Brigade. had spoken to him in complimentary terms on the smart turn out. The hoard decided to forward a letter to Major Duuphy congratulating him on tin l cadets’ etlu-i----oni performance.

.Arrangements have been made for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith to advise the Auckland City Council on the provision of a municipal air port for Auckland, fn the course of a letter to the Mayor, Mr Ernest Davis, lie stated :—“Personally. although 1 consider Mangere to be a good aerodrome at present, one air not be blind to the fact that a great deal of time would ho lost by a commercial operator in the transport of passengers from the city to the present site, and 1 really think a progressive city like Auckland should fully exploit all other possibilities before finally deciding nil this as the ultimate commercial airport for the city.”

'Plie value of apple peeling was discussed by l)r. Xeige Todhuntor, assistant professor of nutrition at the Washington Stale College, a New Zealander, in the course of an interview in Christchurch. She had been study ingthe nutritive value of apples, and determining their vitamin A and vitamin C content. Experiments had revealed that in common storage—a! 15 degrees Fahrenheit—apples lost a quarter of their vitamin value in between three and six months, but iif kept in cold storage—at .V2 degrees—there was no loss. The value of apples, it was found, varied also according to their variety, Winesaps containing twice as much vitamin G as Delirious. Dr. Tndhmiter concluded by noinling out the wisdom of nol peeling anples. Weight for weight, apple pee.ling had between four and five times as much vitnmen A as apple flesh,

Mr. \ 11, Bade, of Sydney, has beet appointed adjudicator at the New Zea land Brass Bands’ contest to he, lick at New Plymouth next February. 1 he pared containing four ounces ot strychnine powder which was inadvert ently left m a ■ telephone cabinet out - side tho Auckland central post oilier by a rabbi ter on .Monday was handed in at. the Mount- Eden police station on Wednesday night,.

A property of 3j acres, principally orchard, and a seven-roomed house, located on the main road near the Ormond Hole!, was offered for sale, this morning at tho otlico of Messrs. Ball and Crawshaw, acting under instructions from the registrar of the Supreme Court. Tim property was passed in at £425.

Tho Roloma .Borough Council has do tided to apply to the Government Loans Uoanl for permission to raise a loan of £3COQ to cany out improvements by kerbing and channelling in the borough. It will he included in the general mailing and footpath improvements scheme outlined in the Mayor’s recent proposals, which will entail a loan of £12,000.

At the fourth annual meeting of the Tauranga Aero and ,(Hiding Club the president. Croup-Captain If. E. Hewlett, pointed out that- the tidal area hitherto used as an aerodrome had been a bar to owners. Aircraft visiting the Jauranga club therefore had diligently sought another area, and had leased a site on the opposite side of the harbor near Mount Maunganui.

A plate glass window of a tobacconist’s shop at Eilevslie, Auckland, was smashed by a runaway motor-car on Wednesday. The car, which had been parked by the owner, a Paumure resident, near the Ellerslie Post Office, was observed to move slowly away from the kerb down a slight- grade. It narrowly missed a bus, and then mounted iho footpath and crushed into the window of Mr. L. i’ilkington’s shop.

Exception to the Auckland Power Board’s scheme for increasing its load by providing facilities for the purchase

ot stoves and water heaters, ana by hiring electric stoves was expressed by the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The objection was made on the grounds that the proposal was an interference with private enterprise. It was derided to protest to the board and to endeavor to arrange a deputation to discuss t!ie matter. The winter sales in the Christchurch drapery shops have been very successful this year, reports- -the iChrist-ohureli Press. Nome shops have done a considerably larger business than they have done during the same period for several years, and managers of city firms, though unwilling to ‘take an over-optimistic view of immediate prospects for business, said that there were several signs that more money would he spent in the near future.

tu March of this year a petition was circulated in Rotorua asking that Government action be taken to remedy the position which has arisen with regard to public access to fishing waters and lake frontages generally. An extraordinary position has now been revealed in a letter received from the clerk of the House of Representatives by Mr O. 11. Clinkard, M.P.. of Rotorua. This letter discloses that although the petition was duly presented by Mr Clinkard on March 13 it has been lost and no trace -an be found of its whereabouts.

The possibility of the establishment of a new industry outside the city boundary was brought under the notice ot the Auckland City Council by a firm of solicitors, who stated that a client proposed to start such an industry which was likely to require a water supply of from 2,0C€.C00 to 3,000.000 gallons a year. They asked whether the council would be prepared to deliver water at the city boundary for consumption outside tin- city area, and suggested that the charge might reasonably be that charged to city consumers. The matter was referred to the public services com mittec. with power to act. A discussion of the problems connected with the establishment of a special chest hospital in Auckland was held at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Hoard. A report, was received from a special committee set up to investigateproposals. Dr Chisholm McDowell, the board’s tuberculosis officer, reported that an ideal institution would have to he ■surgically and radiologically equipped. It would also reouire a resident- medical and nursing stall. The committee agreed that the main factor was the location of the proposed chest hospital, and sites have.been investigated.

Future butter industry research in New Zealand would be directed towards Ending the most suitable temperature for butter storage. At present New Zealand butter was sent overseas at 15 degrees l l '., not because this was most suitable for butter, but because that was the temperature for meat, said Mr. G. R. Barnieoat, of Massey College, when speaking .to a gathering in Palmerston North. It had been found that many foodstuffs were best preserved at minus 5 degrees F„ or 37 degrees of frost, and possibly this would in future be adopted for butter. If, had yet in be proved, however, that a " lower storage temperature would automatic ally eliminate the slight storage taints known in New Zealand butter to-day

I lie Rev. C. J. Xocker, of St. Paul’s Invercargill, who conducted the seventyfifth anniversary services at Knox Church. revealed a tendency to utter an unconventional word from the pulpit. When lie set out to read the intimations at the evening service, he apologised lirst- for the length of them, and after ho had given notice of the various functions which had been arranged for the jubilee lie went on to refer to the special effort that had been made to raise JL’ICOO for the church funds at a jubilee thanks ottering. Reading from a typewritten sheet, he, said: . . The aim of the bIOCO lias been reached and exceeded, and the office-bearers have keen encouraged to anticipate that the sum of £1256 will eventually be attained.” Raising Ids eyes from the paper, ■ic added : 1 There’s nothing like being Miorougiilv Presbyterian."

Arising out of (lie recent tragic happening at Hastings, which Jed' to ■ be dentil of a little girl who had been walking home alone, the Hawke’s Hay Education Board at its monthly meeting yesterday decided to eireu larise all headmasters of schools in its district, intimating that instnic lions should lie given to children with the object of lessening the danger of molestation. It was agreed that children should be remimi'ed frequent ly of the possible dangers of entering into conversation with strangers, and of accepting rides or other approaches from people outside 1 heir acquaintance. A simple code of instructions drawn up by Mr. E. Bissell, of the Al.aliora School, Hastings, was recommended by the chairman, Mr. W. Maddison, for circulation, and found approval from ;he bon rd as a whole.