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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 229, 30 October 1930, Page 4

Tbe Rangitane arrived at Auckland at 3 p.m. to-day. Napier passengers proceed by express tram to-nigbt. The annual general meeting of the Napier Sailmg Club will be held in the Athenaeum Buildings at 8 p.m to-night. Two sharp eartbquake shocks were felt in Napier last night, the first takmg place at five minutes to six and the second a few nioments later. Mr Frank Garlick, single, aged 24, was admitted to the Christchurch IIospital last evening suffering from head lnjurics and sllock, the result of a crash when lie rode his motor cvcle mto the side of a tram trailer, His condition is serious.— Press AsoUation. The executive couucil of thc New Zealand Farmers' Union last night appointed two delegates to attend the conferenee in regard to tlie nomination of representatives on the Unemployment Board, with instructiong to 110111inate_ Mr W. J. Polson, M.P., to act as pnmary producers' representative on the board. About what date Ihe moa hecanie extmct is a- questiori often debated. There died at Putake on June 11, 1884, a. Maori cliief known as Kauana Paipai, who professed to have seen a hve moa. He was supposed' to he over 90 years of age at the time of his death He was a very loyal and staunch friend to the Europeans during the Maori wars. Tlie Dunedin City Council received an inquiiy from a Melbourne fifni of stockbrokers regarding debentures Sot salo aud repjied offering £35,000 of gasworks debentures with interest at 5:} for a teim of 13 years. a prompt reply was received by cable acceptmg the offer. The council has Qffd'ed to increase tlie amount to j £45,000. — Press Association. According to a correspondent a number of kowhai trees in the Dannevirke chstrict are developing leaves before flowers, a reversal of tbe normal growth. The correspondent says this piay be the result of some distui'hance 111 sap life, due probably to excessive rain, and it is regarded by local Maoris as an mdication of a dry spell, Nor.'ilally the koivhai tree comes into leaf when the flowers are almost over.

Four daj-s after the departure froir Southampton of tlie mofcor liner, Rangitane, wluch arrived at Auckland yesterday, a third-elass passenger, Mrs S, A. Morrison, fell overhoard. A boat was quiclcdly loweved but the womar was dead before she could he broucht on board again. Death was not caused by drownmg, but was due to internal injunes received through tbe impact with the water. — Press Association. At the Supreme Court at Palmerston North yesterday, Charles John Durban Skinner, was acquitted on a ciiarge of negligently driving a car on the San-son-Himatangi highway so as to cause thp death of a schoolgirl on September 15. In summing up, His Honouf, Mr Justice Reed, reminded the jury that I they really set a standard of the care to be observed by motorists. If the piry, bv their verdict, fixed a high standard, that would be a deterrent to persons inclined to chive negligently. Press Association. The comparative cost of lieating tbe P urke Island institution with fireside heqters instead of wood, coal and coke was dealt with in a report tendered to yesterday's meeting of the joint committee by Mr A. Burrow, engineer. IFis report revealed the position that the comparative costs per annum of one heater in the library and one fireI side heater in eadii of six wards would j be £17 10s for tbe heater, as against £33 15s for open fireplaces, makino- a savmg of £16 5s, while in the wards ! a savmg of £45 would he realised, the j cost of the heaters being £22 10s, as against £67 10s for open fireplaces. In j all, a total saving of £61 5s would be realised. Consideration' of the matter was deforred. Over £6400 goes to the credit of the Canterbuiy Aero Club as a result of the recent art union for aero clubs. A financial statement of tbe activities of the Canterbury Club from May 1 till October 20 was presented to the meeting of the general committee. It showed a credit balance of £1353 16s 7d, _ in addition to £5000 at fixed de~ posit. The income ineluded bank balance brougbt forward £924 15s ld, instruction fUPS £474. mimi nnrl milrY-K

