NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20009, 7 August 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

This Morning's Frost A frost of 7.3 degrees was recorded in Gisborne this morning Traffic Offences On a charge of parking his car in a vehicular entrance in Derby street, lan Wellsted Russell was fined £1 and costs 10s by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning. William John Nicholls was fined 10s and costs 10s for having no warrant of fitness for his motor cycle. Both cases were brought by the police. East Coast Railcar Service During the first month of its operation 2397 passengers were carried an the Napier-Wairoa railcar service. This total does not include the passengers who travelled on the A'airoa-Wellington through service at :he week-ends. In addition to passengers the service carried 285 bags if - first-class mail, 293 booked parcels, and 543 packages of luggage. Tinned by Log Severe leg injuries were suffered yesterday by Mr. Lindsay Castles, aged 25, of Motu, as a result of an lccident on Mr. H. L. Twistleton’s station, Marumoko. Mr. Castles was working under contract for Mr. Englebretsen splitting battens. A leavy log was being manoeuvred and i'oiled on Mr. Castles' leg. Fortunately, the scene of the accident was not' far from the roadway and Mr. Castles was brought into town by motor ear and admitted to the Cook Hospital dor treatment. He passed a (ood night and his condition this morning was much the same as when admitted. >lr. Chamberlain’s Successor The, possibility of a successor to Mr. Neville Chamberlain was mentioned by Mr. F. W. Doidge, M.P. for fauranga, addressing the Wellington Rotary Club. Mr. Doidge said that he recently received a letter from a member of the House of Commons, who said that the younger members of the House “made a book” one evening on a successor to the Prime Minister should Mr. Chamberlain by any chance retire. They had come to the conclusion that the odds were as follows: —Lord Halifax. 7 to 1: Mr. Anthony Eden, 12 to 1: Sir John Simon, 20 to 1: Sir Samuel Hoare, 15 to 1; and Mr. Churchill, 40 to 1; As far as the Munich and Rome conferences were concerned, Lord Halifax had remained in the background, but recently he had been coming very much to the front and had made a deep impression. New Zealand's Press "In New Zealand you have an ex.raordinarily good press,” said Mr. F. W. Doidge, M.P. for Tauranga, addressing the Wellington Rotary Club an “Fleet. Street.” He said he had returned from Fleet street with a sincere admiration for the press of New Zealand. The newspapers here were well produced, well edited, and well informed. Criticism was sometimes heard about the press as far as politics were concerned, but the people themselves could apply the "acid test.” If they listened to Parliamentary debates over the air for an hour and heard some of the "babbling imbecilities” they would wonder how the newspapers could ever make sense of the speeches. (Laughter.) In New Zealand the newspapers were actuated by a desire to give every man a “fair show" and he did not think that any public man had cause for complaint. He mentioned that in England sometimes the whole day’s proceedings of the House of Commons was confined to half a column in the press. The newspapers there published only the news in the proceedings.

Stranger than Fiction The motorist who tells a future generation of the great snowstorm of 1939 will have small chances of being believed when he describes how he was compelled to abandon his car on Mount Cargill and how, on returning to the spot, he was unable to find it because it was buried under a snowdrift. Unfortunately for him, says the Otago Daily Times, this particular motorist had also omitted to drain his radiator before leaving the car, and when the vehicle was finally uncovered he found to his chagrin that the radiator had burst and was beyond repair. The same motorist will probably have equal difficulty in persuading his listeners lo believe that a traffic officer, on alighting from his car in the same locality at the height of the storm, slipped and was blown along for a distance of 15ft. before he was brought up against a fence. He crawled back on his hands and knees to find, when he reached his car, that he had icicles hanging, of all places, from his eyelashes. Credence might be lent to these talcs, however, by photographs of snowdrifts near the Brown House reaching to the top of some macrocarpas 20ft. high.