KAPONGA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 June 1926, Page 5

KAPONGA.

(From Our Own Correspondent-) CYCLE ROAD RACE. On Saturday next- the second road race in the series of six events arranged by the Kaponga Athletic Club will be contested. The course laid down is from the post office- to Awatuna and back, a distance of 12 miles. Splendid entries have been received, and Mr A. Melville has declared the following handicaps: L. Williamson scr, H. Bocock 30sec, H. Blackwell, A. Marti 75, F. Judson, F. Litchwa-rk 90, R. McCarthy, A. Cardiff, J. Sullivan 150, G. Payne, W. Leppard, —. McKew 180, J. Payne, H. Thorne 195, W. Pitcher, L. Tanner 210, S. Blackwell, G. Williams, C. Pitcher, E. .Lines, R. Skevington, D. Curran 240. Mr A. Melville will act as judge, and Mr L. Hill has been appointed check steward at Awatuna. The race will start'at 2 o’clock. fire; brigade. The monthly meeting of the- Ivan pomga Fire Brigade was held last might. Superintendent Melville preisadetd over' a,n attendance; of ten members, ja,nd ! apologies for absence were received' from, two members;. , QorrespiOindemee was (received from the U.F.8.A., covering Inspector Hujo’s address; ’at the conference of delegates held ait Dunedin, and -alterations and' amendmeintkSi of rules. One mew member was elected and two young members proposed. HOCKEY. The following Kaponga teams have been chosen to take part in tournaments at Hawera -and Bedding to-mor-row : At Feilding (five a-side). —Manaia Nomads: A. C. T. Brothert-on, J. Archer, J. Wilson, W. J. Laing, L. Crawford - Watson. Emergency: D. Smith. Ladies’ tournament at Hawera. — Kaponga Clubj: (Goal) Miss I. Guy; (backs) Misses J. Johns and G. Hislop; (halves) Misses D. Hislop, I. Melville and E. Gargan; (forwards) Misses N. Rothe. M. Evans, V. Melville, I. Sanson, J. Knight. Emergencies: Misses O. -Symes, B. Josepkson, and M. Guy. After a sustained and useful practice by the Kaponga Ladies’ Hockey Club last flight. Mr Crawford-Watson delivered an address on “How to Play the Game.”

FOOTBALL. ■The Kaponga. Club’s first five-eighths. Williams, of Kapuni, who was seriously injured in the seven-a-side tournament, at Okaiawa, will be available for the match against Opunake on Saturday. Mr J. A. Dawson, the popular manager and coach for the local junior and fourth grade teams, had to undergo an operation on Monday. Mr Dawson Had the misfortune to lose a leg in the- war, and'the use of a mechanical leg induced a growth on what remains of the member that was left iin France. Dr. Hockin successfully operated, and the genial ‘‘Jim” is now as blithe a® ever — on the once discarded crutches. He was well enough last night to superintend a good electric light practice by the juniors. SEVEN-A-SIDE TOURNEY.

The following will represent Kaponga in the Dewar Shield seven-a-side tourney at New' Plymouth to-morrow: — McCarty. Eliason, Scott, Whalen, Hammersley', Guthrie, Paterson. Car leaves Kaponga at 9 a.m.

Kaponga notes in yesterday’® Star stated that the last, loads of cheese for the (season had! (left the Ma-mgatiota Oomtpamy’is factories ;at Rowan and Rlverlea. The paragraph ishiould have read: “The 'Kaponga Company's factories.” This eiflroir via® (pointed out, per telephone, hv a director of one of the coimipaniiesi comderned within a. fe,W minutes of the Star delivery at Ins residence, ‘ and furnishes conclusive proof that the local notes are eagerly saannedi. In conversation with Mr. J. 1 ■ -oiooori jo oSjißip mi noorpo etp miodatiioai at Da.wsoai Falls, the fact wais eliiolted that during the past week o»nsLderaib.le muoniber of ttoiu risks bad visited the mountain house. Mr. Muipliy 'anticdpiates that 'an excess of visitors “up above’’ during "Winter Show Week. A reicent guest., Mr. Jaimes McKenzie, of Te "WMti. Ma®tertoaii (buyer (for one- of the pig breeding companies), its) certain to extol the defehitis of Dawson Flails to his many acquaintances an tlhe 'Wairta.raipia, for he told Mir. Murphy he Iliad l no. idea tlierCi wa.s isuch a. show place a® Mount Eginnnt an New Zealand—and hei was boinl in Waiiraraipa;. Tit as a. matter for wonder that so few Taranaki residents! avail! thems'elves of their opportunity to view", for a. few sb.iilling®, what, tourists from the farthest ends of the' earth, .at great expense, came to see— ; Mount Egmont at close quarters. *A‘ dav’s outing from Hawerai to Dawson Falls and! bade, over the most perfect; roads in the Dnimindioar, through fthei mountain burg, Ivaponga., east's only a shade civer twenty Shi Ilinigs. Tourists 1 from the United Kingdom think anore! of, and; pay mjare for, the trip to Egmont than they dbi of and far 'all the trout. quiinnait itailmOn and (swordfish in' New Zealand waters.