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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 4

A frost of seven degrees, the third in succession, was registered in Gisborne this morning.

“I am sorry to be leaving New Zealand, for I have many friends here now,” said Mrs. M. M. Freer, prioy to her departure from Wellington for Sydney on the Wanganella. “I feel it is a feather in my cap to have the Australian Trade Commissioner here to see me off.”

Knocked unconscious when she fell down a steep bank, Nancy Jessup, aged five years, a pupil at the Waiotahi Valley School, was not found for some time. She was picked up suffering from concussion and with her clothes wet through by rain. Her condition has improved. The child, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jessup, had been, playing with other schoolchildren during the lunch hour.

A, record flight from Wellington tc Auckland was made by one of the Auckland Aero Club’s machines, a Beechcraft closed-cabin biplane, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant D. M. Allan. Having been chartered by a business man, the machine left Auckland at 11.15 a.m., and arrived al Wellington at 1.40 p.m., the trip taking two hours 25 minutes. On the return journey, the aeroplane, flying at 12,000 ft., for most of the Journey, lowered the record of two hours, taking one hour 50 minutes.

As a result of a fall from a tree, Mr. James Frederick Sutcliffe, aged 36, a linesman in the employ of the Poverty Bay Power Board, was admitted to the Cook Hospital yesterday afternoon for observation. Mr. Sutcliffe, who was one of a gang of men engaged on the lopping of trees adjacent to the power lines at Puha, overbalanced and fell about 15ft., bebadly shaken. The St. John Ambulance was immediately summoned from Gisborne and the injured man conveyed to hospital, where he passed a fair night and was comfortable this morning.

“It has always been an ambition of mine to walk to Wellington,” said Professor R. M. Algie, when addressing the Auckland University College Tramping Club. “I have done it often in my imagination and often in the train, but I still want to walk.” The project had interested him for so long because of an event in the early days of New Zealand. About 1845 the two Supreme Court Judges decided that they should draw up a code for the Court. One lived in Auckland and one in Wellington, so they walked to New Plymouth, discussing their legal problems, and then walked back to their centres. “I am sure that even in these degenerate days we could walk that distance if necessary,” said Professor Algie.

Additional nominations received for the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s steeplechase meeting this month are Gabriel in the maiden race and Hack Flat Handicap on the first day, and the Trial Handicap and Ilac-k Cup Handicap on the second day.

A definite decision to retain the Beacons aerodrome as the Napiar airport was reached at a special meeting of the Napier Airport Board. In the near future a meeting will be held between the board and the finance committee of the Napier City Council when the whole question will bo brought to finality. As a result of the interest displayed in Gisborne in American basketball a weekly class is to be held in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium on Friday nights from 8 to 10.30 o’clock. Practice games were played amongst Y.M.C.A. teams last evening. Arrangements have been made for a visit by two teams from Nuhaka next Friday to meet the local players.

With a mixed flock of 23 Southdown sheep and two purebred Rycland rams, Mr. A. Elworthy, a well-known farmer of Timaru, had considerable success at the recent Sydney sheep show and sale. He returned to Wellington by the Wanganella. Ilis Southdowns were highly praised by the judges, who awarded them the best average in the show. The Ryeland rams were given second place in their class. The former line was bred by Mr. Henry Andrews, Maheno, Oamaru, and the latter .by Mr: Elworthy. One of the most modern cargo vessels in the New Zealand trade, the Blue Star Line motor ship Melbourne Star made a last trip between Wellington and Auckland last week. She travelled at an average speed of 10.95 knots, and her time from Wellington Heads to the pilot ground in Rangitoto Channel was 31 hours 40 minutes. Between Castle Point and Portland Island she logged 181 and 19 knots, but slowed down after rounding the East Cape. Her speed, however, never fell below 10 knots.

The construction of a new section of the Gisborne-Napier highway at Muriwai is now in progress, and when completed will dispense with the right-angled corner, at which the road continuing to the Muriwai Beach intersects. The deviation will travel at the fool of the hill at the rear of the Muriwai Hotel. The railway line between Gisborne and Wairoa will run parallel with the new section of road and the formation of the rail track is also proceeding.

Bobby calf collections from Gisborne farmers will commence in another eight days. Cows are coming to profit already on a number of dairy farms on the fiats, and in a week there should be a large enough number ol ■•alves to warrant collections twice a week. Mr. G. H. Scents, Gisborne agent for the Now Zealand Co-opcia-tive Pig Marketing Association, stateo to-day that his firm would commence collecting bobby calves in the district on Monday, July 19. Collections will be made twice weekly, on Mondays and Thursdays.

Favourable consideration ol the supplying of an estimate lor the removal of outbuildings, hangars and conveniences from the Embankment aerodrome to the Beacons aerodrome is to be urged upon the Napier City Council by the Napier Airport Board. At a special meeting of the board, when a decision was reached to iecommend the retaining of the Beacons aerodrome as Napier’s airport, the necessity for the provision of up-Se-date facilities for the convenience of air Dassengers was stressed by Mr. Arnold Wright, and it was finally decided to include a septic tank in the estimate for the work. Presented to the Dominion Museum .'or safe keeping, the white ensign flown bv the, battle-cruiser New Zealand at the Battle of Jutland was ariginally 4ft. by Bft., but about onehird of its length is now missing. The ensign was presented by Admiral >ir .John Green, who commanded H.M.S. New Zealand at Jutland, io Mr. R. S. Hunter Blair, a New Zeaander now living in Edinburgh. In a letter to Mr. R. Darroeh, secretary jf the Wellington branch of the Navy League, Mr. Blair said the missing portion of the ensign had been blown off by gunfire and not by stress of weather as had previously been thought. ”1 have been looking for a way in which to gauge the people of New Zealand, and 1 have gained a most .favourable impression of them through your newspapers," said Dr. William 3oyd, head of the department of education of Glasgow University. Dr. Boyd has formed a very high opinion of the newspapers during his brief stay here. "I have been much struck bv their big, broad, world-wide. interest,” he said. ”1 do not believe there is any other country where so nuch news of world topics is given. It is amazing, too, how tire comparatively small towns can run a daily newspaper. It means that you have a wide public interested in affairs.

Though no plans and specifications regarding the Government houses to be erected in Hastings under the housing scheme will be deposited, the Director of Housing lias advised the Hastings Borough Council that the department will pay tees where service is given, but that building permits will not be taken out. In accordance with the statement of the Minister of Finance, however, rates on all properties will be paid when and while tlie houses are occupied. Commenting on the letter, the Mayor, Mr. G A. Maddison, said he considered that the State, if it came into competition with private enterprise, should be in exactly the same position as private enterprise, and should pay the rates on its properties. He pointed out that now that the State was becoming a more extensive property holder as the result of the housing scheme, municipal authorities were being deprived of a good sum in revenue from rates.