Home and School League.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 121, 17 May 1932, Page 5

Home and School League.

A social and dance under the auspices of the Home and School League is to be held on Friday night. It has been decided to charge the following admission fees—men 1/6, ladies 1/-. £5OO Gift to Hastings Hospital. A bequest of £5OO has been left to the Hastings Memorial Hospital by the late Mr A. M. G'eorgetti, of Hastings, according to advice received by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board yesterday. Mr C. Duff, in moving that the hoard ask the solicitors to convey to the deceased’s relatives the hoard’s thanks for the fine gift, said he would have thought that after tiie cold reception that the Kelly Bequest received public spirited citizens would hare ocvoted their money to other channels. It was pleasing to know that such had not been the case. Observance of Anzac Day. The question of the desirability or observing Anzac Day permanently on the Sunday nearest to the actual date was raised at the meeting of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce last, night, when tho Auckland Chamber wrote stating that, while it felt that the public sentiment in Auckland was opposed to a departure from tho present method of observing Anzac Day, it realised that there might be a different sentiment in this district and the Chamber desired to have the views of the Has-,, tings Chamber on the mutter. “I am ■entirely opposed to any change being made,” said the chairman (Mr J. S. McLeod), and the meeting supported his view. 1 Loss of Four Fingers In an accident while duck shooting, Mr Bertram Hull, a farmer of Otaua, Waiuku, lost the four fingers of his left hand through the discharge of a gun, says an Auckland paper. Mr Hull, who was shooting with a lad near the Waikato Heads, had placed his rifle against one of the uprights of his “hide.’ Noticing that the gun was slipping he put out his hand to stop it from falling. Just at the moment that he grasped the muzzle, both barrels went off, severely lacerating all the fingers of the left hand. Suffering agony, Mr Hull had to walfe.tyfP-uniles before being taken in a. (par to the Waiuku Hospital. Later: he was admitted to the Auckland Hospital, where the fingers ■were amputated.