Knock-out bridge

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34026, 15 December 1975, Page 3

Knock-out bridge

■ (“lhe Press” Special Service) t WELLINGTON. ’ • A Canterbury contract: (bridge four captained by R. P. Kerr had to be content • with second place in the ; finals of the New Zealand knock-out teams championship which were played in' Lower Hutt at the week-end. The winners were a Waikato-Bays four captained; by L. C. Reid of Hamilton, who had T. D. Risebrough! (Rbtorua) as partner. The 1 other pair were C. L. Friisl and A. G. Turner of Tau-i iranga. ( Canterbury held the title,’ (with Kerr — now one of; ■ New Zealand's most ex-: perienced and talented team players — as the sole mem:ber of the 1974 team. He; had to complete the four; (this year K. G. Wooles, P. ’ H. Marston, and B. R. AnIderson — three young play-; <ers of great potential in the tournament game. Auckland looked the most formidable opponents before the final matches began. But in a 48-deal semi-final Canterbury easily won by! 133 international match points to Auckland's 64. But Canterbury was on the receiving end in the final. The match was tight at the start, but Waikato-Bays ifinally won with ease. I In the play-off for third. (Auckland comfortably beat (Wellington, 136-81. church hymnals since 1928, and all five hymn books published this year continue the boycott. One newspaper said the church establishment opposed the carol because its last four ’ lines make an undisguised appeal for charity by carol singers: . “Therefore Christian men, be sure, “Wealth or rank possessing. “Ye who now will bless the poor “Shall yourselves find bless-’ mg.” Hurunuiana THE REPORT of Professor John Salmon’s retirement from the Victoria University of Wellington reminded Mrs 11. F. Dykes, of St Albans, of how she used to help the eminent zoologist by Collecting tiny flea-like creatures for him. "He had people col- ; lecting them all over the place in test tubes.” she said. Called collembola, they help break down for- ( est litter. Some which Mrs ; Dykes . captured near the I Hurunui River had no,t ( been seen before, and | were given the name ; Hurunuiana. Aof just comics WHAT .MUST be the last flicker of pre-election propaganda occurred in Wellington recently when the outgoing Minister of Maori Affairs (Mr Rata) was guest speaker at a meeting of the Wellington Book People Society on “What 1 really read.” The ’ notice of the meeting contained a reproduction of a : political billboard which appeared in Wellington . some time ago saying “Mat Rata reads comics,” ; with grafitti underneath saying, “No, he just looks ’ at the pictures.” Mr Rata had no difficulty in convincing his bookish audience that his reading habits were not confined to comics. He gave the impression of being thoroughly amused at the campaign against him.