CYCLE ROAD RACING

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1930, Page 6

CYCLE ROAD RACING

HANDICAPS FOR WEDNESDAY, • The Hawera Amateur Athletic Club’s next cycle road race will be held on Wednesday, the start being at 2.30 p.m. 'Die course, which is approximately 25 miles in length, proceeds along the Waihi, Normanby and Manaia Roads to Normanby and Manaia, and back to Hawera via the Main South Road. Handicaps in minutes have been declared by Mr. L. I. Martcr as follow: C. Griffin scr., R. Kelson, L. A. Gargan Umin., E. Tipler 34, T. Townsend 4, K. Foy 54, E. Woollett 10, A. Dredge 124, J. Dredge 144, D. Hannah 16}. PERSONAL ITEMS. At the first meeting of directors of the Hawera Co-operative Dairy Company for the current season Mr. J. R. Corrigan was re-elected chairman. Eulogistic references to the good work performed by Mr. J. O’Shea as chairman of directors of the Meremerg Dairy Company were made at the annual meeting of the company on Saturday. Mr. O’Shea declined nomination as chairman for the ensuing season, expressing the opinion that the office should go round. Mr. J. Lander was subsequently elected to fill the position. _ z Mr. J. E. Crompton, Takaka, Nelson, formerly secretary of the Golden Bay Dairy Company, has been appointed secretary of the Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy Company. There were 128 applica:.L, six of these being selected to meet the directors yesterday, with the result that Mr. Crompton was chosen. A cloud of smoke near Nolantown was the cause of the Hawera Fire Brigade turning out bn Sunday evening. The fire was in a swamp beyond the borough boundary and no damage was done. GENERAL ITEMS. The names of Mr. J. E. Caihpbell and Miss Jean Laurenson, who did valuable work in connection with the Hawera Highland Pipe Band’s annual ball on Wednesday, were inadvertently omitted from the list of helpers supplied to the Press. A quantity of-household furniture will be sold by auction by Messrs. R. P. Morrissey and Co. to-day in the Union Street sale rom, Hawera. The Manaia Basketball Club will hold a dance in the Manaia Town Hall on Monday, August 18. GOLF MATCH AT PATEA. BELMONT LADIES’ VICTORY. On the Patea links the home club wa<s beaten by' the Belmont (Wanganui) Ladies’ Club/ by 10 games to 5. The individual results are, Belmont Club members being mentioned first: — Mrs. Grace lost to Miss Gibson. Mrs. Wooloms beat Miss Hurley. Miss Furlong halved with Miss Taylor. Miss Currie beat Miss Hemingway. Mrs. Maxwell beat Miss Gilligan. Mrs. Armstrong beat Mrs. Roberts. Mrs. Silk lost to Miss Crawford. Mrs. Hunter beat Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Cave beat Mrs. Glenny. Mrs. Hartland lost to Miss Thorburn. M'ss Christie beat Miss Rourke. Airs. Coghill beat Miss Besley. Mrs. Saunders beat Mrs. Gibbs. Mrs. Moore-Hunter beat Miss E. Bourke. Miss Mason lost to Miss O’Sullivan. Miss Leisler lost .to Miss Harris. PATEA GENERAL ITEMS. A fire occurred in-the outbuildings on Air. P. C. Hamblyn’s property at Kakaramea last week. The fire had obtained a good hold before it was discovered and nothing could be done to save the contents. Mr. Hamblyn’s car, manure distributor, two bicycles and a quantity of manure were destroyed. There was no insurance. The s.s. Kapuni, which has' been equipped with Deisel engines in Auckland, underwent trials there yesterday. Her sister ship, the Hawera, leaves shortly for Auckland, where she will undergo similar conversion. It is anticipated that increased carrying space will result by the change. OPERA HOUSE TALKIES. “VAGABOND KING” TO-MORROW. The ’romantic operetta, “The Vagabond King,” which is set in Paris in 1463, will open a season at the Opera House Talkies, Hawera, with a matinee to-day at 2 p.m. The picture, which has been adapted by the Paramount studios from the stage presentation of the same name, has as its central hero the disreputable but immortal balladist, Francois Villon. Dennis King, a leading actorsinger of the American operatic stage, takes the part of the carefree poet, who becomes in turn the leader and saviour of his nation and the captor of a princess’ heart. At the time the story opens Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, and Louis XI; is reduced to desperate straits by the imminence of disaster. Villon, the leader of the vagabonds of Paris, seems to offer some promise of ability to weld together the disunited power of the city. He is captiired after an episode which renders him liable to the punishment of death, but the king offers him the throne of France for six days, sentence of death to be carried out on the., seventh. Villon accepts the offer, and the way in which he saves himself and his country and wins a royal princess’ heart and hand provides a most romantic and enthralling story. The settings of the picture have been designed with great historical accuracy and lavishness, and the entire picture is filmed in technicolour. O. P. Heggie, Jeannette MacDonald and Warner Oland play in subsidiary roles. “The Vagabond King” will be shown for ■©irce nights, with matinees daily at 2 p.m. Box plans are rapidly filling at Miss Blake’s shop.