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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 4

According to a report received from I lie Dueo Motor Service Lite GisbornoOpotiki, via Waioeka, highway is in good order. Little rain baa fallen in the Bay of Plenty side of the watershed.

The animal tournament to have been started yesterday by the Poverty Bay Polo Club has been postponed until to-morrow morning. If the weather is suitable to-morrow an effort will be made to conclude the programme in two days, Saturday and Monday, instead of three as previously intended.

"1 don't think the session will last more than three weeks," stated Mr. A. P. Moncur, M.l\, for Rotorua, in Matamata. After that, Mr. -Moncur said, Mr. Savage would tour the Dominion for live or six weeks preparatory to the Budget, which would be dealt with immediately afterwards.

The acceptance of quotations for the supply of necessary materials and appliances was reported by the finance committee at to-day's meeting of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board as under :—One thousand house servicing insulators, Messrs. A. D. Riley and Company, Limited, £55 4s 2d ; 800 gallons of transformer oil, Texas Company. (Australia) Limited, £77 17s 6d.

Electricity saies under schedule charges for' the 11 months of the financial year completed on February 29, with the figures for the corresponding period of last year for comparison, were reported by the manager of the Poverty Pay Electric Power Board to to-day's meeting as follows: Lighting. £20,374, (1934.26. £20,150) ; cooking and heating, £15,102, (£13,988); waterheating, £3773, (£3136) ; power, £6498, (£5972); total, £45,657, (£43.246).

Bough weather was experienced by the Auekland-Oisboine Transport Company's truck last night on the run from Taneatua to Opotiki, and it finally arrived in ■Gisborno at 10.15 a.m. to-day. The train for the north was four and a-half hours late in arriving at the rail-head at Taneatua owing to the heavy winds and rain sweeping across (he Pay of Plenty. Telephonic communication along the line was out of order owing to the wires having been brought down and no check could be made oil the progress of the train. Trouble was met by the truck on the Opotiki side of the Waiotahi River bridge, where the water was backed up over the road to a depth of 3ft. 6in. After leaving Opotiki on the final stage of the journey good time was made.

At. to-day's meeting of tho Poverty Bay Kleelric Power Board, tho finance committee recommended that a donation of £25 should be made towards the funds of the Cisborne and District Beautifying Association. In support of this recommendation, (lie chairman, Mr. V. R. Hall, slated that there had been some criticism of the necessary wilting "back of trees hy tho board's staff, where growth threatened the safety of the lines and involved possible danger to life and property, and the donation was designed as a. friendly gesture to the, association, and an earnest of the board's sympathy with its work. Tho recommendation was adopted', as was also a proposal for a donation of £3 3s towards the prize funds of the Poverty Bay Winter Show Association, in connection with electric cooking competitions,