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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18765, 23 July 1935, Page 8

All Auckland resident, aged 57. wheeled a fellow-employee from the gasworks ill Freeman’s Bay to the Suffolk Hotel, half-way up College Hill, for stakes of £1 10s. Hundreds follow, ed the comical event, and tram and motor traffic was held up as the procession moved on its way. The contract was easily completed. A lire of mysterious origin caused burns about his face and head of an infant boy, Albert Nenown, 12' months, and also destroyed the curtains in a front bedroom at the home of the child s parents, in Ponsonby, Auckland, yesterday. 'Die child, who had his face blistered and part of bis hair burned away, was removed to hospital for treatment, but was later taken home.

The Canterbury Hockey Association has intimated to the Poverty Bay association its intention of sending a team to compete at the ladies’ championship hockey tournament, to he conducted in Gisborne in August. The Canterbury representatives have been prominent in championship play for many years, and last year were the runners-up to the champions. Right hack to the years before the war, the Canterbury team has been looked on as one of the most formidable and consistent in New Zealand.