COUNTRY NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 19 December 1922, Page 3

COUNTRY NEWS.

» 7j. CftMBTOPGE. .- At Goodwood School. Tencourt. Cambridge, on Friday night, a tennis cloto »"' formed with a membership of 32. The e!e.;. • tion of officers resulted as follows:—Presit dent, Mr. P. Murray; vice-presidents, Messrs. W. Harbutt. Wynn Urown. Kol-ert Swayne, J. P. Robinson. R. tetsst; general committee, Misses A. Norman and H. V»at- • tarn Messrs. V. Haycock, L. Bourke, K. . Wat tain. O. Simpson. P. Hill. Norman, and K. Feisst; secretary and treasurer. Mr. »u- ---; fred Cubls. The appointment of an fxecutlve aud selection committee was left over for the general committee to deal wUu. The subscription was fixed at «\. so as to be . within Ibe reach ot all. TAUMABUmn. [ . The Taumarunul Boxing Association held ' their annual banquet on Saturday evening ■ wheu tho-e who had shared in the work during the past boxing season met in a convivial evening, a lengthy toast list «a = j honoured and musical and vocal items were ■rendered by Messrs. J. Brown I. Die town. A Venn, Hurndell. C. l-.vle. Webster. llonayne, and Heffernan. Mr. G. Moran was in ;he chair. A bumper house greeted the operetta ••Sl!verlo<ks and The Three Bears," w-blch was produced on Friday night by the ' s-eholars of the Anglican Sunday School. The production had a rousing reception, iau'l reflected treat credit on the organisers. I .Mrs. C. W. Turner and Miss Lowrle. DurI lug the interval, the Rev. C. W. Turn-er, 'on behalf of me Anglican parish, returned thanks to the peopl- for their atteii'lan ■-. '. and to al! those who had worked to make I the function a sue.-ess.

The «-rackH sulirtd cc/inpetitlm was continued on Saturday, when Has* defeated 010 on the latter team's ground, o'o ■batted lirst. and complied '■' 'White 11. Hill 10. Farrer 1". liardlner I2i. F.a-t replied with !>2 for two wl-kets 'N. Winger .".4, MeNamara 30t. For Fast N. Winger took six wl'kets for .':_'

Tho public of T:iiimariin';l respond p<l ZP!iprou>lv to thf apnpn! ;i:ri'!p by ;hp Hospital lioard 'in Saturday. « li<-n a strspt '..!!<-tion was ?:ikp n "p. At ilip pud ..r l!ic day tl>p sum of £." I 4- had been reaIlr.wl, and ir !« expo -.-I tin; this amount wll be croatly aujrtupn-pd by donation* from oth"r tnwnJ I- rhp hospital district Tho wl' ,(- .]rw, r( ,,i to prnvidtnc fhri-rnw? "imfnr'- ' - 'no patiopt« at tho > ... : - . an<l .],» -r •■ ' ••, - „•,.„.