TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 9

TOWN EDITION

A meeting of the Allies’ Hockey C'iuli will be belli in the Gisborne Club rooms on Friday night. All intending players are requested to be in attendance. A team to represent the Hotspur Football Club to-morrotv afternoon will be picked from the following: A. It. Bice, L. Reed, It. Browne, Gordon, B. Bee, j. Roddick, Burke, H. A. Armstrong, S. Hope, R. Black, T. F. MeEwan, A. H. Good. A. hockey team) to play at 3.00 *- 0_ morrow' will be chosen from the following:: G. Rogitt, L. Hayworth, A. K. Rice, Lewis, Wright, W. Browne, N. Lory, G. Fitzmaurice, M. Russell, T. Nicol. E. Browne, A. H. Good, A. Ball, Duncan. The employers working under the laborers’ award are asked by advertisement to let the secretary of the) Laborers Union, have a list of the names ol the men employed by them as laborers. Their attendance is also drawn to the preference 'clause in the award. Tom Keeney, professional heavyweight champion of the Dominion, leaves by the Arabura this evening for south, on [route to England l , where he is to' try his Huick in sporting circles. He is accompanieil by Fred Domlney, bis trainer. Children belonging to the local branch of the Navy League are to be given the best, possible opportunity of viewing the' ships of the special service squadron which pass Gisborne on Friday afternoon, it having been arranged that they shall be taken by motor-lorry to Sponge Bay, which it is considered offers the best vantage point. Rafcji'ri.ng to H..M.S. Hood to-day, Air Leslie Reynolds explained that the engines driving the Hood are 157,000 horse power, amd that one liorse power is equal to the power of one large and powerful draught,house from which horse power is derived. Assuming that hlorses were in line to equal that power, and allowing that ealdh horse from nose to tail occupied ai space of mine feet, the length would stretch 268 miles, equal in a du’eetl line from Wellington to within 55 miles of Auckland. It would require a long iwhiip to reach the leader! M s r. Reynolds naively remarked: “Well, instead of an impossible whip of suicii length, it might he. more up-to-date, to connect by wireless the leading Ihorsc with the driver of sufch a team, provided of course thsrfi the leading horse understood Hood’s English, and maybe some, pllain Ehglish at that/” If the Hood were sot down in Gladstone road she would istrotoh from .the Post Office to the centre of Peel street, and her total width is equal to one and a third times the width of (Gladstone .roiad. The velocity of the shells on leaving the gun is just' half ai mile per second.