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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 4

The spectators at the Supreme Court, which opened in Gisborne this morning, included about 30 of the senior boys from the Marist Brothers School. They ar. rived some time before the court opened, and during the period of waiting one oi the legal fraternity explained whercinembers of the court, prisoners, wit nesses, press and public would take their positions. Afterwards, the boys showed m'eat interest in the proceedings. Reference to the death of Mr. Andrew B. West was made by Canon A. F. Hall at the Holy Trinity Church on Sunday evening. Canon ilall said 'that the church was the poorer through Mr. West’s death. Mr. West had not been in Gisborne very long, but in Blenheim was vicar’s warden, and a member ol tlie diocesan syriotl, as' well •as being a member of general synod. His presence would be missed from among them, the vicar added.

In expressing thanks; on -behalf of the Plunket Society, for the good measure ot support given by the Gisborne Rotary Club to the baby exhibition which concluded on Saturday, Rotarian 11. F. Forster mentioned at yesterday’s luncheon of the- cLub that a sum in excess ot £450 had been realised by the exhibition. The number of votes sold' in connection with the effort had topped the 100,000 mark, Rotarian Forster announced further, amidst applause. In the practical section of the electrical wiremen's examination conducted in March. J. B. Fenn was the only successful Gisborne candidate. None of the four Gisborne candidates in the written part secured passes. In a recent announcement in the Gazette it is stated that of the 105 candidates from both the North and South Islands, in the written section only 29 gained passes, while in the practical test 25 out of a total of 56 candidates were successful. Probably few persons realise that there is a Cross in use in ope of the Wellington churches that contains wood that was growing in England seven hundred years or more ago. During his address at the golden jubilee celebrations in St. Mark’s Church the Rev. N. F. E. Robertshawe said that the processional Cross used in the church was made from oak taken from Lincoln Cathedral and was probably seven hundred years old. The Cross was presented to the church bv the Rev. D. C.. Bates, formerly Government meteorologist.

Scheduled to be in readiness for play by April 1 next, the new links being constructed by the Palmerston North City Council under agreement with the Palmerston North Golf Club are now taking definite shape on the Park road reserve, where the work of laying them out has been .in progress for some months. Formation work on the course should be completed in about three months, but. improvement will be continued until the area is handed over to dub control. Nine holes should' be playable by the end of this year. According to the rules of the New Zealand Rugby Union, Mr. N. Taskei stated at last night’s weekly meeting oi the P.B.R.U management committee aluminium sprigp on football bools'were definitely illegal. Often the metal be canto jagged and Was' dangerous to players. The St. John Ambulance officers had approached referees on account of the tendency of the aluminium to poison the wound. The club delegates were advised that an-inspection of sprigs would be carried out next Saturday Players, were; requested to give theii sprigs attention before going on the field

From 12.30 p.m." until 3 p.m., on Saturday, a terrifying time was spent by a child who had become imprisoned in the alleyway that runs between the premises of Woolworths (N.Z.), Limited, and Russell Cycles aiul Motors. The mother had an equally anxious time looking for her lost child. Eventually ;he traced the child’s cries and soon took steps to have her child released. It is surmised that the contractors, who had been working upstairs during the morning had left the door off the latch. On seeing the open door the child had entered and shut it. The Yale lock then caught and trapped the child.

“The siding serving the Kaiti wharf and shed is so sharp that the department’s W.G engines, some-of which ate located at Gisborne, cannot safely travel round it. Either it -has been pegged incorrectly or. not laid to the pegs. To remedy matters the approach curve will have to be re-located, but the construction of the track on the wharf may not lend itself to any alterations. Ij have two plans showing the construction, both numbers'-being in your board’s sequence, Will yon please let me know which plan shows the construction of the siding south of the shed,” wrote the district railway engineer, Wellington, in a letter received by the Gisborne Harbour Board yesterday. The matter was re r garded seriously by the board, and the works committee was asked to report upon it.

In his report, to yesterday’s meeting jf the Gisborne Harbour Board, the managing-secretary, Mr. H. A. Barton, referred to the working of the new maintenance dredge as follows :—"During the four weeks ended May 19 the dredge A.G. lifted and deposited 32 loads, of sand from the channel entrance. In 74j> hours’ dredging time and 32 hours dumping time, 9870 tons were lifted and conveyed to the dumping ground in the bay. Three whole days’ and two half days’ dredging were lost- owing to bad weather. Except on these days, or on Saturdays, two Toads were handled -each day throughout the four syepks. Since commencing work the dredge lias lifted and deposited 21,509 tons of mud and sand. Reference to the success with which tho A.C. operates was also made in tho harbourmaster’s report, Captain A. Carson pointing out how the channel bad approved during the operation of the dredge.