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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 4

Mails for the United Kingdom and Europe, which left Wellington on March 17, per R.M.S. Makura, via San Francisco, arrived in London on April 15.

A donation of £2 2s as a special prize for the open tin. hare race at the Poverty Bay Professional Athletic and Cycling Club's next meeting has been made by Mr. J. A. C. Fleming. Special handicaps will be declared for the race, which is expected to create keen competition amongst greyhound owners. The popularity of the late Miss Dudy Tantau was shown by the large number of floral emblems that covered the casket when the cortege left Onnond for Tolaga Bay recently. Two minutes' silence was observed by the staff and members of the To Kanaka High School in respect and remembrance of one of their former pupils.

The Poverty Bay Hunt Club will hold its first meet with hounds to-morrow at Awapuni, the meet being fixed for 11 a.m. An invitation has been extended to all interested to view the meet and to join followers of the hounds at a picnic tea. Owners who desire to qualify their horses with hounds have been advised to take tins opportunity of attendance. Only five applications from aspiring seamen boys were received in the Gisborne district in response to a call for 22 lads by the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. These boys have been put through their educational test and the papers will be sent to Napier, where the thinning out. process begins. The final selection of the boys to be sent to Auckland from the regimental district will be made in Napier.

"If I planted my walking stick in the ground and left it for a day or so, when I came back I am quite sure it would be a tree." That is what Mr. CJ. Hyder, of Rathgar, Dublin, thinks of the fertility of the New Zealand soil. Mr. Hyder, who has just concluded a tour of the beauty spots of both Islands, said he was amazed at the marvellous growth to be found everywhere. He had been filled with envy at the sight of a workman removing soil to a depth of 6ft. from a section at Lower Hutt. On his own land at Rathgar, after going clown 2ft. one struck water, and then yellow clay. The use of obscene language in Gladstone road last night cost John Dornan, aged 42, a fine of £5 and costs, when lie appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. Accused was also charged with drunkenness, for which he was convicted and discharged. Sergeant Campagnolo stated that Constable J. R>. Gedye heard Dornan swear at three men who passed along Gladstone road. When the trio ignored the accused, he hurled another obscene term at them, and walked off in the opposite direction, followed by the constable, who took Dornan to the watch house. In imposing the fine, His Worship said he had considered the question of sending the accused to gaol, and warned him of the" consequences of any future offence.

In the course of an interview in which he confirmed in detail the information gathered in Gisborne and published in the Herald on Tuesday, Mr. A. Dinnie, district engineer at Napier, stated that resumption of work on the NapierGisborne railway would call for a good deal of work between Napier and Wairoa. About six miles of plates would have to be laid, apart from the work involved in restoring the damage done by earthquakes on those portions of the line which previously were in use under the Public Works Department, and houses at Mohaka tumbled down by the earthquakes would have to be re-erected. The principal feature of the Napier-Wairoa section, however, would be the Mohaka. viaduct, for which the services of skilled structural-steel workers would be required.

The weekly meeting of the committee of the Gisborne Rowing Club was held last evening in the clubhouse. Those present were Messrs. G. 11. Scents, chairman, R. Hnnna, 11. Mnhon, K. A. Bell, C. McLemon, S. YV. Bruce, R. Coleman, and the hon. secretary, Mr. A. F. Allen. An apology for absence was received from Mr. D. V. Muir. It, was decided to alter the date of the half-yearly meeting of members to Friday, April 24. A subcommittee was set up comprising Messrs. Allen, Bell, and Mahon, to draw' up proposals for a one day regatta, the proposals to be submitted to the next meeting of the East Const Rowing Association. It was suggested that all the L.V.A., Colley and Kirk, Harris and Mill, and Neil'l shields' events should be rowed off on the one day. The social cotnmittce reported that "arrangements for the dance were well in hand and that the invitations had been posted.

Mount Rolleston, a popular training ground of Canterbury's mountaineers, was climbed by a new route this week by three members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club, who picked a tortuous route up the steep rock face which dominates the Valley of the upper Otira River. The climb was made in fine weather and a little less than five horns was required to negotiate the face.

