PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 86, 28 April 1937, Page 3

PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Our Own Correspondents.)

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Nellie JuU Park. Excellent progress is being made with the levelling and top-dressing of that portion of the site of the Nellie JuU Park, Waipawa, which is to.be laid down in lawn, and this morning portion of the area already finished was sown down. Several" of the flower beds, whieh have been surrounded by rubblue walls, have also been completed, and should soon be ready for planting. Ooronation Decorations. This morning members of the Waipawa Coronation decorations committee were busy measuring up the frontages of business premises in the town, a scheme of eommunity decorations at a cost of so mnch per foot of frontage having been adopted as the most satisfactor^ method. Coagratulations. The provincial executive of the Hawke 's Bay branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, at their meeting at Waipukurau yesterday, carried a motion congratulating the advisory board of the Smedley Estate and the mauager, Mr. R. Douglas, on the yeax 's working and on th'e excellent Iraining of the boys on the estate, as well as the appearanee and condition of the farm generally. Another motion of appreciation was carried in conneetion with the work done by the members of the Women 's Division of the Farmers' Union in supplying refreshments on the occasion of Mr. H. E. Blyde's address at Napier, and a donation of £2 2/- was made to the funds of the division. Junior Red Oross Work. Deaiing with the Junior Red " Cross in a Dannevirke address, Mrs. T. H. Lowry, Dominion president of the Red Oross Society, said: "We are going to have poaee by international understanding by putting something in the children 's lives besides going to the pictures and ealing ice-ereams. It is not th children 's fault. This is a marvellous country; we don't know what poverty and suffering are. We are all too well olf and 1 am quite sure that if we had a worse climate wa would work liarder. It is not idleness that makes people happy. 1 am lirmly convinced that if the well cliild could iook after the sick w ej would have a hap,picr belter place." Tlie president of the Frencli Red Cross Society had stated : "Eemember we oider people have failed in international peace. The children are not going to fail and the ' Red Cross is the window through wnich we look for peace.". Mrs. Lowry spoke of a young airmau who had said that civiliau pilols would not flght. They were in foreign countries regularly getting to kaow and like the people who lived there, aud were 1101 going to kill those people. Philatelists Meet. The decision to form a branch of the Hawke 's Bay Philatelic Society was reached at a meeting of collectors held at the residence of Mr. W. K. Berry, Dannevirke. 'J'lie electioa oi' officers was deferred until a later meeting. The subscription was iixed at 2/6 which will give members the privilege of the :sales cirouit of buying and selling. With the aid of an enlargcd rirawing of the New Zealand penny universnl stanip, kfr. Berry gave an iuslruciive lccture, which was appreeiated by all I present. j