BLACKBALL NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1922, Page 6

BLACKBALL NOTES.

(Our Own Correspondent.) “Pussyfoot” Johnson, the Prohibi- ] tion advocate, is to visit, Blackball on ; Sunday, October 15. He will give an • address in the Druids’ Hall, commencing at 2.30 p.m. The international reputation of the speaker will be sufficient guarantee of a large audience. Mr M. Ayrton, Prohibition organiser, was a Blackball visitor on Saturday last. His object was to make all the necessary arrangements for “Pussy- ' foot’s’’- meeting. Strange to relate,' he found both Mandi’s and Mettrick’s Hall engaged. It would be interesting to know who by. Blackball was a more or less deserted ( village on Saturday last, the reason be- j ing the appearance of two Blackball I ’ z- i League trams m the Cup finals at Grey- ■ . mouth. Geordic’s fourths fulfilled ex-p pectations, and landed the mustard. The j 1 ’ seniors also did well to draw, and live! l to fight another day. On Sunday the juniors journeyed to I , I Rapahoe, and vanquished Runanga in i - the final for the Poschieh Cup. A • 1 large number of supporters accompani-> 1 ed the team, but reports are that the g game was very tame. The League Centre’s action in fix- p ing the Pollard Cup final re-play for s Labour Day morning at 9.30 certainly does not meet with the approval of the Bed and Blacks, who maintain (with a r lot of reason) that the game ought io ' be played at Blackball on October 15. 1 Weather permitting, a Blackball Soc- . r cor team visits Rapahoe on Sunday to . s meet Runanga in a benefit match for the Runanga Band. On Pay Saturday a Runanga-Groy I v e.om bin: t ion return the visit and play/ 1 in a match set aside for the benefit of , a

A. Clark, a member of the Blackball Club, who has been ill for a long time. The curtain-raiser for this game will be Blackball v. Runanga boys for the President’s Shield. It seems the move to organise the Hotel Employees in the Grey district was successful. Seeing that Blackball is a union town, it should not be hard to enrol members here. As a result, conditions and wages would be improved. We wage-plugs of Blackball and Roa duly note that the Bosses’ Arbitration Court, true as usual to its class character, has ordered a further plundering; of our pay envelopes. As the “Argus’’ Millerton correspondent puts it, th.* joker who can figure out a ease for a reduction must be a marvel. ,So he would be if he did figure it out, for the Coast. But the Arbitration Court doesn’t do anything so stupid. It simply makes the order and the Henry Dubbs as a class just take it, and will continue to take it, unless they wake up. Robbo and Bob McDonald, the Blackball amateurs, are both in good nick for their forthcoming engagements, and should give a good account of them selves. The Blackball Boxing Association must be pursued by a Jonah. For their tournament last Pay Friday night the weather was on its worst behaviour. This, of course, adversely affected the door receipts, and the Association will again find themselves well behind scratch. Bebau’s Peerless Pictures were showing in Blackball on Sunday night last; needless to say the “house’’ was a big one. Snapshots, a combination of vaudeville artists, gave a show in Mettrick’s Hall on Monday last.

Athos, the hope of Blackball at the. forthcoming trots, unfortunately for his owner, has broken down. Our position is now hopeless unless L.R. can come to light. Boko Leitch, so it is reported, intends getting 1 under way on his lease. One thing we do know, and that is, he will have no difficulty in securing the wageslaves required. The Miners’ Union and the Blackball Coal Company have apparently settled their differences in regard to the short back-shifts—a compromise which should work smoothly from the viewpoint of both parties has been agreed upon. The prestige of neither side has been much damaged by the proposals.