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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 September 1926, Page 7

It. .is .not often, that a. ballot is needed to decide who is to be secretary of a, sports Ibody, but an exception occurred at the annual meeting ol the Wellington Cricket Association. When nominations were, called for, says a Southern exchange, two were received' those of Mr. It. Darroeh (the retiring secretary) and Mr. A. Varney (a deTewate from the Y.M.C'.A. Club). As the result of the. ballot Mr Varney was elected, and that the appointment was a popular one was shown by the loud applause which followed the announcement. The new secretary was formerly wen era 1 secretary of the I.M.U.A. T uter in the evening tributes were paid to the work that had been carried out bv Mr. Darroeh, and the meeting voted hi,n a handsome honorarium. Durum* the recent snowstorm a farmers wife' in the neighbourhood of Balclutha. had a trying time, says a South Island paper It was her dirty to try and revive the exhausted little woollies ” that had been picked up by the menfolk in the snow, and feed them with milk. Under the housewife s skilful ministrations the lambs soon revived and then there was the task of finding the right mothers for them, it was aii arduous experience, but the ladv of the farmhouse did not flinch from it, ' and bad the satisfaction of saving quite a. number of lives. All the time the cows had to be milked and ted, the meals cooked, and general housework attended to.