NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 5

NELSON NEWS

•.- «> —.— (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

. .-NELSQ]* 28th May. Owing to the sudden, death of Mr.' B. li. Gamboni, all football, and hockey matches scheduled for this afternoon were cancelled. Mr. Gamboni, who was president of the Nelson District Cricket Association, and a vice-president of the Nelson City Association, took great interest in tootball and other sports, had a seizure whilst attending a meeting of the Nelson i Kugby Union as delegate, and died shortly afterwards. At the request of the committee of the Nelson Rugby Union the members of the Keferees Association attended a meeting of the former, when the question of a reconstruction of the Referees' Association was discussed. Attending members of the latter body very strongly protested against the indictments placed upon them ; and withdraw unanimously from the meeting, which ended without any definite action being taken by the committee of the union. An open letter to the Prime Minister on the subject of the unsatisfactory position m which returned soldier farmers a£ e *i;p I"ccd ' and requesting, adjustment at the hands of the: Government, appears in the "Nelson Mail." At a meeting of the Tahuanui Road Board it was decided to obtain a report on the question of lighting Rocks road, and other streets on the Moana Estate. ahe Mayor (Mr. W. J. Moffatt) accompanied by the City Engineer and members <? the Nelson Motor-cycle Club, visited the Tahunamu Sands Reserve this week and discussed the question of constructing a speedway. The matter was deferred pending further information coming forAt the Botenical Reserve this afternoon the Nelson City Cadet Company were examined by the board (Lieut.-Colonel JJuigan, Lieut-Colonel White, and Lieut.tolonel Ihom), when the battalion was put through numerous movements, including PT!n al J ti l'lll'r f<?r, PurPoses o£ comparison 1 wth Ladets of other centres, in the competition for the Campbell Statuette (now held by the Wanganui Cadets). The boys gave a smart and soldierly , response to the various orders, arid as a whole presented a particularly fine appearance. lw°niotor accidents occurred last night .Mrs. Hockey, an elderly lady, was knocked down in Trafalgar street by Mr. J. G. iiittlejohn's motor-car, and Mrs. M. A. Lamb, another elderly lady, was the vie- ! .tun of a similar occurrence in Waimea road, owing to collision with a cycle ridden by H. S. Doidge. Mrs. Hockey suftered head injuries and a fracture of the collarbone. Mrs. Lamb was even more seriously injured, having sustained fracture of the base of the skull and a cut on the arm. xiA '"eetmE of ihe women's division of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held in Nelson on Tuesday. The first round of matches for the Fell (..up will take place on the 30th inst. ihe numerous basketball ladies are evincing great enthusiasm in the matte'-