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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 4

A motion directing that the board s appreciation of the manner in which the annual statement of accounts was presented by the managing-secretary. Mr. C. A. Harries, was submitted at the monthly meeting of the Cook Hospital Board yesterday afternoon by Mr. H. Adair. The motion was carried unanimously.

The management committee of the Gisborne Rowing Club met yesterdaj afternoon, there being present Messrs A. F. Allen, chairman, D. F. Muir, L Winstanley, J. Paine, M. S. Burridge, and the hon. secretary, Mr. R. Coleman. In connection with the scheme for beautifying the area between the two rowing clubhouses at the end oi Bright street it was decided to writeto the Gisborne and District Beautifying Society asking if it could ofl'er any suggestions and afford any assistance. The chairman announced that, though the annual meeting was usually set down for the second week in September, it might be advanced a week this year.

"We are of opinion that the matter should be held over, pending the presentation of the national health insurance scheme," reported the finance committee at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Cook Hospital Board, in reference to the suggestion from the Wairoa board that a conference of Hawke's Bay and East Coast hospital authorities should be convened to discuss the engagement of specialists' services. When the report was under discussion, Mr. D. W. Coleman. M.P., moved that the board reply in the terms recommended, and that in the event of a conference being held, the chairman, secretary-manager, and medical superintendent be authorised to attend. The motion found general support. Criticism of the roads in Hawke's Bay was voiced by the president of the Automobile Association (Hawke's Bay), Mr. J. H. Edmundson. He expressed the opinion that there was not a good road in the province. At the meeting the chief patrol officer. Mr. M. O. Lock said that the Puketitiri and Taihape roads were in a very much corrugated condition, and that the Maraekakaho road was the worst of all. "There is not a good road in the Hawke's Bay county," he concluded. "I will go further," said Mr. Edmundson. "The roads in the whole of the Hawke's Bay province are the worst between Napier and Wellington—they are most obsolete. There is no design about a lot of them —there is no proper super-eleva-tion at the curves or anything."

It is unusual for Labour Minister. l to have noisy meetings, but when the acting-Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, addressed a large gathering of the unemployed in the Auckland Town Hall there was a fair amount of noisy interjections which occasioned the chairman, the Hon. F. E. Lark, M.L.C., to call for order on several occasions. During the meeting one of the speakers urged the unemployed to organise in one union with the object of affiliating with the Federation of Labour, and the statement was made that the unemployed would support the Government but they wanted it to carry out its election promises. Another statement was that the men would support the Government, but they desired a higher standard of living in keeping with the new basis established by the Arbitration Court. Arising from the recent visit of Dr. W. J. Robertson to the Cook Hospital in connection with the treatment of infantile paralysis cases, the finance committee reported to yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Cook Hospital Board that the managing-secretary, Mr. C. A. Harries, had been instructed to ascertain the cost of adding a masseuse to the staff of the hospital. The committee also advised that the Health Department should be invited to indicate whether any centralisation of infantile cases was proposed. The managing-secretary placed before the board certain information as to the cost of the recommended appointment and Dr. R. J. B. Hall, medical superintendent, stated in reply to questions that the massage work of the hospital now required an addition to the staff, unless centralisation of infantile cases was proposed. The board agreed to await advice on this point from the Health Department, and the finance committee was empowered to act according to the conditions and proposals revealed in the department's reply to the inquiry sent forward.

The Poverty Bay Stockbrokers' Association announces that the dairy sale set clown for Tuesday, July 20, will not be held and thai the nexl dairy sale is to take place at the Matawhero yards on Thursday, August 17. A visitor to the Gisborne aerodrome yesterday was the Auckland Aero Club's Beechcraft plane, piloted by Mr. Sexton, a member of the Auckland Aero Club. The plane, which carried three passengers, made a short stay here, departing at 3 p.m. for Auckland.

The following riders have entered for the Poverty Bay Professional Athletic and Cycling Club's road cycle race, which will be held during the week-end over the course to Manutuke and back: G. Wright. R. Lloyd, R. Steed, B. Thompson, P. Lindsay, Harry Davis. E. Foster, J. Ferguson, A. Carter, A. Hughes, H. Hughes, K. O'Connell, B. Fox, F. Chitty and N. O'Conncli. The race will start at 9.30 a.m.

Participating in the New Zealand clay bird championship meeting at Hastings on Monday, Rex Oates, Tokomaru Bay, shared in the £l5O prizemoney for the handicap shoot. He shot the possible, scoring 21 consecutive breaks, his feat being equalled by P. North, Whangarei, W. Sharp. Morrinsville, and H. Howlett, Hastings. Each of the four secured £33 15s in prize-money, and 30 other contestants, who obtained 20 breaks, received 10s each. The event drew a total entry of 58 guns.

"We have perused the correspondence advising the formation of a New Zealand Hospital Officers' Association, which resulted from the last conference, and we recommend that the board give its full support to the proposal," reported the finance committee at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Cook Hospital Board. "The objects of the association are to create and encourage interest in the study if hospital problems, and to increase the efficiency of the services which hospitals render to the patients and to the public generally." The report was adopted. A shell-case trophy,, representing the prize for the territorial securing the greatest number of recruits to the Hawke's Bay Regiment's "B" Company, was presented last night to Pte. L. A. Ensor, at the smoke concert tendered as a welcome to Staff Sergeant-Major L. R. Stichbury and Company Sergeant-Major 11. R. Heiford on their return from the Coronation tour. Major A. Blackburn, in presenting the trophy, mentioned that Pte. Ensor had secured a total of 14 recruits during the progress of the competition, winning a trophy which every member of the unit would envy him.

Discussing some of the experiences of the Coronation Contingent, in a short address at last evening's wel-come-home function, StalT SergeantMajor L. R. Stichbury stated that the enthusiasm shown by the American troops in the Panama Canal zone, in entertaining the contingenters, had been amazing. Cars and trucks had met the ship at Balboa, and the New Zealanders had been shown as much of the isthmus as the time available would allow. There was no hesitation in taking the contingenters into the fortified areas, and in showing them some of the coast-defence guns, of huge proportions, with which America protects the canal from possible hostilities. Equally spontaneous was the warmth of hospitality displayed in the canteens of the American units, in which the New Zealanders were privileged guests. "If we had had another half-day there—-and the beer had lasted—l am sure that America wpuld have been back in the League of Nations by now," commented Sergeant-Major Stichbury.

The wonders of the naval review during Coronation week at Home were touched upon by Company SergeantMajor H. R. Heiford at last night's function at territorial headquarters in Gisborne. The New Zealand contingent was fortunate in securing quarters for the review on 11.M.5. Leander, and saw the best part of the celebrations, the wonderful timing of which had made a deep impression on the minds of all visitors. At one moment the fleet would be lying in darkness, without a glimmer of light showing. A moment later, 1500 searchlight beams would be simultaneously piercing the skies. Another "black-out" would succeed the searchlight display, and then, at-the sameinstant, a flight of rockets would be loosed, every ship contributing to the display, and 8000 rockets soaring as one, to provide an amazing effect. British ships and those of other nations, sent to take part in the review, achieved the same perfection of timing, with one exception. "The Russian naval vessel alone went wrong," Sergeant-Major Heiford explained. "When the other ships showed their searchlights, she would show her rockets; when the others blacked out their illuminations, she would be half-and-half. All through the night performance, she was out of step."