ALEXANDRA NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20958, 22 February 1930, Page 20

ALEXANDRA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) ALEXANDRA, February 20 LAWN TENNIS.

I *. ttf jiS, 0 ” “I .SfVapW “ DWioa'Kfelig' ol * *» “™ 6. ?P^l eS '7\ Co ,“ rt J. Hannay » A. Pollock 5. R. Johnstone 9: F inS o * Cowie 9: F - LaWi

Georfre and Miss Gecige 6, Miss Keddell and Mrs Belcher ji.s2.Xtt an!W nd o. Doaaldsjn 6 ’ Men’s Doubles.—Court and Pollock 2, Johnstone and Hannay 8; Thompson and L aloh 6, Cowie and Hewitt 9. Mixed Doubles-Soi-rt and Mrs George 1, Hannay and Miss Keddell 9; Pollock and Miss Wright 9, Cowie and. Mrs Beler 8; Lalolj and Miss Donaldson 9, dcwitt and Miss Love 6 Totals: Roxburgh 9 sets (89 games); Alexandra, 7 seta (92 games). Roxburgh thus wins the southern section.

Next Saturday thi Vincent tournament will, be held at Clyde, and the fob lowing Saturday the local club will hold a Yankee tournament. BOWLING.

i Banfurlj' rink visited Alexandra and played the holders rop the Jolly Cup, but were unsuccessful, Alexandra winning by a - fair . mar Kl ll of points. Last Friday night four members of the Alexandra Club (Messrs Dobbie, Gardner, Hewitt, and Morrell) left for Stirling, and took part in the South Otago competition on

Saturday. The scores in the three games played were: —Pryde 20. Hewitt 14; Marshall 9, Hewitt 14; Armstrong 15. Hewitt 23. A Milton rink was successful in winning the competition. SWIMMING CARNIVAL. Last Thursday ■ night the local Swimming Club held a most successful illuminated swimming carnival. The evening was perfect, and the events were run off in good time. The following are the results:— , Primary Schoolboys’ Race. One length. C. Sorrell 1, E. Vallance 2. Primary Schoolgirls' Race, One length. J. Hesson 1, G. Flannery 2. Secondary Boys’ Race. One length.— T. Campbell 1, E. Flannery 2. Secondary Girls’ Race. One length.— P. Hesson 1, I. Rolands 2. Boys' Neat Dire. —B. Flannery 1, T. Campbell 2, J. Lunn 3. Cubs’ Race. One length.—A. Lindup 1. N Pierce 2. Girls’ Neat Dive.—N. Beilby 1, I. Rolands 2. Men’s Handicap. One length.—R. Wishart 1. E. Lawry 2. Ladies’ Handicap. One length.—Mis.? F. Bnngans 1, Miss N. Beilby 2. Alsu s Neat Dive.~*J. Duncan 1, W. Watts 2. _ Ladies’ Neat Dive.—Miss M. Grant 1,1. Rolands 2. Men's Long Under Water Swim.—E. Lawry 1, L. Hunt 2. In this event the winner swam a length and a-quarter before coming to the surface. Neat Dive, off 10ft.—R. Curtis 1. E, Lawry 2 Cigarette Race.—J. Duncan was the only competitor to finish with hia cigarette alight, Dive.—E. Lawry I,' H. GrenMen’s 100 Yards Breaststroke.—C. Lewis 1, H. Grenfell 2. Mixed Relay.—Alexandra team (Misa H Gremlin)' MISS Beilby, E. Lawry, PERSONAL. ■o 4 assistant engineer, Public Works Department, is at present on annual leave. Mrs Borriman,. of Owaka, was on a v bnt to Alexandra this week. Mr F. Galley, of the Invercargill telephone exchange staff, has been transferred to Alexandra. . Mr and Mrs E. Pirie and Mrs J. Morrison, of Palmertson, who have been visiting the Lakes, spent a few days in Alexandra last week. Mr S. J. Pierce, of the telephone exchange staff, is at present an annual leave. .Miss E, Williams and Mr Len Mitchell,, of Middlemarch, passed through Alexandra to-day on their way to. the Lakes. Mr F. W. Lindup, engineer, Public Works Department, is at present in■ Dunedin attending the engineers’ conference. Mesdames James .Rivers, W. Duncan,' H. O’Kane, and N. Ruff, of the local croquet club, will be competing-in the Otago tournament next week. The, tragic death of Mr M. M*Lay, which occurred at Invercargill last week, came as a shock to the residents of Alex andra. The deceased was a native of Alexandra, and general sympathy is felt for his widow and child and his relatives who reside here.

Mr G. E. Richards is at present in Dunedin, and will not return until February 24. • - , ■ Mr Bodkin, M.P., left Alexandra tb> day for Wellington.