N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 4

N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

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"Poverty Bay''? 1 Retcntion of the nameu "Poverty, Bay" is favoured by a majority of members of th'e Cook Cottnty Couucil. This was .made clear at a meeting of the council yesterday when a vote was taken on the subject following consid* eration of a letter from the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce. Only thrce of tho ll councillors supported a change. A unanimous vote wag Tecorded, howi ever, on a proposal to press for the f declaration of a qeparato provincial district. Boy Violinist Overturos have been made xepeate'd-i , ly for Alan Loveday, Palmerston North's nine-year-old talented violin-J ist, to bo sent abroad to complete his musical education. His patents have been reluctant to allow him to do so savo under their supervision, but to ostablisli a fund for this purpose the Budapest Quartet, which is now touri ing tho Dominion, has offered to present a concert at Palmerston Nortk afc the cnd £>f the month when they return from tffcir soutkern tour. When the quartet played at Wellington, Mr Loveday and his son went to a performance* A.lan Loveday demonstrated his abilti tics and so inipressed wero those who licard him that they considqrod, hc sliould study abroad, In Shanghai * An addition. to the New Zealanders nientioned in tlie Auckland message as being residents of Shanghai is Mrs Eric Moller, who is a sistcr of Mrs J. C. Macky, of Palmerston North. Mrs "Moller rosides in tlip Erench Concession, her liusband being the head of the Moller Shipping Line operating in Chinese waters. Nurses in Tents The fact that nursese were sleeping in tents at the Masterton Public Hospital beeause of laek of accommodation, was revealed in the matron's report submitted to tho meeting of the W airax'apa Hospital Board yesterday. It was stated that two more rooms in the nurses 3 home had befen convorted into double rooms to accommodate thc four nurses sleeping in the tents, as th@ beds in tho tentg wero discovered to bfi £&$£« t -