NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 2, 18 January 1937, Page 5

NEWS BREVITIES

Coronation Visitors it is officialiy announced ( from The Hague, that Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard will attend the Coronation. Princess Juliana will represent Queen Wilhelmina. Lipstick From 01d Bones Twenty thousand collectors have hegun official calls on all German households demanding waste material. The Hitler youth organisation also was instructed to collect, while children were asked to bring to schools twice a week bones which could be converted into lipstick. The collections must be carridd out under agreement with local bagi-and-bone d^alers, except Jews. Impudent Theft A sentence of two months imprisonment was imposed on Samuel Henry Colly, aliaB O'Brien, at Petone, for false pretences. He went to a boy at a service station and asked him where he lived. Ho then went to the boy's mother and told her he had got the boy a job, but that he would need a pair of overalls and he could get them for 6/6. She handed him 10/-. He had convictions going back to 1931 for false pretences, theft and unlawfully using motor-cars Vanderbilt Heiress The fortune of little Gloria Vanderbilt, the American heiress, has recently increased by 900,000 dollars, states a New York cable. The administrator announced that it now totals 3,250,000 dollars Napier Citizens' Band The Hawke' s Bay Regimental (Napier Citizens') Band gave one of the popular programmes in the Sound Shell, Marine Parade, last eivening. The musio was gi'eatly enjoyed by the large crowd present on the Parade. Visitors to the Cape One bundred and fifty people visited Cape Kidnappers yesterday, comprising several private parties, and one Railway Bus excursion. The visitors included Miss Nita Rosslyn, bettel' known as "The Lady in Red." Holiday Traffic The Napier Railway StatiOn was partieularly busy thiB morning because of a large number of visitors to the town and district leaving for home after the summer holiday. Three extra carriages had to be placed on the mail train, which pulled out of the station about seven minutes behind schedule because of the last-minute rush of passengers and luggage. Nelson Theft Charge Robert Brownlie appeared itt the Nelson Magistrate's Court on a charge of theft as a sorvant o£ money paid iti as general rate to the Tahunanui Town Board. The .amoufit named in the charge was £6 18/11. Detective F. Havhurst asked for a remand untiJ Janltary 22 instant, as further charges wel'e pending and considerable inquiries had to be made. The demand was granted, bail being aliowed in £160 with one surety of a like amounf.