PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 12

PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Excursions to Napier. Twenty-five passengers from "Waipukurau travelled by the two excursion trains to Napier during the week-end, the first of which passed through Waipukurau at 5.3 - m. and the other, from Feilding at 10.17 a.m. The trains reaehed Waipukurau at 6.30 and 7 p.in. respectively on the return jouniey. Second Constable Arrives. The second constable for Waipukurau, Constable W. R. Thomasen, of Hawera, who has been transferred to Waipukurau to assist Constable R. I. Sutton as part of the Government's plan to reduce working hours in the Police Force, has now arrived and taken up his duties. A house has been obtained for him in Racecourse road, Waipukurau. Matriculation at Waipukurau. Fifteen candidates for matriculation and school certificate examinations sat at the secondary department of the Waipukurau School yesterday. The first paper, history, was eompleted yesterday, but the examinations will continue uutil December 15. Mr E. Broad is the supervisor. Motorists' Camp Extension. Tife area of 54 chains ou the right banlc of the Tukituki river at Waipukurau extendiug downstream from the traffice bridge, which has been declared protected by a notice in the New Zealand Gazette, is a piece of land which has beeu handed over by the Railway Department to the Waipukurau Borough Council. Asked to comment on the transfer to-day, the town clerlc, Mr H. B. Smart, said that the council would use the land for a reserve and might at some time extend the motorists' camp. Commercial Examinations. "If we have achieved nothing else this year, we have at least had the honour of becoming for the first time a centre for the Chamber of Commerce examinations," said Mr F. A. G. Dunii at the aniiual meeting of the Waipukurau Camberh of commerce last night. " This has beeu a red-letter year in t'-e chamber's history for that reason. These examinations are regarded as a standard right through the Dominion. Only ouce before have we even had candidates for the examinations, and then they had to go to Hastings to sit. Nine sat this year for 16 subjects— and all who sat were from St. Joseph 's Convent School." Mr Dunn proposed that a letter of congratulation be sent to the sisters of the convent, and this course was agreed to. "We have been striving to increase public interest in commercial education for. some years, but this marks the most forward step yet," said Mr A. C. Holms. "Learn-to-Swim Week." In compliance with the expressed wish of the Minisfcer of Internal Affairs, the pupils of the Waipawa School are to receive daily instruction in the river during the "Leam-toSwim Week." Messrs Adlam and Mackay last ^week spent a considerable amount of time in traversing the course of the river, and were successful in locating two swimming holes, which, with a little banking, mado good swimming pools, one for the smaller children, who are receiving their first lesson, and the other for the advanced scholars. Every day this week the children are to be taken down to the river, an hour being allotted to each standard, and if the weather continues as it was yesterday, this part of the daily routine will be gyeatly appreciated. The "Red Terror." The "Red Terror," the rail-car used by the General Manager of Railways, Mr G. H, Mackley, arrived in Wairoa after a Tun from Napier occupying one hour 50 minutes. It was the rail-cars first visit to the Wairoa district, and besides the General Manager, several other railway offieials made the journey to investigate certain questions in. connection with the railway connection to Wairoa. The party stayed at Lake Waikaremoana on Saturday night and Sunday, and did some fishing. The "Red Terror" xemained in Wairoa on Saturday night and all day Sunday, returning to Napier in the evening, While in Wairoa the vehicle was the object of much interet. Otane Rainfall. The Otane rainfall as recorded by Mr A. E. Blaek for the month of November was 83 points, as against 292 points for November of last year. So far this year only 19 inches 40 points have fallen, while 31 inches 21 points fell in the first 11 months of last year.