NORTH OTAGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23223, 22 June 1937, Page 13

NORTH OTAGO

ACTIVITIES OF THE DISTRICT

(FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

BASKETBALL COMPETITION MATCHES The competition matches were advanced a further stage on Saturday in beautiful weather. The best game was that between Oamaru I and Star I, in which the result was a draw, 11 all. In the first half Star definitely had the advantage, but Oamaru in the second spell quickened the pace and played a much-improved game. Had they played as well as they did the previous Saturday against Waitakl, the result on Saturday would have been different. On the play, however, Star would have been unlucky to lose. The opening of the game was slow and the shooting uncertain. The combination of the Oamaru forwards was being upset by the strong defence of Star, so that, although the Oamaru centres were feeding their forwards well with the ball, the efforts of the latter were often frustrated. Owing to the Star centres combining well and sending the ball frequently to the Star goal, the half-time score was 9—2 in Star’s favour. After the opening of the

second spell, the ball travelled up and down without any result. At last the steady passing on the part of Oamaru was rewarded by a goal. This was succeeded by another. For a time the Oamaru centres were having the advantage of the game, but the forwards, in attempting to shoot from too great a distance, were missing good opportunities. Star then had the ball for a time, but their forwards were unable to net. Daphne Chilcott was playing a good defensive game for Oamaru. As a result of short, snappy passes on the part of Oamaru, the game was speeded up, and they added seven goals to their score before Star had any opportunity of shooting. In the closing stages of the game both sides fought hard, and by steady play Oamaru brought the score to 11 all. It is Interesting to note that' in the first half Star shot nine goals to Oamaru’s two, while in the second spell these figures were reversed. For Oamaru the goals were shot by the following:—Audrey M’Kenzie (5). Anetta Blyth (3). Helen Webster (3). Star’s goals were shot by Blanche Davey (4), Bessie Warnock (4), D. Crawshaw (3). The game was controlled by Miss C. Miller, The second A grade game was between Waitaki II and Oamaru 11. These teams were evenly matched. At half time School led by 11—8. In the second spell the passing was very good and both teams held an even share of the ball. The game ended in Waitaki’s favour 20—15. Miss M. S. Fitzgerald controlled the game. The third A grade game was won by default by Waitak: I from J. R. M’Kenzie’s, Ltd. During the week Waitaki I defeated Waitaki II by 27 to fl. The following A Grade players are asked to attend a representative practice in the Drill Hall to-night:—For-wards—lsabel Gunn (Waitaki), Helen Webster (Oamaru), Anetta Blyth (Oamaru), Audrey M’Kenzie (Oamaru); centres—JoyceMartyn (Waitaki), Iva Hayes (J. R. M’Kenzie’s, Ltd.), Elizabeth Peterson (Oamaru), Joyce Fraser (Oamaru), Edna Cockburn (Oamaru); defence—Mary Faulkner (Waitaki), Jessie Borrie (Waitaki), Cora Minty (Star), Shirley Colclough (Star). B GRADE RESULTS Airedale 19, Star II 11. Papakaio 27, Waitaki 5. Star I 8, Ardgowan 4. The referees were Misses O, Irwin, Prebble, and Hayes. RUGBY UNION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

The weekly meeting of the Management Committee of the North Otago Rugby Union was held last night. The president (Mr G. Knowles) occupied the chair.

The following regradings were approved: Waitaki—M’Gregor, Thomas and Dick, from Junior to Third Grade; Kirker, Swan and Heal, from Third to Fourth Grade, Athletic—L. Ross, Junior to Fourth Grade; B, Godsell, Junior to Third Grade,

The Waitaki Boys’ High School asked for permission to play the following annual school fixtures: v. Southland, at Invercargill, July 6; v. St. Kevin’s, at Waitaki, July 15; v. Timaru, at Timaru, July 24; v. Christchurch, at Oamaru, August 4.—Granted. The permission was also granted the School to use the Show Grounds for the match against Christchurch. St. Kevin’s College wrote asking for permission to play the following matches: v. Walmate, at Redcastle, on June 23; v. King’s College, at Dunedin, June 30; v. M’Glashan College, at Redcastle, July 7; v. Waitaki, at Waitaki, July 15. —Granted. The college also asked for referees for the games played locally.—Referred to the Referees’ Association,

The Marlborough Union wrote confirming September 22 as the date for a match against North Otago. This date would be tentative in view of the possibility of Marlborough not coming south if Otago were beaten in the Ranfurly Shield match previous to that date.

