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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 4

The orchards throughout the Alexandra district, .Otago, are at present very bright and attractive with blossom, and the indications are for an exceptional crop.

The purchase of smoke masks for firefighting was considered by members of the Napier Fire Board yesterday, and a decision was made that the board should purchase nine masks, but as yet the type has not been stipulated. A fire destroyed a six-roomed house at Levin, owned by Mr. R. Jones, of Wellington, and occupied by Mr. F. Fletcher, who was absent at the time of the outbreak. Mr. Fletcher's four young children were asleep in the house, however, and one who was awakened by the noise roused the others. They escaped in their night attire.

Claiming that the Railway. Department has not in some respects given effect to the spirit of the 'Government's intentions regarding the restoration of the 1931 wage level,'. members' of the Enginedrivers, Firemen • Hud Cleaners'' Association have held protest > meetings at Auckland and a number of provincial centres at which resolutions, have been passed condemning the failure of the department to do so. -

Orave concern about,.the effects pu their business of the . new industrial, legislation is felt by the proprietors of, the many restaurants in Christchurcb. In reply to inquiries several of them stated that the legislation had been difficult of application, and its direct effect was to increase their costs, while the indirect effect, through in the general habits of the community, was to reduce their takings. On the day before his holiday' visit was to end, Ronald Albert Roberts, aged three and a half years, was found drowned in a pool near the residence of his grandparents at Oparau, North Auckland. The boy, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Roberts, of Te Aroha, was seen playing about his relatives' house. He was missed shortly afterward, and his aunt found him practically submerged in the water of a pool near by,

The Opotiki territorials spent last week-end under canvas at the Hukuwai Beach. The annual musketry courses were fired and field work was practised. A kea, thought, to bo the first found in a wild state in the North Island, was shot recently on the property of Mr. C. W. Anderson, Kohimaranaa road, near Auckland, where stud sheep are raised. ' Canada has been criticised for not developing aerial defence and transcontin. ental air mail and passenger services. However, Mr. W. M. Birks, of Montreal, in a speech at a Royal Empire Society reception in Auckland, stated that in quantity of freight carried by air, Canada led the world. The reason for this was the demands of mining in the northern and arctic regions of the Dominion, which depended almost wholly upon air transport for supplies. The "Big Brother" movement founded by Sir Richard Linton, now on a trade mission to New Zealand, was organised afetr a visit to Great Britain in 1924. He was impressed by the large number of active and intelligent boys who were either without work or were earning the barest of livings in factories' or mines, and on his return to Australia, which was at that time trying to increase its population, he started a campaign to assist such boys to migrate to Australian farms. The migration has been suspended during the last few years, but Sir Richard remarked in Auckland that of the 2000 boys who had been loyal to the movement during the depression none had been out of employment.

Discussing the difficulties which many home-bakers are encountering in their efforts to make bread, an experienced bush-worker and baker related to a pressman to-day how in 1919 he had solved a similar difficulty. At that time country people were in"trouble over the flour supplies, and many station owners were •lending to town for their bread, owing to the apparent impossibility of getting ■nood results from home baking. The narrator stated that on one occasion he had inadvertently allowed the lid of Ins camp-oven to catch upon one of the wire supports, with the result that part of the cooking of that batch of bread was carried out with the oven unclosed. The result was a. perfect batch of bread, and this he attributed to the escape of the steam which, had the camp-oven been closed tightly, could not have escaped As an experienced baker, he recommended hdhie cooks to adopt a similar measure for their present difficulties, opening ovens occasionally to permit the moisture to dissipate.

Trophies for the outstanding Rugby players under the Wairoa sub-union, other than those selected for representative matches, were awarded at the weekly meeting of the sub-union executive on Monday evening. The trophies, which were donated by a Wairoa football enthusiast, were allotted to L. Oldham, of Old Boys' club, among the forwards, and to Ben Horua, of Whakaki, among the backs. The meeting of the executive was a short one, and the business was chiefly connected with the winding-up of the season. Votes of thanks were tendered to the press, for regular assistance and publicity during the season, to Mr. C. Hall for sustained personal activity on behalf of the code, and to the hon. secretary for the efficient discharge of his duties. The executive also recorded its'sympathy with tho relatives of the late Bernard O. Rogers, whose death occurred in Palmerston North following the Maori All Blacks' match with the Australian team. —Special.