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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 6

Suffering from injuries received as the result of a fall from a. motor-cycle at Te Karaka. Arthur lumber, aged 22. of Cisborue, was admitted to the Cook Hospital on Saturday afternoon. His condition to-dav was reported to be satisfactory. The death occurred in Hamilton on Thursday of Mr. William Armstrong, aged 85. Bom at Donegal, County Mar. Ireland, Mr. Armstrong came to New Zealand when lie was 25 years of age s>nd participated in the gold rush at Thames and Ohincmuri.

The number of registered unemployed in Germany in March is officially given. as 1.937.000. .57.800 fewer than February and 465.000 below the figures for March, 1935. Mr. F. W. Hostedt, a well-known officer of the General Post Office. Wellington, died' this' week. At the lime of his death. Mr. Ilastedt occupied one ol the senior controlling positions in the accountant's branch. "There is somewhere in this otherwise pleasant town a. small gang! of irresponsible hooligans who take a delight in wilfully damaging other people's property/' stated Mr. J. Tombleson, chairman of the liisborne Harbour Board, at to-day's meeting. "Not the board's properly alone, but the Lightering Company's barges and private craft have come in for their attention. If these people lived, in the country, I take it they would be amongi those who shoot off the' telephone and power-line insulators for the fun of the thing."