LATE LOCALS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 245, 15 October 1920, Page 8

LATE LOCALS.

At the Central reunion last night Dt ]'*.. Noble-Adams mentioned tlutt the Marlborough Union had played seven representative matches this season, and had won them all. This be thought was a record no other Union in the Dominion could show.

When question time came at the meeting of tho Borough Council last night, Cciancillcr Mrs Redwood asked that the street name-plates be erected1 as soon as possible; and CoiuiciLtor Mcseloy urged that six or seven chains of High Street West ; badly needed grading and gravelling.

"The public here :want. -ondu'eating in the way to treat .sport,'' said l>r Noble-Adams at the Central Club's smoke concert.last night. Ho went on to say: that the sporting spirit was not what it should be. He did not call the man a sport 'who went on to.the ground'as a spectator, who per&apis got in without paying, and /who put a pound on the match.

When the Omaka Rjpad Board was discussing the question of the Provin-I iial War Memorial, Mr J. Bary ventured the opinion that the people of Blenheim did not care where the meliiorial was.situated —whether it was ou top of Mount Tapuaenuku or ab the bottom of Cook Strait. But, he continued, Picton tared.; it was right out to get the memorial there, and would.spare no -effort to attain that -end.

_ A statement showing; the expenditure on the wdterkorks and drainage scheme was presented to-the Borough Council last night. Councillor McKenzio .'complained that the "return was not detailed enough, and he went ■on. to express hirr.self -as dissatisfied with tho prqgrcss of the work. The Deputy-Mayor said it was not right to say that nothing was being doirie to expsdite the work. There was no report from the Water and Drainage Committee', which had not met this month. Finally it was arranged that the coitimittc© should hold a special meeting next week.