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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 4

Six degrees, of frost were registered in Gisborne yesterday morning

A fight in Lowe street on Saturday night, cost Edward John Kelly £1 and Jack Scott Tamauia Morris £2, when they appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S..\i., in the Police Court to-day charged with fighting in a public place. SeniorSergeant W. Pender stated that some old grievance apparently had arisen, and they had decided to settle the matter with their lists. Mr. S. V. Beanfoy, on behalf of Morris, said that the two had a grudge of long standing; they had decided to settle the matter on the beach, but on the way their tempers got more frayed, and they started-the bout when they got opposite the Convent. Kelly was fined £l, and in view of two previous assault convictions Morris was lined £2 and costs.

The district member, Mr. D. W. Coleman, returned to Gisborne from Wellington during the week-ond, accompanied by Mrs. Coleman, who during the session juat closed resided in Wellington. Mr. Coleman stated in an Interview today that so far as ho could ascertain, from inquiries among members of the Cabinet, there was little likelihood of any Minister paying a visit to Poverty Bay or the East Coast during the short recess of five weeks before the resumption of Parliament, as the drafting) of new legislation will demand their close Attention. The respite of five weeks in Parliamentary business was taken for the express purpose of preparing the further legislation outlined in the Labour Party platform, and ho did not think that any Minister would have spare time on his hands during the adjournment.

For "doubling" on a. bicycle, Nolan Jolley was fined 5s and costs by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the -Magistrate's Court to-day. The information was brought, by the borough traffic inspector, Mr. G. G. Winter. in a, judgment summons case before Mr. Fa. L. Walton, S.M., in Die Magistrate's Court to-day, Bernard Wallace was ordered to pay Harry Param £2 5s 6d forthwith, in default two days' imprisonment.

Speaking at the opening of the Winter Show at, Whakatanc, Mr. A. G, Hultquist, M.P., stated that the loss on the Tauranga-Tanca-tua section of railway had been reduced from £28,000 to £3OOO. He added that he was looking forward to the time, when the line would show a profit. A man who was found drunk while riding a horse at Makaraka on Saturday afternoon was brought before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court today. Senior-Sergeant W. Pender stated that the man' was asleep, and lying over the horse's withers. The man was fined 10s and costs, and on the accused's application his name was suppressed. "Manurewa must have a remarkable climate," said Dr. T. 11. Ritchie, a member of the Board of Health Commission, at the inquiry in Auckland into the Manurewa water supply, when he was handed a bottle of water drawn from a bore. He said there was mosquito larvae plainly visible on the surface of the water produced. "The climate must be very favourable when you find-mosquitoes breeding in June,'', he added. The witness who produced the exhibit said the water was drawn that morning from his private bore. The remains of the. late. Corporal .lames Samuel Allen,' of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles, were inferred in the South African soldiers' plot, in the Taruheru cemetery, on Saturday afternoon, 50 cars forming the cortege. The service was conducted by Mr. A. C. Harris, Ormond. After a brief address the "Last Post," and "Reveille" were sounded by Bandsman A. Stein, jun. Veterans D. McCallum, W. Taylor, T. Allan, H. Hughes, A. McLachlan, and S. Brein«;an, of the Gisborne association, acted •is pall-bearers. Two and a-half chains of the tunnel, which is being pushed through the Homer Saddle in connection with the road to Milford, have been completed and lined, and the workmen have arrived at the junction of the scree and the solid rock. Progress is slow on account of the concrete work having to be carried out in close proximity to the rock excavation, and the men are proceeding cautiously until the concreting is. finished and the forms cleared away. They will then be able to fire complete rounds and use the explosives to their full extent.

Christchurch as a city of gardens unhidden by fences is the vision of Mi. It. 13. Owen, president of the Christchurch Beautifying Association. He spoke of it when explaining that the association considered it a duty to encourage people to open up gardens to public view. Fences, he considered, were eyesores. They did not make for a truly modern city. Mr. Irving Sladen confessed that he, too, looked forward to the time when the city would lie without fences. "Of course, we here are regarded as cranks and idealists," he said. Nevertheless cities in other parts, notably America, were sufficiently proud of gardens to leave them open to the streets. , "As far as can be ascertained, the needs of the public as regards the denominations of Reserve Bank notes are adequately niet by the existing notes." states the report, of the Board of Directors to the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash. "Therefore it is not proposed to incur the expense of adding to the number of denominations of the original issue unless and until there is evidence of a reasonably widespread demand for notes of any other denominations. The question of a change of design for notes of a more permanent nature has engaged the attention of the board, but it is not. proposed to take any definite action in that respect for the present."