LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 160, 22 June 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

British Air Mail, Air mail despatched from London on June 8 is due at Wellington on Monday by tho Monowai.—Press Assn.

Gift to Red Cross. A gift of £3 to the Hastings branch of the Red Cross Society has been received from the Hod Cross Circle of tho Women’s Community Club.

Donation Acknowledged. The Mayor of Hastings Mr. G. A. Maddison, wishes to acknowledge receipt of £1 from “J.R..8.” towards the Mayor’s Distress Fund.

First Lamb of Season, The first lamb of the season in this district was born on the property of Mr. W. Sinclair, Pakowhai road, Mahora, yesterday morning.

Frost at Hastings. Hastings and surroundings district experienced a fairly severe frost this morning, tho recording in tho town being eight degrees. Following a particularly cold night residents awoke to find grass and other greenery covered with a fairly liberal coating of white, which, on account of the lack of bright sunshine, remained until a comparatively late hour. Cup-reading in Tea-rooms. Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., fined two women £1 each for undertaking to tell fortunes in tea-rooms at Auckland. He said in respect of one that she was apparently employed for tho purpose of character reading, but what sho did was to read teacups and tell the police matrons that they were going on jour, neys, etc. That amounted to telling fortunes. The practice had been made an offence because it had been found that it affected the lives and happiness of people who believed in it. Although it was nonsense it was mischievous nonsense. Maori Girls’ College. To-morrow will mark another red letter day in the educational history and activities of the Roman Catholic community of Hawke’s Bay, when the new Maori Girls’ College at Greenmeadows, which has just been erected in Osier road, on the site acquired some time ago from the trustees of the late Mr Patrick McCormack, will be blessed and officially opened by His Grace Archbishop O’Shea, S.M. The sisters of the mission cordially invite visitors to the dedication ceremony, which takes place at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday. Scenic Drive. Proposals for constructing, as an unemployment relief measure, a scenic drive through some of the finest bush iu tho Waitakero Ranges were outlined by Mr. 1. J. Goldstiue, Mayor of One ’tree Hill, at tho annual meeting of the Auckland Suburban Local Bodies’ Association. “Tho proposed drive,’’ Mr. Goldstino said, “would cover a total distance of 26 miles 32 chains. It would start at New Lynn and go through Titirangi, Cascade Park and Kauri Park to Swanson, and then back tu New Lynn. Passing through sume glorious native bush, it would make ono of the most beautiful scenic drives in New Zealand, and would be a wonderful attraction tor overseas visitors who spend only a short time in the city.”