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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 4

Charged with driving! a- motor vehicle on tlu- Ruatoria-Tikitiki road in a manner dangerous to the public, Perna Bhagvan appeared recently before Mr. K. L. Walton, S.M., in the Tikitiki Police Court and was convicted and fined £3 and costs £3 16s 9d.

A painful accident befell Jewel, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Calcott, Muriwai, about 8.30 a.m. on Monday. While playing about her home the child was discovered with a severe cut, on her wrist, it being surmised that she fell on a broken bottle. The little girl, who had lost much blood, was conveyed into Gisborne by Mr. R. Ross. An operation was performed during the afternoon and the child, who is progressing well, was taken home- later. — Special.

In the Tikitiki Police Court recently before Mr. E, L. Walton, N.M., Paul Huron, and his wife, Pena Rama, appeared oil charges of the theft of a scarifier, the property of Lee Kengia, and of trespass on the iierenga estate block, Tikitiki. Tiie woman was convicted and discharged on both charges and Paul Raroa was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months on the trespass charge and fined £3 and ordered to pay costs amounting to £lO 15s 9d oil the theft charge.

II took 20 men to take the case containing the mode! of R.M.S. Orion, lielonging to the Orient, Line, off the lorry this morning preparatory to unpacking and displaying the model in the window of the premises occupied by T. N. Cochrane, Gladstone road. The model is the largest to have been displayed in New Zealand or Australia and is 15ft. 6in. long, 6ft. high, and 3ft. 6in. wide, while its gross weight in the ease is 1 ton 7cwt. 3qr. 1611) and its net weight 15cw(. Iqr. 1611). Peculiarities of the vessel are its one funnel and one mast, us this design largely increases the deck space. The Orion has been in commission now for almost- 12 months and travels from Sydney to Ldndon, via Suez. The gross tonnage of the vessel is 24,000 tons, speed 21J, laiots, overall length 665 ft,., breadth moulded 82ft., and the engines develop 24,000 h.p.

A house occupied by Mr. F. Vowels, of Nukuhau North, Whakatane, was horned to the ground last, Thursday. Mr. Vowels and his family were busy milking and the house was burning furiously liefore il was noticed.

“Every line .day I spend gardening, after wliicli 1 walk into town and drink a. glass or two of beer, and this, I think, is the main reason why I feel so well today.” said Mr. John Frederick William Churl,on, of Wliaiigarei, who celebralcd his ninetieth birthday last week. The new large condenser for (lie Evans Ray power-house arrived at Wellington by' the Tama roa, The new plant that is being procured for the power-house consists of a 15,000 kilowatt steam turbine from the works of C. A. Parsons and Company. Newcastle-on-Tyne, and 4\vo Swiss “Volox” boilers, capable of raising steam from cold in eight or nine minutes. The turbines have not yet arrived, nor are they required yet.

“Germany is extremely efficient,” commented Dr.' Stuart Scoular. Napier, who has just returned from a tour abroad. “Her efficiency i.s staggering. She is more an agricultural country than a pastoral one. and she resembles one huge vegetable garden. Ihe country is traversed hv well-kept roads, and there is very little traffic, the majority of the

German people being unable to afford cars.”

In order that all classes of retailers might meet new forms of competition on equal terms, a company has been incorporated in Auckland under the name o! (he Mutual Buyers' Association, Limited, the company lias a nominal capital oi £250,000 and its objects arc to introduce co-operative buying, transport, importation, hanking and advertising among its members, to put them in n position to compete on an equal footing with chain stores.

A pair of handcuffs of historic interest has been presented to the Canterbury Museum by Mr. J. Ilouldeii. of Christchurch. They were issued to his grandfather. who was a special constable during the “wool riots” in Yorkshire during the ’thirties of last century, when there was considerable agitation because of the introduction of machinery in the wool industry, which, it was thought, would lead to unemployment. The handcuffs show that there has been practically no change in pattern during the last 100 voars.

That, she intended to continue to tread in the political path blazed by her distinguished lather, the late Rt. Hon. R. ). 'Scddon, was an assurance given by Mrs. Knox Gilmer at the Otaki spimg flower show, when replying to a reference hv Mr. C. F. At,more, president of the Otaki Horticultural Society, to her “political aspirations.” Mr. Almore expressed the conviction that whether Mrs. Gilmer espoused the cause of Labour or Reform or the Democrats or Communism, she would prove ail acquisition to an) Parliament in which she secured a scat. Mrs. Gilmer declared her continued allegiance to 1 1 ip Seddon tradition.

The management ol’ Hast Coast Airways, Limited, lias been advised by the listrict engineer, Mr. O. G. Thornton, that Dart on Field aerodrome will not he available for the company’s use before November L Though a fairly satisfactory growth of grass occurred until the iasl fortnight, the continued dry weather 4ms been unfavourable to its progress, and there are many parts of the aerodrome on which the turf is stilt weak. A fortnight of wet weathei would establish the grass thoroughly, it is considered, in tiie meantime, the company has suspended its preparations to resume the Gisborne-Napier service.

The circumstances attaching to the receipt by the Gisborne Fire Brigade of a false alarm at 6.47 p.m. yesterday lead to the assumption that it was given by a practical joker. A man telephoned the lire station and said that a shed was in (lames behind Miss C. J. Oortroy’s rcsi deuce, three doors from the Gisborne Central School's primary department, in Palmerston road. Lhe telephone call was later traced to the box on the intersection of 'Gladstone road and Peel street. The brigade turned-out promptly, but there was no sign ol a fire and the engine was driven around the block oil the way back to make sure that the alarm was a false one.

Authorities in Britain arc making a very definite move to improve the physique of (lie people as a whole. Dr. Stuart Scoular, who has returned to Napier from J four abroad, stated that the schools were organising schemes to build up the liealth of the rising generation. “There is far too much preventable illness in the world,” be added. “Schemes sudi as the placing aside of sums of money for the promotion of health among the people are being adopted. Say, for example, tliat, the Napier Public Hospital spent during a year a Mim of £50.0(0. CSCO9, one-tenth of the expenditure, ruder these schemes would he set aside f«r the promotion of health. If such a scheme were adopted in Hawke’s Bay it would he very beneficial to ibo whole tountryside.”

A Ohristehireli message records the death of Mis. W. 11. Symes, at the age of 78 ysnrs. Born in Wellington in 1858,' die spent the greater part of her life in Christchurch. Mrs. Symes was i, daughter of Mr. Robert Park, a surveyor and civil engineer, brought out by the New Zealand Company to nsssi with the laying-out oi the city of Wellington. Her mother was a sister of the late Hon. Robert Hart, M.L.C, Wellington, and of the late Mr. Gorge Hart, a Canterbury stalionliolde.'. Mrs. Symes’ father later acquire! the Winchmore station. In IS7B she married Dr. W. 11. Symes. who was at that time a naval surgeon, and assistant surgeon to the Duke of hospital in .Masterton. She joined land on lI.MS. Galatea.