members £34, social members £108, juvenile members £S 8s, proceeds of art union £6438, income from dance £120, flights, etc., £362. The items of expenditure ineluded wages £567, new aeroplane £800, expenditure on dance £140, art union expenses £28. A very beautiful piece of work, the new font for St. Paul's Presbyterian Chureh, has jnst arrived from Italy, and is at present at the Hawke's Bay Monumental Works, Clive Square. Presented hy the St. Paul's Ladies' Guild as a memorial to the late Mrs J. A. Asher, the font is 'of _ Car rara marble. Surmounting the font is the heautifully I carved figure of a child in the attitud'e of droppiug flowers into the font. Tlie font is about 4ft. in lieight to tllie top of the ligtire, while the basin is 2ft. across. A similar fine font, but without the figure, lias also come to hand for St. Mary's Church, Waipukurau. Both fonts are remarkablv fine pieces of workmanship and will be greatly admired when placed in position in the respective churehes. A tale going the rounds eoncerns a professional wrestler and a six-year-old boy who has ambitions of some day becoming a man of strength, The father of the boy ancl the wrestler are l'riends, and tlie father agreed to referee a "match" between the six-year-old and the professional. The youngster tlirew oue small ann round the wrestler's neck and joined hands and tugged with all his might. The wrestler, who, ineidentally, is a great favourite with all tlie small frv, protested that liis opponent had him in a stranglo liold, but the "referee" ignorcd his complaint. By a piece of clever acting tbe wrestler "made it appear that with all his strength he could not escape from the strangle, and it was not long before lie fell limp on to the beach. Only then did the six-year-old velease his liold. He looked almost friglitened for a time, but when the wrestler came to life again and staggered drunkenly away, liis small chest went out, and he said, "You know, dad, I woudn't have done it if he hid given in." Not like others! We stand alone — the "Trocadero," Nanior*

Mfinv more wouieti are now learning to cook. Dlnny more man are now divung in restaurants. They will all buy t.hero slioes at tbo Work'ngmcn's Boot Shop * New Zealand experts every buyer to do liis duly. Ilelp stamp out unempmyinont by buying New Zealand made goods, Bryant's stoek New Zealanditnule goqds aud are proud to sell such fine quality artieles. Sbop at Bryant's and see for yourself,*

A glimpse of labour . condltions in America is aft'orded by the fact that 6000 unemployed, botli men aud women, ruslied the recently opened New York free labour agency for 135 jobs, some waiting from 3 o'clock irt the morning until 8. The long queue, resembling a bread line, stretcbed round a city block. Most of the jobs provided for men were in factories ; tbe women' s places were ' as seamstresses, factory workers and servants. In and around Paris there is a colony of about 200,000 llussian exiles, with! its own churehes, schools and social circles. It maintains the pre-Soviet outlook and eulture, and teaches its children the Russian ianguage and Russian history. Its strongest association is said to be ihe Gallipoii Union,formed onginally by survivors of the "White" Army, which now functions as tlie head anfci-Communist movement. General Koutepoff, who disappeared mysteriously this year, was its leader. Tho colony still preserves the records of the Tsearist Embassy in Paris, and it maintains a seeretariat of its owrt to which tlie exiles may apply fop advice and assistance. An Auckland solicitor wlio motored 300 miles recently has returned with the impression that "Whitianga, in the Mercury Bay district, is a townsliip iii a glorious sdtting. The road leads from Coromandel' through magnificent native hush. and there is an exhilara^ tion about the drive that motoring on level country ean never bring. At every vantage point there is a fresh vista of bays, heaches, sheltered inlets and panoramas of the gulf. There are scenes of the old gold-mining days, but these are deserted. There is a rugged splendour in The gorges, streams roar on their rock beds, and the narrow road skirts forested hills that slope steeply from great heights^ Tlie admission that he had dozed in the conrse of a long debate was made to melnbers of ihe House of Representi atives by _ tbe Speakei', Sir Charles Statliam, in his address at the close of the session, "The Leader of the Labour Party," he said. "was making a vigorous speecli. "When I woke up again I found _ that tbe honourahle member for Alid-Canterbury (Mr B, Joues) was carrying on the discussion. (Laughter.) I want to commend tlie bonourable member for verv nrnnerlv

