Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 533, 28 March 1908, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Thk delegates from tho Feilding Club who nttendod !the meeting jof the Alanauatu Rugby Union in Palmerstou last night were received witli a courtesy and a consideration which was a pleasing surprise in comparison with the attitude, adopted towards Fcikling in the past. TJioro was every desiro shown to place our local club on a good looting so far as representation is concerned, somo of the Palmerston delegates going so far :.s to suggest that one of tho Feilding delegates who iliad -been elected a Vice-President should also bo made v» member of the Committee of Management. It is to bo hoped that this kindly feeling will extend to the spectators at the various matches. Tho delegates paid a well-deserved compli- . Mont to Mr AY. H. McLean, ono of tho members of tho Manawatu Man-... agement Committee last year, >and the' popular hon. secretary of tho Feilding Club, by electing him as tho Union's Vice-President of the New Zealand Kugby Union. Tho President (Mr Gibbons), in seconding this nomination, made somo highly complimentary references to the gentleman in question, both as a football enthusiast and a prominent player. The Union's delegation to the Ncnv Zealand Rugby Union was also generously ' ; cut up,'' Palmerston getting ono delegate an-l Feildi'ig one. The Staii worked very hard last season to promote a friendlier feeling in football matters between tho two places, and, judging by last night's indications, tliero is a greater prospect of that end being attained this season than there has ever been, a position which must make for tho greater success of the game. An indication that the. Feilding Beautifying Society is still in existence was given in a paragraph in yesterday's Star to tho effect that the construction of the pond had been competed in the South-street reserve. .11 it had not been for this hint wo would almost have forgotten tho Society's existence. Such an institution needs to keep itself and its work continually before the public in order to maintain an interest with tho general public. Wo havo never hesitated to acknowledge the value of tho Beautifying Society to the town, and therefore we greatly desire that it should become an active force. In view of the coming annual meeting of the Society,, we would suggest that the Committee shoukf invito members of the Borough Council and representative residents to view tho work already carried out under its direction. Such a demonstration would not only tend to oreato a new interest in tho Socie/b- but would give a practical exhibition of what its future oporatons will mean in the South-street Reserve and otlher spots that are to bo beautified. On Tuesday last Mr Frank A. Cook, one of Christchurch's best known citizens, had the rare experience of reading in one of the local evening papers his own obituary notice. Mr Cook, it appears, promptly informed the paper in question that the report of his demise was, in the language of Mark Twain, " groatly exaggerated." The enterprising evening paper that so sadly " fell in " recovered its equilibrium in this neat expression in its next issue : " It do.es not often fall to the lot of a man to read his own obituary notice, and the widespread expressions of sympathy and regret which the announcement evoked should do much to convince Mr Cook of the esteem in which be is held in the community."