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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 4

A defendant in a transport case at Whakatane found that it did not, pay to adopt a truculent manner in court, remarks the Press. Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., who was prepared to deal leniently with the case, came to the conclusion that the defendant was not in a receptive mood for an explanation of the law so he doubled the fine imposed in the previous case. The man went away wiser, but poorer by £2.

Encountering had weather on Paekakariki Ilill on Wednesday afternoon, the Gospel ship "Israel," which left Wellington for Auckland on Monday, capsized and was badly damaged. The master, Mr. Laurence Beavis, was guiding his craft as if was being towed up the hill by a motor-lorry, when a sudden squall heeled the vessel on its side into some gravel. Extensive repairs are indicated, and the barquentine will not he able to proceed for some time.

At last evening's floodlight sports meeting conducted by the Poverty Bay Professional Athletic and Cycling Club on the Victoria Domain, 'Miss Nita Rosslyn, "The Girl in Red," was made a life member of the club and was presented with a club badge. Miss Rosslyn was introduced to the large gathering by Mr. K". Sharpies, president of the club, who welcomed the visitor on behalf of the club. Mr. Sharpies said that like himself Miss Rosslyn was a native of Lancashire, and in referring to her pluck in undertaking the longest cycle journey that has yet been made by a woman, he likened her feat to the performance of the aviatrix, Miss- Jean Batten. Mr. Sharpies wished the visitor health and prosperity on her journey. Miss Rosslyn briefly replied, thanking all for the many kindnesses shown (o her, and expressing appreciation of the honour bestowed on her by the club. She would certainly wear the badge at all times. Miss Rosslyn concluded by wishing the club "heaps of success" in its future activities,

The clearing at Rosy Bay, Waikare I moana, belonging to the Government, is : blooming with ragwort, writes a correspondent . It is reported that Emmett "Curly" Mossman, aged 25, one of the riders, has not yet been successful in finding a clergyman willing to marry him to Aliss Joan Burke, aged 18, of Wellington, at a speedway meeting in Palmerston North. It was their intention to be married at the speedway on Wednesday night. A long list of remits is to be discussed at the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party to be held in the Town Hall. Wellington, on Easter Monday and the three following days. There are in all 88 remits, and it is expected that between 400 and 500 delegates: will attend. The Kopuawhara branch will ask support for the following: "That the Government be recommended to abolish the right of inheritance." The first sod at the northern end of the Xapier-Gisbornc railway was turned by the Governor yesterday. The Mayor, Mr. W, Peftie, in thanking His Excellency, commented on the fact that this was not the first occasion on which a railway had been started in Gishorne, for 12 years ago the then Premier turned the first sod of the Oisborne-Opotiki railway, which had reached Motuhora, some HO miles away, and had been of considerable benefit.- -Extract from the Wellington Dominion of February 12. 1912.

"England is busily concerned with getting ready to meet any aggression that should arise and there seems to be practically unanimous support for rearmament; if is agreed that the only way to preserve peace is to be armed." This was the general impression of the attitude of the English people towards the European political situation gained by Mr. R. C. Wilson, science master at the New Plymouth Boys' High School, (hiring a year's tour abroad. Mr. Wilson has returned to New Plymouth. The future of flying was surveyed bj the Minister of Public, Works, the Hon. R-. Semple, when speaking at a ceremony if the new Nelson aerodrome. "Giant flying-boats tire being prophesied." said the Minister. "At present the biggest, weigh about 20 tons and carry a pay-load of about four tons. An expert last year gave figures for a flying-boat weighing over 1300 tons, and 'carrying SCO passengers and a crew of 100, at 305 miles an hour with a range of 4SOO miles. He

said that the theoretical maximum weight of such a plane was about 3000 tons. Experts believe that the time is not far distant when passenger planes will fly at a height of 40,000 ft. at speeds well in excess of 300 miles an hour."

An unusual distinction is held by the Rev. .1. F. Goldie, pioneer of the Methodist Mission in the Solomon Islands, who is visiting Auckland on furlough. Mr. Goldie went to the Solomons, in 1902 with two other missionaries to begin the teaching of Christianity in the western part of the group, and, except for a year in the Dominion as president of the Church in New Zealand, he has been in the Islands ever since. In some parts of the group he was the first white man the natives had seen, and the distinction which he enjoys is afforded by the fact that he has been used as a basis for reckoning time. Certain official documents set out the year as so long before or after his arrival.

Following an agitation by residents of Waima to have a school built in that locality rather than at the town end of Tokomaru Hay the chairman of the Tokomaru Bay School Committee, Mr. ,J. B. Stafford, has received notice from the Minister of Education, the lion. P. Eraser, that the whole project of building a. school at Waima lias been dropped and that his decision would be com-' niunicated to the Hawke's Bay Education Hoard. At the hist meeting of the Tokomaru Bay School Committee fear was expressed that Std. VII would disappear for although the school had the roll number it did not have the average attendance. Inquiries showed that a number of the children attending the higher standard last year would be sent to the Gisborne High School as soon as the term commenced.

The menace to game birds of hawks in the Holorun district was mentioned ;>V the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, when visiting Rotorua. He said that he visiter! Reporoa, where hawks .appeared to be in numbers far exceeding his expectations. "One would lie very sanguine indeed to believe that game birds in the district could survive the ferocity of hawks," said Mr. Parry. In the Pcporoa district the settlers were dealing with rabbits, and proposed to go in for a vigorous system of trapping. This .might check the rabbits, but it would be a poor lookout for any pheasants liberated in the district. Something required to be done about the depredations of hawks and their ex-termination.

Gisborne trout fishing enthusiasts who have returned from the Ruakituri River, where they are in the habit of fishing in the declared i\f water above the Erepiti bridge, heard complaints from several residents that a number of the anglers visiting that area were lacking in sportsmanship. These anglers were using spoons and spinning tackie and taking fish by other illegal means in the water that was declared for flyfishing, ft was learned that two Hawke's Bay nun. though they had caught only three fish in a week, had refused to go after the fish other than with the fly. It is understood that steps are being taken to report the .matter to the Department of Internal Affairs in the hope that fishing in that stream may be protected for sportsmen for many years*. During their extended school holidays the children of Mangapapa have taken on a new and dangerous sport, that of using scooters and trolley-cars on the newly-sealed surface of the Hospital Hill road' and are proving a menace to the drivers of cars. The good surface and easy decline, with a slightly banked bend to add to the thrills, were considered a splendid discovery by the children and the craze of their new sport soon spread. Yesterday there were 10 youngsters, boys and girls, using trolleys on the road. Some started oil' near the entrance of the drive to Mr. Charles Matthews' residence and were not noticed by approaching motorists until they were rounding the corner. As the grade is such that motorists are inclined to keep up the momentum of their vehicles to climb the hill in top gear the practice of the children is definitely dangerous.

A denial of the ofrcn-ropealod statement that missionaries interfere wiLli native customs was made l),v tho Rev. .1. F. Goldie, pioneer of the Methodist Mission in tin? Solomon Islands, who is visiting Auckland on furlough, Mr. Goldie said (hero was nothing further from the truth. It was claimed that the missionaries made natives wear European clothes' and oat European food, whereas it was the people who had those things to soil who wore responsible for (his. Missionaries disturbed the native culture as little as possible, and sought to adapt it by introducing new meanings. Most missionaries wore keen anthropologists, much more so than many Government officials, and it was time the idea of a missionary as a good and well-intentioned but misguided fellow-, forcing a new religion on unwilling natives and destroying their old culture, was dispelled.