Hawke’s Bay Paragraphs

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 2

Hawke’s Bay Paragraphs

NAPIER, Feb. 18. Happy Band Supporters. Supporters of the Hastings Citizens’ Band were feeling elated this morning as the result of the success achieved by tho band at the New Zealand bands championship contest at Nelson last evening. Though the Hastings baud was placed only third in the street- ’ march contest, it was beaten by two Agradc bands in a field of 19, Hastings heading the list of B-grade bands by quite a satisfactory margin. Hastings gained third place in the first test in the B-grade, but the points will not be announced flntil after the second test has been decided. The quickstep has ' yet to be decided. Pigs Must Wait. | “The point is that wc haven't got enough money to house our patients as they should be housed, let alone the Sanatorium pigs. When we have housed our patients properly, we can consider housing the pigs properly, but the patients must come first and tho pigs afterwards," said Mr. R. A. Fraser, the farm advisory member of the Waipawa 'Hospital Board yesterday, when Mr. L. Glenny urged, that better accommodation should be provided for tho pigs at the Pukeora Sanatorium farm. Mortgage Adjustment. I The Hawke's Bay Mortgage Adjust- * ment Commission held a sitting in Hastings on Tuesday, after which a sitting was begun in Napier, where it is scheduled to continue until to morrow. Futuro sittings of tho commission will be at Dannevirke from February 22 to February 26, Pahiatua from March 1 to March 5, Masterton from March 6 to March 12, Waipukurau from March 15 to 19, and at Napier and Hastings from March 22 to March 25. Tho present sittings are concerned mainly with drawing up an order of reference, and it is not anticipated that the commission will begin the actual task of adjustment until April. Mr. Martin Greenwood is the chairman of the com- | • mission, the other members being Messrs. Grainger and R. H. White. “Gross Negligence." A fine of £2, with costs £4 Is, and the endorsement of his licence were ordered when Mervyn Louis Levaillant, on a charge of negligently driving a motorcar on the Hastings-Taihape road, appeared in the Hastings Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “This seems to be a Icaso of gross negligence and failing to 'keep a good look-out," said the Magistrate in giving his decision. Swimming Trophy. The Fergusson, a trophy competed for annually between the representatives of the Heretaunga and Gisborne swimming and life-saving clubs, was retained by Heretaunga last night when that club defeated Gisborne by 15 points to eight in the Maddison Baths, Hastings-