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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 4

To-morrow is the 167th anniversary of the landing of Captain Cook at Gisborne, a memorable event in the history of this country. It seems that the occasion is to pass with little recognition, no public ceremony having been arranged. However, livo organisations, the Victoria League and the Women’s National Reserve, propose to place wreaths on the monument.

At the annual meeting of the Gisborne Amateur Athletic and Harrier Club last night the patron, Mr. H. If. Forster, presented the trophies won during the last track season. Amongst the cups presented was the Riverhead Gold Tobacco Company’s trophy, which was competed for last season for the first time. Mr. T. McGuffie is the first holder of the cup, which is awarded to the athlete gaining the most points in field events during the season.

A vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. Hugh Heeney was passed at the Gisborne Borough Council meeting last night. In moving in this direction, the Mayor, Mr. D. W. Coleman, M.P., said that the late Mr. Ileeney was one of the .old settlers who was known by most people and whom all held in the highest esteem. The late Mr. Ileeney was the father of one of the council’s employees, Mr. Jack Heeney, and to him and other members of the family a vote of condolence was passed, all standing in silence-

In order to assist in abating the fly nuisance, the Gisborne Borough Council last night decided to instruct the engineer, Mr. Thomas, to have the manure pit at the borough stables sprayed with arsenical solution as recommended by the inspector; also to take steps to eliminate possible breeding grounds for flies in and around the stables and depot. This course was adopted on the recommendation of the sanitation committee, following consideration of a report by the sanitary inspector, Mr. J. W. Parker, published in the Herald a fortnight ago.

Support to the Thirty Thousand Club was promised by the Gisborne Borough Council last night, after an appeal from the club had been read. Trie Mayor, Mr. D. W. Coleman, ALP., said that he was impressed with those connected with the club. They were working very enthusiastically and wholeheartedly, and were deserving of all the credit due to them. He moved that the council appoint two members to the club and make a donation of £1 Is, tor by doing so it would become one of the" club’s foundation members. This course was adopted, and Messrs. J. Webb and J. FT. Hall were appointed to represent, the council on the club.,

Old tram rails may find a further use as fencing posts between the Park Domain and the showgrounds. The reserves committee of the Gisborne Borough Council reported to the council last night as follows: “The A. and P. Association advised that the boundary fence between the showgrounds and .the domain needs rebuilding; and offered to carry out. (lie work provided the council supplied 130 Oft. posts made from old tram rails. The committee instructed the engineer to report on the condition of the existing fence, and also to supply estimates of half the cost of repairing it, half the cost of erecting a sufficient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Act, and the cost of supplying 130 posts made from old tram rails.

A Public Works Department employee, Mr. A. D. Bryant, was admitted* to the C'.ook Hospital last evening, following an.accident which resulted in a fracture of his leg.

In the Opotiki Police Court on Monday J. H. T. Anderson, of Kutarc-rc, was charged before Mr. El. L. Walton, S.M., with attempting (o commit suicide, lie was remanded lo appear at Auckland, tho magistrate ordering that he should be kept under medical observation in the meantime.

Eleven building permits were issued by the Gisborne Borough Council during the fortnight ended September 26, the total estimated value of the buildings concerned being £2300. One permit was for a dwelling costing £9OO, one for business premises at £989, eight alterations and additions totalling £391, and one motor shed at £2O.

An offer made to the Borough Council recently by Mr. Leslie H. Reynolds in regard to a possible water supply for Gisborne has been held over pending the submission of a report by the borough engineer, Air. E. R. Thomas. This decision was reached by the council at last night's meeting, which adopted a recommendation made by the waterworks committee to this effect. Indications that the scenic reserve fire between the Blue and Green Lakes and Lake Okareka was started at four points ovei’ a distance of about a mile was revealed when Mr. J. Lockie, a Lands Department inspector, made an inspection of the area swept by the flames. A theory is that the fire was started by deer-stalkers, with the object of frightening the deer out into more open country.

Appreciation of the work of the Borough Council in beautifying Gisborne was expressed in a letter from the enutifying Association read at last night’s meeting of the council. The association also suggested that its representatives should imeet the council’s reserves committee with a view to discussing a proposal to establish a nursery in conjunction with the work of the association. Tile council agreed to meet the association’s representatives on a date to be arranged in about a month.

