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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 7

The fact that it would be impossible to introduce legislation providing for revision of taxation during the life of the present Parliament was revealed by the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, in his report to the recent Labour Party conference as chairman of the Policy Committee.

A ballast train left Napier on Friday with men to make a start on repairing the damage caused by the flood to the railway track to Wairoa. These men will continue up the line as far as the Eskdalc railway bridge, which was washed away during the flood. After stating that it would be some time before traffic would be resumed on the East Coast line, Mr. G. T. Lawson, stationmaster at Napier, added that none of the departments officers had inspected the line past the railway bridge, and as far as the condition of the line north ol the bridge was concerned the officers had not been able to ascertain the amount or damage.

A decrease of 20 in the number of births registered this year compared with the figures for the period last year is shown in the vital statistics for Gisborne. The number for April this year was eight below that for tire same month in 1937. There was no decrease in the marriage figures. The figures for April are as fallows, those for the corresponding month Last year being given in parentheses. Birth's 27 (35); deaths 1W (I 4); riages 22 (21); marriages by registrar 7 (5). The figures for the year to he end of April are as lollows:-Buths 129 (149); deaths 09 (00); marriages 79 (78); marriages by registrar 10 (15).