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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 4

A frost of 1.4 degrees was register ed in Gisborne this morning.

When his bicycle came into collision with a car driven by Miss B. Dandy at the corner of Customhouse street and Gladstone road yesterday afternoon a lad, Warner Ovenden, suffered slight injuries to his back. The bicycle was damaged. A contract for the reconstruction and bitumen-surfacing of two miles of the Gisborne-Napier, via Hangaroa, highway, between 16i and 18A miles from Gisborne, has been let by the Public Works Department's tenders board to Mr. H. S. Stevenson, Gisborne.

In the schools section of the Hawke s Bay Spring Show Antony Robb, Matawai, has been awarded first prize in the printscript class for St. 111. The following successes were also gained in the printscript class by Matawai children:—St. V, Ken Fleming, third prize; Charlie Kerekere, h.c; Margaret Mazengarb, c. St. VI: John Pedersen, v.h.c.

While riding home from the Muriwai school on Monday, evening two boys, Nolan Raihania and Pare Pohatu, met with an accident which might have been serious. Their horse shied at a passing motor car, unseating the two boys. The elder boy, Nolan, suffered a bruised arm and chin, while the norse trod on the other boy's foot. The motorist immediately stopped and rendered what assistance he could. The boys were able to proceed home on foot.—Special.

Mr. John Creary, who died at Dannevirke this week in his eightieth year, came to New Zealand in 1879 on the ship Adamant with his sister, Mrs. W. Howes, who predeceased him many years ago. Landing at Napier, the late Mr. Creary made his way to Ormondville and had resided there ever since. He rs survived by one sister, Mrs. W. Ady, who is in U.S.A. His relatives include two nephews, Messrs. Benjamin and Alfred Howes, Wairoa.

A motion expressing complete confidence in Dr. H. M. Wilson and requesting him not to relinquish his present position as a member of the board until' legislation is brought down compelling him to resign was passed at a recent meeting of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board. Dr. Wilson intimated that he did not intend to resign stating that he did not agree with the finding of the Royal Commission that a member of the honorary staff should not be a member of the board.

A suggestion that hospital boards in the East Coast area should co-operate in obtaining another visit of an orthopaedic specialist to advise on the progress and the further treatment of infantile paralysis cases was favourably received at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board yesterday afternoon, reports the Napier Telegraph. The suggestion was received from the Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, who considered it reasonable that the boards concerned shoulct defray the expense of such a visit. "Another visit is very desirable," said the medical superintendent, Dr. J. J. Foley, who added that there were eight patients in the hospital and five out-patients, but It would be just as well to check up again. Mr. C. Lassen, chairman: "We could try it once and get a report from the medical superintendent after the visit." This course was agreed to by the board.