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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 4

The Mayor, Mr. D. W. Coleman, M.P.. has* received, a donation of £25 for the Mayor’s relief fund from Messrs. Woolworths (N.Z.), Limited. Although a rather pessimistic note was struck by the chairman of directors, Mr. G. B. Steele, at the recent annual general meeting of the Nuliaka Co-operative Dairy Company, the factory manager, Mr. T. Connery, informed the Herald’s representative that the output up to the present this season was considerably in excess of that for the corresponding period last year.—Special.

The monthly meeting of the Makaraka branch of the New Zealand Labour Party was held on Saturday night, Mr. J. Middleton presiding over a fair attendance. Correspondence read and discussed included a long and interesting letter from tho member for the district, Mr. A. G. Hultquist. Much appreciation was expressed at the trouble Mr. Hultquist bad taken to give such a lengthy resume of affairs, and a vote of thanks and of confidence in himself and the'Government was carried unanimously.

A recent decision of the Gisborne Shcepfarmers’ Frozen Meat and Mercantile Company, Limited, and Messrs. Richardson and Company, Napier, as to the loading of their Auckland vessels should result in greater regularity of the service between Auckland and Gisborne. Neither company will accept cargo at Auckland now after 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, thus allowing the ships to sail on time. Previously cargo was accepted until 5 p.m. and much of the freight was sent to tho wharf at the last minute. As a result, loading operations were often protracted and tho ship was considerably delayed in leaving port.

Oil the question of native land development, the new Maori federation at its recent meeting in Rotorua, approved recent land development schemes, and commended tlie progress made. A still more intensive programme was urged in bringing in further areas, with a view to placing more Maoris on the land. It was recommended that where necessary the consolidation of native land schemes should be speeded up, and that Maoris should be employed on this work. Oonsiderable discussion took place on the alienation of native lands. A motion was passed that in view of the alarming position disclosed by the annual report of the Native Department to Parliament, with regard lo native lands, the conference believed that the time was ripe for the Government to con - eider the advisability of total prohibition of any further sales of such lands.

Addressing a farewell to Rotarian G. T. Cnthbert at yesterday’s luncheon of the Gisborne Rotary Club, the president, Mr. 11. F. Forster, referred to (he fact that this, would be the last occasion on which their colleague would foregather with the club members prior to his departure for Melbourne. He commented that- Mr. Cnthbert had proved himself a good Rotarian, and that his work in connection with the “Youth Week” last year had been excellent. lie congratulated Mr. Cnthbert on his appointment, and expressed the hope .that it would not ho long before the club had an opportunity of welcoming him back as a visitor to Gisborne. Mr.. Cnthbert, in a brief reply, thanked the! presidentfor his kindly words, and added that as lie was proceeding to Australia, ho hud thought of asking Rotarian Forster lo instruct him in the language of that country. “Not here!”’rejoined the president, amidst laughter.

When (lie £10.00(1 police station block is erected, Palmerston North, with its already' fine ' courthouse and new gaol, will have a set of justice administration buildings that will lie a credit to tho eil v.

Minor alterations in the boundaries of the Gisborne land district have been gazetted. With the' subdivision of land if is necessary from time to time for the boundaries to tie reconsidered and the present, changes represent several small alterations, affecting mainly the Hawke’s Lav boundary.

According to advice received by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the lion. W. K : . Parry, .T. Ji. Lovelock, the famous New Zealand runner, is expected to arrive at Auckland on October 50. Lovelock will visit the Dominion as the- guest of the Government. Mr. Parry said that they will try to keep the champion runner here as long as they can. An appeal made in an outside newspaper for subscriptions to provide a radio set. for a crippled Gisborne boy, “Buster” Smith, of Stout street, has aroused the indignation of the boy’s father, Mr. William C. Smith, who, in a letter to the editor of the Herald, states that the appeal was made without bis knowledge and consent and is entirely contrary to his wishes. “1 have always been in a position to pay 20s in the pound,” Mr. Smith writes, “and my soil is not. in iced of anyone’s charity.”

“This was printed on the liner Queen Mary,” said Mr. Brendan Dowling, of Sydney, a through passenger at Auckland, when proffering his card to a reporter. Mr. Dowling added that every facility imaginable was available on the liner.' He had run out of cards when crossing to New York on the. Queen Mary’s record-breaking voyage, hut was able', to obtain a supply within three hours. They were printed at (he branch shop of a London firm on board the vessel.

“Although scholastic institutions are perhaps more wonderfully endowed by private benefactors in California than anywhere else, I think the standards of surgery attained after training at Australian and New Zealand universities are equal to anything 1 saw,” said Dr. i. F. Ryan, of Melbourne, when interviewed in Auckland. Dr. Ryan attended the Pan-Pacific Medical Congress at Honolulu and later visited California. He thought the. hospitals in this part of the world were as well equipped as (hose lie saw in America.

By the last mail Mr. K. Jenssen, resident engineer of the Wellington Harbour Board, received from his sister a letter written and posted on board the German airship Hindenburg, halfway across the Atlantic. Having received news of the serious illness of their mother, who died at Trondheim, Norway, on September. 5, Mr. Jenssen’s sister decided to make the. crossing from New York, where she-lives, to Europe by airship, and she actually arrived at Trondheim in two days and a half from America.

An announcement that the Gisborne High School Board of Governors had arranged, to accommodate several members of the .Jubilee Institute Band at the Rectory, during the forthcoming visit of the hand to Gisborne, was made by Rotarinn 11. F. Forster at yesterday’s meeting of the Gisborne Rotary Club. Mr. Forster added that as there would he a small expense to meet, in order that the accommodation should not he charged against the administration of the school, he would ask all Rotarians who had not been able to offer billeting to tlie visitors to subscribe to this outlay. The individual contribution was fixed at a low figure, and the proposal met with an immediate response. An old hand at Port Chalmers noted a difference in the docking of the “Cal culta boat” these days as compared to a few years ago, remarks the Dunedin Star. The . difference ,is in the direction of the absence of monkeys. The Cial•ultn trader Narbada is now in dock at Port Chalmers. There are no monkeys for sale. A few years ago, when, the Eastern trader Aparima was in dry dock, there was an abundance of monkeys for sale; The coolie crews ■ carried a low monkeys as a side line. The traffic grew until the supply exceeded the demand, and sackfuls of unsold monkeys were dumped, Dm? voyage the dumping of unsold stock took place, before the ship cleared the harbour. Occasional sackfuls of dead monkeys on the harlvour foreshore led to inquiries by the authorities. The monkey trade was suppressed—and it is still suppressed.