stepping into ihe hreach and not waitfor me to c3ll upon \him and so saving what might have been a much more difficult situation. Tlie only thing I am afraid of is that the Leader of the Labour Party might have used .? 1 soine un-Parliamentary expressions while I was asleep." (Laughter.) A final reminder is given in our adverfising columns to-day with reference to the fund for installing radio equipment throughout Porirua Mental Hospital. The appeal closes on Eriday, biit a eonsiderable sum of money is, still required. It is Iioped to have the installation completed and ready to hand over 011 Christmas morning. Mr L . O. Hocker, who has organised the campaign, has paid all his oira expenses, and every penny collected will go into the fund. Unquestionably the lives of patients at Porirua can be brightened considerably bv radio and it is hoped that the public will make a finai rally and subscribe generously to this very worthy appeal. Dbnatious will be accepted at this ofiice, or may b© sent direet to tJie honorary organiser, Mr L. O. Hooker, P.O. box 99, Hawera. Tlie ship's band of tbe Dutch eruiser Java, which left Auckland for Brisbane yesterday, is comprised, with. the exception of the conduetor, entirely of native players (says the New Zealand Herald). They are not Javanese, but inhahitants of the East India island of. Ambou. It' was explained by a Dutch officer that whereas the Javanese have little feeling for European music, the natives of Ambou quickly absorb the rudiments of Western music and play the standard instruments of a band reasonably well. They are seldom called upon, howevei*, to dispense any other musio than the National Anthems of the countries visited and the usual ship ealls. When a dance is held on board tlie warship it is necessary to engage an orchestra from the sliore. Guests at the Morere Hot Springs Hotel during the week ineluded Miss M. E. Smith and Mr K. V. Smith, Tangitiri, Hawke's Bay ; Mr F. L. Plnmmer. Wellington; Mr A. H. Bell.

Perth Scotland ; Mr Walter Reid, Wellington; Mr C. Atkinson, Napier; Mr and Mrs J. H. Oldkam, Napier; Mr L. Monkman, Wellington; Mr J. Quinn, Wellington; Mr and Mrs G. Bourke, Dannevirke ; Mrs 1). Ballautyne, Hamilton ; Mr H. P. Good, Gisborne ; Mrs Gougb, Gisborne; Mrs W. R. Neilson, Gisborne ; Mr W. H. Smith, Tolaga Bay; Mr R. F. -Carr, Auckland; Mr J. J. Canavan, Auckland, Mr W. G. Macindoe, Auckland; Mr and Mrs W. B.. Holland, Napier; Mrs McArtkur, Napier ; Miss Render, Wellington ; Alr R. A. Ridley. Napier; Messrs L. H. Reeves and A. H. Reeves3 Tolaga Bay; Mr and Mrs J. Lee, Waipukurau; Mr J. R. Feaver, Auckland; Mr J. Mason, Auckland; Mr and Mrs E. Walpole, hastings; MrR. H. Forster, Gisborne; Mr F. Goodman, Gisborne ; Mr and Mrs Buswell, Gisborne; Mr and Mrs E. E. Broclc, New Plymouth ; Mr and Mrs D. Broek, Christchurch ; Mr W. H.: W'adell, Auckland; Mr W. J. McGowan, Auckland; Mr B. Wood, Wellington; Mr and Mrs and the Misses Seymour, Gisborne ; Mr and Mrs George Cooper, Wellington; Mr and Mrs S. Potter, Wellington ; Mr E. A. Fenwick, Napier : Miss G. Tod, Featherston; Mr and Mrs S. Ayling, Napier ; Mr H. E. Dixon, Melbourne ; Mr and Mrs Shanks, Fairfield ; Mesdames J. and M. Waugh, Wellington ; Mr G. E. Stevens, Palmerston North ; Mr T. Speechley. Napier ; Miss C. Perry, Dunedin • Mrs G. F. Heath, Canterbury; Mrs H. F'urze, Canterbury; Mrs and Mr P. L. Porter, Wellington; Miss A. M. F. Candy, Wellington ; Mrs A. Griffen, Napier; Mr and Mrs J. F. Bremner and son and Mr R. M. Bremner, Auckland; Miss T. Harrison, Auckland; J. A. Macfarlaue, Auckland ; Mr D. Annan, Auckland; Miss M. Day, Napier; Mr C. G. Allen, Wellington : Mr and Mrs Dunbar, Sydney; the Misses M. and G. Russell, Heath Plouse, England ; the Misses ? Hanunick, England; Miss M. Russell, Tunanui, Hastings. New season's goods nt sale prices iswhat we are offering for the month of November. Our large selection of n\odel frocks, ensembles and suits must be reduced. WTe have decided to make drastic price reductions. Georgette and lace ensembles, from £8 15s ; satin beaute frocks, from £5 19s ; fioral ninon ensembles, from £5 19s. These frocks and suits were ori* ginally £10 10s and £12 12s. Mathewson's, Ltd., Emerson street. "Save money." Best buttor ls 3d, 31b. sultanas for lld, 3 tins cube pineapples ls 4d, 3 tins sliced pines for ls 5d, 4 tins sardines for ls, 3 tins salmon for ls 6d, at Bryant's, famous for low prices.* Creani guaranteed to whip, sold handy cartons. Dairy opp^its Post 1 '

