WANGANUI MEN IN OVERSEAS BALLOT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 December 1940, Page 4

WANGANUI MEN IN OVERSEAS BALLOT

FOOTBALL AND CRICKET REPRESENTATIVES [Un:ted Press Association) WANGANUI, 4th December. Cricket, Rugby, Soccer and golf players are among those called up in Wanganui in the first ballot for overseas service. Among the sportsmen called up are E. T. Chamberlain, W. O. Gill, A. R. Kitto, R. F. Kitto, M. J. Sutton and H. H. Whiting. Whiting who is a Wanganui Soccer and cricke' representative, played for Wanganui against the touring English Soccer team while still at Wanganui Technical College, and this year he was a member of the Wanganui team which j won and held the Brown Shield for the I champion New Zealand minor association team. He is a teacher at Tawhero School. A. R. and R. F. Kitto, brothers, who work on their father’s farm in Brunswick, are two of Wanganui’s most successful golfers. They are members of the Seafield Golf Club. R. F. Kitto has been accepted for the Royal New Zealand Air Force, though he has not yet been called up. Sutton is a Wanganui and foi-mer Manawatu representative Rugby play- ' er, and is a sergeant in camp with the First Battalion, Wellington-West Coast Regiment, on the racecourse. In private life he is a cheesemaker at Rapa- ; nui dairy factoi’y. Chamberlain is a Wanganui and Old Boys half-back, who has played a game : or two for Wanganui. He works on his ! father’s farm at Fordell, and has a ; brother, M. Chamberlain, serving with ' the Expeditionary Force. Gill, who is playing his first season of 1 cricket in Wanganui, is a former Can- j terbury ancl Hutt Valley representative, i ' He is a master at St. George’s School. !