TOKOMARU BAY NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18313, 3 February 1934, Page 14

TOKOMARU BAY NEWS

(Herald Correspondent.) Thu eleventh annual aquatic sports meeting sponsored by the Jrlautanoa Sports and Entertainment Club was held at Waima. The weather proved ideal. The linishes were very exciting, and the work of adjudicators was in the capable hands of Messrs. U. Eivers, .1. 11. Carver, and E. E. Porter. I 'he Kerr Challenge Cup, lor the most points in classes i, 2, and 6, was won by J. Jefferd, who obtained eight points out of nine, after a meritorious performance, At the conclusion of the sports, Mr. A. fl. Williams presented the prizes and congratulated the winners. Thanks were extended to those who so generously donated the handsome prizes: Messrs. Oppenheimer and Company, Richardson and Company, Limited, Tokomaru Bay Farmers, S. McKee, Oates Bros., Stoneham and Company, If. Findlay, and Mesdames Harris and Brodie. The results were as follows : --33 l-3yds. handicap, boys and girls, 15 and under: J. Jefferd, 1; T. Plummer, 2, Neat dive, boys and girls, 15 and under: J. Jefferd, 1; R. Eivers, 2. 50yds. handicap, 17 and under: 11. Williams, 1; S. Dodgshaw, 2. 50yds. East Coast ladies’ championship: C. Kerr, 1 ; E. Plummer, 2 50yds. East Coast men’s championship : P. Murphy, 1; S. Newton, 2. 50,vds. handicap, boys and girls, 15 and under: S. Dodgshaw, 1; J. Jefferd, 2. Neat dive (open): J. Jefferd, 1; ,1. Tankard, 2. 100yds. East Coast championship (open): E. Jackson, 1; J. Dodgshaw, 2. 50yds, ladies’ handicap: (J. Kerr, 1; C. Kerr, 2. 25yds. handicap, 12 and under: S. Pearce. 1; T. Dodgshaw, 2. Corfu dive: G. Tankard, 1;

11. Ryland, 2. 50yds. men’s handicap: S. Dodgshaw, 1; H. Williams, 2. Tub race: 11. Williams, 1; 1\ Murphy, 2. 50yds. consolation handicap: C. l’avano, 1 ; R. Jackson, 2. Miss Lorna Ferris, of Te Puia, recently returned from a trip to Sydney, and spent last week-end with Mrs. J. MacDonald, Hautanoa., and is terminating her holidays in Gisborne.—Miss D. Baine, of Wellington, is spending a few days among friends in Tokomaru Bay, and is the. guest of Airs. Grant, Hautanoa. —Miss AI. Angus, Hautanoa, is an inmate of the Te Puia Hospital, where she has undergone an operation. Her friends wish her a speedy recovery. — Air. and Airs. 11. Mclntyre, Puku, have returned home, after spending some weeks with Captain and Mrs. Angus, Tokomaru Bay.—Miss .Nance Brodie, Te Puka, has received advice of a position as relieving teacher at the Tokomaru Bay Public School.—Mr. and Mrs. M. J. C. Thacker have returned to Tokomaru Bay after spending a few days at Morere. —Miss H. Tucker, of Hastings, who'has been the guest of Aliss N. Brodie, Te Puka, returned home this week.—Canon and Airs. Woodward and the Alisses Joyce and Dot Woodward, of Palmerston North, returned home this week after spending the holidays in Tokomaru Bay.—Miss L. Nicholls, of Helensville, has returned north after spending part of her holidays in Tokomaru Bay among old friends.—Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Gardner and Miss B. Pepper, of Tokomaru Bay, were visitors to Gisborne recently. —Air. ,J. Pepper, of Hamilton, returns north this week after spending a fortnight’s holiday with his parents in Tokomaru Bay.—Mr. D. B- Haworth, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Ruatoria, has arrived back after a holiday in Auckland. He was relieved by Air. L. Perkins, of the Tokomaru Bay branch.—Mr. and Airs. Jackson, sen., of Rotorua, are staying with Air. and Mrs, S. Jackson, “Pauariki,” Tokomaru Bay.—Miss M. Robertson, who has been spending the school holidays in Wellington, has returned to Tokomaru Bay—Airs. S. Doig, Tokomaru Bay. has returned home after spending a holiday in Wairoa with Airs. F. Baird.