NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 25 August 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Draper’s £2O Loss A thief with a nice discrimination in Shirt's, (pyjamas, socks and dressing gowns broke into the stoi’e of Mr. L. C. Kent, 'clothier and mercer, at Newton, Auckland, on Tuesday night and stole about £2O worth of goods.

Veterinary Surgeon for Wairoa

A recommendation that the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, be written to with a request that a veterinary surgeon- be permanently appointed to the Wairoa district was carried; unanimously at a meeting of the committee of the Wairoa County A. and P. Society yesterday.—Special. Wairoa A. and I*. Society A recommendation from the finance committee that the Meat Board's supervising graders be sent to London to gain first-hand knowledge of -the Itype -otf carcases.- Required from New Zealand was carried at a committee meeting of the Wairoa County A. and P. Society yesterday. "I think it is an excellent suggestion,” said Mr. T. M. Connell. “And a very important one too,” remarked Mr. S. A. Dickie. —Special. From Start to Finish

All singers, whether in choral or solo work, should realise that atmosphere commences from the very first note of the accompaniment and does not finish until the last chord is sounded, stated Mr. Len Barnes, Christchurch, judge of the music section at the Gisborne Competitions, when speaking to the audience last night. Competitors, therefore, should keep their position until the last note of the piano, and members of choirs should keep still for at least 15sec after the last note.

Board’s Purchase of Land The purchase of a section fronting on Bright street, and directly behind that occupied by the board’s Peel street buildings, was reported on at to-day’s meeting of th e Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board. The vendor of the property was the Gisborne Publishing Company, Limited, and the price £1750. The land is required for sub-station purposes, and satisfaction was expressed by the board at the conclusion of the purchase, at a figure substantially below that first discussed. The board’s new property Is occupied, in part only, by a tenant paying a rent which will provide a return of 3 per cent on the whole purchase price. The board confirmed the purchase, and complimented the chairman, Mr. F. R. Ball, upon the conduct of negotiations.

Fleas Help Australia ■Fleas- may save Australia £40,000,000 a year, the annual bill of damages presented' by the rabbit. Experiments in rabbit destruction have been going on for many years and ’the latest attack by ibhe Commonwealth Council of Scientific and Industrial Research was with a virus (myxamatosis cuniculi), discovered at Cambridge, England. This virus infects the rabbit with a fatal influenza, but -it is harmless to human beings and other animals. An area of 90 acres was fenced on Wardang Island, off the South Australian coast, and infected rabbits were loosed 1 among the local rabbit population. Tiie original inhabitants refused to associate with the newcomers and tthe experiment failed Now red rabbit fleas are to be used as “go-betweens,” and they are now being bred land observed an the council’® laboratories. If the observations are favourable they will be infected' and' loosed to bite their way to glory.