TOWN AND COUNTRY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 6

TOWN AND COUNTRY

Items Of Interest From The Provinces

WELL-KNOWN ESTATE

Offered To Government For Market Gardening

Said to 'be one of the richest pieces of land in the Kairanga district, the wellknown Gillespie estate, of 163 acres, with a frontage of a mile to Gillespie’s Line and about ten chains to Boundary Road, has been offered to the Government for subdivision as a market gardening settlement. The block is situated comparatively near the site of the new railway station to be built in Palmerston North.

Hawke’s Bay Basketball. Beating Havelock North by 21 goals to 16, the Hastings High School Old Girls’ basketball team on Saturday won the Hastings Citizens’ Cup. The game is described as the most exciting during the two rounds of the competition.

Feat of Mail Delivery. The resourcefulness of New Zealand postal officials was fully taxed by a resident of Hastings recently, and the Post Office came off with flying colours. Not knowing the married name of a woman in Auckland to whom he wished to write, the Hastings correspondent addressed a letter to her in her maiden name at the address that was hers before her marriage. The letter was delivered, though the addressee had married 38 years ago.

Speed at Intersection. “Do you think it was the proper thing to drive on to a a intersection at 30 miles an hour?” asked Mr. 11. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Co.ijrt, Palmerston North, addressing a taxi-driver who was charged with a breach of the traffic regulations. Defendant said his brakes were good, and he considered he could have pulled up if necessary. “You should not have approached the intersection at 30 miles an hour," said the magistrate. “You know' you coujd not have stopped at that speed.” Defendant was fined £5, with costs. Trees for Arbor Day.

Arbor Day planting of trees has been taken up with enthusiasm by the chairman of the Bulls Town Board, Mr. J. E. Walker, and the headmaster of Bulls School, Mr. J. Eyles. Residents of the district have already given 800 trees and the school has supplied 200 kowhais, which will be planted round the tennis courts ami in the native bush. Twenty special tries will be planted by senior pupils who have undertaken to care for them in the future. The school children will march to the Domain at 1 o'clock tomorrow, and will be add.ressed there by Mr, K. W. Dalrymple.