REMINDERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 19, 6 February 1937, Page 6

REMINDERS

Tlie Hastings Townswomen'k Guild meets in the Oddfellow's Hall on Thui-s-day, February 11, at 2.30 p.m., when arrangements will be made for tlie annual meeting and guild matters in general will be discussed. The tea arrangements will be as usuah On and after Monday, February 15, the following alteration in the Hawke's Bay Motor Co's. timetables will come mto operation : — The usual 2 p.m. service from Napier to Gisborne will be' altered to leave Napier at 1.15 p.m. and Wairoa at 5.15 p.m., arriving at Gisborne at 8 p.m. The usual 4.30 p.m. service from Wairoa to Napier will leave Wairoa at o.ii p.m. arriving in Napier at 8.30 p.m. Some idea of the hfgh standard of swimming required to attain tlie top mark of Australian surf work can readily be gained from a study of the racing times of the personnel of the team which will appear at the Maddisou Baths on Tuesday next. Those who will oompete in the 100 yards are J. Miller, K^ Fostef, A. Carnier, A. Hart, J King, "H. Sco.tt and B. Lilly. Tbe times of these swimmers raiige from 57 secs to 61 over 100 yards, and no fewer than five of them can break a minute. 1 11 the 220 yards B. llodgsou, A Fitzgerald, \V . Seott and J. Scott will compete, and here again euch breaks 2min 30sec for tbe event. liodgson, in lict, bas registered 2 min 21 3-5sec, wliich is even laster than the New Zealand record In addition to those conipetitoi's two very lamous New Zealand performers in D. P. Lindsay and Rika Simo'n will eompete. It is claimed that the latter, a Maori. is the fastest middle- distance man in the Dominion, while Dave Lindsay needs so introduetion whatever. Togetlier with the best of Hawke's Bay talent, which iucludes the local lad Dick VVatkii|s, a real feast of championship swimiping is assured, The programme concludes with a lolo match Hawke's Bay y. Australia.