HAWKE'S BAY ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 640, 18 October 1909, Page 7

HAWKE'S BAY ITEMS.

;. a raoinsiMG athlete (By Telegraph —Special Correspondent) ' \ Napier, October 17. At the annual meeting of the Napier division" of the St. J6hn Ambulance Brigade, it »m etkted that o( 25 gantloraen memtiors presented foT examination, 18 had passod. In the ladlts" niirsmg olftfts, io Tiocl passed out of M. The following officers weie olocted —First officcT, ifr. Ji Pender; second officer, Mr. V, Kendall, eedrotary, Mr. C, Beamish! Mi C F. Paltot, committee Mcera Butcher. Klchards,' fepporel, nud Shannon, anditcrti Mr. J. B. "Cook / Tlio Napier Boys' HUh Sohool annual spblts yv«ro Binfkecl by a nua pertornmnce by Keginsld C Humnhnoe, a son at Mr. It. Btimphiies, the uejl-known barrister. Yonng Unmphnca, who U only fouilteen years of ag6,""won overj event in whioh he aturted, snto thu holt mile, yp- vhlch,, ,Mcond> Hβ broke four of (he school recot Js for, vlj —in the high jump, lons jump, 2iQ ynrds, and 4-iOmrds. His high jump o{ 4ft 9in, long ]ump of 18ft., And 410 yards from scintcli l-teo, arc romnrkotlo accoinplishtncntii by a'yooth.of his'age l " ' ' Mr. A H lionell lias given notieo to m6ve at ,the belt Westing of the Napier Harboui i Board, that the board reconsider the necessity of taking a poll of' the ratepajers on the 'harbour lonh, eeeing that it is suggested to pledge {heir property as security. i