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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 4

At the conference of Voting Farmers' Olub delegates in Gisborne on Saturday evening it was announced that Messrs. K. E. Wilson and Son* had offered to donate n trophy to the value of £2 2s or more for the best prepared and cured sheepskin or lamb skm suitable for the export trade. Appreciation was expressed of the donors' offer. In order to encoui age the young farmers to give talks, Mr. E. M. Bates announced during the meeting that he would donate a book on an agricultural subject to the member of each club in the Poverty Bay district making the best speech. The* manner in which the competition was to be conducted was left to the clubs to arrange.

Appreciation for the treatment received from the press in Gisborne during his tour of the East Coast and Gisborne districts last week was expressed by the Hon. B. Semple, Minister of Public Works and Transport, after hearing deputations in Gisborne on .Saturday evening. He did so when bidding farewell to the reporters who had followed his tour. Mr, Semple said he had meant to publicly thank the press at one of the day's gatherings for the fair and accurate reports and the space given to his movements, but as he had forgotten lo do so he asked that his feelings on the matter should be published.

Over ,£I,OGO,CCG a year is spent byNew Zealanders in communicating by telegram, cablegram, and trunk telephones. Post Office receipts from these sources first reached the million mark m 1929, and maintained it for another two years. Then, reflecting world-wide economic conditions the revenue fell below the million for five years, although in 1936 it was again approaching it. An increase of £104,433 in gross revenue from telephone toll calls, cablegrams, and telegrams in the year ended March 31 last brought the total to £1,058,208. These large figures are even more impressive when translated into terms of telegrams and toll calls, as follows :--Toll messages, 13,143,171; telegrams, 5,117,498.

An undertaking that the first train able to carry passengers of the Gis-borne-Wnikokopu section of the East Goast Main Trunk line would bo placed al the, disposal of the Gisborne Thirty-Thousand Club for the purposes of a public excursion, was given by the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. B. Semple, lo a deputation which waited on him on Saturday evening. The spokesman for the deputation, Mr. .las Chrisp, suggested that the club would make the occasion one of outstanding interest to the whole district, ami the Minister, while remarking that the deputation was looking some distance ahead, agreed lo do what was proposed to him, and give the Thirty-Thousand Club first call upon accommodation in the first pas-Honger-carrying train run on the lino out of Gisborne.

A frost, of .3 degrees was registered in Gisborne this morning. For the week ended at noon to-day six cases of notifiable diseases, two each of infantile paralysis, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis, were reported in the East Cape health district. No deaths were reported.

The premises of Mr. William McConncll, • Waimana, were broken into between the hours of closing on Saturday evening and Sunday morning and the safe removed from the building. It was found later in a paddock 200yds from the store, where it hail had the door blown oil'. Cash amounting to X.B was stolen.

At ii cost of over £lB, the wharf crane on the Kaiti wharf has been fitted with a. special hook which increases the authorised capacity of the crane from 15 to 20 tons. In his report to the Gisborne Harbour Board at to-day's meeting the secretary-manager, Mr. H. A. Barton, stated that a lift of 20 tons is expected to arrive from the United Kingdom in the early future, and that without the change indicated, the crane would not have been capable of dealing with it.

The Mania Hunt Club members met at Tiniroto on Saturday in beautiful weather. There were 40 followers of the hounds and about 20 onlookers. Several very good runs were made oyer suitable country, and though no kills were registered those who took part had a pleasant outing. The Tiniroto residents showed splendid hospitality, for which due acknowledgments were made. The second meet took place in that locality to-day.—Special. The fact that pilfering is going on regularly at the island at. the harbour entrance, was referred to by Mr. I. •)• Quigley at to-dav's meeting of the Gisborne ' Harbour' Board, the speaker stating that a magneto had been stolen from 'one of the Lightering Company's vessels, moored in the Waikanae basin. Mr. Quigley asked that some steps should be taken to prevent people trespassing on the island. The chairman, Mr. .1. Tombleson, said that notices had been posted, without result, and that the only means of stopping pilfering there would be to catch someone and make an example of the case. Three charges were laid against a labourer >of JPchiri, Arthur •Watson Green, alias William Burgess, alias Arthur Watson, alias Arthur Green, aged 51 years, when he appeared this morning before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M.. in the Polite /Court as a result of being arrested for drunkenness on Saturday afternoon. Cm a charge oi- being found drunk in Gladstone road, having been twice previously convicted for drunkenness in the" past sis months, defendant was sentenced to seven days' imprison' ment, Mr. Walton saying that he apparently would not learn a lesson. Con ducting the prosecution, Senior-Sergeant J. P. H. Macnamara said that accused had been prohibited in Rotorna on October 26. 1936, and on a charge of ;v breach of his order he was convicted and fined £l. Accused pleaded guilty to both those charges, but in the case of the third, nf casting offemdve matter in the entrance to the Grand Billiard Saloon, be had no recollection. Charles Edward Less, the proprietor of the saloon, and Constable R. ¥. Julian gave evidence, and accused was convicted and fined £2. in default 48 hours' imprisonment.