COMING EVENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 63, 24 February 1934, Page 8

COMING EVENTS

The second Rainbow Shield carnival will be held at the Mahora Baths next Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. The i inthly meeting of the Hastings Townswomen’s Guild will he held on March 1. in the Assembly Hall. Music, items will be an attractive part of the programme. The Hastings and District Scots’ Society will hold their Ingleside in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Market, street, on Monday night, Feb. 26, at 8 o’clock. Assembly at 7.55. The Havelock North Women’s Institute will hold a garden party at Mrs Greenwood’s, Duart road, on Saturday, March 3. A free ’bus will run from Havelock North. The annual meeting of the Havelock North Belief Association will be held in the Town Board room at 7.30 on Wednesday, February 28, and a large attendance is requested. As the need this coming winter may be considerable, eash donations and gifts of warm clothing arc invited.

The secretary, Public Works Tenders Board, Wellington, invites tenders up to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March .13, for the construction of the Makaretu Stream road bridge, on the Mangnpoike Valleyroad, Wniroa County. Plans and specifications may be seen at. the Public Works offices, Napier, Wairua and Gisborne. Old boys of Wellington College are invited to attend a meeting in the Hastings Chamber of Commerce room on Thursday, March 1, at 8 p.m. to consider the. formation of u Hawke’s Bay sub-association. In order that a complete record may be compiled, all exboys who have not been circularised are asked to furnish then,- names and addresses. to H. Chote, 709 York street, Hastings. Next Monday evening all interested in tho Hastings Business Women’s Club are asked to attend the annual meeting to be held in the G.F.S. room at the back of St. .Matthew’s Sunday School, at 7.30 p.m. 'This club provided interests and a sociable gathering place tor its many members last year and it is hoped that, after one year’s experience the organisation will be even more successful. The Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board not) lies stockowners in the Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board’s area that those who have failed . > furnish returns have made themselves liable to a penalty of £2O. Default assessments will be made by the board unless stock returns as at November 30, 1933, are in the hands of the secretary on or before March; 1934. Duplicate forms can be obtained at the secretary’s office, No 9 Market Reserve Building, Napier. On Wednesday next, February 28, at the Excelsior Hall, Hastings street, Napier, i. ill be held a monster carnvial in honour of the hall’s birthday. Oldi: c dancing will be the order of the vcii'iig. and tliere ix ill be lots of M--H —. including x <><-;.! it.-ms, a MMte Carlo ■"'! lucky nnn.l.pi- .hiuce.

novelties, and streamers. A free ’bus will leave Hastings at 7.30. Tickets are obtainable at Williamson’s bookshop, opposite Hastings ’bus stand.

The Hastings Horticultural .Society has decided to hold a dahlia, zinnia, aster, and fruit show in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Market street, Hastings, on Thursday, March 8. This is tho first show of its kind to be held in Hastings, and if successful will be continued annually. Membcs are asked to give all possible assistance to make this show a success. This can be brought about by members competing and inducing their friends to do so r.nd attend tho show. Special classes are included in the schedules for competition in fruit, and it is expected that this will be a feature of the show.

The Heretaunga Swimming and Lifesaving Club have been successful in securing the appearance at the Maddison Baths next Wednesday of W. Whareaitu the New Zealand backstroke champion,

who is also the holder of the national 50 yards free style record. Whareaitu will make an attempt on the 100 metres backstroke record and will also appear .in the open races. Negotiations are also in hand for the appearance of D. D. Lindsay, who at the recent national championships gained three senior titles. Full details of the carnival will be published in Monday’s “Tribune.”

Even though the world is in a state of turmoil, most people’s lines are at times cast in pleasant places. This is an experience most people enjoy to the full at the annual Puketapu sports meetings. Puketapu is a pleasant place to be at on sports day, and it is a place that has gained its popularity on those by providing not only a most thoroughly enjoyable day’s sport, in which

variety and attractiveness are salient features, but such a hearty welcome to visitors as makes the outing distinctly pleasurable. This year’s sports gathering will be held ou Saturday, March 17, (the Saturday after the autumn Show), and it is safe to say that most people who can get there will >e at I’aketaou on that day. The annual dance will bo held in the Puketapu Hall in the evening.