NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22584, 12 March 1948, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Tolaga Bowlers in Post-Section Play. The team representing Tolaga Bay at an R.S.A. bowling tournament being held in Rotorua, by winning six out of eight of their games in the section play have now entered post-section play. In their eighth game the team defeated Auckland by 36-15, this allowing them to qualify for the post-section play. The members of the team are O. G. James, R. E. A. Moore, E. Harries and E. H- Crowley (s). Further Surf Events With the season drawing to a close and few week-ends available, the executives of the Gisborne Amateur Surf and Swimming Club and the Wainui Surf Life-Saving Club decided last evening to conduct their next beach carnival on Sunday afternoon at Wainui Beach. Both trophies to be ’ competed for, the Bodle Cup and Adair Cup, are at present held by the Gisborne club. The Bodle Cup is for a four-man alarm competition and the Adair Cup for a six-man team surf race. Other events on the programme will include surf ski races and rescues. Scots—and ithers—wha hae! / The response to the proposal that exDunedin people now in this district should forward a testimonial of their affection on the occasion of the city s centennial celebrations has been highly satisfactory to the original promoters. ( Large numbers of people descended from the original pioneers of Otago, and others who cannot claim such descent but who nevertheless qualify as Dunedin people of another day, have subscribed their names to a testimonial which is now being suitably engrossed for conveyance to the people of Dunedin. The list of 117 subscribers gathered to date includes a few names which suggest a slightly cosmopolitan tincture in the tartan.

Instruments Donated to Orchestra At the first meeting of the insrumental group of he British Music Society this year, Mr Torn Lyle was elected convener for the season, and the new rehearsal time on Saturday evening was r greed to. Grateful acknowledgment was made of Mr. H. F. Wise's donation to the orchestra of low-pitch woodwind and brass instruments for the use of voung players wishing to learn these intruments. The programme included a string quartette by Mesdames D, G. Dyer and T. Ruthe'rford and Messrs. T. . Lyle and T. Rutherford; a violin solo by Mr. T. Lyle, and songs by Mr. R. Sloane, guest artist. Mr L. £trachan arranged' the musical quiz. a film on "Summer with the Eskimos” concluding the evening.