NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4511, 30 September 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Jack Haines QL1.6),, middleweight champion of Australia, easily defeated Artie Hay (10.13), light-heavy champion of New Zealand, in three rounds at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night.

Following the strong southwesterly gales for several days preceding Sunday, an electrical storm accompanied by torrential min' was experienced throughout the district on Sunday night. The rain was badlv needed for pastures and gardens.

“There are nearly 200 New Zealanders living on Norfolk Island, and I was surprised to meet so many who were born in Gisborne or had lived here,” said Miss Ream Woodward, who is visiting Gisborne after spending nearly three years on the island. “The total population is about 900 and I know them all, both islanders'-and mainlanders. Instead of saying “Good morning!” the greeting is ‘Whatawny you?’ meaning ‘How are you?’ ”

While walking across the Downs, in Sussex (reports “The Post’s” London correspondent), Mr. J. B. Merrett: noticed an old discarded plough lying by a fence. He knew it to he one of the earliest patterns made by Messrs P. and D. Duncan, of Christchurch. From its design it appeared to be over forty years old. Mr. Merrett found different parts stamped with the well-known mark, IJ.1 J . and D.D. Evidently years ago the plough had been shipped from New Zealand to England. Inquiry is being made to ascertain when the makers shipped their first plough from New Zealand. One old farmer says it came over from Canada many .years ago. and until its identity had been disclosed it was considered to be a Canadian implement.

The American motor ship Cari iso has arrived at Auckland with a cargo of fruit ease shooks (parts of boxes tied in bundles) for use in the New Zealand fruit export trade. Referring to the importation of shooks, Mr. H. Valder, managing director of Ellis and Bnrnand, Limited, timber mil'lers, Hamilton, stated that the shooks were imported because they were cheaper than the local article (states the Auckland “Herald”). Mr. Valder pointed out that while an import duty was imposed on the shooks when they arrived this duty was refunded when the timber went out of the country in the form of fruit cases. The high labour costs involved in producing shooks in New Zealand obliged the fruitgrowers to purchase abroad, where the handling of logs was easier than in New Zealand. The importation of fruit case shooks virtually free of duty had Ibeeu the subject of a long standing grievance of the timber millers, who recognised that the fruit industry could not stand the price of the local shooks under New Zealand labour, conditions.