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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 4

A motion expressing the loyalty of its members to the Throne, and to 'lhcir Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, was recorded by the Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board at to-day’s meeting, on the suggestion of the chairman. Mr. F. It. Ball.

Electricity sales for the first montn o! the new financial year were reported on to the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board to-day by the managing secretary, Mr. It. P. Baigent, who gave the figures under the various heads, with comparative figures for April, 1906, as under: Lighting, ,£1626 (1936, £1476); cooking and heating, £1407 (£918); water-heat-ing, £282 (£228); power, £614 (£414): totaL revenue from sales of electricity£3469 (1936, £3036). Rugby football gate receipts in llawke’s Bay have shown a decided improvement since the opening of the 1937 season, and the treasurer of the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union was able to report, at this week’s meeting that the proceeds of club matches in Napier to date had totalled £267. To the same stage in last year’s programme of club matches the Napier gates had produced £l9O. The upward tendency of admission receipts was apparent in all parts of the union’s district, it was further reported. The Ross Shield primary schools’ Rugby tournament this year would have been held in Wairoa, in conformity with the rules of the tournament, which is a movable feature, played in various localities year by year. The Wairoa subunion has waived its right to conduct the tournament this year, however, on the condition that it should have the opportunity of staging the fixture in 1938. fhe shield will lie contested this season m Hastings. Approximately only half of the motorvehicle owners in the Gisborne distnot had applied for new plates when the oilier closed last evening and Post Office ollicials are preparing for the usual rush in ,he last tnree days. There were 203 sets of plates issued yesterday, which brought the total up to 1806. The office will remain open shis evening and motorists also will be able to make their applications to-morrow afternoon and evening. After -Monday the ordinary hours will tie observed. Attendants have been kept going steadily, but it was learned to-day that they could cope with two or three times the amount of work each dnv.

The defendant, passed two other cars, and was checked at 75 miles an hour, said Mr. P. C. Watson, Mam Highways ooarit inspector for No. 2 Hawke's Bay district, giving evidence in the Magistrate’s Court at Napier against A. It. .J. Bull, Napier, who was charged belore Mr. ,1. Miller, S.M., with driving! tit. a dangerous speed on tiie Takapau I’lains. Hie inspector said that while travelling at that speed, the defendant laid passed i.wo other cars travelling in the opposite direction. Although the department was not pressing for a heavy penalty, it was felt that the speed was too high even for a road of that nature. The defendant .vas fined .£3 without costs, and ail order was made for the endorsement of his license.

A Maori labourer of Manutuke, Tawliai Kohcre, aged 50, was lined £5 by Mr. K. Walton, 8.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning when he was charged that, for the purpose of obtaining a benefit under the Employment. Promotion Act, 1956, he made a false statement to the effect that his total earnings for the eight-week period ending January 23, 1937, were £5 10s, whereas in fact his total earnings for period were £ls 8s 6d. Knhere pleaded guilty. Prosecuting, Detective (I. A. McWhirter said that accused was a single man and was entitled to sustenance, and the amount of the grant was regulated by the amount of work done and wages received. Kohere had received £4 11s 6d in excess of what lie had deserved, but on the day of the declaration he said he had not collected the full amount due to him although he knew it was available. Defective McWhirter said that accused had been a patient in the Cook Hospital, and was leaving the district temporarily to have further treatment.

in the background of a house in Kpiini street, Wellington, gapes the dark mouth of a man-made tunnel that, runs hack about 120 ft. into the hillside almost immediately '(underneath Vl |e Ohiro Home. Local people, says the Post, believe that the shaft is more than 50 years old ; who made it or why they cannot with certainty say. Its very existence is a mystery. At present the house is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. I!. W. Final!, who have been there for the last six years. The tunnel mouth is guarded by their big Alsatian dog. Mrs. Finall said the tunnel was there long before they took the place, and old folk of 60 had fold her that they recalled playing in it as children. The entrance is partly screened by trailing creepers. Inside the tunnel turns sharply to the left, and continues straight into the hill. Mr. (!. A. Adams, of Kelbtirn, a former owner of the property, said lie understood the tunnel had been constructed by an English artist named Worth, who was living there for some years, and who cut it for the purpose of growing mushrooms in it. At present, however, the tunnel is put to no practical use,