MID-CANTERBURY

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19357, 9 July 1928, Page 6

MID-CANTERBURY

ASHBURTON. PERSONAL. The Hon. Mr Nosworthy, PostmasterGeneral, returned to his home in Ashburton on Saturday, The Rev. E. P. Blamires (Auckland), general secretary of the Young People's Department of the Church, conducted the services at the 'Baring Square Methodist Church last evening, and at Willowby Methodist Church yesterday morning. Mr W. M. Dawson leaves next week to take up a position as technical engineer to Philips Lamps (New Zealand), Ltd, Fall From a Tree. Mr L. R. Harrison, of Mayfield, who was topping trees at his home on Friday, fell to the ground and fractured his right arm and dislocated his elbow. He was admitted to the Ashburton County Hospital. Orange Lodge Parade. The annual parade of the Loyal Orange Lodge No. 23 was held at St. Andrew's Hall yesterday afternoon, when a Divine service was conducted by the Eev. A. S. Morrison (Rakaia), convener of the Protestant Principles Committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly. There was a good muster of brethren, and also Sisters of No. 14 Lodge, together with representatives of other Lodges in the district. Bro. R. Falconer, director of ceremonies, marshalled the parade, which, headed by the Ashburton Pipe Band, marched from the Orango Hall. Among those present was the Worshipful Master (Bro. H. Calderwood). An interesting address was given by Mr Morrison, and suitable hymns wore sung.

County Shield Competition. The first • match of the Ashburton Miniature Kifle Association's County Shield competition has been completed. Another match will be fired this month, and the competition will be completed in August. The best eight scores count in each case, and the results are as follows, the number of men in each team being given in parentheses: —Methven (11) 621, Ashburton (8) 617, Lynnford (11)- 608, Seafield (11) 607, Dorie (10) 604, Hinds (11) 603, Westerfield (11) 597, Willowby (10) 595. Heavy Frost. Ten degrees of frost were recorded at the Domain 'Weather station on Saturday morning, and one of' the coldest days experienced this year followed. Heavy clouds prevented the sun from thawing the frost. . ' . Lantern Lecture. An interesting illustrated lantern lecture on Jerusalem was delivered to a good audience in the Baring square schoolroom on Saturday night by the Rev. E. P. Blamires, of Auckland. ° Band Concert. The Theatre Royal was well filled last evening, when the Ashburton Silver Band gave a concert. The band, under the baton of Bandmaster 11. J. T. Os- ' borne, was in good form, and gave firstI class renderings of the various items. Assisting artists were: Mrs W. Thomas (song), Miss E. Thompson (monologue), Mr S. Wallace (trombone solo), Mr Bissett (song). The items by the band were as follows:, —March, "The. Cossack"; fantasia, "A Sailor's Life"; intermezzo, "In a Monastery Garden''; march, "Merry and Bright."

