NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 28, 1 August 1930, Page 4

NELSON NEWS

SPUD MONDAY RUGBY

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

NELSON, 31st July.

As - a result of tho Motueka River Board election,'which took place yesterday, the following five candidates were successful: E. Atkins 275, J. A. M'Glashan 245, E. S. Wratt 233, C. J. Boyes, 221, T. B. Stevens 204. The unsuccessful candidates were: L. W. Wratt 185, A. A. Wratt 172, J. J. Satherley 147. Senior-Sergeant W. J. Butler arrived in Nelson this morning from Wellington to take up his duties on the local Police Staff. Mr. Frank; Hamilton was yesterday re-elected chairman of the Board of College Governors. The Bishop of Nelson (Dr. Sadlier) is expected to arrive back in Nelson on 12th. November. .Synod is to bo called for 24th November. * / Mr. M. G. Bryant, 8.A., 'at present on the teaching staff of "the Now Plymouth High School, was appointed yesterday to the 'position.' at the Boys' College to be vacated by Mr. W. B. Sutch, Mr. Bryant is an old boy of tlie college. Ronald Edward Morrison, aged 19, appeared before Messrs. L, J. Frank and C. M. Collins, Justices of the Peace, at the Magistrate's Court' this morning, charged with the abduction of a -girl under the age of 16 years. On the application of Detective F. Sinclair, Morrison was remanded until to-mor-row. The following team has-been selected to represent the Rest of Nelson against the combined Nclson-Marlborough-Bays team nest Monday (Spud Monday): Full-back, Glover; three-quarters, Wells, Busch, White; five-eighths, Reed, Watson; half-back, Thompson; wing-forward, Garvin; back row, Todd, Fitzgibbons; middle row, Bird, Murphy, Jftggins; hookers, Young, Summers. Emergencies: Backs, Street (and another back to bo picked). Forwards: S. New ,n, Byrne, and Ho well. An, old. and respeetod resident of Nelson, Mr. John 'Hailing, of Morrison street, died yesterday in his 84th year, after an illness of some nine weeks. His death removes a familiar figure in the city and he could claim to be tho last man to drive a horse-drawn passenger vehicle in Nelson. His love for horses extended from his early youth, and he was recognised as ;. judge of a good animal. Almost up to the timo he was laid aside he took a weekly ride on his hack. When a lad he accompanied his father from Melbourne' to Otago with a load of horses for the gold diggings. He then returned to Australia, but' some years later was attracted to the West Coast gold diggings. He obtained a .position with a storekeeper (the late Mri Rowe) "t Matakitaki packing stores from Foxhill to Murehison. Then some years wero spent in Marlborough, where he was employed among other places, on the Bivehfield Station, and he beeamc well known in that province. Eventually Mr. Harling came to reside in Nelson. -During the epidemic of 1918 he was in charge of tho Hospital Board ambulance. Ho was for 57 years a member of the- Oddfellows Lodge. He is survived by a widow and a grown-up family of three sons and four daughters.