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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 4

Because of the wet, cold weather there is unusual scarcity of flowers in Auckland gardens.

To replace a number of guns which were sent back to England last year after being stored at the Devonport Naval Base for a number of years, a consignment of new guns was landed at Auckland this week from England.

In future, all Rugby players competing in the Opotiki Rugby Union’s competitions will be obliged to pay 2s to the union’s secretary, in order to be individually covered in the special insurance scheme.

There has been a marked falling off in radio sales in Wellington during the last four months. Manufacturers, importers and retailers attribute this to a tightening up by the public of spending generally.

The installation of relay land-lines from the new broadcasting station at Onapa, Hawke’s Bay, which will serve the whole east coast district, is now practically completed and it is expected that the station will be ready by August.

“I was particularly impressed with the great interest in politics being displayed by young people,” said Mr. J. Hargest, M.P. for Awarua, in expressing satisfaction with the result of recent election meetings in the Raglan district, lie said the meetings were remarkable for the excellent feeling shown toward the National Party.

Alihougn the winter is usually a trying time for aged people, Grevmouth has this month established a record in that there has not been a funeral at the Karoro cemetery for 22 days. There were 11 deaths in Greymouth in June of last year. The estate of the late Mrs. Eleanor Caroline Riddiford, Lower Hutt, has been sworn for probate purposes at under £12,000. The executors are Mr. Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford, Featherston; Mr. Eric Leslie Riddiford, Orongorongo; and Mrs. Ngaire Kettle, Napier. •‘They say there is a whispering campaign,” said the Rt. lion. J. G. Coates in an address at Green Lane, Auckland. “The Prime Minister and the other Ministers are for ever fighting it," he continued. "It is not a whispering campaign, ladies and gentlemen; the dogs are barking it.”

“That is extraordinary for a man from the West Coast,” said Mr. Justice Reed in the Auckland Supreme Court when a witness told counsel that his father, formerly of Westland, did not think much of the politics of Mr. Seddon. “He seems to have been a rebel in the stronghold,” commented counsel.

Due, no doubt, to the mild weather experienced recently, whitebait have made an appearance in the Wairoa River, but the catches have been comparatively small. It is early for the whitebait to be running in the river, but towards the end of next month they should be fairly plentiful.— Special. Charged with the theft of a sheep from the Opotiki saleyards on June 21, Edward Kelly and Hilton Crosswell were each convicted and fined £lO, in default one month’s imprisonment, when they appeared yesterday before Messrs. C. Pipe and Clark, J.P.s, in the Opotiki Police Court. Kelly was charged with the theft of the sheep and Crosswell with killing the animal, knowing it to be stolen. A fine type of ocean-going ketchrigged yacht is nearing completion in Auckland for Messrs. W. Hampton and G. Little, of Auckland. The new vessel is 38ft. overall, with a beam ol lift, and a draught of sft. Din. The new boat will be launched early in October and it is the intention of her owners to make a cruise of the Pacific and other islands, extending from four to five years.

Disappointed that they are not to be given the opportunity of acquiring the freehold according to an understanding when they took up holdings during the term of office of the previous Government under the small farms scheme, hundreds of settlers throughout the Auckland province still await legislation by the present Government under which their tenure of the land they arc farming will be settled by the issue Of leases.

Forty years ago the Otara Valley was the scene of a similar visitation from a whirlwind of cyclonic force tc that experienced this week. It passed through Mr. Clem Black’s property and felled a large tree about 50ft. from the s-pot where a tree crushed in the roof of a farm worker’s cottage on Wednesday afternoon. At that time there was little settlement in the valley and no damage other than falling trees was reported. Reviewing the past three days of the centre championship dog trial meeting on Taumata station, Rere, the judge, Mr. F. B. Calcott, said to-day that the standard was 75 per cent better than that reached at the annual meeting last year. It was also learned that the attendance had realised the expectations of the hard-working committee and that a large crowd was expected this evening at the ball in Rere, the concluding function in connection with the fixture. Thousands of men in blue uniforms representing the air force; the huge military barracks being built on the French frontier; the large number of women working in the fields; and the intensive cultivation everywhere being carried out—these were given by Chief Savage G. M. Hall, when addressing the Christchurch Savage Club at its third korero, as his most vivid recollections of his visit to Germany recently. Germany’s military preparations made him leave Berlin an unhappy man, he said. ’ A large quantity of smoke and sparks issuing from one of the chimneys of the Bank of New South Wales’ building on the corner oi Gladstone road and Peel street last evening .attracted the attention of a passer-by, who sounded the fire alarm. The double blast of the siren for.a fire in the business area, brought a big crowd quickly to the scene. An inspection was made by the superintendent of the fire brigade, Mr. J. W. Kane, who found nothing amiss, and the brigade returned to the station.

"I was thoroughly impressed by the inspection. The houses were scrupulously clean and the Maoris were of a splendid type,” commented the Minister of Lands, the Hon. F. Langstone, when paying a tribute to the progressiveness of the Mormons at Bridge pa following his inspection of the Maori group building scheme and other Maori houses at the pa. “It is splendid to see the Maoris taking such an active part in modern life: As acting-Minister of Native Adairs, I would appeal to all Maoris to follow their example in providing for their families, instead of spending money in excessive drinking or gambling."

“In my experience it is best for him to live down his trouble in the town where he is known,” said Mr. Justice Reed in the Auckland Supreme Court when counsel for a young man appearing for sentence suggested that it he were given probation accused could get a job in the country. His Honour said that when persons on probation went away to other districts it frequently happened that news of their trouble followed them and unpleasantness occurred. It was better that this young man should rehabilitate himself in the place where he was known, especially as his employer was prepared to take lum back.

With the possibility ol' a match with Sir Julian Calm's eleven, in addition to a challenge match for the Hawke Cup and a fixture with Poverty Bay for the Kirk Cun, a formidable representative cricket programme appears to be in store for Hawke's Bay next summer. The Hawke Cup is at present held by South Auckland, while the Kirk Cup match will take place in Gisborne, so the province’s representative players will doubtless be called upon to play at least two “away” games. The Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association is now awaiting definite advice regarding the proposed tour of New T’.ealand by Sir Julian Calm’s English team, and already it has approached the New Zealand Cricket Council in the matter,