MODERN ROLLER SKATING

Evening Star, Issue 23882, 12 May 1941, Page 11

MODERN ROLLER SKATING

.Now is the time to learn to skate under modern conditions at the De Luxe Rink, Pill.eul street, opposite the Town Hall. There are sessions daily—lo.3o to noon; '2.30 t0.4;30; 5.30;t0 6.45 p;m.. and evenings at School holiday weekly tickets (price 3s) are available for use at both morning and afternoon sessions. Private tuition by appointment; phone 10-692.

tion to tho most trivial adjustments. It was not easy for a visitor to attract their attention, except perhaps to pass a comment on an unusual type of ■vehicle as it entered tho wide asphalt yard; in fact, it was not unlike the activity one expected to find at an areodromo. Half a dozen English soldiers unloading a large field gun from a six-wheeler 10-ton truck, no easy task, involving the use of a winch supplemented by not inconsiderable muscular effort and a series of rapid commands from an n.c.0., seemed quite an interesting operation, but earned no further attention from the busy members of the patrol beyond one torse comment: “ IVe will be able to get some of our own back with that.” Unlike the fresh, ruddy-cheeked Tommies one sees in Egypt, these New Zealanders gave the appearanc of having a tough hide evenly tanned, the_ result of long months in the deserts of North-east Africa. There was a group including a patrol navigator and Trooper D. Moore, hero of tho 10-day trek from Bishara, looking at photographs taken at the wadi where one of their patrols had been ambushed. On tho sand near a burnt-out British motor vehicle lay an Italian taken prisoner in an earlier engagement by the patrol, shot down by the machine guns of his own army and left where he had fallen.