Ti js (loiin.tely annouueed that ihe fllam Highways Board will visit Napier on Fridav, Novemher 21. • ' . J 1 he roncreto constrnction work in t onuectioii with the Meanee drainage sqhome has been corameneed hy tlie Uawke's Bay County Coimeil and is progressaig steadily. 1 or some time past, owing to a slip, the main road froni Dannevirke to ovoodville has been blocked, necessitatmg a deiour being made. It is now announced that tlie slip bas been cleared and tliat the road will be open for traffie again from to-morrow. Monday mext, Novemher 3, has been nsed for -fhe eommencement of ihe Napier Sufpeme C-ourt sessions, not Tuesday/' is was stated in last niglit's issue. It is antieipated tliat the" sessions will last for at least a fortniglit and that ihe first week will he fully occupied with the criminal cases which are for hearing. The final liberations of fry by the Hawke's Bay Aeclimatisation Society for the year will be made within the uext week. These will total 48,000 brown trout fry and the allocations "will be as follows : — Waikoau and Mangahararu, 20,000 ; Mavaetotara and Toki _ Tyki, 28,000. The former will be liberated on Saturday and the, latter on Tuesday nest. Charged with being £246 10s in arrears on a maintenance order, Thomas Annear, aged 32, a lahourer, appeared before Mr F. C. Main, J.P., in the Napier Police Court tliis morning. Mr C. W. Kash, on behalf of the defendant, stated that he was arrested on a warrant from Christchurch. He was in peria anept emplovment in Napier and he had wired to Christchurch for permission to take the case in Napier. He applied for a remand to ten o'clock to-morrow morning. _ This application was agreed to hy Senior-Sergeant Stark and granted, Ideal weather eonditious prevailed in Napier to-day, after a. clear night. y There was scarcely a cloud in the sky to-day, the eonditions heing more like Summer than auything we have esperienced for a, considerahle time. Jt \ was not surprising, therefore, that there wero qiiit© a numher of persons .in ihe swimming haths during the day, though, with the temperature at 58, the rnajoriiv oonfined their activities to Eun-hathing. A special meeting of the Takapau Women' s Ipstitute was held on Tuesday afternoon, when there was a very large ga+hering, presided over hy Mrs W. Jackson. She introduced Miss Spok, of England, .. who gave a very inleresting and deseriptive address on arts and crafts. for which she was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks. On the eve of the departure of Mrs J. A- Norrie, wlio had acted as honorary secretary of the institute since its inception, the president took the opportunity of presenting her with a set of fish forks and knives,. and paid a very high tribute to Mrs Norrie for the most capahle way she had carried through her duties, and wished her every success in her new plaee of ahode. Mrs Norrie made a very feeling reply and expressed the pleasure she had been afforded in working for the benefit of the institute. A mass attack is being made on the traveller's hane — seasickness — and the leaders of the storm troops are three well-known medical men, the medical Buperint-endent of th© Cunard Shipping Co., a high offieer of the Royal Aurere© Medical Service, and a biochemist at the London Hospital. There is need for this, for even some seasoned sailors never hecome immune (r'emarks the London correspondent of the News). Tlie result of their research \ has as yet been ineffectual, no _ one ( remedy is a panacea. Thev attribute | the reputation which some specfics get to the fact that stonns seldom last Jmore than two or three days, and seasickness usually diminshes in any case, with or without treatment. They have studied 'the various kinds of -nausea due to the movements of a revolving chair, a ship, a train and an aeroplane, and their ohservations will form the basis of further study, which may well prove fruitlul. Despite the lack of result so far, it is clear that modern methods of prevention and treatment have deprived seasickness of many of the former terrors, and often prove highly effective. Steady progress continues in the work of interesting the public in the preservation of birds and native bush, saya the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society in its latest report. One of the society' s chief handicaps is lack of funds. The extermination of deer and other plant-eating animals in the forests and on the mountam iops is heing attempted by the De-pai-tment of Internal Affairs and the I'orest Service, hut the present efforb is unlikely to produce the desired resultS ; first of all because the extent of the undertaking does not appear