Tito liner Remuera arrived at London on July 14 from New Zealand. The Rev. A, J. 11. Dow, who has been appointed to the charge of St. Andrew's Church, Gisborne. is expected to arrive in his own ear this evening from Hastings. In the strong northerly wind yesterday morning the steamer Parracombe, which arrived at Wellington on Sunday morning from • Warigahut and anchored in the stream, dragged her anchor and drifted fairly close in to Point. .lerningham before she was brought, under control and taken back to her anchorage. As a guest of the Gisborne Rotary Club to-day, Lord Culway, enjoyed heartily the "prosecution" of one of the club- members by the sergeant-at-arms, the proceedings resulting in a fine of sixpence bcingi levied on the alleged offender: it was charged against him that, being one of the most substantial citizens, he had committed cruelty against a fellow-citizen -not hall his weight, in compelling the smaller man to wheel him for an unstated distance in a "wheelbarrow derby." The incident was a sequel to a recent Sav:ige Club concert, at which the wheelburrow "contest staged in Australia was the subject of a clever skit.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 15
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