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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 15

The tender of Mr Perrin, of Greenmeadows, has been accepted for the erection of the new Convent School in Hastings. The building will cost £34CO, excluding a special heating system. The management of the Wanganui Metropolitan Rugby Union has been worried of late by an epidemic of sneak thieving in the dressing sheds at Spriggens Park. Advice has been received in Gisborne that Miss Rons Stephenson, now a student at the Auckland Training College, has been picked in the Auckland basketball representative team. Miss Stephenson gained her knowledge of this game at the Gisborne High School. She represented Poverty Bay for two years and was captain last year when that team went to Dunedin to participate in the Dominion tournament.

The first branch of the King’s Jubilee and Anzac Memories Association has been formed in Wanganui with the support of the Wanganui Education Board and local bodies throughout the district. The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, is patron of the organisation. The objects include the planting of an avenue of trees along the highway from Wellington to Auckland, tho north side to be planted in English trees in honor of the King’s Silver Jubilee, and the south side in New Zealand and Australian trees as.a lasting memory In the Anzac campaign. When the driver of a motor-ear crossing the combined railway and road traffic bridge at Ngawapurua, near Woodville, failed to notico the route oil the railway to the road and drove on down tho line, an eJtpVess. train w;is held up for half an hour. Tho driver of the car was Mr D. J. R. McKenzie, a sol) of an A pit! farmer, and other occupants of the vehicle were Messrs J. Power, of Feilding, and J. Fowell, of Apiti. The driver failed to notice the turn-off, and was then faced with backing* over the sleepers or driving on for 200 yards to a crossing. Both journeys would have proved bumpy, but the backing would have presented added difficulties, so lie elected to drive on with tho express waiting on the Woodville end of the bridge. The driver overshot the next gate leading off the line, arid had lo coritinne for another quarter of a mile to .a branch ; road crossing the line on the way to a private residence,