Unusual Football Incident

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 20 May 1941, Page 4

Unusual Football Incident

Diversion caused at a football j I match on Saturday provided an ex- j ! perience well out of the ordinary run j I of those where over-keenness of en- | thusiasm leads to a show of feeling j (reports “The Post”). In this case a | difference between two line umpires led i to their staging a sidelight of the kind I by which players, if they cannot restrain their feelings, receive marching ! orders. The referee was not at a loss ! for a decision in Saturday’s incident. I The line umpires, who had come to- : gether when a kick at goal was being ; taken, were ordered off! Late Lord Auckland I Sent not long before its writer, Lord ■ Auckland, was killed in the big Ger- ' man air raid on London on 16th April, a letter has been received by the J Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis. In it Lord Auckand referred with eni thusiasm to the work of New Zealand ilyc .‘s, and he also mentioned that he I and Lady Auckland hoped to visit the Dominion after the v/ar. “Your boys i are doing wonderfully well over here,” j Lord Auckland said. “Some of them i were in my wing in France during the j early part of the war, including the | famous ‘Cobber’ Kain. It was a great i pity he was killed. He was a splendid | boy in every way.” Lord Auckland j sjid for the last five months in France jhe svas one of the assistant air at- ! taches in Paris. Finally he drove out j through Spain and Portugal and put Lady Auckland on the clipper from ; Lisbon to New York and his mother i or. a ship for Calcutta. “Everything l is going splendidly for us, and I am I I sure it will continue to do so,” Lord i Auckland concluded. Blood for the Wounded Bottles similar to ordinary milk . bottles were being used for storing and transporting blood in England, said Dr. 1 V. E Cable at the annual meeting of ! the Dunedin Voluntary Blood Trans- [ fusion Society (reports the “Otago l Daily Times”). The bottles were of a standard size had ordinary alum- ! inium screw-tops, and they were car- ! ried in metal containers, which usually . held four or eight bottles. A mobile j blood transfusion squad had been form- , ed, and it was sent to places where 1 i heavy casualties had occurred, or where people had been imprisoned be- [ neath fallen masonry. Dr. Cable add- , ed that, after the evacuation of Dunkirk, blood donors had been working throughout the day, not only for the British soldiers, but for all the wounded members of the Allied Forces. Women and Blitz Two reported sayings of London women in regard to the war were detailed by Dr. L. H. Hough, the American theologian, in an address at a luncheon in Auckland. A good example of British aplomb, said Dr. Hough, was the woman who, when asked how she got on in an air raid, replied, “I reads my Bible, I says my prayers, and then I says ‘To ’ell with ’ltler,’ and goes to sleep.” The fine art of understatement, he added, was displayed by another woman in mention- > ing the satisfaction sh : got out of her little radio set: “I like to listen to Mr Winston because he seems so interested in the war.” I _____