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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 94, 3 April 1912, Page 6

The Easter Holidays under the Education Board start on Thursday ' evening and terminate on Wednesday morning. A German gentleman and his wife, ' who have been fishing at Taupo, are reported to have caught during the last fifteen days, an average of one 1 hundred pounds weight of trout per day. The average weight per fish 1 works out at about 7|lb. ' In pursuance of the County Coun- , cil intention to try beach shingle , upon the Te Aute-Hastings road, the 1 railway yesterday delivered eleven trucks of this metal. Other train loads will be delivered after the holidays. A public meeting will be he' 1 m the Hastings Borough Council Chi nbers to-night at 8 o’clock for re purpose of organising a relief fin for the children in Great Er’tai.i who are suffering misery and starvation as a result of the coal str'k-.’. The Mayor has already been promised a donation of £loo from Mr. <5. P. Donnelly as a nucleons to .be fund, and it is hoped tlmt all ;hosc who can will make a point <■? attending the meeting so that immediate help may be sent to relieve th 1 acute distress which prevails. Considerable excitement was caused by two Maoris opposite Thorp’s boot shop in Heretaunga street, Hastings, about 2.30 this afternoon. Constable Brcnchley was proceeding to arrest a drunken native who wa - in charge of a motor car coataininir two other natives and who refused to allow anyone else to drive wl:--r. he was savagely attacked by a 4.H--wart brother of the intoxicant! Maori. Constable McLean, who in company with Constable Bre h ley, came to the latter’s assists: e, and after a fierce struggle, in whi L both policemen received a sev handling, the malcontents were over powered. Constable Brenchler bt.i ' cuffing his assailant whilst Consta'dr McLean took charge of the dr v r and eventually both were lanne 1 m the lock-up. A crowd of about K-.' persons gathered round the motor car. A Warner’s Rust-proof Corset will do more for a woman’s figure than any other corset made. Every pair gtiaran lend by local drapers.* Be sure and get the famous Roslyn Writing Tablets. 6d or A- each, from |<K*l drapers and storekeepers *