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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 4

An unusual "find" was made by a Gisborne shopkeeper to-day when a nine-year-old cheque was discovered. II had evidently dropped behind his cash register and had been overlooked. This morning it was found partly protruding from behind the machine.

A strange animal, similar in shape and vet larger than the ordinary stoat. which was stunned when it ran in front of a car proceeding from Tarawera toward Rotorua on Sunday evening, was identified on Monday by Mr. A, Kean, conservator of game, and fish, as a polecat. Mr. Kean stated that while this soccies of cats had been reported to him on numerous occasions, they were by no means common. They were a menace to game in the district and had also been known to attack lambs.

'ls it, possible for any country ir the world io wipe out its national debt,. under the existing economic system?" asked a member of Mr. 1). M. Sherwood's audience last, night, during ques-tion-time, following bis lecture on Douglas credit principles and their application to New Zealand. The lecturer replied in the negative. Mr. John Jackson then asked if it would not be possible to pay off New Zealand's national debt by the export of gold? Mr. Sherwood's'rejoinder was: "Yv!>. If. you had the gold '"

The following gifts are acknowledged by the matron of the Heni Materoa Children's Home: Fruit, Misses Tucker and Hood, Messrs. Hardy and Bell; vegetables, Miss Tucker; cakes, scones and sandwiches, Mr. Sunderland, Tarurieru Sunday School, St. Andrew's Bible Class.. Lc Grand Cafe; buns, "The Irresistible" ; meat, Gisborne Refrigerating Company; eggs, Whatatutn, Tc Karaka, Waerenga-a-bika and Ormondt Women's Institutes; fruit salad, Poverty Bay Rowing ('lu)i ball committee; jelly and cakes, Zealandia Chaplet; sdoz. cakes of toilet'soap, per Sister Rood; books, Mr. Harris. The matron desires to tender her thanks also to Mr. E. J. Stewart for the donation of a cow, to the St. John Ambulance, Mr. Valentine, Mr, Davy, Maison Owen, and Chez Marcelle for services rendered.

The growth of population at Bartleft's camp has brought its own traffic problems, and the headmaster of the school in the settlement lias been at some pains to prevent accidents to pupils who must, cross the main highway passin" between their homes and the school" building. Formerly (here was good visibility for motorists approaching the school from either direction, but the construction of a store on the Wharerata side of the school has limited the range of visibility from that direction. I" consequence, children have experienced narrow escapes from traffic risks within the past few days, and efforts to abate the dangers have so far not, yielded satisfactory results. One step taken by the headmaster was to station schoolboys from the higher standards at, a distance along the highway on both sides of the school to warn traffic when the majority of the children were passing back and forth, luif, the average motorist did not respond lo the signal given with' lifted hand, probably getting the impression that the hoys merely wanted rides. An applica Hon was made, therefore, to the Automobile Association for the use of warning flags,' and these have been supplied 1 by the Gisborne agency. Motorists will i more quickly recognise the message of I the flags, it is hoped.

Adjutant S. Bridge, -who has been connected with the Salvation Army at Hamilton for several years, has been promoted to the rank of major.

Several matters of policy relating to the. disbursement of funds for the benefit of crippled children of this district are to be discussed at the adjourned annual meeting of tho Poverty Bay and East Coast Society for the" Aid of Crippled Children, which is to be held this evening.

The Waikoliu Golf Club at Te Karaka has been admitted to affiliation by the New Zealand Golf Association. A scratch score of 66 has been allotted to the club. An application from the Poverty Hay club to have its scratch score reduced from 73 to 71 could not be agreed to.

Urging the Government to restoro tho letters "D.G." on New Zealand coinage of the King Edward VIII issue, the annual meeting of the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations supported action already taken by tho Methodist Conference and approved by Archbishop Averill. "The King does rule by the grace of God," said the Rev. J. A. Thomson, "and it was regrettable that this recognition should have been removed when the last coins were issued." Tho Rev. E. D. Patchett said the appeal to have the time-honoured letters restored would meet with general approval. "I wonder what was behind the dropping of the letters in the first place, as there was no decision of Parliament to do it," he added.

Duties of Post and Telegraph Department servants in Gisborne are now drawn up on a 40-hour basis, and though there are those which require the attendance of individual officers over slightly longer periods in some weeks, the change-over to the new system is working with general satisfaction. Owing to its extensive contact with the general public, and the multiplicity of the services which have been placed under the "ontrol of the department, more especially in recent years, the drafting of duties on a 40-hour basis- presented some difficulty, but the staff members have cooperated with tho chief postmaster at Gisborne, Mr. G, Nelson, in organising the work on the new basis, and it has been found possible to furnish the usual service to the public without so far necessitating an increase in staff. Officials who are obliged to exceed 40 hours on duty in any week are paid overtime ''or the additional period.

Pleading guilty and electing to be dealt with summarily, John Francis vVooster was charged before Messrs. C. jJlackburn and il. Doyle, J.P.s, in the Police Court to-day, with the theft of an overcoat and a ring, of a total value oi i!2 7s 6d, the property of Annie Greaves. A further charge oi stealing a coat valued at £1 19s 6d, the property of Annie Wooster, was preferred against VVooster, the theft in this instance being from his wife. Senior-Sergeant J. F. H, Macnamara, prosecuting, stated that the accused was separated from his wife, and claimed to have removed the articles from the car in which his wife had come Lo town, his motive beingt to spite his wife. The accused had a list of previous convictions. Addressing the court, accused said that lie had committed the act on the spur of the moment, as a foolish joke. .The bench sentenced him to two months' imprisonment on each .diarge, the sentences to be concurrent.

Under the social credit system of economics, though there would be no deliberate elimination of the presentbanking system, the banks eventually would be unable to secure high rates of interest on their deposits, and in order to continue their functions without loss probably would have to charge customers for handling their accounts, stated Mr. D. M. Sherwood, lecturing last evening on the Douglas maxims. The statement followed a series of questions by which Mr. F. R. Ball endeavoured to traco tho effect of issuing free money to the public, in order to promote purchasing power. The lecturer agreed that such issues would mean a shrinkage of the field for investment of bank deposit-, and that the banks would be unable eventually to find interest for depositors, fn any case, he added, interest rates would diminish to vanishing point under the present economic system, since there was a steady piling up of money available for investment in production only, and a shrinkage in the avenues for investment. The Home Government, he stated, had recently secured money for its purposes at one-eighth per cent, and big corporations were able to get London funds at one-half per cent.

The growth of interest in the issues oi ! special stamps by tho New Zealand Government to mark unusual occasions has been well exemplified by the demand for stamps of the commerce issue recently made available to the public. In his long experience of the department, stated Mr. G. Nelson, chief postmaster at Gisborne, ho had never known anything like (lie demand which had developed for the major denominations of this issue. Tin* were of half-penny, penny, 2}d, 4d, and fid values, and though care was taken to secure what seemed likely to be an adequate supply, all but the half-penny and penny denominations were sold put in Gi*tiorno yesterday. Had tho supply been in hand, said Mr. Nelson, he could havo disposed of £SO worth in a single order, a number of people evidently' having realised the investment values of stamps issued for a particular period and purpose, and sold on tho understanding that theissueswillnotbe repeated. Supplies of id and 1M stamps of the issue are still available in Gisborne, but the higher values are fin ally disposed of, and there does not seem to be any prospect .tf renewing them from national stocks. The Imperial aspect of the issn.! is believed by postal officials to have influenced the demand, which was beyond expectations, though sales ,of previous special issues had indicated that the public in New Zealand was learning to appreciate their value to collectors.