The Ashburton Union wrote asking whether the match against North Otago at Ashburton could be transferred from September to July—lt was agreed to advise the. Ashburton Union that the local union could not accede to this request owing to the fact that Its itinerary was already full. The Waitaki Sub-union applied for the postponement of the Town v. Country match in the country from July 3 until July 10 owing to the race meeting on July 3.—lt was agreed that the local union could not accede to the request. * DRAW FOR SATURDAY

The draw for Saturday is as follows:

Seniors.—Old Boys v. Excelsior, at Oval No. 1 (Mr W. May); Athletic v. Maheno, at Oval, at 2.30 (Mr J. Stewart). Juniors—Old Boys v. Athletic, at No. 2 ground, at 2.30 (Mr J. Macmillan); Excelsior v. Maheno, at No. 3, at 2,30 (Mr R. Morris); Waitaki, a bye. Third Grade. —Old Boys v. Southern, at No. 2 ground, at 1.15 (Mr J. May); Waitaki v. St. Kevin’s, at St, Kevin’s, at 1.15 (Mr W. Kearns); Athletic, a bye. Fourth Grade.—Athletic A v. St. Kevin’s, at St. Kevin’s No. 2 (Mr W. Bee); Waitaki A v. Athletic B, at No. 3 ground, at 1.15 (Mr R. Hedges); Waitaki B v. Excelsior, at No. 4 ground, at I. (Mr T. Cahill). Fifth Grade.—Waitaki C v. St. Kevin’s, at St. Kevin’s, at 1.15 (Mr C. Campbell); Waitaki A v. Waitaki B, during the week. Line Umpires.—Oval, at 1.15, Messrs C, Crone and A. Keith; Oval, at 2.30, Messrs J. Palmer and L. Smith; No. 2 ground, at 1.15, Messrs R. Farrant and H. Cross; No. 2 ground, at 2.30, Messrs J, Kinder and L. Wooton. TOWN TEAM The following Town team has been selected to represent Town against Country on July 3;— Forwards—J. Easton, Carrington, K. Wilson, Woods, Johnston, Low, Hodge. A. Brown: backs—Hunt, J. Dwyer. M’Laren, Gray, Papps, Mason, S. Easton. Emergencies: Forwards, Ones, Watt; backs, Borrie, Gillies. G. Fordo was not available, as he has left the district. MINIATURE RIFLE SHOOTING ENFIELD CLUB The Enfield Club held its weekly shoot on Saturday night, W. Allan winning the rifle button and G. Yuill the handicap button. The following are some of the highest scores:—W. Allan 78-4—Bo, J. Kerin 77-4-3—Bo. B. A. Johnston 77—4—80, G. Yuill 75—5 80, N. Allan 75—7 —80, A. Anderson 75 —4—79, D. Anderson 72—7—79, J. Allan 74 —3—77, A. H. Gibson 75, T. C. Martin 70—5—75, W. Fallon 71—3—74. In a friendly match between Weston and Awamoko, fired on the latter's range, Awamoko secured a win by a, margin of 10 points. Scores: Awamoko— S. Odoll 79, L. Brunton 79, C. Brunton 78, A. Knight 78, W. Gibson 77, J. Gibson 77, T. M’Phce 77. D. Borrie 77, A. Winchester 77, L. Willetts 76, D. Willetts 76, J. Dickson 70, J. Borrie 61. Total. 982. Weston: L, Clark 78, A. M’Naughton 78, B. Brightwell 78, A. Howell 78, B. Campbell 78, G. Campbell 78, W. Welsh 77, W. Laney 76, W. Cottingham 74, A. Harvey 73. J. Howell 72, W. Sewell 69, J. Robertson 63. Total, 972.

