LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 76, 11 March 1933, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The "Kiwi’’ pace is held over for publication in Monday’s issue.

Members of the Hawke’s Bay Labour Day Picnic and Sports Committee are specially requested to attend a meeting in the Community Hall, Napier, on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.

The 5000 varieties of dahlias ‘on display at the Auckland Horticultural Society’s annual show this week, did not include a single blue bloom. A dahlia of this colour has never been produced, the nearest approach to it being mauve. Dahlias of practically every shade other than blue have been grown.

The fourth Napier wool-sale of the 1932-33 season will be held in the Drill Hall, Coote road, Napier, on Monday next, March 13, commencing at 2 p.m. The order of sale will be: Williams & Kettle, Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., Headley, Son and Stewart, Ltd., N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., H.B. Fanners’ Co-op. Assn., Ltd., and de Peliclict, McLeod and Co., Lid.

Although u partnership paying an annual ren/al of £lO or over is entitled to a vote as a partnership, in addition to the r/ght of an individual vote on the residential qualification, not one partnership is registered on the Hastings borough electoral roll, said Mr A. 8. Tonkin at Mr G. A. Maddison’s pAayoral campaign meeting in Hastings /IbsA evening.

The Maunganui, from Wellington, arrived in Sydney at 5.30 o’clock this morning.

A concert and dance Will be held in the Haumoana Kall on Tuesday, March 14, the funds of which will go to the Beach Improvement Society.

The Hastings Registered Unemployed Association on March 13 (Monday) will commence their weekly dances and cribbage tournaments. Details of tho series are advertised.

The inter-school cricket match between the Napier and Gisborne Boys ’ High -Schools was concluded at Nelson Park, Napier, this afternoon, resulting in a win for Gisborne, by 10 wickets.

It is reported that an apparently new car was seen badly damaged by lire and left on the roadside near the Opapa railway station last night. Up till this afternoon, however, the mishap bad not been reported to the police either at Hastings or Waipawa.

A Whangarei High School boy, George Crowley, aged 17, the son of William Crowley, locomotive foreman, was drowned in a creek adjoining theplaying field last evening. He went into the water alone for a swim after training for a sports Meeting. A quarter of an hour later Yhe body was found lying on the bottozn of the creek, with the arms folded on the breast.—Press Association,

Miss Vxfmie de Latour, a well-known equestrienne competitor at Wairoa, liawkij* 3 Bay, and Gisborne A. and P. Shor/g, has had the misfortune to lose her pony, Rakau. The pony was found d/ad, apparently poisoned through eat,&g the rangiora shrub, on Mr H. D. de /Lautour’s station, Te Ariki, Poverty Bay. Rakau won the championship cup at the last Wairoa Show, and was a noted entry in pony classes for several years.

A boxing tournament in aid of the Mahora School- sports fund will be held in the school grounds on Monday evening, beginning at 8 o’clock, and the charges will be one shilling for adults and sixpence for children. The boys chosen to take part have been coached by Mr Artie Hay, and the skill that they have developed, as well as the intense fighting enthusasm that is always a characteristic of schoolboys, should make the evening an occasion of outstanding entertainment. At a meeting of the Parkvale School Baths Committee, the treasurer, Mr Alan Muleaster, reported that since the baths were opened in November, 3184 children and 1506 adults had paid for admission, while, in addition, 60 season tickets had been issued—including family tickets—adding another 85 regular frequenters of the baths. Considering that this is the first season, and that they lost some of their revenue by not being completed in time for October opening, the baths have proved a most gratifying, popular and financial success and a great boon to the residents in the Parkvale district. The world and his wife, his family, axl all his near and distant relations will be at the Puketapu sports on Saturday. March 18 (Saturday after the Autumn Show). It will he a great day. for never before has even the Puketapu Sports Club put on such a splendid programme, and with running, cycling, dancing, piping, horse events, motor car events, field events, dog trials, children’s races, wood-chopping competitions and a host of other competitions, there is a very full hag of attractions. Entries for the athletic and the block. Entries for the athletic and cycling events will close with the secretary, Napier Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, on Monday, March 13.