LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 181, 18 August 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Crosslng Improved. A bracket lamp has been erected on the Thackeray street corner of the railway crossing at Napier where that street poins Kennedy road, thus eliminating some of the danger at that crossing at night. Radio in Southland. Tests for the selection of the site of the new Southland radio transmitter will begin this week, three technicians of the National Broadcasting Service having arrived in invercargill with a portable transmitter with which extensive tests will be made during the next few weeks. Southland Prepares. Practice at Neistm Park, Hastings, was indulged in. by the members of the Southland touring Eugby Football teara this morning in anticipation of their meeting with Hawke's Bay to-morrow. The tourists were taken into Napier early this afternoon for entertainment and a sight-seeing tour and this evoning they will fulfil a pioture engagement To-morrOw morning will be free and on Friday morning the team departs for Masterton to play Wairarapa. unusual Find in Sweet, On buying a Bhilling's worth oi "chocolate roughs" at a Napier shop the other day, a woman received a greater measure than she either anticipated or de-sired. As she was eating the llrst chocolate, she tasted something metallic. She thought at first that an amalgam filling had become disiodged from a tooth, but investigatioh revealed a half-inch wire staple, which had been concealed in the confoction. , Borough Forest Reserve, Another month's work is still anticipated for the gang of 30 men now employed by the Hastingis Borough Council in the thinniug and clearing ot the Mangaroa Forest Reserve. This work is being carried out under a subsidy from the Employment Promotion Board, though the Borough Council has to find a certain amount of the weekly wage-biil. It is anticipated that there will be approximately 200 cords of firewood taken out this season. Young Climber's Predlcament. Sitting precariously ' on a narrow ledge 150 feet from the top of New Plymouth's big sugar-loaf, Paritutu, James Witten-Hannah, a schoolboy, spent an anpleasant three hours on Sunday. Unable to climb further and unable to retrace his eteps down the southern side, he had to wait till his crics for help could be heard and a rope lowered. The ledgo on which he sat was in the shade and thc cold breebe was chilling. Apart Iroin this discomfort aud the mauy abrasions he received as he was hauied up, he suffered no ill eifccts from his rash venture. N.Z. Boxing Titles, No docision has been arrived at as yet by ihe Hawke's Bay Boxing Association as to whether or not this district will be represented at tbe New Zealand boxing ehampionships to be held at Greymouth next. month. It is expected that a special meeting of the executive will be held within the next few days to consider the matter. For the past three years Hawke'e Bay has provided one titleholder, but neither of these two, •'Buster" Boyle. and Brian McKay, will represent Hawke's Bay. The latter, however, will probably be a eompetitor at the ehampionships as a representative of Waikato. Atlamuri-Roforua Road. The proposal of the Public Works Department to close tho Atiamuri-Kotorua road to all timber traffic, with the exceptiou of that being carried for consumption in and around Rotorua, lias evoked considerabie conceru in tbe Rotorua district aud one timber mercbant has said that if the proposal is put into effect it will uecessitate the closing of his large mill. All the carriers will be heavy losers. The proposal is that in future all timber for outside centres from the Atiamuri area must be carried by way of Putaruru. The action has been taken as a result of a decision by tbe Main Highways Board that it is not prepared to provide more than one outlet for timber traffic from the Atiamuri district. Outsize Coincldence, What must be an outside in coincidences oceurred in Wellington recently when Mr. Wally Ingram, formerly a well-known Gisborne athlete, and now a sporting writer on the staft' of the N.Z. Sporting Life was stopped by a stranger in the street. The man, who introduced himself as a Mr, Foreman, of America, asked to be .direeted to a boxing promoter. Mr. Ingram informed the man that there wero no such people in New Zealand, but direeted him to the Wellington Boxing Association'e office. Continuing the conversation the man remarked that George Simpson, the American athlete who was in New Zealand some years ago, had given him the names of three people who he wanted to be looked up. The uames were Mr. "Dorrie" Leslie, Mr. S. Philpotts, and Mr. W. Ingram. The tliird of tho trio laughingly introduced himself, but imagine the surprise when I10 looked up to seo Mr. "Dome" Leslie coming along towards him and on recovering from that shoek to see Mr. Philpotts across the road. Certainly a coincidence for the three people to be blown together even for the Windy City.