PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 3

PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Our Own Correspondenta.) .

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Vltal* Statistics. ' ; ' ' ; • The vital statistics 'for. Waipukurau for the TUonth of 0A.pril; are as follows, hgures for tthe corresponfling inonth .of iast year* being shown ^ in ' parenthesds : Births, 4 (6) ; deaths, 5 (2) ; marriages 1 5>' Power Out-off. Electric power .. in the Central Hawke's Bay Bqard's.area will' b© cut off on, Sunday (to-m'orrow) .from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.nii/'in order" to hllpw necessary; repaiTS to be made. Bugby Caxnival. A " special committee of.the Central .Hawke's Bay Bugby Sub-Union, set up to : promot©"; the " forthcoming queen carnival, met on Wedpesday evening, and formulated plans for the organisation of and preliminary steps in the function. These will be put into operation at once. The seven-a-?ide. tournninent on-Coronation Day was also the subject of diseussion, and the encouraging number 'of 22 eutries. was mentione'd as havinjg been received even at thie early date. • , • ' " • • Social -Evening. • . .... The sqcial club>of the Pukeora Sanatorium heid a most enjoyable' function on Thursday 'evening. -yocal and instrume'n|al j itemS wero cleverly sandwiched in betweeh dances and a most enjoyable .txnle -was spent by all prosent. Br. Anderson and Mr T. Jennings took -the opportnnity, during the evening, .t'o present • Ma'tron Ingles with a dressing gpwn and slippers, and a travelling xrpg, on .bohalf of the staff and- patients resp.ectively, as a token of tho esteem , with which Miss Ingles is held. . - Fast Drivjtaig. ' " James Bevan, farm " hnnd,"" wh.o pleade^ guxlty in the Magistrate 's Oourt at' Waipukurau yesterday to driviug a motor-car at'a .speed which might have been /dangefous to the jpnblic, was lined*£5 With costs 12/-, the Magistrate remarking that speeding of this sort could. ncit 'be-tolerated. Traffic Inspector Yates gave evidenee that the defendant had been driving- at 60 miles an hour on the main highway.