NEWS OF THE DAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Hopper Shield Cricket The Wniroa Cricket Association's Hopper Shield competition will be continued on Saturday next when Frasertown will play Swifts at Frasertown and Rovers will meet High School at the Recreation Ground. Nomads have drawn a bye. Lord Rutherford Medals About 22 medals awarded to Lord Rutherford during his distinguished career, the first part of the collection which has been given lo Canterbury University College, have been received in Christchurch, and plans are being made for the suitable housjng and display of the collection. Twelve more awards arc on the way. Rainfall at Tokomaru Hay The rainfall at Hautanoa, Tokomaru Bay, last month totalled only JiTin. for three days with rain, as against 3217 in. for the corresponding period last year. The heaviest fall of rain was experienced on October 24, when ,44in. was recorded. For the 10 months ended October til Hautanoa recorded 90.(>4in.- of rain as compared with 1i0.24in. for the 1927 period.

Valuable Museum Exhibits

Valuable exhibits thousands of years old, illustrating the culture of the earliest European races, have been brought to light during a reorganisation of sections of the antiquity room at the Canterbury Museum. They were obtained by Sir Julius von Haast, who had personal contacts with authorities at the great European museums in the seventies and eighties. Many of them have now assumed such value that it is considered the European museums would he extremely anxious to regain possession of them.

Car Overturns at Whangara A late model sedan motor-car proceeding from Gisborne to Waimana station, Whangara, on Tuesday night overturned on the main road near Whagara. One of the passengers, Mr. Charles Peach, aged SG, a farm labourer, employed on Waimana station, sustained severe injuries to his neck and when he subsequently received medical attention in Gisborne he was ordered to the Cook Hospital. Apart front a severe shaking the other occupants of the car escaped injury. It was reported this morning that Mr. Peach was progressing satisfactorily. The ear'was extensively damaged. Donation to Ambulance Half-a-erown invested in a .sweepstake ticket on the .Melbourne Cup, has increased the Auckland St. John Ambulance funds by £2l 12s. A supporter of uie association did not have an opportunity last Friday, owing to the pressure of business, to contribute 2s (id toward the street collection, so he bought a ticket in a sweepstake ou the Melbourne Cup and drew the winning horse. This donation, together with other donations and the street collection, brings the proceeds from the appeal up to £IB7B The appeal last year, together with donations, realised £ISOO. Wairoa’s State Houses Good progress is being made with the erection of the State houses in Wairoa. Nine of the buildings have now been roofed and floored and work is at present proceeding with the interiors. The sub-contractors are all making steady progress with their particular jobs, and it is anticipated that all the houses will be ready for occupation by February. Other jobs the contractor, Mr. D. Glengarry, has on hand are the erection of a new residence at the corner of Marine residence for the Postmaster and a two-storey business establishment at the corner of Marine Parade and Locke street and these jobs are also proceeding satisfactorily. Catalogue’s Trainer Known in Wairoa Catalogues win in the 1928 Melbourne Cup race is of particular interest to Wairoa as the trainer of the horse, Mrs. A. W. McDonald, is well known to many Wairoa people. She was known in the district as “Granny Maher” and her horses have been prominent competitors in the show ring in Wairoa one of them, Blue Moon, winning the jumping event at the Wairoa Show in 1922. Catalogue, the winner of the Cup, is a full brother to Hamarin, which is owned by Mr. P. Mallon, of Wairoa, and which won one of the district races at tile Wairoa Racing Club's last meeting. Swastikas at Opotiki Returning to Gisborne after disembarking from an overseas vessel at Auckland, a prominent resident of this district stopped over at Opotiki tor lunch during the week-end. The sight of two swastikas, incorporated in the design of a building in full

view from the restaurant windows, did nothing to spoil the luncheon of one who has no racial affinity with the sponsors of Nazism. The swastikas had been incorporated in the building’s facade years before anything was heard of the present regime in Germany, and had long passed unnoticed hv regular users of Opotiki’s shopping area. Mention of their existence, made casually by the “non-Aryan” Gisbornite, was followed hv their swift disappearance, however.