Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 5 November 1924, Page 4

Local and General

In the House yesterday was introduced a Ffnar.ce' hill, which authorises the Government to raise an additional .1'..'.000,000 for public works and to extend the amount which may ho placed at the disposal of the Advances Department in any one year to 1.-ot more than £5,900,003. Mr. Massey said he did not think it wise to reduce taxation on racing clues thi- year, but would bring down proposal's next year.—Special.

Expei iments at Motimka suggest that ‘the gathering of apples ;,t an earlier stage than has been the_ease will assist ill preventing the collapse of the flesh oi the fruit.

The Horticultural Society arc again getting ready to give the public of Gisborne —especially those interested in flowers a display tlu-y will greatly appreciate—in the City llall to-mor-row.’ 3

The Giri Guide movement which has been .-tai’Ud in Gisborne is becoming very popular, there being now over one hundred enrolments. It is proposed to hold a camp during the Christmas holidays.

Tim contractors of the Dunedin Exhibition are well ahead of time with the buildings, on which 10b men are now' i mulcted, The total area, of the buildings that are partially erected, exclusive of the eomvrt hall, is twelve acres.

The Auckland Harbor Heard lias appointed l! i following as a comis.sioii i:i investigate the collapse of the westein wharf :--.Mr F. W. Furkert. Gilder Secretary of Public Works and Mr Cvrus Williams, engineer to tlm Lyttelton Harbor Board.-—P.A.

To-morrow, at the corner ot Palmerston Hoad and Bright Street, Mr. Fred. Gray w.ll hold an auction stile of building timber, corrugated iron, etc. The t imber lias been card idly -taken down-aml i- ready ior immediate use. The sale commences i.l I o'clock sharp.*

•Judgment by default w.tli costs for plainlills was entered by Messrs. G. Wildish and I). Briior Watt. J.VIL. in tie following civil vasts yesterday: Bert Littler v. Xe'oi llimiki I’d, costs C'.'! 0s; Thomas Henry (liu relt v. Chillies Ferris, Cl -is, costs Cl 11s (id; Win. G. Crompton v. Francis C. Pedersen, fcll -Is lid. costs C2 -Is.

' He was hanging on to a lamp-past and was utterly incapable of standing up,” said Soiiior-Sergt. Fitzpatrick in the Police Court yesterday, when a young man 21) y ears of age—a first offender—pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness. Mr. I). Bruce Watt. 1.1’., who was oil the Bench, lined the offender 20s.

A motorist 1 famed Alexander Edward Sherri®, who was caught passing a tramc.tr on the wrong side, appealed be fere Mr. D. Bruce Watt, •J.P., in the Police Court yesterday. .—'fhc defendant, who pleaded guilty, stated that lie was following behind the tram and had almost passed before be realised, that be was doing Wrong.—-Senior-Sergeant Fitzpatrick stilted that the offence va.-.s not an r.g- ---> gram tod one.—A fine of 10s was inir •posed.

Second-class lands in block 2 of the Motu survey district which have been opened for sale or selection, arc as follows; Sections 18 and 19, area 97 acres 2 roods -’SO porches, capital value £190: occupation with right of renewable lease.’ Sections 20 and"2l. r.i ra 98 acres 2 roods 31 perches, capital value £195,: occupation with right of ptirclia.se. This land is situated about one mile from Motu township a.nd four miles from the Motuliora railway station.

Motor ’buses may very soon bo run. in Sydney by tbe Tramways Department. There have been no extensions of tran:lines for some time. Several projected extensions have been approved (says tbe Sydney Morning Herald), but no steps have yet been taken toward their construction; nor, with so much money needed to maintain the efficiency of the rolling stock and to carry out necessary improvements to existing services, does there seem much likelihood of any new tramlines being laid for, at least, nianv months to come.

A Southern farmer recently express- j o.d Ms dissatisfaction nt tiie manner in which Xew Zealand mutton and, lnmh were handled at Honolulu. The tr,cat, he said, was nicely wrapped on ; being shinned, but when it was being i discharged at the Ssiand port it was, duinncd down roughly on the wharf , and carried away to depots in open j vciimle* As :\ result of such treat- j mont it soon 1 lost its fresh and at- < tractive apnearar.cc. In spite of this 1 disadvantage, however, he was glad . to he able to eat Xew Zealand meat ' at Honolulu, and also Xew Zealand . butter. j I

I i ! ■ j : i ! i I . i ! The Kia Ora Dairy factory returns for October show a considerable increase over the figures for the corresponding period last year, despite tr,; ■ fact that full output capacity has r.ot 1 yet been reached because some cows : have not vet conic into profit- I)ar- : ing October 215,5651bs of butter were | made, as against 151 ; 632!bs for the ‘corresponding period of last year, an increase of 23.9361b5, or close upon 11 j tons. The pav-out is being maiivtain- : cd at Is 4d per pound of butter-fat, : which mc-ans that cheques totalling i £12,000' will be sent out to suppliers i for their cream. At present London i prices, the value of the butter made : during October is approximately £21,j 500.

Apparently business in the country up Auckland way is not booming at th? present time. Three farmers came before the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland on claims for debt, and two of them had found things so hopeless that they had left their farms to the oversight of more lucky neighbors, and .were working out, to find enough money to keep their fant.hes going. The third husbandman was still on the farm, but was in still worse circumstances than the others, ior his income of £35 a month from the cows was more than offset by a rent of £36. So order was made against tliem.

