100 YEARS AGO

May 27, 1920

● Daily Telegraph

A candle left alight near the window curtain of a bedroom in the Railway Boarding House, Hastings, was the cause of the firebell being rung at 7.45 last evening.

● Hawke’s Bay Herald Tribune The menace arising from the manner in which sheep and cattle dogs are allowed to race about the Hastings streets, in the midst of busy traffic, was demonstrated in Heretaunga St yesterday afternoon, when several of these collies were chasing each other along the thoroughfare and one of them rushed blindly across the path of a motorcyclist, who was thrown violently.