Boxing Association

Hutt News, Volume 12, Issue 39, 22 March 1939, Page 7

Boxing Association

c V , YEAR OF PROGRESS DESPITE SOME SETBACKS A profit of £7 and assets increased by £2& is recorded in the Hutt Valley Boxing Association's annual report. The report states that' dur* ing the year five professional contests were staged. On': the first three contests,- Finnigan v. Hansen, Griffin v. McKay, • and Griffin v. Craib, smiir profits were made. The fourth contest, Craib v, • McKay, which was held on a stormy night, resulted in a, considerable loss, as did the fifth contest, Craib v. Hansen, when the association was forced at short notice to' substitute Hansen for Joe Collins, who was unable to pass the medical test. The Parris v. -Morton contest had to bf abandoned because of Morton taking ill at the last moment, the association losing a fair sum expended in preparation for the contest. > •' The membership had. greatly'increased, and was now li 4, including one woman member, Miss J. Dolling. All members were financial. The financial position was very satisfactory, considering the ill-luck which attended three of the professional contests. In accordance with the policy of giving the amateurs every encouragement, the value of their trophies was raised from £15 in the 197-38 season to £40 in 1938-39. In the financial statement box office receipts are shown at £176, bookings at £49 and subscriptions £55. On the expenditure side purses for five contests, £107, is included. A motion to fix ordinary and honorary members' subscriptions at £1/1/- annually and' women members at 10/6, with a limit of 20 women members, will be brought forward at the annual meeting. pinks and primulas, and many other Sowers, are raised from seeds or cuttings. • i For much of the planting, gardeners are let down on ropes from the top. A bit of humus collected iii a crevice or a hollow forms a bed for the roots of a clump of the choicest wildlings. Near the top wliere the ground is more level, some delightful informal beds have been laid out. Here for three months beginning with earliest spring, iris of many kinds succeed each other in bloom. Pinks in variety accompany them for a brief season, while daffodils in April and May go laughing down the slope. Of these latter flowers only a few are native. It is chiefly,.where the planting is done right between the rocks that an- entirely natural effect has been attempted. Only where flowers from foreign lantis fit perfectly into the picture are they permitted to grow in the rock garden at Graz. One rhododendron only is grown in this rock garden, the smallflowered pink one with little hairy leaves, one of the many flowers known as "Alpenrose." High on the mountains vthrough all the limestone sections of the Alps and adjacent ranges, this low-growing rhododendron -clings to the slopes and covers them with bloom throughout the June and July. Those who visit the Schlossberg in Graz during the summer months will find many of its sharp rocks softened by the deep pink mantle of ■the Alpenrose.