LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1931, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

Another transsTusmnn yacht race next season is assured, says the now. Zealand Herald.” The schooner yacht Aorere has already .forwarded berjsntry to the Akarana Yacht Club, and M'r E. Tambs, owner of the Norwegian yacht Teddy, holder of the trans-ias-man Cup, has now expressed his intention of defending the trophy. The race is expected to take place in December or early in January.

There is one motor owner in Christchurch who will avoid golf courses in future when out driving. He was travelling slowly along Harewood Road, idly watching the players, when a o-olfer, driving off from the tee nearest the road, sliced the ball, which ended its arc over the road by crashing into the wind-screen of the car, shattering it. No one was injured, though those in the car suffered an unpleasant shock.

Although a number of Lyttelton fishing trawlers have found it necessaiy to proceed to Akaroa and Timaru owing to the scarcity of fish off Lyttelton Heads, one steam trawler, which left Lytetlton on Saturday morning and returned next evening, made a good haul, and landed 140 cases of fish fot the Christchurch market. The catch consisted mainly of teraldhi, ling ana groper, with a small, quantity of flat fish The catch was reported to be the best secured off Lyttelton for some time.

Just as the Wahine was pulling out from Wellington on her way to Lyttelton on Friday evening, Stanley Pmto, the wrestler, came running to the wharf. Pinto, with bag in hand, took one look at the ship, and then at his watch. Then walking back a few paces he made a run and jumped through the air. The ship must have been four or five feet awav at the time, but Pmto just managed to catch the bottom rail. Passengers, who cheered the feat, not, knowing who the late arrival was, helped the wrestler aboard. Pinto was America.

“New Zealand, for its population, has the largest mileage of all-weather roads in the world.” said Mr M. H. Wyuyard, motorists’ representative on the Main Highways Board, at a meeting of the Onehuhga-Manukau Chamber of Commerce at Auckland recently. He said the Board’s policy was to link up unmetalled stretches of road first, and then to improve existing roads. The recently opened connexion to the north had joined several unmetalled portions, and practically no arterial roads existed which could not be traversed in wet weather.