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The beamin'.! -weather experienced here the last few days should help to make the ljpse. Show in the City Hall to-morrow a most successful function. The Society an* to have an exquisite display which those attending should thoroughly enjoy.* ! i Condensed milk is a commodity ! which would not be regarded as likely j to rind a ready market in the centre lof an agricultural district. Surprise was accordingly expressed hv over ICO ! dairy fanners who attended a stock 1 sale at Claudelands, Waikato, on finding that the caterer at the reireshinont booth was supplying condensed milk with the ten.

Then.' is no power to compel a person v.'iio breaks a by-law to guv Ins name or address lo a constable. At the Municipal Conference a remit from Ji.iccartoii was passed urging that provision be made in the Police Offences Act, or some oilier Act, enabling arrest in cases where names were refused to a constable or police officer.

A Martens motorist is proud of his : ear and linings but regrets, tiiat those more interested in the “Sport ot Kings do not coniine themselves to ‘‘lifting’’ something good from the tote. He visitul the V'a verity mootin sind was disconcerted whom he discovered, when about to make the return journey, that certain fittings, cheap though essential, had been : taken away. Ht- is generous enough in expressing the hope that the in- | dividual guilty of this despicable act j will not be similarly handicapped. I

“Owing to the unappetising color of the borough valor I have been reluctantly compelled to slake my thirst with a stronger and less wholesome beverage.’' Thus a Devonporl ratepayer writing to the Council. Ho also animadverted on the unsatisfactory result of the family wash from •Mi aesthetic point of view. The engineer explained that a- new main had recently been laid in the street, and he would investigate the complainant's meter, which was probably out of rhythm with the force of the new supply.

The committee in charge of the arrangements for the New Zealand brass bauds' championship contest, to be held at Auckland next February, has decided that the band contests shall he held in the Domain. The solos will be held in small halls in the city, the cornet championship of the Dominion in the Town Hall, and the quickstep and tests in the Domain. 'i'or the cornet competition a handsome quadruple gold-plated cornet, valued at fifty-five guineas, lias been l given by Colin, lad., of America, in conjunction with Messrs Lewis 11. 10adv and Sen. of Auckland. Among the bands which have already entered for the contest is the 'Wara.trh Municipal Hand, of Hamilton, Victoria.

A good story was told by Archbishop Julius during his address at the Presbyterian conversazione at Christchurch, .lie said that on one occasion while be was travelling, six big Scotsmen waited on him and said they had a complaint to make against, the Dishop of Dunedin. He replied that it was not his business to hoar complaints against the Bishop of Dun. din but he would listen to what they haul to sav They-s:ii(l the Bishop of Dunedin was endeavoring to establish the Church of Kr.gl.and in Otago, which belonged to the Presbyterians. "Bight. I'm with you,’’ replied 11 is Grace, “in anything that will help me to get the Presbyterians out of Canterbury.”

A Dunedin resident who went to London to undergo insulin treatment in Gii}’’> Hospital says the charge was 21) guineas a week for the first week and ] I guineas a week for the rest of the. term of three weeks. The doctor in charge explained that once a person started on insulin he must keep it going for Ins life. Insulin did not cure; it simply held op the disease. The Dunediil patient took large quantities of ISO units in the morning and 13 in the evening. In the morning the doctor put- it in one leg, and in the afternoon in the other, raid, next day in the upper arms in turn. 1 The doctor had, never had a failure to date, the Dunedin mail says, and he ■saw some wonderful results, hut the treatment did not seem to agree with him. and he had to" cut it out. At the samn time he ga've insulin credit for improving him.

Tin' ways of the American people in regard to many things are usually reckoned hy the more stolid Britisher as freakish. A recent visitor to Honolulu told a Gisborne Times reporter that lie happened to hit Honolulu during a carnival week. One of the stunts put on was to piece lads in charge of the various civic activities for "a day. There was a lad in charge of the municipal cilices; another lad took over the city s police: still another lad was in charge of the traffic. And so on. These lads had, of course, had some preparatory training, hut, for all that, they carried out their duties in a rcn:nrknl>lv capable manner. It was not difficult to see, added the visitor, that the people were justly proud of their juvenile temporary rdministrc.tors. He had learned, too, that, on that particular day, the p.onle were most careful to he oii their verv best behaviour!

. It is interesting to record that it is the opinion of a New Zealander who recently toured Great Britain that quite a wrong impression' exists in the Dominion with reference to the amount of unemployment, at Home

and the methods that '.are in vogue to deal with it. He remarked to a Gisborne Times reporter yesterday that the word “doles,” for instance, should to-day not be used. Immediately after the close of the Great Mar, it wsv? quite true that the weekly payments to the workjess were iiv the nature of doles. But, now. the fund from which the out-cf-woi'k prvn cuts were made was only partly subscribed to by the Government. The fact of the* matter was that workers, employers and Government all contributed to the fund and, if a. man found himself out of work, lie had a right to financial help. Asked as to the extent of unemployment at Home, he ■ a cl that no doubt the official figures were correct. But on journeying about one did not see a great many of the workless. In the qdenes outside the so-called ‘doles” offices, it was noticeable that a great proportion of those wanting their turn were somewhat elderly.

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Yhe cable news in this issue accredited to the London "Times” has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of the “Times.”

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