SOUTH OTAGO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21054, 17 June 1930, Page 14

SOUTH OTAGO.

BAICLUTHA DISTRICT NEWS. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) I BALCLtA’HA, June IC. WINTER GAMES. ■ Football in- South Otago has been givena holiday for the nonce. No matches were played on Saturday, and it will be the same next Saturday (the day of the test match ’with the Britons in Dunedin). The ■game has been languishing in the country districts this season, but it is expected that it will experience a revival after the 21st. The expectation appears tb be well founded. On Saturday .the Balclutha ladies’ hockey ,-team.played a match against Kaitangata on the latter’s ground, the visitors winning by four goals to one goal. PROFITABLE CROPS, ; The weather has been wonderfully fine for; some days past, and stock being fattened .‘off. on turnips . have'. been doing remarkably well. A trip; through part ofvlnchclutha to-day revealed grass' paddocks that would be hard to better in the'spring so far as their feed value was concerned. In other frarts ibeef cattle were being topped off on turnips that were costing the owners of the stock (is 6d a week'per'-head. ' The'majority of the turnips, however, have been sold for eating off at around £l6 an acre,' Truly, Inehclutha has been well called “ The Garden o£ Otago.” ALARM IN TEA ROOMS. ■An unusual incident happened this afternoon at_ Peterson’s Central, Tea Rooms, Rubbish was being burned in the • fire in the main dining room, when the chimney caught fire, and there was a slight explosion. This wae followed by the toppling over of the chimney pot, which fell 1 clean through a glass skyUght on to one of the email tables below, jFortuna^tely no one __was sitting at the table dt the time, of "the consequences might have been The glass top: of the table was smashed, and a small splinter struck Mrs Petereon on the head, inflicting a slight cut. The fire brigade was quickly on the scene, but its services were not required. ,