RUGBY FOOTBALL WAITAKI SUB-UNION A Possible-Probables trial match will be played on Saturday under the control of the Waitaki Sub-union, the following players being selected: — Probables.—Full-back, Dovey; threequarters M’Kenzie, Ledingham, M’Lean; five-eighths, L. Peterson, T. Wills; half-back, Ceasar; forwards— Strachan, Scott, Thompson (front row), D. Watson, J. Hedley, D. Grant, W. Hedley (second row), A. Grant (back). Possibles. —Full-back, Watson; threequarters—M’Kinnon, J. Dovey, J. Russell: five-eighths, J. Collins, Howard: half-back, Card; forwards—R. Hampton, Stainger, L. Ross (front row), D. Hampton, G. Smith, J. Daly, A, Card (second row), D. Smith (back). Emergencies for both sides: Forwards —J. Wills, M’Cabe, N. Johnston, J. Card; backs—T. Watson, D. Peterson, G. Collins, G. Hampton. KINEMA ENTERTAINMENTS MAJESTIC THEATRE "Lloyds of London" concludes its successful extended season to-night. To-morrow night Bobby Breen appears in “Let’s Sing Again." Bobby has been acclaimed the wonder of the entertainment field to-day. Nature has endowed him with the lyric tenor voice which Enrico Caruso possessed when he was Bobby’s age. With this remarkable gift of vocal chords, Bobby can sing melodies ranging from operatic arias to simple lullabies, a fact he reveals in the half-dozen classical tunes, folk songs, and popular melodies he vocalises in "Let’s Sing Again.” Here he is seen as a runaway orphan who is tutored in singing by a tent show handyman. The story builds with mounting suspense to a powerful climax wherein Bobby is reunited with his father through the medium both love so well—music. OPERA HOUSE Victor M’Laglen, winner of the last academy award for his outstanding screen performance, is the star of Universal’s “ The Magnificent Brute,” which shows to-night and Wednesday. The screen story relates the adventures of a great big fellow, attractive to women, who has a weakness for blondes. He is a giant of a man, who turns out steel for a living while he lets the girl he loves steal away his judgment He reaches a point where he is torn between two women, and the solution of his dilemma provides an Intense climax. Binnie Barnes is delightful as the girl that leads him a merry chase, while Jean Dixon is portrayed as a glamorous widow, and between them both Victor M’Laglen is kept very busy. William Hall, tall and handsome, Is seen as the menace, and Henry Armetta contributes his humorous interpretation to the picture. Others in the cast are Billy Burrud and Edward Norris. “The Magnificent Brute” presents situations never before filmed. The tremendous sweep and power of men making steel in settings that glow and flame is Impressed with unusual photography. W.E.A. CLASS LECTURE ON “HEREDITY” If the public find some of the most respectable citizens of Oamaru tossing up pennies do not at once jump to the conclusion that they have started on the downward path and are playing “ two up.” They are most likely students of the W.E.A. psychology class testing the theory of chance as used in the lecture on heredity given this week.

Mr Parkyn explained that when two germ cells from the male and female unite into one fertilised egg cell, it was then and there determined whether the resultant Individual would be male or female, tall or short, clear or stupid. Every possibility or potentiality, that the adult human being would display was present In the fertilised cell. Thus heredity might be called the sum total of characteristics potentially present in the fertilised cell. It must be realised that these were potentialities and environment might nave an Influence, but that was to be dealt with in the next lecture. What really happened was that the upper limits were settled.

