NAPIER NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3164, 16 August 1917, Page 9

NAPIER NOTES

(By 'i'elusi'iuli—Snccial Correspondent.) Napier, August 11. To-day tlio .Napier Harbour Board decided to appoint an onginecr at a salary of JGSOO a year. . ■ ■ ■ Up to the, present over .WOO baa been collected towards tlio establishment of a Swan memorial paddling pool at Napier. Mr. E. V. Hudson has been appointed deputy eouimissionen of tlio Boys' Scouta in Hawke's Bay.. ■; . , gomo 26 appeals were dealt with. at to-day's Napier sitting of tho Appeal Board, quito a ch'ango being evidenced in tho usual procedure, "by the fact that slaughtermen and shearers. wcro not exompted from service. The Napier Harbour Board and. the Rivers Board to-day carried Tosolutiofis of sympathy' with tho relatives of the late' Mr. G.. P. Donnelly. Tho latter body paid a particularly eulogistic tribute 1 tOtlio active and enthusiastic work tho deceased gentloman had done, in connection with tho flood question. Tho staff and pupils 1 of tho Napier Technical College entertained their late director, Mr. Walter. Fossey,. at a social, and presented . him with an illuminated address, a .writing-ease, and ■ a . wristlet watch.' Tlio address lyado reference to tlio harmony -that had existed during the eight, years that Mr,. Fossey was director. •. So far tlio recent-Y.M.C.A.- War: Fund .collection in Hawko's Bay has -resulted ill over -.C-1500 being obtained. Dannevirko iilotio was responsible for about ■ClflflO of this..