NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1924, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The fact that the captain of the Poverty Bay Soccer team, E. Woodrow, is minus an arm, was not lost upon His Excellency the Governor(leiieral, when he was introduced prior to a match til Gisborne fstutes the “Poverty Bay Herald"). "lou’re pretty .game to play with a handicap like that,” said His Exeelency. “May 1 ask how you lost your arm?” When informed that the missing limb bad been left at Messines, His Excellency remarked. “Well, all I can say is that you are very game, and a very line sport.”

“M. Ilerriot is the most un-French of Frenchmen. It is hard to say whether it is in physical appearance or in philosophic outlook that he is more un-French. The massive head and broad-shoulders, snub nose, roughtrimmed moustache, loose tweed clothes and heavily soled boots, and his general disregard for the elegancies of attire would mark him out, say. on the promenade deck of a trans-Atlantic liner as a successful business man from the North of England or the Middle West. His mental make-up is a typically modern compound. II is culture is exquisitely French, for his high scholarship is acknowledged. His ideals and sympathies are characteristically Anglo-Saxon." —••Manchester Guardian's” Paris correspondent.

Travelling oil a train from Wangaiinni to Palmerston North the other day (relates the “Mnmiwatu Daily ’limes”) were a well-dressed ardent couple, and throughout the journey they amused their fellow passengers with their cooing. Alter a while the fair young thing leaned back in her seat and fell asleep, while the young man took advantage of the respite to adjourn lo the smoker for a cigar. While he was away, a tall, thin, grizzly man came in ami sal down in the vacant seat beside the sleeping beauty. Presently she stirred in her dreams, and laid hothead lovinglv upon the shoulder ol lhe straimer and placed her slim young arm around his neck. The stranger appeared surprised at this unexpected demonstration ol nlloetioli. but made no desperate effort io escape, merely grinning at the convulsed passengers. The outburst of hilarity awoke the yoiim r woman, who. upon opening hei eyes,"saw her mistake. With Hushing checks she stammered an apology. “Vi eedn't apologise to me.' drawled the Stranger. “I don't mind."

One of the tilings that has impressed Dr John Adams, the eminent educationalist, since his arrival in the Dominion, is the feeling of goodwill which prevailed between the two islands (says an exchange). Although thert* was rivalry, be said, it ilid not amount to bitterness, as in some part 01. America. " Why. in Minneapolis and St Paul." he said, “the feeling is so strong that. the people in Minneapolis will not use the New Testament, because it contains the name ol St Paul.

Some idea of tin- diHieulties confronting a local body desiring to cll'cct insurance was given at a recent meeting of the Gisborne Harbour Board (says the “Poverty Bay Herald"). That the hoard's policies for employers' liability were about to expire bail evidently become well known among local in-uranee companies was evident, lor the meeeting bad to consider applicat ions lor business Imm

P.t out of the 3‘t companies repre-eiit-ed in tie district. While the matter was not the subject of u lengthy discussion. members were ill diHieulties a s to where the business should be placed it being considered that agents who did business with the board, and also New Zealand companies. should receive preference. Another argument was that companies who bad taken the risk on the dredging plant coming from Australia should be i-ou-idered. In licit of Ibe d I llietl It les ot tile position. il ii a . el o „ led Iha I a I,allot should be held to decide the matter, and it was actually decided that this system sluuild be investigated next year. Before the end of the year the trials of the Bintang will be run. This Vessel. which is owned by the Nclhcrlnud Steamship Co., is a steamer which is Uuw undergoing conversion m Holland. She is 117 Ii 7iu in length, with a beam of o-lfl Tin. and lias a gross tonnage of it to-. The engine to lie installed is a .*)(,()tI h.li.p. six-cylinder Sulzer set. with cylinders 7(10 turn, bore ami BMP revolutions per minute. Il will be run at ’.tit revolutions per miuuute. The Bintang was built in lfllfl by the .Maat'chnppij Fyeuoord. The auxiliary plant to be installed will comprise two SO b.h.p. Sulzer airlcssinjectinii engines of a comparatively recent design, and these, running at

r.p.m. will drive JO k.w. dynamos for the production of current at 220 volts. A third set of the same type, but having four cylinders, will he coupled to an auxiliary high-pressure air compressor. 1 hi l speed, as in the previous instance, being •T2J r.p.m. In the ease oi the main engine, the usual Sulzer feature- arc incorporated, and blast inie-tion if fuel i- employed. Pressure lubrication is adonted lor tin* main hearing-, and ihe cro-sheads receive a supply ol oil iroin a separate pump. It may he added that this vessel is one of live si-tcr -hips built between 11*1(1 and BUS. fitted with four boilers apiece and having a coal hunker capacity of ]()!)(> tons. The indicated output of the Steam machinery is MOO h.p. and the consumption i- probably

to (50 tons daily, ajisiinst an oxpendoure of approximately IV. tons dailv"vfor the Hintang's till engineof greater power. The designed -peed of this class of vessel is 12 knots, which should he exceeded with the new machinery. On deck are fitted 1() winches for handling cargo. four holds being provided.