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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 15

A two-seater car, driven by Mr Doherty, of Whakatane, collided with a lorry owned 'by the Gisbonio Fruit Company, at a * bond in the Waimana Gorge about live miles from Taneatiia, on Friday morning, reports the Press. The car' was considerably damaged and had to be towed to Whakatane for repairs. Neither driver was injured.

In his report to the Palmerston North Hospital Beard, the medical superintendent. I)r J. H. North, stated that the occupied bed rate had been high recently, and on Friday last there had been 241 patients. As a result a waiting list of non-urgent cases had been established. If this position continued;*it would be necessary to enlarge the nirj'Sstaff. During dune the daily average number of occupied beds was 191.5. The task of providing food and accommodation for the visitors and playfcrs who are arriving at- OinahTt Pa. situat-ed abon' five miles from Hastings, is <yne which is. being tackled with great enthusiasm )iy members of the native race. It was expected that by midnight last night, .nearly a thousand visitors would have arrived for the Maori hockey tournament, which commences to-day, and in which 58 teairis will take part.. Teams are expected from the Hay -of Plenty, East Coast, Gisborne, Wairoa, Mohakh, Nubaka, ■ Poiangahau, Talanaki, Hatana, Wairarapa and Hawke's Day districts. The games are to *be played on the polo grounds, where eight grounds have been prepared. The firstseries of games commenced at 9.30 a.m. to-day and the tournament will end on Friday. ~n his reply to the welcome received by him at to-day's Rotary Club luncheon, the Governor-General raised a hearty laugh by his relation of a, talc of a close-fisted Yorkshire farmer, which he held represented the antithesis of the spirit of Rotary. _The. farmer in question, Lord Galway said, opened his heart, on the occasion of haymaking, and decider] to give his harvesters a treat. Accordingly he sent down to the field a quantity of beer, and following a little later, expected to be overwhelmed with thanks. TJio subject not being [broached to him, however* he inquired of one of the older hands what no thought of the beer. The harvester observed that the beer was "just right." "What do you mean by just, right?" asked the farmer. "Well, if it had been owt better, ye'd ne'er haw give it us," remarked the old hand, "and if it had been owt worse, we'd ncer hive been able to sup it!"