GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 190, 14 July 1941, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS

Saturday’s basketball games resulted: High School 50 v. Swifts 11; Old Girls A 55 v. Cobbe’s 17; Toas 21 v. Old Girls 13 5; Hex defaulted to Kias. The F'eilding Golf Club decided a font ball first ball bogey competition. O. B. Beattie and H. Mayer returned the best ! card of 10 up. Stablcford bqgoy for patriotic purposes: B. Beattie with a score of 59, representing a round of 77 gross. Moa Harrier Club's 65 miles road race: — Englabd (7rnin) 1, AicKwcu (7min) 2, Thurston (7min) 5, Whittaker (2min) 4. Whittaker recorded the fastest time and established a new junior record for the distance. displacing L. Kaynor, who previously held the record. For the purpose of raising funds for local requirements, the Feilding Division of the St. John Ambulance held a dance on Saturday evening. There was a large attendance and a good profit was made. Last week’s patriotic shop day conducted by the Feilding Ladies’ Golf C.ub resulted | in a profit of il2o. ; The Feilding He turned Soldiers’ A.-soeia-I tion is undertaking a complete canvass ol J the, town lor funds lor the patriotic appeal | which closes this month. Flighty collectors I are engaged and it is expected that when the drive has been completed Feilding I and district’s quota will nu tall very short j of the required amount. An effort is to be made lo supply Home I Guardsmen with petrol tree of tax. which | won Id mean that it would be available j at about Is 6d per gallon. In the Feilding 'sub-area tO O gallons of petrol [ter month 1 arc and ttie cost is borne by the men. jit is felt that the Government should ' make sonic concession to the t voluntary ! army, and fo that end it is likely that the Government will he approached.