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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19029, 1 June 1936, Page 4

For the. week ended at noon to-day only one ease' of notifiable disease, tuberculosis, was reported in the East Cape health district. No deaths were reported. iii a judgment summons case called before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court ito-day, William Farmer was ordered to pay Crawford and Irwin £o 1 2s, in default five days’ imprisonment. Charged with a breach of the terms of his release on probation, Thomas Ryan appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., In-dav. The magistrate, slated that Ryan had submitter) a letter making an oiler, which would he accepted, and in the meantime the information was adjourned.

For 16 years a student of world affairs, Miss E. Avery, of Massachusetts, arrived at Wellington by the Maunganui. She came, she said, to investigate Mew Zealand’s racial problems, and ascertain the country’s attitude toward Ihe League of Nations. She intended to lecture on New Zealand in the United States on her return from the Dominion.

Tho Poverty Bay Winter Show Association ist pleased with the support (riven by several firms to the decorated parade on Saturday, and while the weather interfered with the work of decorating the firms agreed to send along their entries. Three firms had several entries -each. The Ivia Ora Co-operative Doiry Company entered five vehicles, Findlays, Limited, paraded nine, whilo Messrs O. F. Blogg and Company sent along a fleet of new motor cars.

“You have made a correct, statement in your letter that weaknesses and anomalies found by the Government to exist in nur present laws cannot all lie remedied lit, once,’’ writes the lion. W. K. Parry, -Minister of Pensions, in reply to Mr. Charles (lowland. “This is so with thy Pensions Acts. The review. 1 completed some time, ago brought, to .ijrht. some hard features which will be put right, by the Government; it is its policy lo do so. 1 am hopeful, that when the policy measures before the House hav'o been passed, and the Minister of Finance has his reports on the finances of the country completed, I will be able to bring before Parliament the first instalment. of the new pensions legislation. My advice to pensioners is to him patience; the very best consideration will be given to their cases as opportunities'arises.”

A light in tho main street is unusual in Gisborne, but one took place lit about 7. p.m. on Saturday in Gladstone road, near idle intersection ot Bright street. The odds were three to one until Mr. 0. Wellington went to the assistance of the victim. When the crowd of onlookers increased and the prospect of a policeman arriving on the scene appeared imminent, the three men disappeared. According to an eye-witness three men approached another and the fourth man, apparently .wishing to get away from them, backed across, the street. When the party got to the footpath the three men' closed in, and the victim fell to the ground. At this stage Mr. Wellington, a member of the staff of Mr. CJ. Ivesn billiard saloon, went to the fourth man’s assistance. The victim was then aide to rise, and he and the smallest man of the trio commenced to fight. Another rush was made before the three men lied across the street and disappeared. Approximately 200 men will be affected by the decision of the Co.ok County Council not to continue tlio use of relief labour, pending a clarification of the new scheme which came into for.ee in all parts of New Zealand to-dav. This new plan provides for a relief wage of 2s per hour, each e.Uss of relief worker being allotted certain weekly quotas of work, and . local bodies being ■ required to bring the employment periods of individual workers up to the nearest halfdays, tiiid to bear the cost at the basic rate of 2s per hour. In the caso of a single man, entitled 'to 10} hours Work on State funds at 2s per hour, .the employing local body would be required Io furnish an extra 1} hours work lo fill out flic broken half-day, and. would pay the single man' 3s from.ftounc.il funds. It is understood that the Cook County Council, which for stfiiio time has found employment, for approximately 200 men a week, dins’decided to suspend relief works until the full effect of the changes can be studied.