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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19246, 11 February 1937, Page 4

Following an incident in a street at Sandringham late on Saturday night after a party, a man was taken to the Auckland Hospital with a cut in his arm. He was walking home along Haslet! street with his mother, when, in scuffle in which another guest was involved, he received a cut with, a knife. After treatment in the casualty ward at the hospital he was able to proceed home. The police were informed of the occurrence after the injured man had reached the hospital and an arrest was later made. The police also took possession of a pocket knife.

The interest of many Oisbonie residents was aroused a lew days ago by a statement that a (former Matawai settler, Mr. T. J. Thomas, now of Auckland, had succeeded in delivering to another ex-Poverty Hay resident a message entrusted to him in France, in 1922. Inquiries made in Auckland have revealed the names of the othcY parties to the chain of incidents, and both will be well remembered by the older genera lion in this district. Mr. Thomas.' story is that on March 22 he was visiting war graves in Albert, Northern France, and that by chance he encountered Mr. William Dynes, formerly of Gisbornc, a nephew of the late Mr. William Pettic and cousin of Mr. Frank Pettic. On learning that Mr. Thomas came from Poverty Pay, Mr. Dynes stated that he had married in Franco after the Great War, and had settled there iti business in Amiens. He asked Mr. Thomas to convey his greetings to Mr. Frank Pettic, and this commission Mr. Thomas was able to fulfil recently when ho found that Mr. Pettie was a near neighbour of his in Auckland.

Appearing yesterday before Justices of the Peace at Tikitiki John lleid, alias Zulu, was charged with aggravated assault, on a female and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Miss Kditli Baker, who was recently appointed to the staff of lona College, left "Knpenga," Tahunga, for llavelock North last week to take up her duties. Pending the reassembling of the pupils at n later date, the work of the college is being carried on by correspondence.

The manner in which women are advancing in the realm of sport will be amply demonstrated in Gisborne on S;iturdav, when the representatives of the llaw'ke's Bay Ladies' Cricket Club' will meet, the eleven from the Poverty Bay Ladies' Cricket Club at, the Oval. The game will commence at 1.30 p.m.

An area of 12 acres at, Mangatuna, near Tolaga Bay, which was opened recently by the" Lands Department for selection," attracted no offers up to 4 p.m. vesterday, when applications were to close. The section is an isolated one, in respect of which access and fencing may have acted as deterrents upon possible applicants.

The badge of the Poverty Bay Professional Athletic and Cycling Club will be presented to Miss Nita Rosslyn, well known as a cycle tourist under the title of "The Lady in Red," at the weekly sports meeting of the club this evening. Miss ltosslyn will speak briefly through the public address system installed at the Victoria Domain.

The winning ticket in the bathing belle art union, drawn yesterday in Napier, proved to-day to be one. of a number paid for by. the joint committee of the Gisborne 'Surf and Swimming Club and the Gisborne Bowing Club, which supported Miss Ailsa Plight in the bathing belle contest. The two clubs will divide the proceeds of the art union success, it is understood. The Wairoa representative crickel earn to play the Poverty Bay senior B grade eleven in Wairoa next week•,l lias been announced as follows: — B. Craig, K. Shaw, M. Couper and P. Brown (Frnsertown), M. Croker, I>. McKenzie, 11. Howell ami T. Aldridge (Rovers); P. Heleau (captain), D. Brown (Dairy Factory); .1. Colby and ;. Xissen, twelfth man (Tuai).

A total of 14 applications from individual veterans anxious to secure inclusion in the Coronation Contingent were received by the Gisborne Returned Soldiers' Association, acting on behall of the authorities in the collection ol applications. The applicants include one war nurse, three South African veterans, and two Maori Pioneer Battalion veterans, the remainder being European returned soldiers of the 'Great War.