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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 4

Charged with being found on the licensed premises of the Opotiki Hotel after closing hours, Paul Tai appeared recently before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Opotiki Police Court and was convicted and fined £1 and costs 10 s.

Fines amounting to £2O were imposed on a native, Wiremu Ilona, when he appeared recently before justices of the peace in the Whakatane Police Court on charges of using indecent language and resisting arrest. He was fined £lO on each charge, and ordered to pay costs.

“Rationalisation of the method of production is a sounding phrase, but in practice what does it mean?” asked Mr. W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union in his address to the annual conference at Wellington yesterday. “Some magic formula that will enable a farmer to work twice as long without feeling tired? Or perhaps an ‘efficiency’ expert will teach him to strip four teats at once in rhythm to a jazz band on the wireless.” (Laughter).

For using indecent language in the presence of a woman and child, a farmer, Frederick William Schreiber, was fined £lO and costs £G 15s, in default two months’ imprisonment, when he appeared recently in the Whakatane Police Court before Messrs. W. Sullivan and G. A. Brabant. J.P.s. Mr. B. Barry appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty. On June 28 defendant was driving a mob of cattle, and it was alleged that Patrick Ritchie asked to inspect the mob to see if any of his animals were included. The request was refused, and when Ritchie attempted to stop the progress of the mob by waving a stick, defendant lost his temper and used the language complained of.

Mails which left Auckland on June 15, via Vancouver arrived in London on July 13. Leading West. Coast, hotels have for years conformed to a tradition of excellent service to meet the needs of all travellers, but the recent heavy frosts have made it difficult to maintain this in Reefton. An English visitor, who for years had taken an early morning cold shower every morning, broke his established routine a few days ago. When he asked about the provision for a cold shower at his hotel he was courteously told that the earliest in the day the cold water taps had begun to run in the present series of frosts was 3.30 p.m. He could either wait for a shower until then, or bathe in the snow-fed Inangahua River, which runs by the side of the town. He broke the habit.

Only Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin placement offices have exceeded Gisborne’s placement figures for the period since April I,.Gisborne having found 727 jobs for applicants during the period indicated. A large proportion of this total were purely casual jobs, however, and several other of the provincial towns have done better in securing temporary and permanent work for applicants, according to the latest return of the State placement service. Of the 11,‘106 jobs found by the national service since April 1, 4209 have been for periods exceeding three months, 2954 for three weeks or more, and 4243 for periods up to one week.

A resident of a Christchurch suburb found a cow straying in the street outside his home. He telephoned the local constable, who took possession of the cow a lid telephoned the ranger. The ranger arrived to take charge of the cow, but it was then after sunset, and he could not drive the cow in the streets to the pound. He asked the constable for permission to drive the cow to the pound; but the constable could not permit this, as it was against the law. The Burgesses’ Association took the matter up, and wrote to the Minister of Transport, the Hon R. Semple, on June 23, and on July 6 received a reply stating that the matter appeared to be one for the Department of Agriculture, to which it had been referred, and from which the association would receive a reply. To date this has not been received Where the cow spent that night is another problem which has not been solved.