OTAKI HOSPITAL. OTAKI, June 25. Forty persons, representative of the whole district of Shannon, Paekakareiki, including natives, journeyed to Wellington to-day to wait on the Minister of Health to demand retention of the Otaki Hospital and request it he made more up to date. HOCKEY REFEREES. CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. Tiie referees for the first hockey test are Down and Throp (Canterbury). For the second test Speight (Auckland) and Hatch (Wellington). No appointments are yet made for the third test. PAPERS UNDER TRAIN. WELLINGTON, June 25. Owing to a large package of newspapers rolling off Trentham Station platform under the train from Wellington to Upper Hutt, a truck was derailed. The paper got entangled in tlie wheels and the driver did not immediately notice anything wrong. The truck was uncoupled and the train went on but it took so much longer to replace the car on the rails than was expected that the down train from Wairarapa was held up for nearly three hours. WRESTLING. NAPIER, June 24. Ike Robin, the Maori wrestler, has issued a challenge/ to Tybsgko, the world’s champion, for £IOOO aside.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1926, Page 1
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