WHAREROA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 August 1925, Page 9

WHAREROA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

RECENT FOOTBALL.

The Ohangai-Whareroa match, staged for last Wednesday, did not eventuate, as advertised. Certainly a team took the field at Hawera on 29th July, but only about half its quota were members of the Whareroa team. In view of the fact that half-a-dozen of the regular Whareroa players were waiting on the line, .it is difficult to see why a deception. was practised on the public, and, incidentally, a slight offered to these players. Many local followers of the game were 'of the opinion that our team, now that they have struck form, were quite the best of the Wednesday competition contestants, and were anxious to see how they would fare with tile actual winners of the shield in a friendly challenge game. The game on Wednesday last, although it resulted in a nominal victory over Ohangai by 11 points to 3, was no indication of the relative strength of these teams, for the reason I have mentioned, and it was quite unfair to Dliangai to pit them against a composite team. The fiasco of last Wednesday has had a chilling effect on .fecal followers of the game, and interest in th,e fortunes of the home team m'ay now he deemed to have died out. ■ 7 1 HOCKEY. 1 .

Miss Annie Reynolds, a . local young lady, has been selected, to represent Taranaki in the forthcoming touring gnme s of the Ladies’ Hockey Club. Miss ‘Reynolds is," I understand, the only representative selected from the Hawera district and fully deserve R the distinction, being a veirastile and vigorous player. Miss Mary Death, another local player, would probably also have been chosen had she been free to undertake the trip. OLD FRIENDS.

Friends of the Benton family, long resident here, will he sorry to hear that Miss Grace Benton had the misfortune to break a leg through colliding with a dog whi’e cycling near New Plymouth •last week, and is now a. patient in the hospital there. Her elder sister, Miss Dorothy, was recently married in England to the commander of the s.s. Athenic, and is now “aboard the lugger” on her way to southern seas.

THE SEASON. Signs of spring are becoming evident in this district. Willows and early fruit trees are bursting into bud, and just at present the weather is extremely mild and genial, although tlie fanners a s a. rule do not trust such temporary periods of mildness. The fact that the days are lengthening indicates that we have passed the darkest days of the winter. Although we do not, like your “Smile Queen,” bury the Frost King on July 31 (waiting for the obsequies of that potentate on September 21st in conformity with the calendar), we, nevertheless, like to deceive ourselves with the majority, that when the shortest day is past the bulk of the winter is ’oft behind. BENEFIT SOCIAL.

A benefit social aud dance to Air. E. Carswell, who was injured in the Ohangai-Whareroa match on July 22, is to be held in the local hall on Friday next, 7th inst. Air Carswell’s injury was more severe than at • first thought, being a compound fracture of the cheek hone affecting the facial muscles, and it was feared, at least by the uninitiated, that tetanus (lockjaw) might supervene. Happily the danger is past, and it only remains now to assist a hard-working family man to recover some of his lost- time.