Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10317, 28 January 1927, Page 4

Local and General.

Nominations for the Tolaga Bay Jockey Club's annual meeting dose with the secretary (Mr. H. E. Dodd) at 8 o'clock to-night.

The Gisborne . Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting in the Borough Council Chambers this evening, at 7.30. Commencing to-day, dags denoting the position of candidates in the Queen contest, in connection with the Maeiae bath campaign, will be down at Townley’s Building.

To-night, at S o’clock, acceptances close with the secretary (Mr. H. E. Dodd) tor all events for the tirst day of tiie Gisborue Racing Club's summer meeting, to be held on the Park racecourse on February 3 and 5.

After a week of very sultry weather. the temperature in Alas ter ton early yesterday afternoon registered a fraction over 90 degrees. As a result of the dry spell, restrictions are being placed on the use of the borough water supply.—P.A.

Found sleeping under a tree in an enclosed garden in Peel Street «.t 3.30 yesterday morning resulted in Thomas Livingstone, alias Thomas tokes appearing at the Magistrate's Court later in the day before Mr. E, C. Levvev, S.M. Sergt. Dempsey said accused had several previous convictions registered against him. Accused was remanded for a week, the Magistrate warning him that unless he could show the, police within that time that he * was running straight, he would be sentenced to three months" imprisonment without an option.

Temperature readings in the shade at Gisborne yesterday were: 8 a.m., 80 degrees; noon, 82; 4 p.m., 82. Water consumers are warned, by advertisement in this issue, that unamended hoses and lawn sprinklers arejjprohibited, and that watering of ga/lenS must he done in moderation. i Three cases »f sunstroke have been Reported in the Morrinsville district during the past week. Two are those of children, and one that of a young man. All three patients live out oi the town. At Liberty Hall this evening a buelire party and dance will be held to swell the funds of the Whataupolco Queen in the Mcßae Bath fund campaign. Good prizes and a substantial kitty will be awarded the winners at cards and the dance afterward promises to tie a very bright any entertaining event indeed. yßeturns for the passenger .traffic /n the Gisborne-Motuhora railway fseetion for the month of January show an increase on returns for a similar period of last year. On the other hand,' while the number of sheep being trucked from Ngatapa shows a big increase, returns on the main line have fallen off. This, of course, is due to the unfavorable lamb fattening season. Should the influenza epidemic, now raging in Great Britain and the Continent, visit the Dominion, 'Wellington intends’to be prepared, and at a meeting of representatives of local authorities in the Wellington hospital district yesterday, the matter was discussed and steps* will be taken to see that committees are set up in the various districts and that their services are available it required.—i J .A.

One of the biggest road contracts which the Matakaoa County Council is now prosecuting is the formation of a main road to Cape Hun a way, which will have the effect of diverting the stock and produce from that locality to Hick’s Bay. The contractis worth £6OOO, and by the end of the season there will probably be a formed road right through to the Cape.

An unfortunate mishap occurred at the Childers Road Reserve yesterday to E. Hamilton, the crack Poverty 13av professional cyclist, .when competing at the Allies Cycle Club’s evening meeting. Hamilton was riding in the second heat of the half-mile cycle race and just as he was passing the field and looked a winner, he fell. He was taken to Hr. Kahlenberg, who ordered his removal to Cook Hospital, where it wqs found that he had broken his collarbone.

A meeting of Court Am. Gladstone, the Senior Court of T orestry, was presided over by Chief Rranger Bro. Pi. Allen. As a’ mark of respect to the memory of the late departed brother S. B. Oxenham, the court stood in silence. A new brother was initiated. Bro. W. F. Ingram was appointed delegate from this court to the annual conference, to be held in Wellington. A report was received from the president of the Juvenile Court on the progress made in the Order.

Cable advice from Sydney states that the A.M.P. Society’s ordinary new business for 1926 amounted to £13.978.163; and industrial £3,786,183; total £17,764,346. These figures show increases os £226.522 and £206,954 in the respective departments as compared with 1925, and are absolute records for the Society. The New Zealand branch-did £3.132,66S in the ordinary and £567,371 in the industrial department, and accounted for £241,097 of the total increase of £432,776 for the whole Society. *

At this week's fortnightly meeting of Court Jelticoe of the Foresters Lodge, Chief Banger Bro. G. Slade was in the chair. Also present were Past Chief Banger Bro. J. Green and the President Bro. C. Vaughan. The secretary reported that no new brothers were at present on the sick list. Next Monday night the court will be holding swimming races for the brothers at tiie diversion cut at 6.30 pan. The parents of the brothers were asked to be present if possible. The nomination of officers will take place uexi meeting.

The top course metalling of the Whangara-Tolaga section or the East Coast road is now being rapidly prosecuted, practically 10 miles of road having been surfaced as far as Knox’s quarry. The Public Works' Department staff is now engaged in top-dressing from the Tolaga hill forge to link up with the metalling at Knox’s, while the Uawa County Council staff still have about 1 j miles to top-dress, so that within three months there should be a good surfaced metalled road through to Tolaga. As a result of the Highways Board's visit up the Coast, when representations were made for an additional grant to complete the metalling m the Uawa County, recently £2OOO extra was feted by the Board for this work, and by careful administration the funds should now be sufficient to top-dress the road.

The proposal of the Cook County Council to spend £6OOO in formation work on the Kangaroo main highway during tlio coining winter was referred to the Resident Engineer of the Public Works Department Dir. G. Albertson) yesterday, when he stated that he assumed that the reason the Cook County wanted the Department to undertake the work was that ihe Department staff had done the . survey, and as the work required more supervision than the county engiueer could afford to give it. Ihe Department, he said, would be prepared to undertake the work in co-operation with the county. It was one ot the biggest reading schemes in -sight, and would be invaluable from an unemployment relief viewpoint as it would employ 40 to 50 men for a period of nearly six months. Another possible scheme that might be ready by the winter was the subdivision, etc., ot the Te Mora property.

The site of the suggested metal quarry at Motuhora from which local bodies in tins district could draw stone supplies tor road construction works, will be visited on Tuesday bv the Resident Engineer of. the Public "Works Department, and the engineers of the Gisborne Borough Council and the Cook and Waikohu Countv Councils. An inspection will bo made of the existing quarry and the adjoining hills, which comprise good metal-bearing country. Replying to questions yesterday, the Resident Engineer stated that even if an economical metal-hearing site was agreed upon by the other local bodies he did not think the Waikohu County would co-operate as the Council hail aiready opened up a quarry near that locality. If a good site were found or if the existing quarry could prouuee metal at a reasonable pviee. lie believed that the Public Works Department would co-operate with the local bodies in working it. The question of the Highways'Board purchasing or opening up a quarry there, of course, depended upon the cost of production of the metal.

Mr. D. C. iDnve) Hawkins, late of the Opotiki Hotel, has taken over the Lake House Hotel at Rotorua where he will ln> pleased to meet old frienus from Gisborne. A moderate