IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 435, 17 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

GOLFER HOLES IN ONE. While playing in the first round of a match for the captain’s prize at the Stratford Golf Club links at the weekend H. Graham holed his tee shot at the eighth. DUNBAR RUGBY CUP. The holders of the Dunbar Cup, the Midhirst dairy factory, defeated the J Public Service team at Midhirst at I the week-end by 4 to 3. Boniface pot- I ted a goal for the winners, and J. Bowler scored a try for the losers. ROAD CYCLE RACE. The Stratford Amateur Cycling Club held a race over an eleven-mile course round the Beaconsfield Road on Saturday afternoon, the result being: B. Coe (4min. handicap), first; G. Henricks (4min.), second: and E. Scott (Gmin.l, third. A. Adams (2 min.) secured fastest time. GEORGE V. MEMORIAL FUND. Bl inging the total amount received to date to £75 Bs, additional dona-, tions to the King George V Memorial Fund have been received as follows: Stratford Bowling Club £1 Is, Ancient Order of Druids £5 ss. ’PLANE STILL DELAYED. The Auckland Aero Club’s Moth plane, piloted by Mr R. Charlton, of Hamilton, which was present at the Stratford Aero Club’s pageant on Wednesday, has been unable to return on account of weather conditions and is at present at Hawera. AWATEA FOR OVERHAUL. When she arrives at Wellington from Sydney to-day, the Union Company’s express liner Awatea will have completed her sixtieth crossing of the Tasman Sea, and steamed 80,610 miles in the New Zealand-Sydney service in eight months. The Awatea is making her final call at Wellington for this season. She will depart tonight for Sydney, via Auckland, and on arrival at Sydney on Saturday will withdraw from service for two mouths for an extensive overhaul and refit.

MOUNTAIN WEATHER. "The meuntains of New Zealand would be a veritable paradise if it were not for the very bad weather, for which one who goes into them must always be prepared,” remarked Miss Kate Gardiner, the English climber, in a lecture at Christchurch, in which she described some of her climbs in the Southern Alps this season. “However,” she added, “if it were not for the severity of the weather I suppose this beautiful world of snow and ice would not exist. We cannot have everything.”

SHOP FLOODED. A running water tap and a blocked hand-basin caused flooding in Mr Rex Watson’s shop premises at the week-end. None of the. goods was on the floor level and no damage resulted. HYDERABAD WRECK. ' The remains of the Hyderabad which have lain on the beach between Waitarere and Hokio, where they have been viewed by many from far and near annually, are shortly to bo • no more, says a Levin message. For I almost 60 years, since the vessel grounded on the sands, this wreck has been a landmark, but recently two ambitious young men of Palmerston North secured permission to dismantle the vessel and sell the iron as scrap metal.