PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 3

PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Own Correspondents.)

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Waipnkurau's Contributios. Donations made to the Waipukurau fund for the King George Memorial totalled £139 0/6. Waipukurau Carnival Dance. Novelties are to be a special feature at the first carnival dance to be held in aid of funds for the Waipukurau town Queen candidate, Miss Shirley Clay, to be held in the Masonic Hall, Waipukurau, next TUesday evening. The committee has gone to a lot of trouble to ensure this function being a success, and dancers are assured a bright and happy evening. The subscriptions ar only 2/-, 2/6 and 4/-. Les. Henry's orchestra will provide the music. • Wairoa Motor Registratlons The Wairoa registration authority, Mr F. A. Lowe, reports that for the period ended May 31, the motor- vehicle registratlons for Wairoa totalled 528, against 434 for the same period of 1936. Kingn George Fund The King Gebrg© V. Memorial Fund closed on' Thursday night, and the ■returns' issued on Friday showed that Wairoa's contribution came to £271 5/8. ■ • Wairoa Ladies'. Golf Club. At a committee meeting of the Wairoa Ladies' Golf Club held on Thursday evening a, letter was received from the L.G.U. ' advising that the scratch Bcore

of the -links had been • reduced ' from 74 to 70, making it necessary for the committee to reduce bogey to- 4 on each of the four holes, "The Spur'' No 6, "President's" No 10, . "Te Kuri" No 14; and the "Ridge" No 16. This mhkes the ladies- cardg the same as the men's with the, exception of No 3 hole '/Hurumua", which remains bogey 5. Players are specially asked tn note, however, that all H'.B. Motor Co. Cup matches are to .be -played on the old bogey figures. It' was also decided to. send a ietter of. cougratulations to1 Miss C. Buchanan, whose jscore on the home links proved runner-up for the Aotea- ■ roa Cup, which competition was played throughout New Zealand during Coronation week. . , '