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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 6

When the English Rugby Union football team toured New Zealand the Auckland Association of Boys’ Clubs gave a New Zealand Ensign into their keeping with the request that it should he presented to the Duke of Gloucester. A few days ago, reports a .London correspondent. a little -ieremony took place ii the Duke’s apartments at Buckingham Palace, to which the isoner. Sir Thomas Wilford, was samnoned. Armed with an order granted by the Supreme Court at the instance ’of a creditor, three constables appeared at the office of the secretary of the Waipapakanti Raving Club on the course on Monday during the progress of the chib’s races and impounded all the funds in the possession of the secretary.' The race meeting was well advanced and a messenger had just arrived from the gate, bringing with him all the takings .for the day. 'The meeting is a nori-totalisator me. No stake money has been paid out. In the absence of the club’s solicitor, the secretary' was unable to take any action. A substantial place of worship, to cost between £2OOO and £3OOO, is to he erected on the site of St. John’s Cathedral, Napier. It will be com jneneed in about a month. A start has been made with the Hearing: of the ruins from the site. The new church is he ing planned so that it will be in many respects of similar layout to the old cathedral. It will accommodate £OO people. Cure is being; taken to make the building as handsome as possible. It vvilt be erected in the middle of the old sile, and some metal memorial plates found to have heen undamaged bv the fire and earthquake will adorn its walla.