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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19374, 12 July 1937, Page 4

A frost of 4.3 degrees, the fifth in succession, was registered in Gisborne this morning. On Sunday morning there was a frost of 2.5 degrees. For the week ended at noon to-day three cases of notifiable diseases, one each of erysipelas, diphtheria, and enteric fever, were notified in the East Cape health district. One death was reported from enteric fever. The joy flights conducted yesterday afternoon by East Coast Airways. Limited, were very popular, and in the 10 flights made during the afternoon 78 passengers were taken aloft to view Gisborne from the air. Crowd; of people are now attracted to Darton Field for the flights, and at one stage there were GO cars on the road lining the fence.

The acting Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, in his capacity ot Minister of Education, has advised Mr. A. G. Hultquist, M.P. for the Bay of Plenty, that the Cabinet has approved of a grant for the erection of a teacher s residence at the Makarika Public School, on the East Coast near Ruutoria. The grant was recommended by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board at a recent meeting.

The Mahia Hunt Club’s meeting took place at Awamate on Saturday in frosty weather, the conditions being not quite so good as on former occasions. There was a fairly good attendance of followers, but scarcely any onlookers owing to the bad weather conditions. Three short runs were made over good hunting country, and hares were put up, but no kills resulted. Afternoon tea was provided by Mrs. P. .1. Lister, and the master, Mr. A. J. Devery, acknowledged her hospitality. —Special. Over 20 members of the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association gathered on the showgrounds to-day to plant a grove of trees between the oval and the members’ car parking space to replace willows and poplars which had failed to grow. About 100 trees had been donated, and these were planted during the day, while a number of other smaller jobs were also carried out. The trees, which are of autumn foliaged English type, were donated by supporters of the association in honour of the Coronation.

An elderly lady, one of Wairoa’s pioneers of the mid-seventies, Mrs. L. Heighten, sister of Mrs. T. Lambert, met with an unfortunate accident late on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Heighten, who is a widow, was engaged in feeding a neighbour’s poultry when she slipped and fell. She dragged herself out of the yard, but there was no one on the premises. Her rails for help not being beard, she endeavoured to drag herself out to the road, but collapsed. Eventually help in the shape of a St. John Ambulance officer and a stretcher arrived and Ihe injured lady was taken to the Wairoa Hospital. It Is feared that she is suffering from e fractured thlgh.-~Special,