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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 4

The progress of the newly-formed Poverty Bay Boxing Club for the guidance of amateurs in the district is reported to be proceeding apace. Suitable rooms have been secured and it is hoped by the coming week to have them opened for training purposes.

Included in the cargo that the in.v. Pukeko loaded at Auckland this week for Tolaga Bay is a large quantity ot steel for the new Tolaga Bay bridge, The ship is to work the Coast port or Saturday morning on her return Iron: Napier. *

Work will be started shortly on the rcdecking of the combined rail and traffic bridge at Waikohu, and in order to obviate the necessity of opening the bridge to traffic at certain hours, other means of crossing the stream are being examined. It is considered that if the workmen are allowed to work only in short breaks it will be too long before the decking is renewed. Although the old crossing, which is situated slightly downstream, has been out of use for many years, it is understood that it will not take a great deal of labour to have the ford in a reasonable state once more. This crossing will be remembered, however, as a treacherous one, for the stream rises rapidly in wet weather. Writing to “Punch,” the boxing editor of the New Zealand Free Lance, Tom Heeney has Intimated that he and Jim Maloney propose to enter the hotel business together. Tom is still living in Florida, and in a recent hurricane suffered some slight damage to his property there. Referring to his future plans, he mentions that he finds Jim Maloney a great fellow, and that they laugh now over their old rivalry in heavyweight boxing. Maloney tvns one ot' those over whom Heeney scored convincing victories when he was on his way up to the position of world heavyweight title challenger in .1928, Rntili Tom and Jim have been out of the active side of the game for years, though Tom has had many engagements as a referee, and now knows something of the troubles of the third man in the ring. It is of special interest to find Heeney and Maloney on terms of close friendship and with ring rivalry forgotten, at a lime when Jack Sharkey, whom both met nearly 10 years ago, is making a so-far in--1 effectual effort to “come back” in the * heavyweight class.

The Motu Rugby Sub-union has written to the Opotiki Rugby union, expressing regret that if is unable to sijnd a team to play in Opotiki on Saturday. The first payment of pensions under the new svst.em of paying on. the Friday when the usual date falls during the week-end will be made to-morrow. The chief postmaster at Gisborne, Mr. G. Nelson, stated to-day that arrangements had been made to pay old-age and widows’ pensions to-morrow, because the usual date, the twenty-third, fell on Sunday.

“R is. nearly time we had institutions where we could send men like you to work for wages, so that the money could be forwarded to your wife and children. Probably the Government will do something in that direction,” said Mr. .1. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court, when, sentencing a defendant to six months’ imprisonment tor default over considerable period in payments under a maintenance order. \ n unusual incident occurred at the Custleclilt Golf Club’s links, Wanganui, during the progress of a women s niteidub match. A player drove a long shot I'lorn the tee at the sixteenth, and when she approached it for her second stroke a seagull which had been hovering over the course, swooped down and snapped up the bull. It flew with the ball m its beak for a small distance and dropped it, repeating the performance several times, at last sending if on to the green at the seventeenth. Messrs. Black Bros., of Whakatane, are reported to have purchased Te Hoc station, Galatea, consisting of 3400 acres. Hie property adjoins Mr. J. Grant s ivopuriki station and has been grazed b y Mr. Grant for the past 14 years. Ihe combined area was originally acquued by •i settler, who sold Te Hoe station to Captain Hayes. On the death of Captain Hayes the property was taken up bv Mr. N H. Pike, then of Gisborne, who held it'for’about" two years, when it passed to the estate of the late Mr. R. H Abbot and has since been occupied by Mr. Grant.

Contributions towards the cost of a portrait of Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, to be presented to the National Art. Gallery, have been received by the Gisborne Returned Soldiers’ Association from a number of returned men ol the district, who have taken this short-cut route towards the objective outlined in the latest issue of the R.S.A. Review, the New Zealand headquarters oi the organisation enclosed subscription forms with copies of the Review, but to mans soldiers the necessity for securing a postal order for a small subscription has proved inconvenient. The alternative means of contributing, through the disrict branches of the association, is much more convenient, and is being availed of ,jy satisfactory numbers of the men who served in the N.Z.E.F. under Sir Andrew Russell.

Keen interest In the establishment of community services and amenities in the railway camps between Waikokopu and Gisborne has been shown by the men chosen to initiate the new construction programme on the Napier-Gisborne railway. At Kopuawliara are located the central administration offices and principal amenities for social gatherings, and here the men are concentrating in their leisure hours upon the formation of clubs which will operate during the coming summer months. Swimming, cricket, howls and tennis will _be among the sports for which facilities will be provided. while the services of the Y.M.C.A. in the social life of the camps already is earning the warm appreciation of the men. Quarters for married and single men respectively are comfortable without being elaborate, and cateiing arrangements for the single men are in the' hands of contractors, this arrangement working satisfactorily. Tt is recognised that the camps will be occupied for from two to three years, and every effort is being made to improve the environment of the railway works, especially for the women and children of the married men’s families.