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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 4

For July, 73 building permits of a total value of £37,8(55 were issued in Dunedin. All represented either the erection of new houses or repairs and alterations to existing premises. Sixteen of the permits were for Government houses. July was the third occasion so far this yenr that the monthly rainfall total at Pakihiroa station, 1C miles inland from 'Ruatoria, had exceeded 23in. Last month 23.47 in. was recorded, while there was 23.00 in. in April and 23.08 in. in February. For the first =;eve'n months of the year there has been a total of 101.89 in. of rain. This ficrure is well above the tally for the whole of last year. During the past 22 years there have been only 11 times when the annual rainfall has been greater than that already experienced this year. A message from Dunedin, giving particulars of the building permits issued during July, contains a reference to the issue of permits for 1G Government houses. The building figures for the Gisborne Borough have not included the value of Government housing projects, owing to the insistence of the State Housing Division on the Crown's right to erect its own buildings without obtaining permits from local authorities. Municipal officers in Gisborne are unable to reconcile the inclusion of permit figures for Government houses in the City of Dunedin returns, with the attitude of the department in respect of permits in the case of this district.

Air mail for the United Kingdom dispatched from Gisborne on July 11, arrived in London on July 28.

Hearing a disturbance in his fowl run, Mr, 11. La Roche, of Howick, investigated, and killed two animal intruders that were the cause of the trouble. They were wild polecats.

A member of the Poverty Bay representative hockey team that visited Auckland last month, D. Mci'avish, was removed to the Cook Hospital mis morning. While playing in ine representative ma ten against Auckland he was thought to have oroken a toe and cracked a shinbone, and left the field of play at na it-time.

The rainfall at Hautanoa, Tokomaru Bay, last month totalled 13.90 in., mere being 22 wet days. The most rain for one day was experienced during the 24 hours ended at 8 a.m. on July 12. For the same month last year there was a total of (j.2Bin. ot rain for lli wet days. So far this year Hautanoa has had 72.541 n. oi rain, as compared with 44.29 in. lor the first seven months of 1937.

It was reported this morning from vVaimata that there was snow on the .ops, oi- some of the high ranges around Poverty Bay. The Waimata uis trie t itself has not had any snow o far this winter, but sleet was experienced last Saturday. July proved one of the wettest months the Waimata district had known. A total of •sa.otiin. was recorded on 20 days, the Heaviest fall being on July 12 with ,i.34in. Last year the station recorded d.94in. of rain in July.

Owing to the soft condition of the surface of Darton Field aerodrome, Gisborne, and the reduction in the number of service runs by the Union Airways' company, there is at present only one inward airmail at G a.m. and one outward at 8 a.m. Advice has been received from the post office that many letters posted under the new air mail rates are being shortstamped. The U rate covers only those letters dispatched to towns and cities in Empire countries. All firstclass mail sent by air to foreign countries and America should have 2Jd coyer.

While riding between Muriwai and Matawhero yesterday Mr. R. K. Murphy, a well known resident of Muriwai, met with a serious accident. Mr. Murphy was travelling on the road near the Pakowhai estate when his horse apparently lost its footing on the bitumen surface, which was rendered greasy by rain and slush. The i-ider was thrown and suffered a broken right leg. A passing motorist picked up Mr. Murphy, who lay on .he road for some time, and conveyed him to hospital. The horse was found later unharmed, making its way home.—Special.

Twenty Rugby players from the own .primary schools have been selected for a final practice to-morrow md after that game the team to jlay the country representatives on Saturday will be announced. On Saturday the Poverty Bay primary school representatives will be ■selected to visit Wairoa on the ollowing Saturday. The town team will be selected from the following:McKnight (Central), Smith (Kaiti), Callaghan' (Marist), Prentice (Central), Bartlett (Te Hapara), Hoggins (Marist), Raggett (Tc Hapara), Hankey (Central), McMahon (Marist) Cowley (Central), Walters (Marist), Sdwards (Marist), Waldock (Kaiti), 3uli (Central), Dunlop (Te Hapara), Crawford (Mangapapa), Bothamley (Central), Henderson (Central). Vette (Te Hapara), and Cooze (Marist).

"Something should be done to give his boy an interest in life," said \lr. J. E. Shimmin last evening when the future of one of the cripples under the care of the Gisborne branch it the New Zealand Crippled Chillii'D's Society was being discussed at the annual meeting of the branch. The boy was not strong and the speaker suggested that he be provided with work at home so that he night be able to sell his products, rha chairman, Mr. F. Wrey Nolan,. ~.u'i that the youth would have to learn a trade first. The secretary, Mr. Mainland L. Foster, explained his experiences while attempting to olace one of the society's charges in employment. Union wages created one if the difficulties as no provision was nade in all awards to meet such .•ases. The boys could not be put on he staff at reduced wages ->nd the •mployers could not afford to employ voung men at full rates if they "ould not take their place with other apprentices. It was felt that in those cases the Government should take steps to have the wages clauses waived. The matter was left in the hands of the case committee.