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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 4

Shearing has begun already in the Gisborne district. One of the first properties to commence was Mr. A. C. Langford's, at The Willows, where a large number of shorn hoggets have been turned out from the shearing shed. In search of knowledge, Mr! Joseph Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the' mutiny of the Bounty in 1789, has arrived in the Dominion on his first journey away iron) his native l'itcairn.

About 14CO men are at present registered at the placement oilice at Wangauui, and all are anxious to obtain work on the Okoia-Turakina railway deviation. In addition to the Fordell camp there will /be camps at Okoia, Wangaehu and Turakina.

"In my capacity as Minister of Justice I am' afraid that I cannot look back on 50 years of progress like the. Auckland Manufacturers. Association," said the Hon. If. G. R. Mason, in speaking at the golden jubilee dinner of the association. "The number of inmates in the Auckland prison is 207, and, turning back the files when I was visiting the institution recently. I found that 50 years ago the number Was 228. \>e have thus not increased in membership like the association."

Under the auspices of the Gisborne and District Beautifying Association work has been commenced on the cleaning up of an empty section on the cornel of Lowe street and Cliilders road. The Beautifying! Association, through the courtesy of the Cisborne Borough Council and the Crown Lands Department, has received permission to make the site an attractive one until such a time as it is required for other purposes. The committee will consider at its meeting next week what nature the improvements will take.

A meeting of the Gladioli Society was held in the Women's Club rooms on Wednesday evening, the chair being occupied by Mr. A. S. Seymour. The following officers were elected: President, Mr. A. S. Seymour; committee, Mrs. J. S. Faulds, Messrs. W. J. Morris and L. J. Steele; hon. secretary, Mrs. L. M. White. After a general discussion it was decided to hold monthly meetings of the society, the first to be held on October 14. As well as keeping in touch with gladioli culture all through the growing season up to show time, it is proposed to have talks on various flowers in season. Several new members were enrolled, there being every indication that the society would become a strong one. A vote of thanks was passed to the Women's Club for the use of its rooms.

"Estimated to cost £500,000 and give employment to between 3CO and 400 men for three years, the railway deviation from Tuiakina to Okoia is one of the major works on the public works programme being pursued by the Government, and is to be commenced immediately," said Mr. J. 15. Cotterill, M.P., in an interview with the Wanganui Herald. "It is obvious that the present line between these two points should never have been built, and it was a first-class example of a political railway. There had been many alternative routes surveyed since the line was laid down, and all these had been carefully considered, together with the possibilities' of other routes which have been suggested from time to time, and the deviation will lollovv substantially the route surveyed by Mr. Leslie H. Reynolds, Gisborne."

Passing through Alberta during his recent tour abroad, Mr. J. .Hair was shown specimens of the Alberta Government's "bounty dollar," a curious form of monetary experiment which was issued! to promote spending and relieve distress. The dollar bill was of a special design, the back being divided by lines into 52 isquares, each of which provided space for a two-cent stamp. Tho scheme behind the issue was that on a given day in eacli week, fixed by legislation, tho holder of a bounty dollar must attach a two-cent stamp in one of the squares, the idea being that this would hasten circulation, and that by tho end of a year t'ho dollar would have paid for itself through the sales of stamps. Mr. Hair mentioned that the real difficulty in making the scheme work, even temporarily, was that the Alberta Govcvnnicnt would not accept the bounty dollars in payment of State taxation, or oven in return for. stamp supplies Their value was purely for current circulation, and any business man who accumulated them found his cosT,s mounting rapidly. Tho system had definitely broken down, Mr. Hair .was informed, owing to the Government's objections to honouring its own "paper,"