LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Next Wrestling Contest. The Hawke's Bay Wrestling Asso eiation has received advice frora Wellington that its next contest will be between Jack Spelman and Jack Forsgren. . Tender Acceptec. The tender ot Mr. J. R. Hamilton, oi Napier, has been accepted for the steel gates and arch entrance to Govern ment Tourist Department :6 Hot Springs Eeserve at Morere. Work will he Oegun shortly. 1 ' A Reliable Watch. Five years ago, Mr. A. G. Sudliolz, farmer at Natimuk, New South Wales, lost a wateh which he had had since he was a boy. Recently hi§ son, searifying a paddock, uncovered the watch which, after it had been wound up, operated as well as ever. During the intervening years the paddock had been ' ploughed frequently, and three stubble fireis had crossed it. Calf's Jumping Performance. Much amusement was caused at the Westfield 1'afc stock saies on Wednesday by an unu'sually persistent display of jumping by a small calf. Shortly after it was penned with other calves in a stall at one end of a race, it 1-eaped over a a rail twice its own height into the adjoining pen. Thds performance was repeatcd II times, until the calf was that number of pens distant from the one in which it was originaliy placed. Appropriation Meeting. At an appropriation meeting of the . Hastings Starr-Bowkett Builddng Society, field last evening, Group No. 88 was successful at a ballot in No. 4 Issue, and Group No. 34 in No. 6 Issue. A saie of £500 in No. 5 Issue was sold at the ininimum premium of £10 per centum, which, aecording tjio an actuary, is equivalent to per cent. The matter of start&ng another new iss.ue wa-3 discussed and was referred to the directors for eoiisideration. 0_,en-Air Waipawa School. A grant has been approved by the Department of Education to cover the" | cost of the erectlon of a sis-roomed I school building on the open-air principle at Waipawa. Advice to this eifect was received at the meetiiig in -Napier this morning of the Hawke's Bay Education Board, the letter adding that the department could not see its way clear to provide a concrete basketball area or an amount of £50 for ground imIjrovemenfs. "It seems that the committee will have to bear the cost of the beautification work," commented the cliairinan, Mr G. A. Maddison, "and I propose that we again ask for that amount. ' > Veterans of the Sea. Beithed abreast at the Westeru Viaducr, four weli-known Auckland cesseis - with a eombined age of nearly two hundrqd years i'ormed au interesting titudv of tho Auckland harbaur's older ctaff the other ciay. The vessels were the Glenelg, built in 1878, the Hikurangi, built in 1889, the Lyttelton, built m 1878, and the Te Awhina, buait in 1908, The Gleuelg was formerly a unit of the Nortliern Steamship Company 's fleet and the Hikurangi was engaged in the Portland cement trade Both are now coaling vessels. The paddle-steamer Lyttelton arrived on Wednesday maruia g from Great Barrier Island with a \og raft, a service in which she has been engaged • lor many years. Tho Auckland Harbour Board 's tug To Awhina is at present undergoing refit and survey. Crosabred Wild Ducks. The council of the Wellington Accliruatisation Society recently examined a specimen of a cross between a domestic Indian Runner aua a wild grey duck. . A letter received by the council descrj.bed a whole flock of such dn the South Island. "For a number of years," wrote Mr. G. H. Young. of Rai Yalley, Marlborough, "we have possessed a flock of crossbred grey and domestic ducks. These ducks, numbering up to 70, feed with our fowls. They are ' of all colours and sizes; there is one pure white. They all fly about the farm as wild ducks. A pure Indian Runner drake left the flock and has lived in the river for the last two years, and has learned to fly with a flock of wild ducks, I would be only too pleas- ( ed to show the flocks to any of your ' society."- ( j Motorist Honoured. Advice was received at the meeting ^ of the Automobile Association ' (Hawke's Bay) last evening that King Leopold III. of Belgium had conferred " upon the secretary of the Automobile Association, England, the Order of the 1 Crown of Belgium in recognition of his

servuces in interuational automobile association work in the direetion of interuational travelling, The order is in addition to a recent decoration from Germany of t.he Insignia of Honour, First Class, of the German Red CrosS for h"is work in connection with road safety, and previous honours from Great Britaiq, Austria and Hungary. Founder of the initial office of the association 30 years ago, Sir Stenson Cooke is the foremost authority in automobile association matters dn the world. In addition to his activities in this direetion, he is an accomplished fencer, and represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games dn 1912.