Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10302, 11 January 1927, Page 4

Local and General.

The Whangape, from tlie Bluff, arrived at Sydney last eiening. TJ.P.A.

After a vacation of seventeen days, the Gisborne law offices re-opened yesterday.

Congress is thoroughly alarmed bj the spread of corn borers states a message, and has appropriated£2,ooo,ooo to fight the pest.

Thirty-one applications havo been received for the position of medical superintendent of the Dunedin hosital# These will he considered at v|cting of the Hospital Hoard this —pTa.

/The Seventh. Day Adventist cafnp hi Lower Hutt broke up yesterday after a very successful conference, which was favoured by good weather. Between 300 and GOO persons attend ed from all parts of the North Island. —P.A.

Slipping on the wet floor at the Taruheru freezing works yesterday, an elderly employee, .E. O Dwjer, ricked the muscles of his shoulder. He was admitted to Cook Hospital, but his injuries are not considered to be serious.

A novelty in jazz band music was provided for some 'YVharekopae dancing enthusiasts during the Christmas holidays. A radio receiving sethad just been installed, and for quarter of an hour or so the party jazzed to the strains of a real -live wire’’ orchestra in America. Investigations into the burglary at Day> Bay pavilion, from which the sat/i containing over £7O was stolen. s lZw that the thieves must have enJTred the building bv the rear at midnight and carried the sate bodily through the back door and round to the front, where it was placed on a motor vehicle. No one was disturbed by the marauders.— P.A.

The oil tank on the steamer Huntingdon at Auckland and some of the ■ oil leaked into No. 3 lower hold, cntaining a large quantity of butter, which was unloaded to avoid damage. Very little damage was done to the cargo, but the oil

penetrated the insulating covering the hold. All the affected insulation will be renewed before more cargo is stowed in that part of the steamer. The hold affected contained butter loaded at Wellington.—P.A.

A shearing record is claimed for Air. N. Harrison’s gang working Air. H. B. Williams’ well-known Huiarua Station shed. Six men in this gang put through no fewer than IS/fi sheep in eight hours 55 minutes, the individual tallies of the six men being: E. Harrison, 325; H. Harrison, 319: AYi King, 313; H. Fox- 307 ; AY. Pokai, 306; and J. Dennis 306. The gang consisted of 14 shearers, including two learners, and in. one day put through 3729 sheep. These were 4-th ewes clipping big fleeces, and all were well shorn. Several other good tallies were also put- up by the same gang, including 3560. 3549 and 3481 For different days.

As a life member of an institution in AYestralia known as “The Ugly Alen’s Workers’ Club,” Air. G. Rox told members of the Rotary Club yesterday how it's operations were carried out. He said that it had funds aggregating over £20,000 and was assisted by people in all stations of life. In the event of a member discoloring a case of poverty he was empowered, without- reference of the matter to the club, to interview a trader, present his badge and order up to £lO worth of goods to be sent along and charged to the club. Incidentally Air. Rox also mentioned that the Prince of AA’ales was a life member of the institution, which was famed > throughout Australia.

The Gisborne branch of the Plunket Society has recently extended its sphere of operations, and another nurse has been engaged. Arrangements have been made for Nurse Wall to visit Wairoa twice a month, when she will be available for consultation. The monthly visit of the nurse to Te Ivaraka will now be extended to every alternate Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ’She will visit Manutuke the day following her Te Knralca visit, and Tolaga Bay every alternate Friday where from 10 a.m. till noon she will be available for consultation in a room provided by the County Council. As the Society is dependent on the public for twothirds of its funds, it can be realised that contributions are always thankfully received.

There was a good attendance at a general meeting of the Gisborne Cooperative Building Society last evening, when the following loans were disposed of: No. 3 issue, a sale of £2OO realised £l2 per £IOO. One ballot iit the same issue was drawn by R. C. Piesso (£100), E. E. Piesse (£300) and S. A. Atkins (£100), while a second resulted D. W. Colo-, man (£200), C. H. Bull (£200), and C. E. Olding’s Estate (£100). No. 4 issue: Sale of £IOOO realised £3O per £IOO, and a ballot was drawn by J. D. Smith *(£1000). No. 5 issue: A ballot for £IOOO was drawn by H. E. Bright. No. 6 issue: A sale .of £IOOO realised £35 per £IOO. In the course of his remarks, the chairman drew the attention of members to the fact that applications were now being received for No. 7 issue.

When Kum- Chong, 77, was charged in the Dunedin Police Court yesterday with having done bodily harm to Charlie Loo Hung, he shouted volubly in his’native tongue, a lady interpreter stating that he was saying lie was a Scotchman who had onlv arrived that day. Later accused loudly declared that he had killed a man he followed, hut the complainant, Hung, was not he. When accused became quiet the police explained that both Chinamen were inmates of the Old Men’s Home. Hung killed a - blackbird, to which Chong strongly objected. Later accused was seen assaulting complainant with an instrument, a pocket knife, and Hung was in hospital for eight days. The Magistrate, in formally committing accused to the Supreme Court, stated. that he would request the Minister of Justice to have accused detained in a mental hospital.

Signalising the completion 0 f th* Taranaki Power Board’s scheme turbines are now generating current in Motukawa, supplying over tv, whole area for the first time, states ~"- -an Eltham message. The offidlr% opening will take place next —P .A.

“I have not seen him since the dav he appeared in Court,” said Sergt Dempsey at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when the name of William Wilson Sutherland was called on' a vagrancy charge. Accused, who an peared before the Magistrate last week, was convicted and remanded for sentence till yesterday with a warning from the Bench that if he didn’t disappear from the district in the interim he would he sentenced to three months’ imprisonment Sutherland was convicted and <IV charged.

Under Sir John Boss’ will the public bequests total £16,200, spread over 12 yeais, states «i i .A. message from Dunedin. Annual bequests were left to the following: Home Mission b und, Foreign Mission Fund, Widows and Orphans Fund, Aged and Infirm ’ Ministers (all Presbyterian Church), Presbyterian Social -Service Association, Salvation Army (Dunedin), Otago University for commercial educational purposes, Patients’ and Prisoners’ Aid Society, all each; Y.M.C.A., and Dunedin City Mission £25 each. The sum of £rjjj annually was bequeathed to Knox College"also for a period of I'L vtar-i.

An investigation of the commercial possibilities of the rival rail wav routes between Osborne and Wairoa is at present being conducted by .Mr. D. Xiodie, commercial manager for the New Zealand Railways Department, and Mr. S. L. Foy, operating and equipment assistant. The investigation is the result of _ instructions J Irom the Hon. K. S. Viliams, Min-A"* ister for Public Works, who is desirous of fully investigating the commercial aspects of the rival railway routes before the work of construction is commenced. Messrs. Roche and Fay will spend several days j tl the district, when they will get in touch with various local bodies interested in the question. The Rotary Club yesterday resumed its weekly luncheons after the holiday vacation. Rota Han Toneyclifre was chairman for the day. Amongst the visitors were Mr. D. Rodie, manager of the commercial branch of the Railways Department; the Rev. It. Hodgson, * Waerenga-a-hika, and Mr. G. Rox, of the Humphrey Bishop Coy. Rota nan G. 1. Bull outlined what had been done on behalf or the club in respect of brightening the Christmas season for numbers in straightened circumstances.- The happy condition li things obtaining at the Boy Scouts' camp and at the Y.M.C.A. camp was referred to by Kotarian Forster, air. Rox contributed a mor.o*ogue composed by himself and also told some entertaining stories. The function concluded with community singing.