NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 5

NEWS BREVITIES

McGrath (Australia) and Stedman (New Zealand) qualified for the final at the Dorset tennis championship tournament.—P.A. cable. 11. Pinkerton, of Casino, New South Wales, won the King's Prize at the South Queensland Rille Association's meeting with 333 points. A. .March (Brisbane), 327, was second, and F. Stafford (Brisbane), 327, third.—P.A. cable. The Marine Department advises that there is no necessity for any further inquiry regarding the stranding of tho llauraki on August 5. —'Press Assn. In the second qualifying round for Ihi Davis ( up, Sweden eliminated Ireland by three matches to two.—Stockholm cable. Tho death occurred in hospital in Wellington to-day of Sukha Dayal, a Hindoo child of three, following severe scalds on the body, arms and feet as the result ot falling into a bath ol boiling water last Sunday - Press ,V*ti. Following difficulty experienced in securing relief wurkets tor a job nt i Hobsonville air base, the officer in I charge ot unemployment announced today that the work had been again offered to fit eligible men. Those who ' lulled to accept tin oiler would be icgarded as being voluntarily iiiieui- ■ ployed ami refused further assistance ; from the. unemployment funds, '(hat action, he said, was being taken oil (he ground that sustenance payments were to be made only to men tor whom no suitable work could lie provided, and in this case work was suitable. Those men who had worked had averaged over II per day.—Press A->n.