LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 175, 11 August 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

■i The Ra(|iq advice has beea -received by \ the agents in J^apier" tlaat the Mata : roa is~duq at Auckland on. Batu^day : mornujf;; * - Snow, at; Cl^prnq. The fia;et fah of snQw. e.Yer, recprded at Oisbprne fell therp 25 years ago to-day. Thq fatl lasted only, a few minptes. ah)d the, flakes 'dieappeared almost' as quickly as they fell, but some excite^eht vyas causeda Loss On Sqccer Toui;. A loss of approxitnately £800 qn the recent Enghsh touf \Yaa annqunced at last uightTs lueeting of the cpuucif of •tlxe Ne^. Zqaiand Eoq.fball Associatwii.The giqss loss wa? aPPtPahii,ately £1200, "but £400, is, t? be liqrne hy'the Football AssQciatio'n (Loudph). Wrestiers Mptch^p. The j^a.wkp'a i{ay. Wrestling Assoeiation hqs' Tpcmyed*' advice fr.Q'rn' fife B,qminioh' * Ghiqn, AYt^WgtPiV, " thaf- xfs applicatfph* "**' fpr thq "apil99rau9.b of 4 'Lof ty'^ "Blpiqhild aiid ''itusty'VfYestcoatt •fqr'ttV nest contest has becn agreed fo by tlie "goyerniug b'ody. Stray Killed. Wliile a taxi driven by Mr U. M. Rix was traveJling alpng thp fYaioekq niaip highway on guiiday a stray horse dashed in front of the car 'and was killed outright. None of the occupants of Ihe takr'was "iujured, h'ut the car was estepsively damaged tln'ough tlic hqrae fahiug pq the bpnpet. Magistrate Qn SeR-it&fence. "If a man assaulted me, 1 woqld try, xn ^ ^unqquip of time, to put him clean out," saicj Afr.. fk H. Ley.ien, S.M., in the Auckland I'olice Court, wlien counSel submitted that a police constable sliould neyer strike a maix about to be arreped'/ The, magistrqte ad'd'ed that, if he were provoked', he woiild retaliate by fair means, if possible, but by loul nxeaps, if h? had no alternqtiye. "W6 are all lxunian, you know,,yhq concluded with a smiiek *' Tcqiit fishing. The typutrhslhng season xn ihe Rotorua an(l Taupo distriets will begiix on November' 1 and end on May 1.4 next . year.. It was i^fepdgd to delay the ppppjng ©f th§ fteW season a i'orfuight, in pursuancfi 'of a policy of prcserva'tion of trout, but, owing to the large uum|)er o| oyersqas. qnglqrs coqxing tp J^ew Zealand for the fishing having alreqciy niade thair arrapgemexxts, it was tlecided tp a^erq'|q the ujual dafe. §iS Tqfe E|Sp§S. The £p5,035 10/: puf tbroug|» tl\e fofaiisatqr at IUccarton yestcrday >vas fhe larges,t axnount recprded siixce (4rknd Natiqnai ^teepfechase cfay 'pj 19.23/ Whau Tfiq, 9?1 Wa§ iuyestcd. Ip 19.2(> tUe tqtal "iyas £0/330, antf tjgm'ps for the otlxer years were gl927, £'03*,202; 1928, £61,004 j f 9.2.9, £62,086; 1930, £42,565; *1931, £34/03 ; 19;32, £25562;** 1933, £34,30.1 ; 1 19.34, £37/68 ; 1935, £41,814; 1936, £53,307. Maunganui's Cruise, Thq Upion Steam Ship Co. lxave recraisxu^' 'iii "thk Raclhc, to the eifect cexyed ^ further ' wiie'Jess 'inessage fx;dni''its l|ner ' Maunganui, which is thkt the weather was 'Vjery fine yesterday.' In antieipation of 'arrival at T^xti'this "mdfning, a' siiccessful French diiiner and 'Ball was held last evenipg, the shifx's decks being transformbd to repfesent a "period hallroom and' street sdenes. ~ "Speaking for Himself.'*There was a chuckle in an qbservajtioix by Mr' dqstfcq p/Regan in the Arbitya'fiph Cjqbrt |t Neiy TJiymouti|. Mf ^.''hL'Crosihh who was' acting i'or fhe workers in the gropers1 a'sSistants,1 ' dispUtq made aii apolqgy to* the Court ' for 'hixxtting^'thb" cart* before. the hofse," in one' matter, adding: ,rWe irish are rather prone rt'o thtxt so'rt Of' ' thihg,"' tq "which* his I|oQpuy 'replied'; v'You are spfabifig for'yoqrsel|,'I s'uppbse."' " f4'J • Eel Biocks Water Supply. Several residences in thq lower end of Suffierfand *f oa'd, Af.anaxq, we/e depriyfecf pf' wl.tef^iqk Kpusehqf^ and st'qck purposes on 'Wqdnesbay * by "%'4 biqckage in thd pipes/Ofi exaininatioh it" wq^' reyealeb ik,af an eel ' aboxxt a foot lbuk had becqmq wedged" in /he smgUer pi/b/thUs'preyentiha fhe floW. The 'eel, whrch 'eutifedthe mrge pxpes at the iutake, had travelled' 1 niany ' rniles and bhcaiue" iv^edged bq ente'ring the S-inch ' pipes. Ii was the'fsecbnd occasion' on Which an eel had caused a blockage in .the Manaia supply^" ' 1 Lopg interest In Flying. Affer haying faken a keen interest in fiyihg for aboht lp * ye^r s, |flr. ii. * Ii.' w igl©Y, ' * managm^ , direbtor 6f " tlxe Moiint 'Cook a'nd Jlo.qtherq! Rakes Toqfist Co., Ltd., who ik lnore than 50 years of age, has eecured his A-class Ixcence at Wigraxu aerodrome. The t.es.t was cqn^ucted wi% a Motli machine by Mr. G. L. Stedman, chief instructor" for the Ganterbuvy Aero Cluh, pf which AJr. Wigley is a membex*, Mr. Wigley has lieen ihterested ixx flying since 1921, \yhen he flew as a gassenger jn the qmshipes fRen hrought to Ne,w Zealaqcf hy fhe New " Zealand Air Ti;aitspbrt Cb.', but lio did nqt begin to fearn to fly biniself till about a year ago, wKen he' was given instructibU by Mr/ J. J. Busch, then chief instructor to the' club.