To date, 250 notices have been served on owners or occupiers of town sections to eradicate noxious weeks on their properties. The town clerk, Mr. W. M. Jenkins, reporting to last night's meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council, stated that the growth of ragwort was being closely watched, and all measures were being taken to prevent its spread. Notices had been served also on a number of residents to discontinue the practice of depositing garden and other refuse on the roadside. At the half-yearly installation ol officers of the Mangapapa Oddfellows Lodge last, evening the official business took place in the presence of visitors from Tolaga Bay and Gisborne lodges, and later a social programme was much enjoyed by lodge members and their wives and friends. Bill Pluto, the Australian. boxer who is to make his first appearance in the Gisborne ring, next Wednesday, was introduced, and gave a skilful exhibition of skipping as a training adjunct. The demonstration was enjoyed keenly by those present, and the Australian visitor remarked to officers of the lodge that he had 1 not found a floor more suited to skipping work than that of the Oddfellows' Hall.

A proposal that the Kaiti buses after work hours should leave from a more central position in the town was placed before the Borough Council last night in a letter from Mr. T. Edwards. The writer considered that the present service did not suit the public, as the. bus leaving town at 5.35 p.m. did not cater for the further end. lie suggested that that trip and also others after working hours should leave from further down the town and that the starting time should be deferred, lie asked why the picture bus from Kaiti had been eliminated, and said the after-picture bus should ' leave from a more central position. The matter was referred to the bus committee and the bus manager, Mr. K. G. Ball.

Comment- on noisy motor vehicles was made at last night’s meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council, when draft traffic regulations received from the Commissioner of Transport were placed before the meeting. Cr. 11. Holmes remarked that the proposed regulations dealt with noisy motor-cycles, but no mention was made of noisy motor cars and trucks, of which there were several in Gisborne. The town clerk, Mr. W. M. Jenkins, reported that the retiring traffic inspector had made a number of comments on the proposed regulations, including a suggestion that the manner in which some motor-cycles were ridden should bo dealt with. He also proposed that when pedestrians crossed a road at other than an authorised crossing place, the pedestriin should give way to traffic; at authorised crossing places, traffic must jive way to pedestrians. It was agreed to send the comment forward to the commissioner, and also that the town clerk should confer with Cr. Holmes before sending the letter.

Members af territorial infantry units in Gisborne will take part in the first of the bivouac outings of this year when they will proceed to a camping ground at Muriwai, on the property of Mr. Cyril Clayton, on Saturday afternoon, remaining under military command until Sunday evening A programme of tactical exercises anc other field work will be included in tie week-end activities, and night operations will be in the training schedule, will the object of improving the night-seise of the territorials. Practice in antiaircraft precautions and instructions ii defence against gas attacks will le features, of the daylight training. Hie volunteers in this district, it is claimed, have a highly satisfactory degne of efficiency, and though hampered b’ lack of facilities for training, such ai the old Garrison Hall provided, the mits also possess a high average of atteidance and constancy of personnel. Biouac camps such as. that projected for tie coming week are regarded by the teritorials as opportunities to get into ciser touch with their work, and are obconsiderable value in stimulating intenst in the training, and esprit de corps anong the members of the various units.

The confnued dry weather is militating markelly against the possibility of East Coas; Airways, Limited, resuming their Gisidrne-Napier service at the beginning Df next month. Tho growth of grass in Darton Field is still too immature to provide a good binding medium ft) the surface of the aerodrome, and it is estimated that- a week’s intermittent l’in alone he sufficient to establih the growth firmly, and so prevent t!e surface from moving under the influefo of the prevailing winds and tlie airstram of the planes, should they be broujlit into employment again within tli next few weeks. Inspections of the gijund have been made at intervals by dicials of the airways company, with a \ew to estimating the chances of resumilg tho service next month, but the decislm as to whether the license of Darton field will be restored during Novembii, or indeed at any time before the autunn, rests with the Director of Civil Avition, who doubtless will act pn the rcommendation of Public Works Departmht’s officers in Gisborne. Tho work of reconstructing the runways' of Darton Jeld has been dogged by adverso circumstnees 1 since its inception in March Ist, and tho dry weather and westerli* threaten to extend the closure of the prodrome for a further three or four moths.