Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9854, 6 November 1924, Page 4

Local and General

The Horticultural Society is again getting ready to give tbe public of Gisborne—especially those interested in flowers—a display they will greatly appreciate in the City Hall to--dav.

The Horticultural Society is hard at work getting ready to give the public of Gisborne a beautiful display of roses to-day in the City Hail. The exhibition will lie the best yet seen in Gisborne.

Thejfl.se has been an emblem of love for CQpturies. Such is its place? in the bean? of the British Nation. Some perfect specimens of this most loved of air flowers will be seen at the Horticultural Society’s Bose Shew in tbe Til tv Hall to day.

The directors of the South Seas Exhibition have appointed Mr, Scott Codvilie commisioner of the exhibition' to proceed to Australia to enter into negotiations for tbe disposal of tbe “Wonderland Park/’ and also to attend to other matters connected with the exhibition. Mr. Colville has also been appointed'director of all atrr.c-t----ions hold during the period of the exhibition. The official opening of the season ot> Waiknnae beach will take place this afternoon, the ceremony being pci formed bv the Mayor at 3 p.m. The beach should present a very ani- ► mated scene both in the afternoon and the evening. A special comfinittce lias arranged games for the children, and there will be attractive ice cream, sweets and soft drink stalls. In the evening the Gisborne City Band will play select.ons, commencing at 8 o’clock.

At Christchurch yesterday Dr. Thacker 'asked at the meeting of the Harbor Beard why the warship Dunedin had not boon welcomed on arrival at Lyttelton. The chairman replied that the Dunedin had been given a welcome .when she was with the service squadron. .Dr. Thacker: But she’s our ship now. It’s a shame. After discussion the Board, decided to suggest to the Mayor of Christchurch that entertainments for tile men might be arranged.— I'.A.

At the Auckland Police Court yesterday. Mina Mary Lang, ‘22 years of age. who is believed to he identical with a young woman who gained some notoriety in Christchurch by absconding while on probation, and allegedly ’misappropriating over £IOO of her employer’s’ money, appeared on a charge of having obtained goods valued t £lO 11s 4d from John Court, Limited, drapers, by representing she had an account at the hank in Invercargill. Accused was remanded for a week, bail being refused.—l’. A.

Tn reply to representations in ’Wellington that if the San Francisco steamer’s departure is decayed a day business people would be able to reply by the outward mail, the postal authorities point out that one day would benefit Wellington only, but other places would require up to three, and this would dislocate connections in America. Already it is difficult to get New Zealand mails handled there promptly, and tiic holding up of steamers here would disarrange everything.—P. A.

An eel, five feet, in length, and thirty- nine pounds in weight, was wallowing in oi.'e of the ponds, usually reserved for goldfish at the Christchurch Gardens the other day.( states the ••Christchurch Press’ 7 , tie was brought ill from the country, and lie looked rather seedy, belore Mr. 1). Hope placed him- in the-water. The “back'to Nature” treatment worked wonders, yr.b after his huge head had been gently massaged, lie began to wallow around the; pond in the improved manner. A plaster cast of the monster, which has an immense giitli. will probably be made for the Museum.

A motorist named John Wallace appeared before Messrs E. P. Mountfort and E. Harper. JdsP., in the Police Court- yesterday on a charge of driving a car along Gladstone Road in a manner dangerous to the public. The defendant p’eaded guilty tr> the offence. Evidence was given bv Constable Innas to the effect that the. defendant had attempted to drive between two other cars. The first two cars increased the pace and defendant then speeded up and passed them at about 2o miles an hour, at. which pace the car also crossed an intersection.-—“ The constable was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said the defendant, who explained that the speed was . maintained only over a short distance where there was no other traffic.—A fine of 20s was imposed.

The producers of this Domuiicu will be pleased to learn, on the authority of one who has access to quarters that are well-informed, that there is every likelihood of the present satisfactory prices for wool holding. He informed- a Gisborne Times reporter yesterday that he found, oiv a recent visit to Britain that the wool merchants are very pleased with the way in which the European situation is straightening itself out. The Continent was very short of both raw and nuiniifactnred wool and it was beyond question that a very large proportion of the new clips would be wanted by Germany, France and' other European countries. It was also well-known that next year much larger quantities of the coarser wool would he sent over to the Continent to be transformed into tops and, afterwards, it would be further worked up at Home. The explanation of that state of affairs was that labor was very cheap, on the Continent nr.d the hours of work much longer.

’ lthau'ih the figures may seem incredible, ~\Fr Mainland Foster who lias just returned from a visit to California, states that on a, given Sunday a running tally was taken of the number of motor-ears whcli passed through a town called Redwood City, which is on the arterial route going south from San Francisco and lends to many holiday resorts. The number cf cars recorded as passing through was 40,000 for the ore day which with an average of say four persons to a car, would give 160,000 persons passing to and fro. This is on one route only, and from Mr Foster’s own observation of fhe Sunday traffic in this one locality he believes that full credence can Ini given to the figures. In support of these figures it must ho remembered that the combined population alone of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkley numbers well oyer a million, which is about eqtiivalenT 1;o the whole of the population of New Zealand. In every direction the beautiful bitumen roads are being widened to accomodate the rapidlyincreasing traffic so.that cars can go and come two abreast. ; Of a Sunday night particularly, the 'effect of the continuously moving head lights is eerie in the oxtreme.

“With more, desire for alliteration than truthfulness, an* exchange refers to the ‘poor, pestered, pursued, and panting pedestrian.’ Per contra, the perverse and pampered peripatetic populace is a perennial peril to the /patient and persecuted people who. peregrinate on petrol.” —Cape limes.

The Public Works 'Department staff is now engaged in reopening the new road over the Tatapouri Hill which j was completely blocked by a huge, landslip winch came, down some months ago. A gang of men has been i put on to make a road over the too of tbe slip, the new, line running inbetween the old road and the one covered by the slip, joining the new road a few chains up the hill. the smaller slips which came down higher up have all been removed.

An opponent of racing in the House ; said that New Zealand had a cor- j tain number of racing days and that the number was too m-ar.y. Probably, if lie took the trouble to work the thing out before making a statement of the kind be would find that he was very wide of the mark in the impression he wishes to create, as many of the so-called racing days fall on the one day. For instance the Christm.ias, New Year. Easter, arAl other holidays used up so many of the days that nretty near all the ground is cut from under the feet of those who desire the public to believe that New Zealand is "a place where there is nothing gut racing all the year round.

“When the baggage of Lady Hamilton was landed at Palermo, Lord Nelson’s coxswain was very active ill conveying it to the Ambassador’s hotel." - Lady Hamilton observed this, and presenting the man- with a moidcro, said -. ‘Now, my friend, what will you have to drink:-” “Why, please your honor,” said the coxswain, “I am not thirsty.” “But,” said her ladyship, “Nelson’s steersman must drink with me, so what will you take, a dram, a glass of grog, or a glass of punch?” “Why,” said Jade, “as I am to drink with your ladyship’s honor, it wouldn’t be good manners to be backward, so I’ll take the dram new. and will be drinking the glass of grog, while jour ladyship is mixing the tumbler of punch foi me.”