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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 30 May 1914, Page 4

It has been said 'by visitors that the dwellers in New 7ealand. cities are enthusiastic over their sports, but it takes countrymen and countrywomen to reallj appreciate the serious side of. say, tootball. Last Wednesday a match wis plaved at Woodville between a local team and a Maori team, and a racial war was narrowly averted. vvhen a bulkv Maori. Eantri Rautah:, got over the line and scored a try for his side, four*young Maori girls rushed over to the hero and hugged and kissed ium-, states the local newspaper. The onlookers were greatly delighted with the scene. And -when Percy- Jones potted a o-oal just on the call of time and won the match for his side, several Woodville -girls joined in- the cheering. ltns was more than, a Maori girl, dressed in ' "bright vellow. could stand, and she knocked" one Woodville girl down and punched another in the back, and locked •determined enough to go for all the females on the ground, only she was prevented by her companions.

An ex-Wellintrtonian. writing from Svcney to the "Ev-eninsr Post." states: "It mav interest the people of \Velliwiton to knew something of rents in Sydney, and it may make them thankful that they ai*e not so" badly off in that respect as' people are here. I have be-en here about two years. lam paying ior a. five-roomed cottage, all small rooms, no wardrobes of cupboards of any kind, bare walls, no hot water servico, and 2d section from centre, 35s per. week, and my friends consider I have a c.ieap house. Houses of the size I occupy run from- 35s to 40s per week ; six rooms, from 40s to 45s per week; sevon rooms, from 45s to 55s per week : nine rooms, to 90s per week. All the above prices 'depend on po'sition and -distance from centre.'"'