to be adcquatelv realised, and secondiy, the rifle appears to be eonsidered the only weapon available. The report contuiues: "Shootftig at animals soon biakes them excessively wild and has the effect of driving them into the least accqssible places. The advice of men skilled in extermination should he sought. Thus a famous Canadian hunter, when he desired to exterminate crows, did not iise a gun, hut fed the birds and enticed them into a huge trnp, which accounted for as many as 600 at a pull. We Have one or two similar men in New Zealand who eould give good service in this .mattcr." KA rneeting of the comniittee of the Waipukurau A. and P, Association, held on Tuesday, was presided over hy Mr J. W. Harding. Advice was re-yei-.-ed that ihe following donations liiad been made: — Mr J. W. Harding, £10 ; Mrs Paul Hunter, £3 3s: Messn; Thos. Borthwick and Son. value £4 5s; IMessrs Dnlgetv and Co., Ltd., £2 2s; Mr Allen M.' AVilliams, £o "s; Messrs Lanksliear, Ltd., value £1 Is ; Daily Telegrapli, value £2 12s. Letters of thanks are to be forwarded to tbo donors. The committoe decided to write to- the Minister of Baihvays advoc-ating the placing of the ra'ilways under the control of a nonpolitical hody- It was decided to erase from the show schedule the following: Dual juraping, musical chairs, stalls, ]>ig sticking, turning and bending compefition, al=o ponies suitable for polo playing. Owing to lack of support the Jersey cattle section was al-so deletcd, also, in the slieep class, three fat wether, Down and Down cross. In regarcl to> weight in the Fiiier class it was decided in the three fat wether seetion for wetliers, lambed sinee^.Tnly I, 1629, to make tbe weightsl^41bs. in lieu of 561bs. as previonsly, > In view of the grent success of thc electrical cookery seetion it was decided to add three new olasses. The secretary reported that the Power Board had arranged for excellent itrophies for this seetion. >— Messrs F. Thorp and Co. anncunce $he arrival of new sports shoes, white canvas with coloured leather trimming and leather soles and heels, at 8b lld. Toya cloth shoes, fawn and gplgurqd* from 7s- lld.* -

A eommencement has been made with the building of the additions to the Club Tea and Dining Itooms, late Napier Soldier's Club, on the Marine Parade. The additions are being huilt at tlie side of the present struciure and will considerabJy enlarge the premises. The work of dismantling the old building of the New Zealand Express Co. is proceeding and part of tlie site is being cleared. Tliis is a valuable piece of land and tbe removal of this old building will at the same time take away one of the more unsightly structures in the city area. The tendency of the lupin plant to spread is illustratecl at Westshore, where, beyond the heacons, lupins have a firm hold._ The extensive patclies of lupin now in existence all came from a single plant hrouglit only a few years ago from Seatoun, liear Wellington. The value of lupins in suc'h a locality is considerable. They are growing in practically bare shingle, and in "the course of time the decayed leaves will form a coating of huinus that will sustain other forms of vegetation. A Napier motorist who, wli^n traversing tlie Westshore embankment the other day, overliauled a railwayman travelling on the adjacent railway line on a motor "jigger," was surprised at the speed reqnired to do so. By travelling on even terms with the jigger he found that it was doing 35 miles per hour. His respect for this form of conveyance, which has tlie,- virtue of economy, as it uses very little henzine, has correspondingly increased. Admittedly the upholstery of a motor trolley is not very luxurious, and it lacks any form of wigdscreen. But it travels on *a road that is eompletely free from loose metal or potholes. A sign of the passing of the old order at Maraekakaho station, which was recently cut up, is the erection of a gate acrqss the road way which formerly allowed the puhlic to drive through the cluster of buildings at the homestead. This roadway left the main road near the ivoolslied _ and rejoined the main road to Tikokino further on. By traversing it, motorists could pass thi'ough the small township which m the course of years had hecome the centre of the station's affairs. Now that the gates are heing erected motorists will have to keep to the puhlic road. and content tliemselves with a rather more distant view of the buildings of the historic sheep station. At least one of the_ colony of rats which took np their