Eugby Football. As a curtain-raiser to the senior representative Rugby football match on Saturday a competition game in the fourth grade was staged between Hampstead and Technical, resulting in a win for the former by 14 points to nil. Marlborough Farmers' Visit, The Marlborough farmers' excursion train to Canterbury will arrive in Ashburton on the evening of Monday, July 23rd, and the visitors will be taken to various points of interest in the county on the Tuesday. The visitors will leave by the early train on Wednesday, July 25th, for Addington to attend the metropolitan market. Arrangements for the entertainment of the visiting farmers while in Ashburton will be made at a public meeting to-morrow afternoon. Ashburton Win. In a clean, open game played at Ashburton Show Grounds on Saturday, the Ashburton senior representative Rugby football team defeated the South Island Maori team by 2? pointß to nil. There was the largest attendance seen on the Show Grounds this year, the country. districts being particularly well represented, and the match was very interesting. The Ashburton team was seen to advantage. against a weaker team, and although they were not extended on many occasions during the first half, when they put on . 16 points, they met with' stronger opposition in the second half, and were bard pressed on several occasions. The Maoris brightened up considerably during this spell, and were unlucky .not to register, points. Generally ! speaking, Ashburton got the better of tho scrums, but the Maoris were better hook- j era, failing, however, to get the ball clear. Honours in the line-outs were even. ' The team fielded were as -follows: —South Island Maoris—Backs: Leonard. Te Aika, Tainui, Croft, Te Tau, J. To Raki, Taiaroa. Forwards: Johnston (captain), Crosby, Manning, M. Te Raki, Wesley, Ryan, Hollamby, Clark. Ashburton—backs: R. Hart, E. Clark, B. Brown, 0. Davison, G. Day, R. Carleton, F. Kennedy. Forwards: G. Dalton, P. Seyb, W. Rapley, C. Elms, J. Mulhern, E. Burgess, A. 0. Whiting, 0. Pawßon. J. Te Raki, in the Maori backs, was goo'd in all departments, especially defence. The half, Taiaroa, gave an exhibition of bright play, and set his backs in motion at every opportunity. M. Te Raki, Manning, and Wesley were outstanding in the forwards. Leonard, at fullback, was a heady player, and repelled frequent attacks with effective line-kicking and runs. - In the Ashburton team, Kennedy was a tower of strength to the backs by his shooting the" ball out at every 'opportunity. Day and Carleton were the mainstays of this department. Hart played well at fullback, but he was inclined to take risks while on the defensive. Davison and Clark made good use of . the leather when it came their way.- The former provided tho best exhibition of goal-kicking seen on the Show Grounds this season. Brown's play was characterised by dash. " I In the forward' division, Burgess, Pawson, and Dalton displayed the most dash, the first-named working weH in Rapley endeavoured to justify his .promotion to representative honours, and was first to the ball on many occasions. Seyb and Whiting harried the opposing forward line on many occasions. Tho Play. Shortly after the opening the visitors placed Ashburton on the defensive, but .this was only momentarily, for Day gave a beautiful exhibition of working the dummy. The ball wont out clean to the Ashburton backs from a scrum' near halfway, and Kennedy and Carleton let out to Day, who beat- two of the opposition and 'scored under- tho posts. Davison converted. Ashburton 5, Maoris nil. The local pack combined well in further movement, when . one of the., opposing forwards kicked the leather over his own line. Elms, who followed up. closely, beat Leonard t who dived at the ball to force. Davison again converted. Ashburton 10, Maoris nil. Tho Maori forwards put a little more sigonr into their play at this stage, and Croft and Tainui got away along the line, exchanging several passes before the latter was hauled down. Wesley made an unsuccessful attempt at the posts from a penalty. -Ashburton returned: to the attack, a fine effort being made by Seyb and. Burgess. E. Clark was almost across as the result of a passing effort in which the prime movers were Carleton . and Kenqedy, but ' Leonard tackled safely. The last-named saved. Ms side from danger a few iAinutos later.by taking a mark ; in the faco of a strong forward rush by the opposition. Ashburton instituted many, promising rashes, but solid tackling by the visiting players nullified .their- efforts. Spectacular caasinar was witnessed'when the whole ot

