HIKURANGI TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 25 June 1937, Page 3

HIKURANGI TOPICS

HEWING OF COAL STOPPED. The Hikurangi Coal Company’s new colliery is again in trouble with water 'and as the result of excessive seeping in a week ago, six men have been temporarily put off, and the hewing of coal stopped while the other miners devote their labours to ridding the workings of water. The men . have been working odd shifts and it is hoped to have dewatered the mine by the week-send.

PROFIT ON CHILDREN’S SPORTS. The organisers of the big children’s sports gathering in Hikurangi on Coronation Day have produced a balance-sheet of what was undoubtedly a very successful function. The total income was £4B/3/8, comprised for the most part of donations, while the expenditure aggregated £4O/7/3, prizes and refreshments being the main items. A balance of £7/16/5 is now held in trust by the Hikurangi Town Board for future children’s sports in the town. TEACHER RECEIVES WEDDING PRESENT. A pleasant function took place at the Hikurangi school on Thursday of last week, when the headmaster, Mr. J. T. Teesdale, on behalf of the teaching staff and pupils, presented to Miss Doris Carpenter an attractive copper fire screen./. Miss Carpenter was married in Auckland on Wednesday. COUNTRY WEEK REPRESENTATIVE Hikurangi has three representatives in Auckland with the , Whangarei Country Week Hockey teams. They are Mrs. C. Meyer, who has gained a place in the Ladies’ A. eleven, and Misses Rita Flanagan and Doris Bos_

well, who are members of the B side. The three travelled south on Saturday’s express, returning at the week-end. EXCURSION TO AUCKLAND. Eighty-one Hikurangi people availed themselves of the cheap trip to Auckland last week-end, patronising the excursion run by the railways department. The soccer test, of course, was a big draw to local people and the majority of those who boarded the train late on Friday night were among the crowd at Carlaw Park on Saturday afternoon. PERSONALIA. Mrs. V. Johnston and Miss M. Price arrived in Hikurangi last week-end from Granity, on the west coast of the South Island, to spend an extended holiday with their sister, Mrs. V. Palmer. Mr. Norman Gibson, Junr., leaves to-morrow for Greymouth, where he is to reside with his parents. Mr.‘ Cliff Ward, of the railway department, Auckland, was a visitor to Hikurangi fo the week-end. Mr. S. Donnelly is home on holiday j from, the Waikato.