NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Whangarei Show Proposal The Whangarei Agricultural .and Pastoral Society is taking steps to raise by a bond issue the £9OOO necessary for financing the erection of the proposed new winter show buildings.

Lectures to Cease A decision to discontinue the series of Workers’ Educational Association, lectures on international affairs in Hamilton owing to lack of support'' has been announced by Mr. F. A. de la Mare, the chairman of the Hamilton branch of the association. Mr de la Mare said he was sorry that’ greater interest had not been taken in the lectures.

Church Celebrations A largo number of members of the Church of Christ and 1 friends attended the opening service of the twentieth anniversary celebrations held in the Roebuck road chapel last evening. Pastor Theodore Edwards pleased all with his encouraging message and he had the opportunity. of meeting many members of the congregation When -upper was served' at the close of he service. Maori Land Development As a result of an extension of land development activities in the Rotorua district the headquarters of the Bay of Plenty section of the land development office of the Land and Survey Department has been moved from Thornton, oufside Whakatane. to Rotorua. The office staff of nine, with the six overseers in charge of land development undertakings, is now established at Rotorua under Mr. A. M. Linton, chief land deelopment officer for th e area. Petrol Siphoned from Cars

The recent increase in the price of petrol has brought about an unwillingness on the part of some person or persons io pay for petrol at all, according to a Christchurch business man. He said that on a recent night eight gallons of petrol were siphoned from his car while it was standing in a city street, and the person who took the petrol did not leave enough in the tank for the vehicle to be driven to a service station a short distance away. A friend of his had 12 .gallons stolen, and he had been told of other similar .incidents. Fruit for Porirua Recently Mrs. W. E. Goffe, on behalf of the Women’s National Reserve, Gisborne, disp.atcued three cases of apples and another case comprising lemons, biscuits, sweets, iams, tinned fish, tinned fruit, magazines and fancy work to the Porirua Mental Hospital. An acknowledgement has been received from the acting medical superintendent, who states that the gifts were distributed among the female patients and were a great source of pleasure to them. Sincere thanks were extended to the reserve for the donation, which was very acceptable.

Taxation in New Zealand The possibility that the limit of taxation had not been reached in New Zealand was mentioned by Mr. W. M. C. Denham, M.P., at the annual social of the Southland section of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association. "1 don’t know that we are quite finished with taxation yet,” said Mr. Denham. “There may be some more jerks coming for the higher-paid people. We want £5,000,000 fbr defence, and we want money for the iron and steel works at Onekaka, so that we will be saved the necessity of importing. The individual will perhaps, say that we have hit him pretty hard, but the taxation will benefit the country as a whole. If we go down and you elect in our places other people with another political philosophy, the bondholders will say that the standard of living must be reduced. We say dial it is 11 oi nooossary to out the standard of living and close factories simply because the bondholders tell us that our finance is not sound. There are some people who are slow to understand the great issues at stake.”