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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19693, 27 July 1938, Page 4

A delivery van owned by Mr. G. H. Murdoch, grocer, Kuripuni, Masterton, was stolen from the rear of the shop.

Mails for the United Kingdom, dispatc'hed from Gisborne on July 0. per the Sydney-Singapore air service, arrived in London on July 21, A meeting to consider launching a public appeal for the relief of homeless Spanish children is to be called by the Gisborne Borough Council for Monday week. This action followed the receipt of an appeal from the secretary of the national relief fund.

Slightly more sunshine was experienced in Gisborne during June, compared with the same month last year. Last month's total was 128.9 hours, while the figure for June, 1937, was 123.1 hours. There were only two davs out of the 30 in the past month on" which the sun did not show itsell at all. On June 27 the first frost of ihe year was recorded at the Gisborne aerodrome and that day proved the sunniest for the whole of the month with a total of nine hours.

"Live-stock straying on the linthas become a serious matter, and we would ask the co-operation of your council in restricting the- trouble," stated a letter received by the Waikohu County Council yesterday from the station-master at Gisborne, Mr. J. W. Fergie. The letter stated that cases had occurred in which fences had been cut in places to allow stock to wander on the line. The council decided to write advising the station-master to authorise the county ranger to impound stock straying on (hp line.—Special. Attention to serious erosion on the Gisborne Borough Council's reserve at Waerenga-o-kuri was drawn at last night's meeting of the council by the lessee, Mrs. E. Matthews, who asked the council to inspect the property. "Numerous attempts," Mrs. Matthews wrote, "have been made by me. including the erection of a stopbank, to check this erosion. Several settlers, through ' the Cook County Council, have raised objection to the stopbank." The council decided to view the ground next Monday afternoon.

"Ragwort is growing strongly this season." reported the noxious weeds inspector,of the Waikohu County Council, at yesterday's meeting of the council. "Owing to the seed of this plant germinating in the autumn, the farmer is heavily handicapped to deal with the seedlings in wet weather; but I am positive that when possible spraying and dusting should be carried out early, especially throughout the winter, when the plants are in the rosette stage." The inspector also stated that grubbing of variegated thistle had been commenced by many farmers.—Special.

■ A request for support for the Auckland provincial court at the Centennial Exhibition in 1940 was received by the Waikohu County Council at its meeting yesterday, the council's share being assessed at £lO7. The council looked askance at an expenditure of this sum on a court which might be purely for the benefit of Auckland, but the clerk, Mr. J. G. Appleton, advised that a district conference was to be called to hear a representative of the Auckland provincial committee who had been requested to visit Gisborne. The council held over the matter for consideration later.— Special.

"It would place the club on a better footing if we increased the subscription to £3 10s for active members and from £2 to £2 10s for honorary members." said Mr. C. Corlet last evening when the subscriptions for ".he coming year were mentioned at the annual meeting of the Kahutia Bowling Club. The increased funds coming forward would assist to wipe out the outstanding accounts. In moving that the same subscriptions be applied again this season as last, Mr. B. Dudfield said that the aim of the club should be to increase the membership instead of increasing its subscriptions. The motion was seconded by Mr. P. Fischbaeh. An amendment that the subscription by increased to £3 10s as suggested by Mr. Corlet was moved by Mr. C. Holland, who said that the social activities < t the club carried it along. In seconding the amendment, Mr. Corlet said that the first-year players always came on at a lower rate. Several speakers expressed the opinion that the old subscription of £3 3s was high enough. The amendment was lost, and the motion carried It was a recommendation to the incoming committee that the rule relating to the prevention of unfinancial members taking part in matches after December 31 be strictly enforced.