NEWS OF THE DAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Second Offender Making 'his second appearance for drunkenness in six months, a carpenter, Edward Kennedy, aged 36, was fined £l, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court .to-day. Kennedy, who was previously convicted on February 7 of this year, was allowed a fortnight for .the payment of his fine. "Heading For Trouble" A third offender for drunkenness, William .lames Carr, alias William John Carr, alias James Frederick Wallace, aged 34, an Australian, was convicted and fined £2, in default 14 days' imprisonment, by Mr. J. Corkill, J.P., in the Wairoa Police Court, yesterday. "The accused is heading for trouble. It. is his third offence in the last six months," stated Mr. Corkill. — Special. Injuries to !'olo Spectator Facial .injuries were suffered by an elderly man, Mr. Robert Burdett, when he was struck in the face by a polo ballL at Bushmere on Saturday. During the progress of the game between the Poverty Bay C and D teams Mr. Burdett was standing behind one of the goals and was struck on the face by the ball after it had come between the goal posts from a high .shot. The injured man was immediately brought to town and given medical attention, after which he was able to return to his home.

Negligent Moior-Cyclist Stated toy Senior-Sergeant J. F, H. Macnamara to have failed to exercise due caution in the handling of Ids motor-cycle, Haturangi Wernyss was fined £1 and 13s costs by Mr, E. I.;. Walton, S.M., yesterday. As n result of the 1 alleged lack'of caution, slight injuries were .suffered by a pedestrian. Good Morning Conditions Accentuated by a heavy fog, conditions in Hamilton have been unusually cold and, although no frost was recorded on Saturday the temperature in the shade was down to 31 degrees. Early in February five frosts were recorded at the Ruakura station, but there has now been xi break of about six weeks without a frost and minimum temperatures have generally been six to eight degrees above zero Non-Unionists Employed In the first case of its kind in Gisborne, the Williamson Construction Company, | Limited, Christchurch, was fined £1 in the Magistrate's Court by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., for employing on the Kailaratahi bridge workers who were not members of their union. The case was brought by (lie inspector of awards, Mr. G. MeKessar. and Mr. L. T. Burn art) appeared for the defendant company, which pleaded guilty. Outcome of Collision Arising out of a minor collision in Gladstone road on February 18. a milk vendor, .Aubrey Edward Nicholls CMr. L. T. Burnard), appeared before Mr. % L. Walton. 'S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court yesterday charged with having driven a motor vehicle without clue care. After hearing the evidence called by Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Macnamara, the magistrate fined the defendant £l, with 16s costs, Mr. Waltocommenting that the woman driving the car struck by the defendant's vehicle was hardly a fit person to hold a license by reason of her deafness. Manual Training Teachers An application from the central and southern Hawke's Bay school committees for the appointment of instructresses in domestic science, which came before the Hawke's Bay Education Board on Friday in Napier, prompted the remark by Mr. J, S. Wauchop that a distinct shortage of this class of instructresses had developed in recent months. The board decided to make inquiries as to what inducements were offered by the Education Department to attract young people to the courses for instruction in manual training. Cook County Guild The matron of the Heni Materoa Children's Home reported to the latest meeting of the Cook County Women's Guild that there were 23 children in the home and that all were in splendid health. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. H. A. Angell and the other members of the guild present were Mesdames J. E. Newton, T. Munro, I. J. Quigley, J. Williams, H. W. T. Buckley, H. Gilmer, 'H. Holmes, and J. Sealey. Accounts totalling £24 7s 7d were passed for payment. Mesdames Angell and Quigley were appointed the visiting committee for the month. Straying Stock Following complaints that a bull was wandering in Tyndall road, Kaiti, the Cook County Council's poundkeepcr, Mr, E. T. Murphy, impounded a bull belonging to a freezing works employee. Cedric Stephenson. As a result of this, Stephenson appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, charged with allowing the bull to stray on the public highway. Conducting his own defence, Stephenson said that cows straying on the road were responsible for the fact that bulls left their paddocks and took to the roads also, Stephenson alleging ihat cows were turned out on the loads by some owners in the hope that they could get free service from bulls. The defendant was fined £l, with lis costs. The Cook County Council was represented by Mr. A. P. Blair. National Defence Address Reference to the visit of MajorGeneral Sir Andrew Russell to Gisborne, and the prospect of an address by the old commander of the New Zealand Division on the need for more vigorous preparation for national defence, was made at yesterday's gathering of the Gisborne Rotary Club. Colonel R. F. Gam-brill commended the meeting on Wednesday night to the attention of Rotarians and of all who believed that this country must take its due share in the Empire's effort to make British possessions impregnable. "This subject of national defence is of tremendous importance, far surpassing any issue of party politics," said Colonel Gambrill. "Events in Europe have a closer concern for this country than many people realise." Telegraph Men at Cricket Teams representing the Gisborne and Napier Post and Telegraph Department. employees played an interesting cricket match in Wairoa during the week-end, for the Telegraph Cup. Gisborne had first use of the wicket, but could not get going against the bowling of Thomas and Bradley, who led the Napier attack. Bigncll, 14, and Griffiths and Creelman, 10 each, were the chief contributors to an innings score of only 49 runs. Thomas took live wickets for 10 runs, and Bradley four for 14. Napier's innings yielded 14(i (Gurrand, 25 retired. Jones, 43 retired, Thomas, 20 retired, Ryan, 17. and McCrae, 11 retired). Smale got two wickets for 20 runs, and Appleby, two for 42. Gisborne did better in" their second innings, but had seven wickets down for 70 runs, when time was called. The game was won by Napier, with a margin of 07 runs on the first : nnings. A Matter of Definition One of the Gisborne members of the Hawke's Bay Education Board, Mr. J. S. Wauchop, found unusual difficulty in selecting his words during a debate on the employment of married women teachers, which took place at the monthly meeting of the board in Napier. Wishing to designate women teachers who had left the profession for a &hile to become married, and then had returned to teaching when opportunities of employment became attractive, Mr. Wauchop .first referred to "These old women . . ." Correcting himself, he referred successively to "these old women teachers," and then to "these old married teachers." Having proceeded so far, he was interrupted by the sympathetic merriment of his colleagues on the board, and thereafter was able to press his argument without further specific . designation of the class of teachers I under discussion. |