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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 4

About 120 unemployed men are to be engaged in widening roads in the Turakina Valley and Taihape dis tricts.

It was decided, at a meeting of the management committee of 'the Wairoa Rugby Sub-Union this week, to write congratulating P. Smith on his selection in the Maori All Black team to tour Fiji, and expressing the sub-union's best wishes for a good tour.—Special.

A curious instance of mischievous interference with country telephonic communications was reported this week, when after a lengthy search by subscribers on a parly line had failed to locate a fault, a P. and T. Department linesman made a detailed inspection of their line and discovered that a short wire had been so placed as to short the circuit and render the line dead. The interference was effected close to a post, so that it was not easily found, an c i was evidently the work of someone who knew the effect of the "short." At a time when the subscribers, cut off by slips from road communication with Gisborne, were dependent upon the line for medical advice in case of illness, and for other important information of a personal nature, the act of mischief was particularly annoying. One of the families so isolated was awaiting news of a close relative's illness, and two other families had young children liable to prevailing winter ailments.

In connection with the professional contest between Vic Caltaux and Clarrie Marshall, to be staged in the Opera House this evening by the Gisborne Boxing Association, it is recalled that on the occasion of a previous meeting between these lighting welterweights Caltaux got the decision from the referee after the judges had disagreed. The boxing critic of the Auckland Star, discussing the match and its outcome, said: "When Caltaux and Marshall went to their corners, it appeared that Marshall was assured of the decision. No wonder there was a strong outburst of disappointment from the big house when Caltaux got the verdict." The Gisborne boxer, Marshall, had his most recent fight when he beat Don Johnson in Hamilton on points, and he was preparing for a return bout with Caltaux in a fortnight when (he illness of Jack Davis, Hastings, led to his being called on by the Gisborne association for to-night. His many supporters among keen followers of the sport are confident that he will reverse to-night the verdict given against him in his first match with Caltaux.