HAVELOCK NORTH

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 5

HAVELOCK NORTH

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE “SHOP.” GOOD BUSINESS DONE. The Women’s Institute “shop.' held in the Foresters' Hall to-day in aid of the Hastings District Nurse and the Institute funds, was very well patronised, people coming from far and pear to help on the good work. The sta.Uholders were:— Produce. Mrs Barltrop, Mrs Marven and Miss King; cakes. Mrs Clifton and Mrs Coates; jumble, Mrs Meads and Mrs Harvey; fancy, Mrs Speight: sweets, Mrs Paynter and Misses Hunter and King. A recent appeal for children’s books for the Makogai leper island was well responded to. the Institute ladies sending away a nice selection for Christmas. The next monthly meeting of the Women’s Institute promises to be very interesting, when Mr, Brifinrst will give a lecture on “Life at St. Dunstan's Hospital,’’ while the Glee Club quartette will sing. A Dutch auction as a Christmas gift to the Institute funds will he a feature of the afternoon. THE DUST NUISANCE. Residents of Havelock North, particularly the tradespeople, are worried over the dust nuisance. A suggestion is made that the Town Board buy a watercart, or else spray the roads with a hose. SKELETON FOUND. On Thursday' last, while digging m his orchard. Mr. Cash, of St. George’s road. Havelock North, unearthed a skeleton, believed to be that of a Maori. The remains were found about three chains away from the river bank, and 15 feet above the surface of the water. The skeleton was in a recumbent position and the bones bare of flesh, showing ik must have lain there for a long time. Jt is thought that the person may have been drowned as Havelock suffered from severe floods in the old days before the river changed its course at Roy’s Hill. «