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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 4

Mails which left Auckland on April 4, per s.s. Monterey, arrived in London on April 28.

Exceotionally low tides have been experienced in Auckland during the oast few days.

A public telephone call cabinet is to be erected at the corner of Stanley and Childers roads. Advice '*■> this effect was received by the Gisborne Boroueh Council last night <Vnm \hn telegraph engineer. Mr. J. Ornjg. The council approved of the

Members of the New Zealand buckhimning team which competed at the Svdney Royal Show are expected to return to Gisborne to-day. They ••e->nh o d Wellington bv the' Awatea. ">nd were expected to go by boat r '-om Nanier to Wniroa, completing 'he journey overland.

Deiqy in erecting a bus shelter at f h« Bank of New South Wales cor•i"r was mentioned at the Gisborne I£ rh Council's meeting last night '-iv Cr. P. W. Bushnell. who said it ,wa< « time that something was done in ' ,|S I'esnect. It was decided to brine ho matter under the notice of the manager again.

A claim for damages arising out ol a motor accident was heard by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Arthur Hughes (Mr. J. G. Nolan), the rider of a motor-cycle, claimed £76 8s 6d Irom Robert William Murray (Mr. L. T. Burnard). After hearing'the evidence, the magistrate gave judgment lor the plaintiff for ,CGB lCs Cd.

Magnificent work by an army of .'SOO volunteer helpers from Napier and Hastings brought to settlers in the Esk Valley on Sunday a measure of heartening assistance so badlj needed. Equipped with shovels, spades, picks and other tools, the workers toiled throughout the day to dig from the mud and silt the homes, farm buildings and motor cars of the stricken Esk Valley farmers.

Prior to his departure recently irom Gisborne, Mr. L. C. Cowan was net by the staff of Messrs. Ellis and Bull, electricians, witli whom he had worked for the past 10 years, and was presented with an initialled travelling case. Messrs. Ellis and Bull made the presentation at an informal gathering and Mr. Cowan was wished success in his new position in the clerical branch of the stores department of the New Zealand Royal Air Force, Wellington Mr. Cowan made a suitable reply. Mr. A. R. Knights, who recently resigned his position as sanitary inspector for the Gisborne Borough Council to take up a position with the Health Department, was congratulated by the council last night on his appointment, and the council placed on record its appreciation of his work. The Mayor, Mr. D. W. Coleman, M.P., said that the council was sorry to lose Mr. Knights' services, for he had been very efficient. Cr. H. H. DeCosta remarked that Mr. Knights had proved a capable and zealous officer.

For the purpose of mowing borough reserves and riverbank plots, night decided to purchase a set of triplex mowers at a cost of £199 10s and a tractor costing £248 12s 6d. This decision was reached after considering a report from the supervising gardener, Mr. T. R, Andrew, and quotations received by the borough engineer, Mr. E. R. Thomas. During the discussion, Cr. J. Webb congratulated the supervising gardener on the state of the borough reserves.

Sporting and social events on the East Coast have been subject to postponement during the past week, owing to the disruption of communications and the intermittent rain which has discouraged residents from using the roads and fords any more than has been absolutely necessary. The Tolaga Bay Returned Soldiers' Association is one of the organisations affected by the renewal of heavy rain, and has had to announce the postponement of its dance from to-morrow evening until a date to be announced when the weather settles. Last month's rainfall at the Waingake headwords of the Gisborne Borough water s supply was the heaviest April total on record and one of the biggest for any month. The borough engineer, Mr. E. R. Thomas, reported to last night's meeting of the Borough Council that last month's total was 18.09 in. The previous highest April fall was 12.9 in. in 1929. The record month was May, 191 C, when the reading was e3.3in. and when the pipeline was carried away in a number of places. That was the last extensive trouble with the pipeline prior to the serious dislocation 10 days ago.

Two men, Bernard Edward Way, aged 20, a motor driver,' and Leslie Joseph Harris, aged 28, a labourer, appeared this morning before Mr. A. A. Fraser, J.P., in the "Police Court and were remanded to appear at Auckland on May 11 charged jointly with the conversion of a motor car valued at £2OO, the property of Francis Roy Beanland, at Auckland, on April 19. Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Macnamara applied for the remand to Auckland, saying that the accused were arrested yesterday morning in Gisborne and that there was a possibility of further charges pending. Mr. A. A. Whitehead appeared for the accused and consented to the remand

Many mementoes of the visit to Sydney were brought bade by members 6f the Anzac Day Contingent, and a number of them were inscribed with the names of hotels and restaurants. Somewhere among the luggage of the New Zealanders was a whole set of pewter pint-pots, souvenired from one establishment, and bearing the legend: "This mug was stolen from the Manly Hotel!" A Gisborne ex-soldier was present when the last of these mugs was missed by the hotel employee responsible for their safety, and heard the proprietor soothe the servant, saying that the losswas of no consequence. The "schooners" used in some of the Sydney hotels were coveted by individual tourists, and many of these, too, journeyed across the Tasman with the returning contingent. Gisborne members of the expedition missed the opportunities of collecting such, souvenirs, apparently, but each has one memento of the tour which he intends to keep permanently. It is the black-and-silver tie which he wore on the march through Sydney, and which helped to create tlie distinctive note, in the appeajance of the New Zealand contingent there,