At a cost of £3OOO, new premises are to be erected in Napier almost immediately for the Napier-Wairoa-Gisborne Transport Company. The building, which will be situated almost directly opposite the company's present premises in Station street, will be of ferro-concrete throughout. Though it v/ill consist of a single storey in the meantime, provision will be made for an additional storey should' the necessity arise.
Advice ( was received to-day by the Gisborne Wrestling Association that the New Zealand union had allocated a match to Gisborne on June 25, the contestants being Cov/boy Dick Raines and Jack Kennedy. The latter has been in New Zealand for some time, wrestling with the top flight of the overseas professionals in the Dominion ring; while Raines, a recent arrived, gave proof of his calibre in Wellington on Saturday, when he was defeated by "Lofty" Blomfieid only through a penalty fall, after a torrid match.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19659, 17 June 1938, Page 7
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