CROQUET.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1927, Page 13

CROQUET.

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. In the Dominion croquet championships, a start was made with the Indies' and open championships. Results :— LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP. First Draw, First Bound.—Mrs. Glass (Dannevirke) beat Miss Powers (Hawera) 26—9, Mrs. Waters (Nelson) beat Mrs. Pltcaithly (Hastings) 26—17, Mrs. Moeller (Wellington) beat Mrs. Spring (Palmerston North) 26—4. Second Round. —-Mrs. Glenny (Patea) beat Mrs. Stone (Wellington) 26—17, Mrs. McDowell (Wellington) beat Mrs. Brown (Palmersto nNorth) 26—4, Mrs. John Young (Palmerston North) beat Mrs. Lowery (Wellington) 26—23. Second Draw, First Round.—Mrs. Watkins (Napier) beat Mrs. Lowery (Wellington) 26—0, Mrs. Harris (Dannevirke) beat Mrs. L. Watkin (Wellington) 26—22, Mrs. Jarvie (Dannevirke) beat Miss Lempfert (Wellington) 26—24. Second Round.—Mrs. Fuller (Palmerston North) beat Miss Blake (Napier) 26—8, Mrs. Kibblewh;te (Hamilton) beat Mrs. Harvey (Napier) 26 —16, Mrs. Hogan (Hastings) beat Mrs. Roake (Wanganui) 26— S. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. R. Caughley (Wellington) beat W. J. Robertson (Manawatu) 26—13, 26—15; T. F. Chamber (Christchurch) beat Mrs. Bartleet (Hamilton) 26 —3, 26 —10. N.Z. ASSOCIATION. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON" NORTH, Monday. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Croquet Association was held to-night. The election of officers resulted : —President, Mr. J. Murray (Palmerston North) ; vicepresident, Mr. A. G. F. Ross (Christchurch) ; secretary and treasurer. Mr. C. A. Ferguson (Palmerston North) ; official handicappers, Mrs. Iveasing (Auckland), Mr. J. Murray (South Auckland), Mrs. Watkins (Hawke's Bay). Mr. R. Caughley (Wellington), Mrs. Baxter (Manawatu), Mr. A. G. F. Ross (Canterbury), Mrs. Shallcrcss (West Coast). Mrs Waters (Nelson), Mrs. Morrison (Taranaki), Mrs. Manhive (Otago), and Mr. A. S. W. Aiken (Southland) ; executive, Messrs. Murray, Ferguson, and Ross. It was decided to hold the 192S Dominion tourney at Palmerston North, while the application of the Wanganui Association for the North Island championships was approved. An application by ten clubs in South Taranaki to form a separate association with headquarters at Hawera was granted.

possessing initiative, he at length struck ( the idea of using a trailer, a light-run-ning pneumatic-tyred vehicle, which his car would pull- along behind it. So a trailer was built;, a. nice little low cart with a frame-supported caiivas cover. ] This trailer carried - half a ton of camp equipment, a tent, blankets, pillows, fishing gear, food supplies, clothes, etc., and covered 2000 miles during the last fort- 1 night. "I -would never have known it was there," said the owner, "except that I ' had to use my second gear a little more than usual. We went right through from Wellington to Rotorua, and went from there to Taupo, seeing everything, and from Taupo to Napier. It never gave any trouble. Now others want the loan of it. Trailers for camping are coming to stay." A LOW GEAR HINT. It is well to declutch and accelerate the engine occasionally when compelled to move slowly through traffic in intermediate gear." The slow operation of the motor is likely to load up the engine with oil or raw petrol, and encourage |it to stall. The needle valve of the j carburettor may stick, or the constant ■ slow running may help to discharge | -the battery. Speeding up the engine Inow and then makes conditions more normal. DRIVERS' EXAMINATION IN SOUTH | AFRICA. If an applicant for a driver's license in New Zealand proves that he can. handle car controls fairly efficiently a j certificate is issued. The applicant is not questioned respecting the rules of the road, and many learn, after they receive a summons, that they have broken a by-law. In South Africa, the ability to drive is not sufficient, and unless an applicant for a license is conversant with the regulations a certificate is withheld. The questions asked are as follow: — (1) Which is the correct side of the road to drive on? (2) On which side do you pass vehicles which you are overtaking? (3) On which side do you pass tramcars in motion which you are overtaking? (4) If a tramcar has stopped for the purpose of setting down or taking up passengers, .what must you do? (5) Describe the following wayside signs: (1) Speed limit; (2-) caution; (3) school. (6) How do you know the area to which a particular speed limit applies? (7) What is the maximum speed allowed in and within a municipal area and a radius of three miles therefrom? (8) What is the maximum speed allowed for anyone driving 'under a learner's license ? * (9) What" lights must your vehicle carry at night? (10) If when driving on a road you overtake a vehicle, or have to pass a stationary vehicle which is on your side of the road, and at the same time a vehicle is approaching from the opposite direction, which vehicle has the right of way ? (11) What precautions shohld be taken at corners, bends, and turnings in the road ? . A new regulation in this section, in- ; tended to check the practice of examinees -for driving licenses turned down in one area being immediately passed out in another, provides: An examiner, if required to test an applicant not resident in the area for-which he has been appointed, shall first satisfy himself that there is a good and sufficient reason for doing so, and may, if he thinks fit, require such applicant to produce a . certificate from the magistrate of the district in .which he resides or has recently been residing certifying that he is a fit and jjroper person to hold such a license. -

Colonial Institute dinner deploring small proportion British cars sold here. Reasons you adduced are quite correct. What most New Zealanders want is a

high-powered cheap car able to negotiate the steep grades and rough roads that abound here; not a low-powered highly finished expensive one. It is the absence of this type that accounts for poor sales, not lack of goodwill. As evidence of my personal interest and concern at this serious state of things, I may add that I am adopting a somewhat novel method to draw further attention to the matter. In consequence of the Hutt County Council's inability to construct a much-needed bridge over the Hutt River at Hayward, I have built a toll bridge «myself. It was opened on January 15. I am giving twenty-five per cent preference in toll charges to British built cars. Perhaps British toll gates might follow suit and thus do a little more towards helping to keep some millions of British capital circulating within the Empire instead of going to further line the pockets of American millionaires and seriously menacing domestic trade both in NewZealand and the Motherland."