NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 12

NELSON NEWS

FROST FISH PLENTIFUL SATURDAY'S SPORTS ' (Special to the "Evening Post.") ■: .. NELSON, May '22. Owing no doubt to the hard frosts experienced . during the last few days, numbers of frost fish have beeu strandejl on the Eabbit Island beach. A resident of the Appleby- district, who has had a halfe'entury's experience of the beach, states that he has never known the fish to be so plentiful. It ia a great, table delicacy, but one has to bo about early to find them, as the. seagulls give, them quick attention. . - , '. , , Sports, results on Saturday were as.lolKugby Footboll.—Senior: Nelson 14, Rivals 13; Pirates IG, Waimea 0. Junior: 'Nelson. S4, Waimea 3; Rovers 3, Eegimentiil 0; Old poys 37, Rivals 3. Third class: Nelson 27;.01d Boys 0; Rivals 27, Pirates 0.. Fourth class: Nelson 9, I'livals 0. •• ' Association Football.—Senior: Thistle 3. Athletic Old .Boys 1; 'YJVI.C.A. 1, Celtic 1. Schools: Hampdon Street 7_, Auckland Poiut 1; Central 3, Tahuuanui 2. "" Hockey.—Men's senior: Federal 7, Waimai 3; Wakatu 2, Stoke 0; Kiwi 5, Richmond 1. Junior: Wakatu 6, Kiwi 0; Waimai 0/ Stoke 4; V.M.C.A. 3, Federal 0. Ladies: Huia 7, Wakatu 1; Rcwa 3, Kia Orri '2. The year 1836, two years before the coronation of Queen. Victoria, ,is. a far .call from 1933, yet there is living in Seymour Avenue, Nelson, Mrs. T. A. Bromell, who was ; born, in that early year-of the nineteenth century at "Clifton, Bristol, England. Today, is Mrs. Bromell's 98th birthday, and she has been the recipient oE many congratulatory messages from many parts of the. Nelson district and other towns in New Zealand. Included among a large number of visitors were her daughter-in-law (Mrs. G. Bromell) and granddaughter, Mrs. 6. Byforcl (Mrs. G. Brbmell's daughter), of Hawke's Bay.