the back line participated, but Davison wis unfortunate in knocking on. The effort was repeated a few moments later, when the ball went out to Clark, who mßde good use of his opportunity and sprinted for the lino to register a try. Davison failed with the kick on this occasion. Ashburton 13, Maoris nil. The visiting front division applied the j pressure, Manning, 11. Te Raki, and Wesley ! showing up well. Although forced to defend the home team was not bustled. A further unsuccessful attempt at goal was made by Wesley from play in the Ashburton twenty-live. Ashburton again took control, and tho ball was hooked clean to Kennedy from a scrum. The leather was transferred to Davison, who sprinted for the lino to score. Ashburton 16, Maoris nil. The visitors came again, but lacked the penetrating power to score. Leonard made a spectacular run from a position well within his own twenty-five, and threaded his way through the Ashburton pack into opposing territory, but he kicked,- and Hart returned tho leather before being tackled. Te Aika injured his collarbone and was nnable to rejoin his team after half-time... Jack Todd (Ashburton) went on as full-back for the Maori team. , When the game was resumed Ashburton took control, and Mulhern was nearly over. Kennedy obtained from a Bcrum and scored by » run on the blind side. Davison did not convert. Ashburton 19. Maoris nil. At this stage the visitors rallied, and putting more vigour into their efforts, gave a better exhibition of the game. They instituted the most spectacular passing rush of the day, the ball travelling through ten pairs of hands without a fault. Thiß carried the Btruggle to the home team's line, and pure misfortune prevented the Maoris from scoring. Wesley essayed another kick at goal from a penalty, but tho ball went wide. The Blacks came again with more determination, and kept the opposition pinned on their line. Scrum followed scrum, and the Maoris hooking on most occasions, they were seen in some nippy play. Taiaroa made a bold attempt to get over on several occasions, but was tackled solidly. The Maoris kept control of the game, and Ashburton were forced to play on the defensive. Tainui got possession in his own quarter and sprinted down the field, outpacing several of the opposition, but he was hauled down by Hart. Mulhern, Dalton, Pawson, and Bapley 1 broke through with ball at toe, and the effort resulted in the last-named scoring. Davison was unsuccessful with the kick. _ Ashburton 22, Maoris nil. A passing rush inaugurated by the Ashburton backs terminated in Day scoring. Davison converted from a difficult angle. Ashburton 27, Maoris nil. No further score resulted. Mr 0. Stills was referee. The visiting players, with their manager / (Mr N. Parata) were entertained at luncheon by the Ashburton Rufjby Union.

Members of the Ashburton Golf Club ployed a bogey match on Saturday afternoon J. S. Fisher and H. E. Bonnington halving, each with 4 down. The best cards handed in, in addition to the above were: C. O. I'ratt 5 down, A. B. Lane 5, H. G. Kemp 5, F. W. Watt 5, J. T. Smith 6, E. 11. Lasterbrook 6, G. B, WiUiani3 6, C. Bonnington 6, A. Dunlop 7, B. McSherry 7, XV. Thoma-a 7. Basketball, The weather was fine on Saturday afternoon for the continuation of the' Ashburton Basketball Association's competitions. The moat exciting match of the day was the game between Technical School and High School in the senior grade. In the first spell High School netted two balls in as many minutes and repented this performance in the second half, but except on these two occasions Technical had mastery of the game, and it ended 12—7 in favour of Technical. In the junior grade, Technical A added another win to their unbeaten re-cord by defeating Hinds by 9 points to 2. The scores were:—Senior: Technical School 12 v. High School 7, Technical Old Girls A 11 v. St. Andrews 6, Technical Old Girls B 9 v. High School B 2- Junior: Technical A 9 v. Hinds 2, Convent 6 v. St. Andrews B 3, Technical B 9 v. Technical Old Girls 1, St. Andrews A 6 v. High School 5. The referees were Misses E. Knox, A. Higgins, Ml Gourley, and L. Fisher, and Mr R. J. Thompson. Hockey. There was good weather for the continuation of the Ashburton Hockey Association's competitions in the Domain on Saturday. There was a fair attendance of spectators. The match between Kakma and Old Girls B at Kakaia was somewhat onesided and rosulted in a win for the home team by 6 goals to nil. The scorers were Missoa N. Tully (3), C'. Shannon (2), and F. Cornelius (1). Mr C. Bishop was referee. The match between High School and Methven, played on the Domain, resulted in a win for School by 2 goals to 1. School had the advantage in the first half, but Methven came to light early in the second half, attacking strongly. The game was in favour of Higbc-Sohool, although there was littl#/ differencsf; between the teams. F. Gudaell and K. Bell each shot a goal for School and G. Dickson scored for Methven. Mr M. Baker was referee. In a junior grade match at Mt. Somers, Baring Square was defeated by the home team by 6 goals to 1. Mr G. Bufton was referee. Quite a good standard of plaa was shown in the match betwedn High School A and Wakanui, at Wakanui. Each team scored a goal, the scorers being Miss A. Benniaon for School and Miss E. Eden for Wakanui. Mr A. G. McHardy was referee. Kakaia defeated Hinds by 3 goals to nil in a hard-fought game at Hinds. Miss I. Behrens shot two .goals and Miss M. Kean one. Mr J. Cook was referee. Old Girls defeated High School B, on the Ashburton Domain. The Bev. R. B. Tinslcy was referee.

