LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 99, 9 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The All Blmk« will pla.V an exhibition match nt Wellington on Wednesday, nnd leave on Friday for South Africa,

The Hawke’s Huy Auto Cycle Club’s dimoe tukes place in the Cosmopolitan Club, Napier, this evening at 8.30 o’clock. Good music is assured.

The Mahora Swimming Club will hold n 500 tournament in the Hastings Assembly Hnll to-night. In the course of tho evening the distribution of prizes will take place. Dancing will also be indulged in. Lord’s orchestra playing.

The Presbyterian Bible Class gave a complimentary social at Havelock North on Saturday evening to the old members, Messrs Bob Mintoft, Roy Russell, Stanley Reid, and Jock Pollock, when a most pleasant time was passed in games, interspersed with music.

"Recently coal has been obtained from Tankareka Gorge mine (Shanks' mine) and has been found to have good steaming properties,” reported Mr B. C. Annand, A.E., in addressing the civil engineers who visited the western end of the Taranki-Main Trunk railway construction on Tuesday.

The weather is most unfavourable for the holidays at Wellington. Drizzling rain set in on Saturday afternoon, and has continued ever since without sign of lifting. No outdoor sports will be possible to-day, and the 'Varsity tournament will be affected. —Press Assn.

After a long, dry spell, very welcome rain fell throughout the Manawatu district yesterday, doing an immense amount of good. One inch and eight points fell in Palmerston North. Prior to this 2.78 inches had fallen since the beginning of the year.— Press Assn.

The bad state of the HamiltonAuckland road was discussed at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Hamilton branch of the Auckland Automobile Association. It was pointed out that tho main roads in Wellington district were in far better order and that Auckland province should not allow its neds to be overlooked. The first football match of the day, junior and senior teams taking part. The Wairoa D.H.S. Old Boys and Napier High School Old Boys met in an evenly-contested match that ended in Napier’s favour by 6 points to three. In the senior match, Napier M. 8.0.8. defeated Gisborne Celtic Club by 19 points to 13. Mr. E. R. Murphy controlled the former game and Mr. A. White the latter.

"I am sorry to have to criticise the action of the police, as has been done in other parts of the Dominion, in refusing to allow defendant to see a copy of,his statement made in hospital the "day after he- had been unconscious,” said Mr A. A. Bennett in the New Plymouth Court last Wednesday. He did not know what action the Court would take. The production of the statement had been refused and lie intended to take the matter further through the Law society.

A Waitui farmer sustained a considerable shock the other morning. He got up early as usual to find his paddocks all white. Calling his children, he exclaimed: "Come and see the first frost of the season!” The youngsters went out to see Jack Frost, but soon rushed back to tell their astonished father that what ne took to be frost were mushrooms. The paddocks were literally white with them.

A meeting of the New Zealand Draughts Association decided to hold the next annua] tournament and meeting at Dannevirke. It was agreed that the method of play be as in Wellington last year—two games all round, th e leading player from scratch to be champion. A tournament was commenced on Friday. When play was adjourned two rounds had been completed. The highest score so far is Boreham, of Dunedin, with 3i points, while David (Stratford) and Clarke (Christchurch) have 3 points each.

At a recent cheap sale of wireless headphones, one purchaser was an elderly woman who, living alone, felt the need of some form of entertainment. A few days later she returned the headphones to the shop, with the complaint that no sound could lie heard from them, but on testing tile phones the assistant found them in perfect order. Naturally suspecting that the fault must lie in the receiving set, he inquired what type of set the woman possessed, his only reply being a puzzled look, and an inquiry as to what he meant. The woman had spent several evenings fruitlessly listening-in without the very necessary aid of a reciving set.

A mild sensation was caused in Eastbourne street, Hastings, yesterday morning, outside Messi's Ross, Dysart and McLean’s garage, where a motor-cycle got ablaze and was badly damaged as a result. In his endeavours to extinguish the flames the owner Mr. B. Lawson, of Southland road, had his hands badly burnt and he had to receive medical attendance It appears that he had got his tank filled at the garage and, just as he was starting off, the machine backfired and, it is thought, some oil on the machine got alight, causing the outbreak. The front wheel and the tank were destroyed but. in the inidst of the trouble, Lawson, with some assistance, managed to detach the rear wheel, which was saved undamaged.