Here and There in Napier and Hastings

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 2

Here and There in Napier and Hastings

Officers and N.C.O’s of th© Ist. Battalion, Hawke’s Bay Regiment, ill hold a week-end bivouac at Dannevirko in the coming week-end, February 6 and 7. Training and instruction will bo carried out at the camp on th© racecourse, and the camp will be struck on the evening of February 7. Despite the fact that January was a particularly sunny month, with 242 hours of sunshine, it was also one of the wettest experienced for some years. The total rainfall was 4.69 inches, an ' amount which has been exceeded only five times since 1905 for the month of January. On January 22 Napier people experienced the hottest day, the temperature in the shade being 87.8 degrees. A sharp earthquake shock, sufficient to cause th© town clock to strike on© peal, was experienced in Hastings yesterday morning at G. 12 o’clock. In the opinion of Mr. H. de Denne, official recorder, tho ’quake was purely a local * one; it was followed by several trentors. The seismograph recording was five on the Rossi-Forel scale. It is a / coincidence that it should be exactly L six years ago to-day that the district A was visited by the disastrous 193 t T earthquake. Commonplace objects which appear in unlikely places often give rise to much speculation as to how they got there. This is the ease with a key to a ship’s locker shown to a reporter at the Hastings Railway btation yesterday morning. This was found in a truck of gravel brought from Awatoto. Evidently it had been lost overboard from a ship at sea at some time and been washed up and emocaded in the gravel on the beach. The key was welt rusted and appeared to be old. It was tied to a thick piece of twine, well worn by the waves, and this was attached to a piece of rounded wood such as is used to prevent a small key from being lost. ' Although the Hawke’s Bay senior cricket representatives will be in Gisborne on Saturday playing Poverty Bay for the Kirk Cup, senior cricket in Napier and Hastings will proceed as usual. Technical 0.8. will lose th© services of four players, Napier H. 5.0.8., Rugby, United and Hastings two eqch, while M. A. O’Brien, United, will be playing in the Plunket Shield fixture, Wellington v. Auckland, at Auckland. When the Railway Department recently fenced in the railway yards at the Pukehou statiou a large strainer . post was placed right out on the edgo *j of the bitumen on the main road. The J fence was continued aloug the side of the road close to the bitumen. The action of tho department in obtruding tho fence ou to a busy road has.been unfavourably commented upon by motorists, who claim that even though the * survey shows that the fence iu is in its correct position, it is a source of danger to travellers. Residents of the locality are considering approaching tho H.B. County Council to see whether they can have the post put farther back off the road.

Week-end cricket is becoming increasingly popular, not only in llawke’s Bay, but elsewhere in th£ Dominion. However, it is not given official recognition, though uatiftally associations encourage the playing of the games, which are of the “friendly” variety, similar to the familiar Village Green games in the Gid Country. The playing of first-class matches, especially representative fixtures, on the Sunday is very rare, and for this reason the forthcoming Kirk Cup match between Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay at Gisborne will be unique, the two associations having agreed to play the match on Saturday aud Sunday next, thus enabling the Hawke’s Bay team to return on Sunday night. A car driven by Miss J. M. McHardy, of Aramoana, overturned on the Wai-pawa-Coast road ou Tuesday night. Tho car was considerably damaged and a woman passenger suffered sever© cuts, necessitating medical attention. Miss McHardy was endeavouring to pass a lorry on a sharp bend when the edge of the road gave way, causing the car to slip down a sharp incline and turn over. The driver of the car was uninjured.