METHVEN. Under the auspices of the Methven Swimming Club a successful dance was held on Friday evening in the Anglican Hall. About 60 couples were present and danced to . music gratuitously supplied by Petrie's Orchestra. Mr L. Dalton was master of ceremonies. Extras were played by Mrs Alex. Lawrence. After supper Mr 11. F. Renin (president of the Swimming Club) thanked the ladies who had assisted ' and all present for the support accorded it. The proceeds, wJiich will probably exceed £lO, will be devoted to the fund for . the proposed new swimming bath to be constructed in the school grounds. Methven is at present experiencing fine weather, with heavy frosts. Fifteen degrees of frost were recorded on Saturday morning. PENDARVES. The spinters and bachelors of tlie Pendarves. district held their annual ball on Friday evening, and, as usual, the function proved very . successful and enjovable. The secretary, Miss Ethel Malcolm, and her committee carried out their duties very ably. The hall was • brightly decorated with streamers -of blue and gold, and the floor was in excellent order. Messrs E; W. and A. G. Rankin acted as M.C.'s,'and the music was supplied by Mrs Mitchell's Orchestra. Extras were played by Miss E. Malcolm, Miss A. Watson, and Mr W. E. Rankin. Novelty dances were the cap dance and the lucky seat, which was won by Mr A. Watson and Miss Walker. .Mr J. A. L. Bush, formerly of the staff of the District High School, Sumner, took up his duties this Meek as'sole charge teacher at the Pendarves School. Mr E. Hampton ("Cumbrao' ), who recently' underwent an. operation in Ashburton, has recovered sufficiently to be able to leave'the hospital. "Mr W. Halliday, formerly of Marlborough, is at present.staying with his cousin, Mr Walter Halliday, of "Selma." Miss Rosina Halliday (Wai r mate) is also a visitor at "Selma." Miss J. Doig (Christchurch) has been visiting friends in the district. Mr Jas. Bruce (Christchurch) is spending a few days witli relatives. Miss Taylor (Christchurch) formerly mistress at the Pendarves School, is the, guest of Mr and Mrs P. Doig.

MAYFIELD. \ successful function was held in the hall on Thursday evening in aid of the Presbyterian missions. The Rev. A. D. Kirkland, who occupied the chair, introduced Nurse Arnold, who has recently returned from mission work in India. Miss Arnold gave a lecture on the work being done there. Produce, cake, and sweets stalls were arranged in the hall, and good business was done, resulting in about £2o being collected. A meeting of the Mayfield benedicts was held on Wednesday to arrange for a return ball to the bachelors and spinsters. There was a good attendance, and Mr L. R. Harrison and Mrs W". Johnston© were appointed joint sec.

retaries. It was decided to hold the ball on July 18th. The School Committee is continuing its euchre tournaments this winter. That held in the hall on Friday evening was well attended. The ladies' prize was won by Miss W. El lory, the gentlemen's going to Mr M. Murdoch. Consolation prizes were won by Mrs H. A. Scown and Mr A Prouting. MOUNT SOMERS. G. A. Bland (34 , 33) secured top score in the final shoot for Mr F. Peters's No. 1 trophy. A. Thompson and H. Hood (24) made top score in the juniors. As F. W. Gifkins and Bland have tied with a possible, including handicap, of 140, a shoot-off will be held. A. Thompson won tho junior trophy outright. A Scottish concert was given by the Ashburton Pipe Band in the Memorial Hall on Wednesday night in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds. There was a large attendance, and the programme was enthusiastically received.