residenc© in Napier at the eommencement of the Winter months has crossed the horder in no uncertain fasbion during the last few days. This particular rodent, having taken np his abode in a house on the Marine Parade, on Tuesday evening last emerged for his customary stroll. At the same time there happened to emerge from a door a man with a gun in his hand which he was about to clean. Unfortunately for the rat the gun was loaded and also the rodent' s form was ohserved by the man, who proceeded to raise the weapon to his shoulder and blow the rat to pieces. Since the advent of th© warmer weather the depredations of th© rats have not been so lioticeahle, though they may still he seen at night-time in alleyways around the town areas. hlajor-General Horatio Gordon has died in England, aged 80, states a cahle. Maior-General Gordon has had a remarkable military career, joining the Army at th© age of 18. He served in th© Maori War in 1864-66, heing present at the Gate Pa and other engagements. In 1866 lie returned to England witli his regiment, heing made captain in 1870. He was exclianged into the 91st Highlanders and was detailed as major to Mauritius in 1880. In 1883 he rejoined headquarters at Capetown, obtaining command of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and in the following year he took a regiment to ZuMancf. He served in Ceylon in 1886-7 and later retired from the command with the rank of major-general. He had many drawings puhlished in the foremost English pictorials, those of the Maori War-time heing purcliqsed hy the _New Zealand Government for the Dominion Museum. He owned a remarkable collection of preserved Maoii tattooed heads and curiosities in native art. He was a memher of the Tauranga Savage Club and of the Polynesian Society of New Zealand. A record in private bills put through by one member may be claimed by Mr H, G. R. Mason, M.P. tor Auckland Suburbs, who secured the passage of tive bills during the recent session of Parliament. Three were thrown out by the Opper House, on account of Sir Franois Bell's_ objection on principje to tlie introduetlon of bills by private member s ; but two, the Magistrate's Oourt Amendment and Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bills, were passed by the second chamber. One of tbe rejected bills was framed to hring about a reforin in the system of voting at local hody elections. Its aim was to prevent a repetition of the experience tliat Auckland city eleetors had when faced with a lisfc of nearly 7(1 candidates. On that occasion more than 40 names had to he struck out. It was criticised at the time as a cumbrous inethod of voting, and opinion favoured a change under which a cross would he placed nest to the names of selected candidates. Mr Mason's hill was intended to make that possible hv giving local hoclies the option of preparing their hallot paper in whichever way they chose. Tt was contended that not only. would the change assist the eleetors, hut it would also greatly simplify tho counting of votes. The Napier Rovers Baskctball Club sent two teams on a visit to Wairoa during the week-end, where they played matches against Redwood and High Scliool Old Girls, and after a splendid exhibition of tlie game by the various teams the results were as follows :— Ilovers B 14 v. Redwood 10, the scorers being, A. Bartlett 6, G. Pond 4, M. Berry 4 for Rovers, wliilst for Redwood the scorers were H. Poyzier 7, 3b Haughton 2, T. Stevens 1. lu tho other match against H.S.O.G, the game again resulted in a win for Rovers by 9 to 7, tlie scorers i'or Rovers being G. Tinkler 6, I. Proctor 3, and for O.G., N. Davies 4, D. Davie.s 3. The visiting teams were hospitably entertained hy the Wairoa girls, being tendered a dance on Saturday evening, wliilst on Sunday they were taken on a visit to Morere and there tlioroughly enjoyed themselves. Jt was with feelings of regret that the teams left for home yesterday, after such an enjoyahle tour. Tlie thanks of the Rovers Club are extended to all those who lielped to biilet the players, and for all tbe entertainment given by the Wairoa players. The Napier players, under the eharge of Mrs H. J . Fulford as chaperone, cannot speak too highly of their tour and are eagerly Inoking forward to a return visit with th© Wairoa girls at an early date. > Tennis players! Be prepared ! Prartice with Ayres' "ChamnioTishir)" Rfitcbless Tennis Bnll- (he ball seleefed fer 1010-rjl Sov; Zealand f'hampinnships. British and best. The choics of chamkpions.