Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9847, 28 October 1924, Page 4

Local and General

The Scoti.sli Sdciety will celebrate Hallowe’en in the City Hall on the evening of October 31, and members are invited by advertisement to assist with donations.

All intending exhibitors for the Poverty Bay Horticultural Society s rose show 7 aro reminded that all entries close with the secretary on Monday, November 3.

The Karroo, 6127 tons, the largest vessel to enter Wanganui, was easily berthed at CastleelifF wharf on Sunday. She has 1100 tons of American cargo for discharge there. There continues to he improvement m the channel. —P. A.

Labor Day was observed as a holiday yesterday by the banks, Government offices and lactones, but the shops and warehouses remained open, and will close on Wednesday, people s show day, which will he observed us a whole holiday.

In reply to Mr Hamm Mr Massey said in the House last night that tho Licensing Bill was being drafted and he would state in a few nays whether or not it would be gone on with this session.—P.A(

The savings bank returns for the, September quarter show that the deposits in Gisborne totalled £ 190,064, and 1 the withdrawals £150,024. In most other centres the withdrawals exceeded the deposits.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s- issue tnac the due date of payment or Land-tax for the current year is on Friday the 7th day of November, and that the demands will ho posted on or about the 31st of October,

There lias come to hand a specimen copy of tlie first number of ‘ ‘ tiie Young New Zealander and Schools Gazette.” It contains numerous articles that will prove instructive to juveniles. The Nature Study section is very interesting. There are also several articles dealing with Home Science, as, for instance, “A Dirty Little Enemy: The Housefly,” and “Disease in the Mouth.” r lhc general reading matter is on a high scale.

“The popularity of the show has waned somewhat of late, and I think we have be-on trying to gel too much i from The children to make it up,’ said Jflr T. R. Kodder when supportin<wii proposal for the admission of sdfool children and-those between 7 v®>rs and 15 years to the i\la.nawatu # and' P. Show for Gd. It was surprising, the speaker added, how many I youths reduced their age to 15 on show days, some of them displaying quite a lot of “down” on their upper lip. and when questioned were found to have left school some time.

Wc have to acknowledge the receipt of a complimentary copy of the Christmas Number of the Auckland "Weekly News. It is as usual a most worthy souvenir of this Dominion, beir.g resplendent with reproductions of tiie life, industry and plea.su res "of its people.' Two original stories are included —“Morning Glory.” by Hilda Keane, and “The Summerhouse,” by Edith Howes. A suitable presentation plate goes with the number. Copies are bound to be widely sought after, not only by those who love their beautiful country, but also by those who have relatives and friends abroad.

On Friday of this week at 11 a.m., the auction sale of Nelson’s wellknown Tarulieru property will be held in the Masonic Hotel Buildings, Gladstone Road. The property has been sub-divided into 39 blocks, of which 32 will he offered at auction. The areas vary from two to 15 acres and the blocks are suitable for suburban homes, mnrkef gardening, dairy and poultry farming, orchards, or holding paddocks. As low reserves and easy terms have been fixed, there will doubtless be a keen demand, especially for those blocks with dwellings ai.d buildings.*..*

At the monthly meeting of the Gisborne Prohibition League, the J allowing resolution was unanimously adopted: “That the Gisborne Prohibition League respectfully requests the New Zealand Alliance Standing Committee to use every influence of Parliament to prevent the proposals of the committee of the House, re granting licenses in the King Country and the distribution of licenses from towns where they are not needed to progressive towns and centres ot populations; also to strenuously oppose anv extensions of the time betwen the taking of the Prohibition elections.”

Two bluejackets carried t-lie late Admiral Percy Scott’s cremated remains aboard the destroyer Truant on Friday last. The urn was placed in the stern .and • covered with a Union Jack. The licet dipped ensigns. After a simple service the urn Was dropped overboard near Nab lighthouse. The arrangements were that the remains of the late Admiral Sir Percy Scott would he cremated on Thursday, after a. funeral service at St. Margaret’s, Westminster. A cruiser was then to t.a.ke the ash.es of the deceased Admiral 20 miles off the Nab lighthouse. There they were to be committed to tlie sea with . full naval honors.

The wow schedule of salaries of senior officers of the New Zealand Military Forces has been issued. The chief ‘grades are:—Major-General, £lOOl per annum, rising to £1092 after one year: colonel or colonelcommandant. £765, rising by stages to £791 in the fourth wear; lieutenant colonel, £630 to £730: major, £490 to £590; captain, £385 to £455; lieutenant, £290 to £355; second lieutenant, £290 to £355. The pay for non-commissioned' officers is scheduled as follows: —Warrant officer, Class 1, £315 single £345 married; warrant officer, class 2, £295 single, £320 married; staff sergeant-instruc-tor, £270 and £295; sniff sergeant, £245 .and £275.

Anticipating the sanctioning of the Cook County 1 oan proposals, the Public Work’s Department staff are engaged on surveys for formation work on the East Const road. . A number of small deviations in tho present roads are to be made, avid are now being “pegged out,” so that in tho event of the loan being carried the metalling operations will, not bo hold np on account of formation work. Metal for the road Ist to bo obtained from. WhaWgara Island, and it is probable that a track will bo made from the road leading to tho island 1 to a point on the main road some distance below the Whangara hotel. Although this track will necessitate the construction of a bridge about 70 foot long, it would result in a saving in distance of about a mile and a half in the haulage of tlie spawls.

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