LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 47, 26 February 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Takapau Plunket Society The following is the result of the guessing competition which was riln on behalf of the Takapau Plunket Society: First prize, picnic basket, won by Mrs W. Jackson, Takapau; second prize, box of cigarettes, won by Mrs R. Ellis, Kopua. H.8.-Poverty Bay Athletics The Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Centre representatives left yesterday for Dunedin where they will takei part in the New Zealand athletic championships on Friday and Saturday. Newspaper Changes Hands An old-established Taranaki daily newspaper, the “ Eltham Argus,” has changed hands, the proprietor, Mr A. W. Packard, having sold to Air Chas. S. Rush, late of the “Times,” Dargaville, and formerly of the Palmerston North “Standard” and “Alanawatu Times.” Combined Schools’ Excursion The combined schools’ excursion, comprising about 500 children from schools at Takapau, Makaretu, Ashley Clinton, Alarakeke and Hatuma, is due *to arrive in Napier by train to-morrow. The usual arrangements are being arranged by the Borough Council and the Napier Thirty Thousand Club. A Swimming Record The Hawke’s Bay record for intermediate girls’ 220 yards free style was broken at the Alunicipal Baths, Napier, last night by Aliss Y. Luke, of the Napier Club. The race was the re-swim of the distance not de* cided at the Hawke’s Bay Provincial Championships earlier in the month. Conditions for racing were unfavourable in the extreme, but Aliss Luke clipped six and two-fifths seconds off the provincial record, her time for the distance being 3.13 2-5. Aliss B. Keeble, of the Te Awa Club, was second. Another Success for Longley In the second Dewar Shield athletic meeting, held at Petone recently, R. A. Longley, son of Air and Airs A. W. S. Longley, Porangahau, again met with great success. Long-Xi ley won the 220 yards junior (third, < race) in 25 secs, and the 880 yards junior in 2.5 4-5. In the first race of the Dewar Shield 880 yards (senior) E. Forne, ’who is to compete at the national championships, could run into only second place in 2.8 1-5, time which was much slower than that registered for the junior halfmile, won by R. A. Longley in 2.5 4-5. H.B. Oddfellowship The Hawke’s Bay District Officers of Alanchester Unity Oddfellows paid an official visit to Hastings last night, Bros. F. D. Afackie, Grand Master, G. Reg. Cook, deputy-Grand Master, and J. P. Williamson, P.D.G.AI., District Secretary, accompanied by three members of the management committee, Director N. J. McKay, P.D.G.AI., P. J. Priest, and A. H. Robinson, P.G., being ed a hearty welcome by officers and ; members of the Loyal Hastings Juvenile Lodge, and Loyal Hastings Lodge. Stimulative addresses followed. Sister Airs G. Reg Cook, P.G., A. C. Holms, P.D.G.M., and P. E. Bollons, P.G., also attended as representatives of Loyal Tavistock Lodge. An appetising supper and a game of indoor bowls concluded profitable and enjoyable meetings. It is a far cry from the giant telescope which is now being constructed in the United States, with its 20-ton reflecting mirror of 200 in. diameter, to the little instrument made by Galileo and 1 first used in 1610. But this refracting . ’ telescope of “the Starry Galileo” was the first practical telescope ever made (says the Alanchester i Guardian). ; J