LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 139, 1 June 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Hastings Returned Soldiers’ Association’s anual re-union will take place on Tuesday, July 2. The usual weekly Heretaunga Sports Club euchre party and dance will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Hastings, to-night. The Queenswood School re-opens for boarders on Tuesday. June 4. and for day pupils on Wednesday, June 5. Miss Rixon will be at home to parents on Tuesday afternoon. ' The secretary’s office of the Mutual Buliding Society will be closed on ?,{onday, June 3, and the monthly pay day has been postponed until Tuesday, June 4. when the office will be open from 7 to 8 p.m. The Omahu Progress Dance will be held in the Fernhill Hall on Friday, June 14. Harry Brown’s Orchestra (late Moeo) will be in attendance, and a free’ bus will leave Haumoana, Havelock North, and Westerman's corner, Hastings. The Hastings Basketball Association will hold a seven-a-side tournament on Monday, June 3, at Ebbett Park, Hastings, commencing promptly at 9 a.m. Senior and junior trophies will be competed for. Hot water will be provided. The public are reminded of the Hastings Women’s Choir concert, which is to be held in the Assembly Halton June 18. The funds are to be devoted to a very good cause, namely, the District Nursing Association, and an excellent programme has been drawn up. “We do not want to rub it into this youth,’’ remarked Scnior-Sergt. Wade at Gisborne when prosecuting a cyclist for riding at night withmir lights as required by the Act, “hut we want to bring before the public notice the fact that a torch is not a legal light.’’ Arrangements have been made for the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club’s Moth to go to Dannevirke on Monday, June 3. for the purpose of giving instruction to the Dannevirke branch of the Hawke's Bay Aero Club. Members are therefore notified that there will be no flying at the Longlands aerodrome on Monday next. Replying to a warm European and Maori welcome given him at Little River (Christchurch), Bishop Bennett said he was particularly struck with the Maori welcome which had been given him, for he was under the impression that the Maoris had no interest in Maori customs and tradition. He hoped that one effect of his visit would be a revival of the best customs of the Maori race as well as their beautiful language. His ideal of the future Maori was one who preserved the best aspect of Maori life and on the other hand, adopted the very best the pakeha could give, and combine the two.