HOUSING IN GISBORNE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19152, 22 October 1936, Page 6

HOUSING IN GISBORNE

GOVERNMENT’S NEW SCHEME Considerable interest is being evinced in the Government’s new housing scheme, and already there sire rumours of :i substantial increase in the near future in the structures of the borough. The new homes, it is stated, will in some eases be on an elaborate scale, though of necessity the expense must come within the regulations laid down. Gisborne therefore appears; on the upward grade, and with the i coining of the railway, should make | rapid progress so far as population is t concerned. The town lias already two | claims to fame. One is that it. was i the landing place of Captain Cook, and j the other isThaf it is the town where 1 that well-known cough elixir, One- 1 Nought-One, is manufactured. The merits of this wonderful restorative. to health have penetrated to the fur-1 thest parts of New Zealand, as orders received locally give unmistakable j proof. By its antiseptic qualities it : keeps away all germs from the bronchial tubes, in addition it affords al- • most instant relief for coughs, colds, influenza, and all affections of the throat and lungs. It is, indeed, a household remedy and, being fourfold the strength of the usual cough elixir, is undoubtedly the cheapest at ltalf-a-crown a bottle. All leading stores

I By special rail ear, the main* party jof overseas delegates to the Empire Chambers of Commerce Congress will arrive in Hawke’s Bay to-day. The visi-' tors are to remain in the Napier-Hast- : ings district until Saturday morning, I when they will motor to Taup'o, Wairakei : and Rotorua. The Napier aerodrome will be ready for the East Coast Airways service from Gisborne about Christmas, according to I advice given the Nanier Airport Board at a recent meeting by the Mayor, Mr. t C. 0. Morse, who said that, according to information received from the Public Works Department’s engineer, the held would he available for the use of planes equipped with rubber rear wheels in-) stead of metal drags, by that time.