There were two chief laws of heredity. The first that like tended to beget like. They all knew that cats had kittens, dogs‘had pups, and that all young creatures resembled their parents more than other people’s. The reason for this was that the germ cell from each parent, had developed straight from the egg cell from which the parents themselves developed; for when the egg cell commenced to grow part of It was immediately laid aside to be the germ cells of the new adult. Thus really a child was as old as his parent, for while his parent’s body was developing, part of it was being kept aside to be the reproductive cells which became the starting point of the child. The second law was that variations did occur. Children were never exactly like their parents. Sometimes the differences were great, as when brown-eyed parents had blue-eyed children, or when intelligent parents had feeble-minded children. Some variations were due to the shuffling of the parts of the two germ cells at the time of fertilisation. The cells in the human body each had 48 parts, and just before fertilisation occurred the germ cells of the male and female split so that each germ cell had only 24 parts. Thus when the germ cells came together there were the required 48 parts again. Now it was when the germ cells split in halves that the shuffling occurred, for out of, say, 1,000,000 germ cells, no two would split into the same kind of halves. When one of these half cells mingled with one from the other parent, then a very different individual would be produced from what his parents were. Some characteristics were dominant —i.e., if a potential brown eye characteristic mingled with a blue the result was brown, but if the parents in some past generations had potential blue characteristics and by chance it mingled with a potential blue characteristic from the other parent dated back generations, they might find two brown-eyed parents with a blue-eyed child. These variations followed* certain laws. If a large number of people were measured for any characteristic, the measurements would be spread not according to the law of chance. That was. they tended to cluster round the average. In height, weight, intelligence. the majority of ”“ople were found near the j average measurement, with a few above and b£low the average. It was called the law of chance because it was what happened when they tossed, say, two pennies up in the air 100 times. These characteristics also followed the law of regression, which meant that in successive generations characteristics tended to become average. That was, on the whole tall parents tended to have children slightly shorter than themselves,. and vice versa. With mixed marriages all their faculties tended to be levelled up or down to the average. The lecturer illustrated by means of some very interesting and many points came up for discussion by the class. PERSONAL New Club Hotel.—Mr and Mrs R. W. Stacpoole (Cromwell); Mr and Mrs R. W. Wallace, Mr and Mrs A. S. Wallace (Te Awamutu): Mr G. Anderson, Mr R. E. Crawford, Mr .1. Brown <Dunedin); Mr H. C. Fabling (Christchurch-): Mr M. J. Crosgrave (Invercargill); Mr N. Armstrong, Mr G. Miller (Timaru): Mr J. Hewitt (Ashburton),

HOCKEY

REPRESENTATIVE TEAM The following players will represent North Otago against ?outhland at Invercargill on Saturday next:—Blair, Rawson, Sherwin, Cox, Hore, Hedges, Grant, Clark, Besvvick, Taylor, Thorpe; emergency, Richardson. The manager will be Mr E. H. Coker and the referee Mr T. W. Jacobs. Cars will leave Oamaru at 5.30 a.m. on Saturday. GENERAL NEWS Boxing patrons are reminded not to forget the professional contest between those two well-known welter-weights, Stan Jenkin, of Oamaru, and “Tiger” Eddington, of Timaru, which will take place in the Opera House on Thursday night. Eddington has so far won all his professional contests, but he will find hard opposition in Jenkin, who is at present fighting at the top of his form. It should be a spectacular bout, with plenty of action that so delights the crowd. Excellent supporting bouts have been arranged. Attention is drawn to the admission charges as advertised in this issue. Messrs J. D. Familton and Sons, acting under instructions from the Public Trustee as executor of the will of John Taylor, will offer by public auction a five-roomed stone building at their rooms on July 2, at 2 p.m. Particulars are given in the advertisement in this issue. During last week the Oamaru Borough Council engaged 39 men under No. 5 scheme, and the amount paid out in wages was £59 14s 7d. Judging of the entries in field competitions will be carried out by officers of the Agriculture Department this week as indicated in the advertisement. Definite times cannot be given beyond the time of starting each day, but most of the entries are conveniently situated. The Otago Mortgagors’ Commission (Rural) will commence a sitting in Oamaru to-day and it Is expected that the South Canterbury Commission (Urban) will hold a sitting in Oamaru next week, PORT OF OAMARU High Water. —June 22: 1.17 a.m. and 1.40 p.m. The Karetu, from Newcastle, Sydney and Hobart, via ports, is due about Friday. June 25, for discharge at Oamaru.

The Waipahl will load about Tuesday, June 29, for Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth, via Timaru and Lyttelton. The Wainui will load on Wednesday for Wellington, Nppier and Gisborne, via ports. The Waimana is due at Oamaru about- August 15 from Bluff + o load meat and general cargo for London.