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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 4

Typhoid cases are still being reported from the Urewera Country, chieilj in the Upper Wuimann district. Hieic So „OW 12 cases in the Whakatune Hospital, 10 of the sufferers being Maoris. Two European cases are not positive and are still under observation.

When the street sale of flags in aid ol funds for the King George V memorial fund concluded in Gisbotne lost evening £66 13s 5d had been collected. 11» flags received by the Glsborne rimtyThousand Club represented approximately £IOO, and the club hopes that lie balance left over from the street sale Will bo disposed of in the surrounding country districts, the canvass of which commenced to-day.

The anniversary of the Treaty ol Bcreeniging, which closed the South African War, will be celebrated to-mor-row by the annual church parade and memorial service sponsored by the South African War Veterans' Association. Ihe parade will form up as usual in l'eci street, and will inarch to Holy Trinity Church, where the association's padre, Canon A. P. Hall, will preach an anniversary sermon. The W.E.C.M.R, (City) Band will parade with the veterans. This evening the association will bold its annual reunion, for which an invitation has been extended to the Hon. ItSemplo, Minister of Public Works. A wire rope and, cage outfit over the tlikuwai River to Mr. Canning Spencer's homestead was inspected by the Minister of Public Works, the. Hon. R. Semple, yesterday. A bicycle chain attached to cogs turned round by a handle provided the method of working the cage along a wire rope stretched across the river. The Minister agreed that it was an antiquated outfit, but as it was on private property the Government could not give the settler financial assistance to improve bis access, but Mr. Semple promised to instruct the department's mechanical engineer in Gisbornc to make, an inspection and advise how the cage mechanism could be improved. An undertaking to have the cost of work assessed, and to do what could be done to give relief, was offered by the Minister of Public Works to-day to a Ngntapa settler who asked for the (dealing of the Totangi Creek. This creek, the settler stated, had been the subject of deputations for the past eight years, and it was still a regular source of trouble. He had had slormwater from the creek over his property 25 times in the last year, he added. The Minister replied that he would have the matter looked into, and when he know what the clearing of the creek would cost, he would be prepared to talk business with the settler concerned.