FOOTBALL BY FLOODLIGHT.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 3

FOOTBALL BY FLOODLIGHT.

• 4n -evening Rugby match will be held at the 74>wer>Hutt Recreation. Ground tomorrow. The floodlighting system Installed there is one of the best south of the Line, but it has bad to be kept out of use since the lighting restrictions were imposed. However, to enable the match '-W be held for patriotic purposes, special permission to use the lights has been • granted. Tfte match,, arranged: by the Lower Hutt Patriotic Committee, will be played by teams representing the Railway Road Services and the Railway Workshops.

■"- Mr. R. MeKeen, M.P., invites friends and supporters In Island Bay to meet him in St. Hilda's Hall, at 8' p.m •on Thursday. Matters of importance in. the forthcoming election campaign will be discussed.

Two~ years' hard labour was imposed by Mr. Justice Johnston in the Suprtme Court today on Stanley Joseph Bergerson, labourer, 35, who had pleaded guilty at Wanganui on June 6 to indecently assaulting his eight-year-old daughter. His Honour said it was a ■v t ery serious case of continued indecencies.

• Military requisitioning in Holland is being extended to blankets and linen. It is difficult to bury blankets —burying is'the usual procedure when the Nazis are seizing articles —but, nevertheless, many people have done this. The shortage is causing much discontent and is eaidi to To* resulting in sabotage.