NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

Vegetable Production A. total bf,lQ,ooo. extra acres o,f vegetables..would, be grown this year and 1501000.000. cans of various kinds of primary products would be produced, said the late Minister of Primary Production. Mr. W, J. Poison, addressing the Makara-Hutt Valley Farmers’ Union recently. Demand For Seized LiqUor BottleS 6f whisky .lirbug'lit u'p.to £2 each at' is sale of spirits impOiihded by the Custom*, m, Auckland, . About 40 bottles were offered, • and approximately the-saxhe quantity of brandy and gin. Brandy realised up to 35s and gin 315.,. High prices were, also paid for parcels., of. 000. ■American cigarettes.- one dssorted'parcel- bringing ; £2L-,155,. the, rest .selling .at £2 7s. Gd. These ,: .two... categories brought most, attention from buyers. Hospital T&ytyloii v y" A., i,’yhe appeal Jythe Board .of. .representations to the Government for, an alteration in the incidence of Nation for hospital mairfteriahee and'construction drew 32 replies from other -local bodies. 2-1 being, in favour, of the .proposal. The Christchurch City .'Council and seven borough councils-left the matter to the Municipal .Association and the Counties’ Association. Every county council that htid replied supported the representations. Shore.a.fliijibn §heep. .. .

Mr William (“Bullocky Bill’’) Hamilton. who was a shearer for 45 years and on hip own. ,'calculations has shorn. 1:000,000 sheep, lias retired from shearing' at the age of GO. He is now 1 a Sydney watersider. He travelled ell over Australia and New Zealand, following the shearing .from shed to shed. He broke a record at Springfield, Australia, where oyer n period of 15 weeks he/.shore .nearly 200 a day. .At Dalingra,..Australia, he broke a record for shearing rams.

Fined for Theft For the theft of two bridles and an axe, , Paa Ngere Ngere, aged 21, a labourer, was fined £4 and ordered to make restitution of 17s Gd, by Mr. E. L. Walton, 5.M.,,,in the Ruatoria Police Court. Through his counsel. Mr. J, Todd, .the .accused pleaded guilty. On a charge of dangerous driving, to which he pleaded guilty. James Koha, a labourer, .was . fined £5 rind costs 17s. For. riding a horse on the wrong side of the road and causihg injury to Frederick; Ransley. Hiro Huriwai, an 18-year-old Maori girl, was convicted and ordered to pay costs, 12s.

Position Desperate J “The position at P.otorua is desperate,’’said Mri F. Findlay,' chairman of the Waikato Hospital Board, when referring to the need for further, accommodation at the Rotorua Hospital, Mr. Findlay said , that 1500 , out-patiepts were treated ~at the hospital each month and the number sometimes reached 70 a day. There suitable waiting room, and patients had to wait and undress in the corridor. Mr. J. Banks said. itKe. town, medical Service was under-staffed, and hospital doctors were called' out to attend emergency cases. The board authorised the erection of additional accommodation for out-patients. !' Mounted Rifles Reunion The annual, reunion of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, First N.Z.E.F.,, was held in Le . Grand Cafe on Saturday night. The attendance .of ,47 was smaller than usual, because of military duties and petrol restrictions., but visitors from Pahiatiia, Levin, Nuhaka and the East Coast Vverg present. Lieutenant L. G. Woodward Was in the chair. A special sale of a trophy donated by the L.V.A. realised a.total of £lB after being bought and reoffered by most of those present. The proceeds are to be forwarded to the Institute for the Blind, Auckland. The regimental trophy was presented t 6 Mr. Ben Draper. Pahiatua, amidst applause. The usual toasts were honoured, with the following speakers: Major E. R. Black. Lieutenants L. G. Woodward, R. C. Tuke, A. It. Bnrwiek, and A. IT. Miller, Messrs. R. Graham, C. Nurse, James, C. Maunsell and O. G. James.

Y.M.C.A. in Die Desert “They are a good crowd, the Y.M.C.A.,” stales a letter from a Gisborne soldier in the Middle East recently received by his mother. “The Y.M.C.A. is right up with us all- the time, and one can get New Zealand tobacco and chocolate all the time. Never, be frightened to help them; they are genuine.”. This assists to amplify the report of a senior Presbyterian chaplain who, in a recent letter, stated that oh a trip to the desert he saw Y.M.C.A. men with loaded trucks and canteens taking supplies to soldiers in every part of the field. The organisation of the work and distribution of supplies could hardly have been better, while the abundance of supplies, the liberality and regularity of the distributions were surprising. Few men worked harder, or faced more dangers on a battlefield than the travelling Y.M.C.A, man.