Untitled

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 4

The Gisborne High School and ;:)1 primary schools in this district resumed to-day after the holidays. For the week ended at noon to-day only one case of notifiable disease, ophthalmia neonatorum, was reported in the East Cape health district. In an undefended civil action called before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, W. A. Overy was .given'judgment for £l4 14s 6d anil costs J 32 14s against Alexander David Leash. «-»••■ The light'lorry; belonging to Mr. John Hubert Monteith that was reported missing from the Grey street stand after the pictures oh Friday evening was found abandoned in Read's quay on Saturday afternoon. The theft of benzine from motor-cars in Auckland is still common. It is particularly prevalent on tho northern side of the harbour, where drivers park their vehicles before crossing by passenger ferry. Three men were riding on a motorcycle without a side-car on a recent Sunday, and in the Police Court today before Mr. E, L. Walton, S.M.. two of them were fined 10s and costs. each for doing so. They were Douglas Merritt Hammond and Henry Robert Hammond. A warning has been issued to motorists by the inspector of police at Gisborne, Mr. If. Martin, in view of the two recent car conversions. He states they should lock their cars when leaving them- unattended, and also that they should not leave any parcels in parked ears. For being found on licensed premises, (lie Record Reign Hotel, after hours, James O'Grady was fined £1 and costs by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court to-day. Mr. 8. V. Beaufoy, on behalf of O'Grady, stated that the defendant had come in from the country, and went into the hotel to purchase a packet of cigarettes.

The election of directors at tho annual meeting of the Southland Caledonian Society this week was proceeding smoothly until it was mentioned that, by the rules, two-thirds of the directorate must be of Scottish descent. There were some hasty mental excursions back to family trees, but only a few branches had been examined before i'j was decided to bow to the chairman's decision that the rule be waived.

Eleven tenders were considered by the Marlborough Power Board in connection with the provision of a Diesel engine and generator for tho extension of the stand-by plant at Springlands, for which a loan of £22,000 is shortly to be raised, reports the Express. It was eventually decided to accept that of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, who quoted £12,545. The engine will be a two-stroke six-cylinder one of Belfast, manufacture. The other tenders ranged from £13,243 to £23,000. Two fino Maori relics have recently been added to the New Plymouth Museum. They are large wooden bowls, kumefo hinau, which were used by the ancient Maoris for the preparation of hinau berries for winter food. The bowls are particularly fine examples in excellent condition and are of rata. . They were, found a few days ago while a South Taranaki swamp was being drained. Mr. \V. If. Skinner, said that the bowls were probably hidden in the swamp about 1820, when, the tribes were driven Out by tho raiding, Waikatos, The resident A.A. patrol, Mr. D. M, McGregor, reports that the GisborneOpotiki, via Waioeka Valley, -main highway is in good order. A watercourse 12 miles from Opotiki, on the Gisborne side of Mr. Pratt's home, stead, has been filled in. He also re ports that a road, foreman's house has been built at Oponae, in the valley, and that a permanent foreman, Mr. Young, of Rotorua, has been stationed there. Mr. Young is equipped with n lorry and in the event of a slip in the valley ho is now able to rush men to tho blockage in quick time. A populous area sign has been erected on the road approaching Matawai.

Great activity in the British motor trade was noticed by Mr.'.F. F. M. Ferguson, manager of the Dunlop Rubber: Company (N.Z.), Limited, who returned to Wellington this week from a world tour. Business seemed to be extraordinarily brisk, so far as, his own company vvns concerned; in .the- territories lie visited, and the factory ai Fort, Dunlop, Birmingham, was working day and night at full pressure. He, visited.the factories of several other firms interested' in the motor industry,' including those of a maker of commercial vehicles and one of the maker of cars, - both of whose, products are ■ prominent in New Zealand, which wore working at full pressure to compete with- the tremendous demand for the finished products.