A Nelson farmer .recently received a surprise when dressing a sheep's carcase, Embedded in the stomach was a ragged birch slake, 13in. long. 3£in. wide at the broadest part, and about lin. thick. Both ends tapered down to a sharp point. The sheep was in modcrate condition, and appeared perfectly .normal, except for a small scar, showing where the stake had entered. The finder of an unusual fish skeleton, ilr. T. Redwood, of Te Awamutu. journeyed to Slippery Creek again and returned with 2ft. more of the vertebrae, two tins about 2ft. long and a quantity of hair-like thin whalebone. It is thought now thai, the 12in. jaw previously referred to is probably the fish's breastbone. The total length of the skeleton is estimated at 20ft.

In the country, there was more call for unity in church life than in a city, said the Rev E. 1). Patchett, at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Tuakau Methodist Church. A Christian should be a Christian first and a member of a denomination second. When there was no service at his own church at. a particular hour on a Sunday, he would be doing well to join in (he service of another denomination if it were being conducted in the same centre at the time.

Very full and helpful directions were provided in the programmes supplied to spectators at the New Zealand Grand Prix motor-cycle road race at Cast, Canterbury, but' there appeared to be one omission. The 26 names of riders given were numbered from one to 27. One number had been omitted. Later inspection showed, however, that the missing number was 13, and, as officials explained, riders were likely enough to meet with all sorts of trouble in. the race without the added disadvantage of working under an unlucky number.

Members of a paijty that climbed Mount Egmont recently were surprised near the summit when they were joined by an obviously hungry and tired littledog that had previously been seen wandering rather aimlessly about on the high scoria slopes. Obviously determined not to be lost again, it kept close to the heels of the party on the return trip. At the hostel it was identified as Judy, the property of the Murphy family, of the Dawson Falls house, from which it had been missing for some time. Apparently it followed a party of climbers from the south side, but lost them near the summit—and then found that mountains can be tricky for small dogs as well as for human beings.

The Easter holidays this year have proved to be profitable for many young Maoris at Whakarewarewa, who have gleaned a rich harvest diving for pennies from the bridge over the stream in tire reserve. Several made more than £1 a day. The large crowds of visitors to the reserve derived considerable entertainment watching, the youngsters as they either jumped or dived from the parapet of the high bridge. The elder Maoris also showed enterprise, a large hnngi having been prepared to supply visitors with Maori dainties cooked in the traditional style. A small party of Maoris also entertained the spectators with singing, accompanied by two guitars.

The prospect of a long tram ride and an impatient golf partner faced a Wellington motorist when he arrived at his car and was unable to find the door key. The windows had been carefully secured against the possibility of an attempt at unlawful conversion and failed to budge under downward pressure. There remained the chance of doing something by lifting the floor boards from underneath. At imminent risk of collecting a considerable quantity of used engine oil on his clothing from the undergear, the motorist squeezed himself into a iikely position and laboriously fished about in the car's interior with a niblick, always a bandy club on the links and, as it "proved in this case, extremely useful also in another sphere. Judicious pulling and pushing worked one of the window winders sufficiently to open the pane a few inches, and the rest was easy, from the outside. With a sigh of relief the motorist settled himself in the seat and pulled out his handkerchief to mop bis streaming brow. There was a tinkle as the door key touched the band brake on its way to the floor.

No cerditors were present at a meeting called in Hamilton by the official assignee, Mr. V. R. Crowhurst, in connection with the bankrupt estate of Frederick William David Gray, of Hamilton, furniture dealer. Bankrupt's schedule showed total liabilities of £486, comprising unsecured creditors £293, secured creditors £343 less £l5O, the estimated value of the securities. Assets were estimated at £162, leaving a deficiency of £324. In a written statement bankrupt said that when he was residing in Gisborne in 1922 he purchased a section over which there was a mortgage of £225. lie paid the rales and interest until about the beginning of 1931, when he was forced to discontinue payments owing to business losses. The position was explained to the solicitor acting for the mortgagee, and, as bankrupt heard nothing further for some years, he presumed" that the mortgagee had taken over the section for what it was worth. However, at the beginning of this year a summons was issued against him, claiming arrears of interest and rates. After some negotiations he was left with no option but to file.