NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20051, 25 September 1939, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

The Spring Equinox The first day of the calendar season of spring occurred yesterday, when the sun reached the vernal equinoctial colure and passed from the northern to the southern celestial hemisphere. Day and night, reckoned in apparent solar time, was yesterday to be of equal length all over the globe, a fact which provided the origin of the word "equinox ”

Basketball Wind-Up As a wind-up to the 1939 basketball season the Poverty Bay Basketball Association has arranged a games evening to be held on the Victoria Domain courts to-morrow. Games ol various kinds will be organised and the opportunity will be taken to present trophies won during the season. In the event of wet weather the function will be held in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium.

Cars on Railway Track A complaint that motor cars had been left unattended across the railway track near the board’s sheds was made to the Gisborne Harbour Board at its meeting to-day in a letter from the station-master-in-charge, Mr. J. W. Fergie, who stated that it was necessary for shunting to be delayed while tiie owners of the cars were located and the vehicles .removed. The chairman, Mr. A. J. Nicol, stated that the board had instructed the wharfinger to keep the line clear.

Remand Granted When Robert Cadzon Fisken appeared before Messrs. Chas. Matthews and A. A. Fraser, J.Ps., in the Police Court this morning, and pleaded not guilty to charges of being in charge of a motor car while intoxicated, and with failing to keep as near as practicable to the lefthand side of the road, an application for a remand until Wednesday was made by Senior-Sergeant J. H. F. Macnamara, who stated that the police would have to get witnesses together. Mr. L, T. Burnard, for the accused, asked that the case be proceeded with to-day, but the Bench granted the remand asked for.