LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The New Zealand Wrestling Union has decided to allow the Wellington Association to hold a Dominion amateur championship tournament this year. The date is not yet fixed definitely, but it is expected that the tournament will take place about the end of this month.—Press Association. The Hawke’s Bay Mortgagors’ Commission will shortly hold sittings in various centres of Hawke’s Bay, and it is understood that there is a largo volume of business to be done. The commission will sit at Hastings next Monday, then at Napior, Waipukurau and Dannevirko. The present indications are that it will sit at Waipukurau about October 9. An habitual criminal, Robert James Brydon, aged 55 years, pleaded guilty in tho Police Court to-day at Rotorua to nine charges of issuing valueless cheques aud obtaining credit by fraud at Rotorua, Hamilton aud Ngaruawahia. He was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment by tho Magistrate. Tho police staled that the accused stole a cheque book at Dargaville and started a career of false pretences; several Rotorua boarding-houses were victimised. Ho had served sentences totalling 21 years in a period of 38 years. Pi.'--Association,

In the final of the Southern Hawke’s Bay ladies’ golf championship, Miss J. Robertson beat Mrs W. R. Russell (both of Dannevirke), four up. A very important meeting of the Hastings New Relief Workers’ Association is to bo held in the Trades Hall this evening, when every member is urged to be in attendance. New Zealand fruitgrowers decided at their conference in Wellington yesterday that the national federation should adopt the policy of selling fruit by the count method and not by weight. Patrons are reminded of the usual dance on Friday night in the Trades Hall, when there will be Monte Carlo and lucky spot waltzes. In the cardroom, a change is being made from cribbage to euchre. A further hardening tendency was shown yesterday in the Wellington stock and share market. On an active demand a number of shares advanced to highei levels and there was a good turnover. We have been requested to intimate that the successful old-time dance and cribbage tournament held in the Trades Hall last Friday was under the auspices of the "Hastings New Relief Workers’ Association, and not the Registered Unemployment Committee, as stated in the report. The four-acre plot facing the Hastings Memorial Hospital, the digging of which has occupied some considerable time, was completed on Tuesday afternojii. This large area will immediately be planted with early potatoes and a large variety of vegetables sufcient to supply the heavy demands of the Hastings and Napier Hospitals. Under the caption “Geysers Erupt in Street,’’ the following American newspaper clipping has been received by a Wanganui resident from a friend in the States:—“Rotoruna, N.Z.— Main street, Chinemutu, blew up recently when two new geysers erupted, throwing mud and water 100 feet high. No one was hurt, as a violent rainstorm was raging and residents were indoors.’’ “There is a need in this world for the spirit of service,” said Mr T. C. Brash, chairman of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation Conference, in his presidential address yesterday. “It is ceasing to- be respectable for a man to boast of taking more out of the world than he is putting into it. The world has become a neighbourhood, and there is hardly a spot on the globe where a man can escape from world dependence and world responsibility.” Further evidence of the popularity of wrestling with women was furnished at the professional contest in Hastings last evening, when over 250 women were present. As the season progresses there is a noticeable increase in the number of womenfolk present at the bouts staged by the Hawke’s Bay Wrestling Association, but last night, due no doubt to the appearance of that courtly personality Count Josef Varga, the attendance of the fair sex was a record for the district.

Further investigation of the hull of the Hangatira was carried out by a diver yesterday at Wellington. A large number of people watched the operations at the Ferry Wharf. The Union Company announces that no damage has been sustained other than that announced on Tuesday. The vessel is not affected beneath the waterline, and will not bo withdrawn from the service for repairs until October 8, the time originally scheduled for annual overhaul.—Press Assn.

An unusual event, the cremation of an Indian on a funeral pyre, took place at the Hamilton cemetery yesterday. The pyre was built on the river-bank, and the deceased, in a plain coffin, was placed on it. After a brief Sikh funeral service the pyro was lit and 6 lbs. of butter, cloves and camphor sprinkled over it. Later the deceased’s ashes were cast into the river, in accord with the Indian custom. “If the Railways Board carries on in the way it is doing at present it will shut up all the subsidiary ports and Wanganui will be saddled with a liability of £500,000,” said Mr A. S. Burgess at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, when the board’s new freight policy was being discussed. It was decided that Messrs Burgess and A. E. Rankin represent the chamber at a conference to be held at Palmerston North with a view to forming a united protest against the new freight policy of the railways. “Drastic steps will have to be taken to make them toe the mark,’’ said Mr Burgess. Another tour of the Dominion is being undertaken by George Walker, British Empire and New Zealand champion wrestler, and the Hawke's Bay Wrestling Association was advised yesterday that Hastings could probably be included i n the itinerary. The suggested date of tho visit of tho champion was next Tuesday, and last evening the executive of the Hawkes’ Bay Wrestling Association were in communication with headquarters at Wellington with a view to matching Al. Pereira or Jack Patterson with Walker. A definite announcement will be made tomorrow regarding this fixture. Golfers of Hastings and Napier who pay periodical visits to Waimarama will bo interested to learn that the latest attraction at that popular seaside resort is a ten-hole golf links, tho length of which is over 2000 yards. The links, which were laid out by tho club captain, Mr Knpi Tareha, are in excellent condition, tho greens and fairways having been given special attention during tho past weeks by a band of enthusiastic workers. Tho official opening of the club is to bo held on September 18. There are at present over 60 members and the indications are that by the time of the opening date this number will bo increased considerably. A motor accident occurred at the corner of Heretaunga and King streets, Hastings, at about 8.15 o’clock last evening between a car driven by Mrs. Herbison, of Raupare, and one driven b v Mr. L. Stokes, of Hastings. Mrs. Herbison was proceeding along Heretaunga Street in the direction of Havelock North and on reaching the intersection with King street turned to the right. When Mrs. Herbison was in the middle of the intersection the two cars camo into collision, Mr. Stokes having been proceeding along Heretaunga street in the direction of Stortford Lodge. The left front wheel of Mrs Herbison’s car was completely broken olf from the hub, and tho left running board and mudguard were bmllv damaged. The only damage to Mi Stokes’ car was a broken bumper-