WOUNDED IN WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24972, 15 August 1944, Page 4

WOUNDED IN WAR

WELL-KNOWN NAMES 1 FOOTBALL AND CRICKET Three prominent New Zealand sportsmen are included in yesterday's casualty list. Reported wounded for the second time, Temporary-Major W. N. Carson, M.C., has represented New 'Aoa- 1 land at both Rugby and cricket. Ho c was first wounded in the campaign in ' North Africa last year, when he was decorated. Major Carson was born in c Gisborne, and was educated at the Gis- ' borne High School. He played cricket and Rugb.v for Poverty Bay before coin- ! ing to Auckland to join the stall' of a 1 city warehouse. As a member of the F.den Cricket Club lie quickly gained Auckland representative honours. In his second innings in Plunket Shield cricket he scored 290 runs in less than an afternoon against Otago at Carisbrook. In partnership with P. F. Whitelaw, who made 190, Carson added 415 runs to Auckland's total and this stands as a Plunket Shield record. Later in the same season Car- | son scored 191 against Wellington, and , in all compiled 500 runs in Shield ; matches, a feat accomplished by only i two other batsmen. Ho was a member : of the New Zealand team which toured : Knglnnd in 1937. As a Rugby footballer, Carson played toi the Ponsonby Club and his dashing : forward displays soon gained liini A tick- j land representative honours. He played [ for the North Island and visited A us- . tralia with tho New Zealand team in 1938.

Lance-Corporal J. R. Lamason, j eported wounded, has represented NY« -11. mgton at both Rugby and cricket, b nil ho was also a member of the New 'I ervland cricket team which toured laud in 1937. He was one of tho best ail-round players Wellington has produced for some years, being an ajj gressive type of batsman, a medium pace spin bowler, and an excellent- field. Lamnso.i captained Wellington several years and was also sole se lector. He was captain of the Well lington Rngb.v team and a most accuratf o gonlkicker. He married Miss 1. Pic kering, a New Zealand hockey represjf mtative and a Wellington cricket repress ntative. Lieutenant L. W. Col more-V /(lliams. reported wounded, cams to t t tick land from Dargaville. He played £ jr North Auckland against the Sou'u? -i African team. While a member of the Auckland | Teachers' Training College f if teen he gained Auckland representatn e honours in HMO. Lieutenant Colnmif e-William.s played in several matches in V oho Middle Last. LAUNCH AGROUND FOOTBALLERS' MI S PORTUNE (0.c.) THA.M ES. Monday j An unfortunate experiej ice befel the | members of the Orakei ] ootball team I which was to have playq' J a Thames ! team on Saturday. Bccaui e of transport | restrictions, the boys <hx ided to make j the trip by launch and I <3l t Auckland at j 7.15 on Saturday mortify :g. Because of ! delay at the heads they'? missed the tide jat Thames and ran ag; -ound on the I mud. i There the launch had' to remain until , li p.m., when it was poj sible to make a | landing at Kopu. Tho team, many ol j whom had been withon it food all "day, ! was entertained by tho Thames Rugby Union. It was the fii7 t 1 passenger trip to have been made io Thames from Auckland for many yea „,r.s. The launcl; had to return early a"C?st morning and no match was played. EXPLOSION IN FIRE YOUNG BOY ( I NJ URED (P.A.) OAXX! JVIKKE. Monday While playing near o small fire in tin backyard at his h'Oin e yesterday afternoon the eight-yoar-i »ld son of Mr H A. Henderson, first a distant teacher at the Dannevirke High School, was struck in the chest as the result of an explosion in the fire,fl,fie cause of which is at present unlit town. The lad is now in hospital, but h j.i injuries have not vet been diagnosed!.' I'ETROL AN 0 RUBBER SERIOUS SUPI 'LY POSITION "The petrol sit-in* ti 'jon is as serious a< it ever was and tll/j-- rubber supply position also is extreny> difficult and shows no sign of said the acting-dis-trict officer of f lie Transport Department in Aucklay.d, " 51 r N. C. Angus, in opposing an app ( J ieati km for an extension of the Hospital Bus ( }o. service to Green Lane before I lie .!/ etropolitan Licensing Authority yesterds y. "The position c >!f petrol and rubber is still giving verjj grave concern," said Mr Angus. "In vie ir of this any applications for exteusig .'>y of bus services or other means iif transport involving petrol and ruMier must lie regarded as premature unless t iliey are directly connected with tlv'o w kr effort." Drastic reductioi is had been imposed on important prodi icing interests, such as co-opera t»ivo dairy companies, throughout if 10 in the interests of pctj rol and rubber conservation. Apart front , the direct extra consumption of potn '»] and rubber the extension of a bus route which was parallel to a train ro «te would have embarrassing rcpero .issions on conservation schemes alrtwdv in operation. Some moil tfis ago tho department had been led to:' believe that the petrol position was ea| sjngj and had made a few relaxations; tyntJi, later it was found the position wnl s jhtoW as supposed, added Mr Angus. MEET INGS AT MINES WOR KING TIME LOST Two sti mwork meetings occurred nt tho Glen flfton Collieries yesterday. At the Macdi.yiald mine the meeting lasted an hour and a-lialf, after which the men wcik k into the mine, but at Glen Al'ton t Jt |f, meeting lasted until 10.40 a.m., w/(j en a few men went to work, but th.o majority returned to their homes. ft is not known by the company wb: K the slopwork meetings were about. |( EENNESS TO FLY Typ-ie tl of the enthusiasm of members (of fthe Air Training Corps was a youth "F- j&m in a tramcar last evening study!n g a text-book on aerodynamics and y< >rkinE out problems in an exercise ljc ink. The student had been working i|i [the city all day, and was engageij/ 'in a last-minute revision of the study - '-he had done in the past six inontl j? before sitting for a written exainiii! [Aitm last night. He said that if he was p fliccossfiil in passing the pre-entry couijs j?, ho would be given an earlier opppi p unity of learning to fly after he joinc J tho Air Force.