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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19456, 15 October 1937, Page 4

Heavy gradients in the Wanganui area and increasing freight traffic have necessitated more powerful locomotives being used in that district. Cases of equipment number 67, for the Napier automatic telephone exchange, have been unloaded from the liner°Tainui at Napier. The condition of Mrs. Una Thompson, a young married woman who was the’ victim of a brutal assault at Wanganui early on the morning oi October 3 is still serious.

Furniture is in unusual demand in Palmerston North at present, and house-decorators and bargain-hunters are searching the city for pieces of furniture for their own homes. The Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board is authorised by a notice in this week’s Gazette to use water from the Maraetotara Stream to generate electricity, and to construct electric works.

The fact that the common towel was most unhygenic and led to the spread of infectious disease was pointed out by the headmaster of the Hokowhitu School, Mr. A. H. McLean, when seeking the support of the school committee in requesting parents to supply their children with private towels. The committee agreed with the suggestion, though several members expressed the opinion that paper towels, which could be destroyed after use. would be even more appropriate.

“Last month I completed 50 years of service as a priest,” remarked the Bishop of Waiapu, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Williams, in his message to the synod in Napier yesterday. "I am deeply conscious of many shortcomings, but have to thank God for unnumbered blessings; I ask you to join me in my thanks, and to pray that God will continue his mercies to me for the remainder of the time in which He may be pleased to use me in His service.”

“The Maori schools reports show a marked increase in the number of pupils at Te Aute and Hukarere, but Waerenga-a-hika has suffered disaster in the destruction by fire of the school in April last. The trustees have the matter of rebuilding in hand, but there are serious financial difficulties to be overcome,” stated the Bishop of Waiapu, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Williams, in his message to the synod in Napier yesterday.

“Church Army workers have been helping at the railway camps, under the supervision of the Rev. H. Speight. The work has been somewhat hampered by the faci that there has not yet been available a fully qualified officer for this work: but Captain Banyard is hopeful that this will be remedied during the course of next month,” the Bishop of Waiapu, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Williams, told the synod in Napier yesterday.

The personal loss sustained by Mr. A. Dyke, professional at the Maraenui Golf Club, Napier, through the recent burglary at the clubhouse, is estimated at over £IOO. At the time of the burglary Mr. Dyke was at Auckland, and on his return to Napier he checked up on his losses, which included 21 dozen golf balls, 32 clubs, 14 second-hand clubs, a golf bag, an overcoat, stationery and tools. Mr. Dyke said his stock was insured against fire, but not against theft.

“Marriage used to be regarded as holy matrimony, but you have only to look at the faces of the people taking part in many church weddings to see that for them it is not a sacred ceremony,” said the Rev. D. J. Davies, of Wellington, in a sermon in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland. “Weddings are apt to be regarded only as social functions, and too often as nothing more than an opportunity for vulgar display. No wonder marriages celebrated in such a mood end in the Divorce Court.”

Improvements to the existing toll facilities between Napier and several other centres will be brought about as the result of the installation of three-channel carrier systems, which is to be carried out by the Post and Telegraph Department shortly. Each of the systems, which will operate between Napier and Auckand, Napier and Gisborne, and Wellington and Napier, provides for three carrier telephone channels, and the effect of the changes will be to provide more high-grade speech circuits serving Napier and the other centres involved.

The East Coast Rugby Union’s district, which three years ago lost Tori Reid, Everard Jackson, and Jack Collins to Hawke’s Bay, all three of these players subsequently becoming Al! Blacks, is threatened with the loss of further promising footballers. It is reported that Jack Lockwood, the fine East Coast forward who secured inclusion in the Combined Districts’ team in Gisborne against the Springboks, lias decided to take up a post in Wanganui. If he goes, he probably will be accompanied by A. Lincoln, who plays with Lockwood in the Tolaga Bay sub-union area, and also has represented the East Coast.

(Renders are being called by the Public Works Department for the new Government building in Auckland *o be erected on the site of the old Shortland Street Post Office, following the completion by the department of plans for the greater part of the work. The building, which will have a reinforced steel and concrete frame, will be of eight stories, rising to the maximum height of 102 ft. permitted in the city. There are 28 technical drawings in the plans already prepared, and in addition the facade and furnishings are being dealt with separately. The building, which will be set on raft foundations, will house a post office on the ground floor and various Government offices on the upper stories.

A frost of 3.5 degrees was registered in Gisborne this morning.

The following revised scale of taxi fares in the Hamilton district, up to four miles, hgs been approved by the Hamilton Borough Council:—For the first mile or part of a mile, Is; for each one-third of a mile, following, 3d. A minimum charge from midnight to fi a.m. was fixed at Is fid.

Despite two heavy frosts at the end of last month which caused severe losses in isolated cases, there are indications of an excellent yield of stone fruit in Hawke’s Bay. Unless Nature lends a hand there will have to be some very heavy thinning done to pip fruit trees, which are carrying a “terrific lot” of blossom.

Final arrangements for the completion and consecration of the Putiki Maori memorial church at Wanganui are being made by Canon W. G. Williams, who has been visiting Wanganui for the past few days. Tiie interior of the now church is now almost complete and an expert in Maori scroll paintings, and with him a Maori carver from Wairoa, are finishing off certain details in connection with decqrations and memorial furnishings. Sir Apirana Ngata was responsible for many of the skilful designs inside the church, and all the interior decorations were executed inder his supervision.

An unusual memento of the last Antarctic whaling expedition of the C. A. Larsen is in the possession of Vlr. J. Colbran, of Invercargill. It is in ornamental electric table lamp nade from the eye of a whale. The eye, which is in its natural state, except for a light coat of varnish, is circular, abejut five inches in diameter, and tne colour is amber, with i darker ring at the centre corresponding to the pupil. Composed of a bard, horny substance, it is highly translucent, and the small electric bulb fitted underneath it gives a pleasing golden glow. The lamp is

-.andsomely mounted on an oval base of polished wood and on either side of it is set a whale’s tooth. The two teeth are a beautifully-matched pair, as large as small Shorthorn bullock’s borns and similarly shaped. They ire of a creamy ivory colour. A inely-finished piece of craftsmanship, the lamp was made during his spare 'fine by Captain Anderson, captain of one of the C. A. Larsen’s chasers, tnd was sent to Mr. Colbran as a gift.