VICTORIA VALLEY NOTES

Northland Age, Volume 26, Issue 9, 23 June 1926, Page 4

VICTORIA VALLEY NOTES

(Own Correspondent)

The Valley was the sports centre of the Northland on Saturday. In the morning, Valley school girls met Takahue at basketball, the scores being Valley 15 and Takahue 12. Shortly afterwards came the football match Valley school versus Peria—ten a side. Some of the Peria boys were rather on the small and youthful side. The Valley team was more even in age and weight and though Peria scored, the Valley won by a decided margin.' The visiting ladies’ basketball teams were Takahue, Peria, Oruru and Mangonni. This is Mangonui’s first appearance in the Valley Welcome to the White Kiwis of the far flung battlements of the ancient and historic town of the Big Shark. Haeremai! Bon Vive! Bona Vive! May we meet again.

Here’s also to the little Irish colleens of O’Ruru, to their neighbours of Peria and to our neighbours the T.B.C. The basketball scores show some very even games. Oruru 16 . Takahue 12 Peria 7 Valley 6 Valley 15 Oruru 6 Valley 11 Mangonui 4 Mangonui It Takahue 2 Peria 14 Takahue 6 A senior football match Waipapakauri versus Valley resulted in a win for the Valley by 5 to 3. What a flow of language there is in Waipapakauri (in the word itself t mean). Its concatenation of pollysyabic enphonistics, or in other words, a big mouthful, reminds one of “Whangamotnona,” “Waipukurau,” or that other blessed word, Mesopotamia. As the new basketball ground has no space between it and the football ground, the basketball matches during the adult football match were played on the school

grounds. The Valley has had good luck i n weather for its sports this year, and Saturday was no exception.