TAKAHIWAI

Northern Advocate, 4 August 1932, Page 8

TAKAHIWAI

(From Our Own Correspondent.) It seems ,as though Takahiwai’s snorting star is still in the ascendant —both for football and basketball. The girls tliis month arc to slum with the Bargain .Store A team the honour of wearing the silver badges to show they have not. lost a game during the month.

The Tliknrangi League football team had made arrangements with Takahiwai to play a friendly match on the local field, the game to be followed i with a. high tea, with a dance to conclude. The association, however, ruled that the game was to be included in the knock-out competition. Nevertheless, the arrangements after the match still held good, and the village folk, who are literally one large family, were deputed ■in twos and threes to carry through the catering, not forgetting pipis as an appetiser for the dinner proper. The game itself was a surprise to many, and will place Takahiwai, in the eyes of a number of spectators, as of equal rank with Whaka-Waro. But that still has to be decided on the field. At thT* very outlet, the blues showed up in fine style, and kept it up to the. end though Hikurangi scored towards the close of the match, gaining 3 points to 20. Although two jerseys wore sacrificed during the game, there were apparently no serious injuries accruing. On Sunday, however, Mr Willie Pirihi felt the effects of being “winded,” and has been admitted to Whangarci Hospital for ten days.

The dance following; terminated at 11.30 p.m. (which was sooner than most would have liked) owing to the following day being a Sunday. The evening was as much a social as a dance, and during the all too short time solos and group songs were ron,dered. The Hikurangi team sang together, and this was responded to by the Takahiwai teams in various ways. The dancing by Hr Maki Pirihi and family was also well liked. The guests of the evening once more expressed their appreciation of the fine hospitality and cntertaininent given them, and added that they would gladly do the same in return, but, owing to the lack of the same facilities, and the fact that some of the ITikurangi .players lived at a distance, it made it difficult -to carry this out. However, they lived in hopes.