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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 4

The Associated Booksellers of New Zealand held their annual conference in Christchurch recently. Mr. T. Adams, Gisborne, was elected a vice-president. The next annual conference will be held iu Wellington.

Work is being carried out by the Gisborne and District Beautifying Association on the tidying up of the vacant section on the comer of Childers road and I .owe street. It is proposed to lav out the section in lawn grass and plant some ornamental trees on the site. The following gifts are acknowledged by the matron of the Heni Matcroa Children’s Home for January :—Fowls, Mrs. C. Seymour; peaches and apples, Mr. Boll; apples and vegetables, Mr. Hardy; clothing, Canon A. F, Hall and the Plunket Society; cakes and scones, ho Grand Cafe; books, Miss Morris; beans, Mr. Glassford ; brawn, Mr. Hampton ; plums, Mrs. Sisterton; fruit, vegetables, butter, anonymous donors. “I have seen a considerable number of gum trees in New Zealand, said Senator A. J. McLuchlan. Postinaster-General in the Australian Government, who has been visiting Christchurch, but they are nearly all blue gums. Why haven’t you imported our best gums? The blue gum seems to thrive well enough, but it is not the type that contributes much to the beauty of the landscape. Our red gum makes excellent timber and is very beautiful.”

More than double the number of passengers from overseas, arrived at Auckland in December, compared with the totals for December, 1935. The total for last December was 3095 passengers, against 1415 in December, 1935. Departures totalled 2034, an increase of 878.

Suffering from an injured back, susiained as a result of a fall down a tunnel face near Beach Camp, an employee on (lie Clisborne-Napier railway construction work, Lewis James Shaskey, aged 35, a married man, was admitted to the CookHospital yesterday. 'This morning Mr. Sliaskey’s condition was reported to be comfortable.

Forty members of the Gisborne Y.M.C.A. travelled to Opotiki last evening and staged a gymnasium display in -aid of funds for the Opotiki Queen Carnival Committee, which has for its object the setting, up of a gymnasium in Opotiki. Following the display the party returned to Gisborne, arriving home early this morning. Transport both ways was supplied by Musgravcs Services, Limited.

“So many taxi-drivers in Auckland have been victims of threatening behaviour on tlie part of their ‘fares,’ and suffered pecuniary loss—some of them physical harm,” states a taxi company official, “that they are reluctant to answer calls from sparsely populated areas at night, and are considering whether they should not ask the Minister of Justice, for a greater .measure of police protection.” Mr. F. Drumm, manager of the At la Taxi Company, said that, within a month one driver was nearly strangled, another knocked unconscious, and a third badly knocked about.

No date has been set as yet for (lie bearing of the first, applications under the Mortgagors and Lessees' Rehabilitation Act by "the Mortgage Relief Commission at Gisborne. The commission will have nearly 10C0 applications to leal with, and it is anticipated that aany months’ work will be involved, unless in the early stages of the sittings .t becomes possible to indicate a common oasis on which applicants and their creditors can co-operate to achieve settlements. At present the applications are being tabulated for consideration by nembers of the commission.

].u view of compulsory unionism t, is not surprising, that the memberhip returns compiled at the end ol .936 by Auckland trades union secre-.-aries should disclose remarkable in-n-eases since December 31. 1935. Then here was no clerical workers’ union, for example, but to-day members of this mion number about 1500, which in all irolability will rise considerably aitci lie Arbitration Court makes an award. L’be fact that in a year the members if the Drivers’ Union has increased sixold, the Carpenters’ three, Storemen and Hackers’ live, illustrates the growth of mionism since the last general election. Although the new 2YA 60 kilowatt ,-adio station at Wellington is the most lowerful south of the Line, listeners in he Gisborne district are disappointed n the reception from its broadcast. Comilaints have been received in Wellington rom the South Island, more partieuarly the Otago district, and also from lawke’s Bay. When the new station aiuc on tlie air Gisborne listeners with ower powered sets thought their machines would be able to pick up at least ono of the national stations with ■asp throughout the day, but the general ipiniou is that little" improvement is loticeable in the reception, and certainly ict the improvement expected from such i powerful station. There has not been iny disappearance of the distortion and ailing for which 2YA is known.