News of Town and District

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 2

News of Town and District

PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS. The need for increased motor-camp accommodation at Napier was again brought-before the Automobile Association (Hawke’s Bay) at its meeting in Napier by the receipt of a letter on the subject from the Napier Thirty Thousand Club. It was decided to “receive” the letter in the meantime until certain developments had reached a conclusion. The communication suggested a deputation of interested bodies to the Napier Borough Council. “X had to go home to get some papers,” said an employee of the Waipawa Hospital Board when giving evidence for the Crown in the case against P. R.‘ Smyrk at the Supreme Court at Napier. “What sort of papers?” asked Mr. C. G. Harker. “Cigarette papers, ’ ’ replied witness amidst a burst of laughter. Six prisoners are to appear before Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court at Napier this morning for sentence. Motions and petitions in divorce will also be considered to-day, while on Monday a start will be made with those civil hearings which are to be heard before a jury.

The slogan “Buy British Goods” was followed by the Hastings Borough Council in its purchase of flags, pennants and bunting to be used in the Coronation ceremonies, and the goods ordered some months ago from an English firm have arrived in Hastings. The new bunting has an attractive appearance, the special streamers being considered something out of the usual run.

Many enquiries for the syllabus of tho Napier competitons are being made, many qf them from Auckland, which has hitherto sent a few representatives to Napier. Indications at present are that this year there will be. more visitors at the festival than ever before, inquiries having been received from Hastings, Waipukurau, Waipawa, Palmerston North, and Masterton. Standardised petrol prices throughout New Zealand are to be sought by the Automobile Association (Hawke’s Bay) through the half-yearly conference of the North Island Motor Union. Members considered that for prices in Hawke’s Bay to be higher than those in tho rest of the Dominion was wrong, and one of them smilingly remarked that beer was the same price, elsewhere regardless of freight. The prize of £SO in alluvial gold for the art union held in conjunction with the Miss Hawke’s Bay and East Coast bathing-belle contest, concluded on Boxing Day last, goes to Gisborne ticket, No. 97858, following the drawing at Napier. The draw was performed in the presence of the police and i ;representatives of the organisations jconcerned, and although the namo of the winner is not available the ticket was one of those in the section issued to Gisborne organisations.

An accident which resulted in. some damage to a sniaH motor-car occurred in Napier about three o’clock .yesterday morning. Tho car, which was being driven down Sealy road, failed to negotiate the corner leading to Shakespeare road, and crashed into the fence of Mr. A. Greig’s residence, carrying away a portion of the fence but coming to rest without upsetting or crashing into Shakespeare road. The car was damaged, but. the driver appeared to bo unhurt. A permanent memorial to the late Rev. William Colenso, F.R.S-, F.L.S., who was for many years prominent in the development of the province, is proposed by the Hawke’s Bay Art Society. Et is to take the form of a section of the museum devoted to Mr. Colenso ’a works and manuscripts. The society has been informed that a number of Mr. Colenso’s manuscripts are possessed by people throughout New Zealand, and as they contain valuable historical records an effort will be made to obtain them for the institution.

One, and possibly two, of the senior Rugby League football teams in Napier may travel to Wellington at Easter to participate in a tournament there. It has been decided that the Clive senior team, winner of the Hawke’s Bay Rugby League’s senior championship in the 1936 season, will make the trip, and there is a possibility that another of the teams, probably Taradale, will also travel. The Clive team has already begun practice for the coming season, and with tho introduction of new players to their ranks the team will be hard to beat in the competition this year. Tho total receipts—both days and nights.—of the Dannevirke A. and P. Association’s Show were greater by £24 15s 9d than for the 1936 show. Tho total a year ago was £412 2s 3d, and this year it waß £436 ISs.

Before tlie beginning of the twentyeighth annual ram fair at tho Dannevirke Showgrounds yesterday morning, the new Holden memorial rostrum—completed only a day or two ago—-was officially opened in the presence of a very largo attendance of buyers, vendors, auctioneers and others, every scat being occupied.