SOUTH OTAGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 12

SOUTH OTAGO

MILTON Bowling A team from Stirling Club will visit Milton to-morrow afternoon to play an interclub fixture against the local club and the listed match against Warepa on the local green has been postponed. Other fixtures to-morrow are the combined match Balclutha v. Owaka and Benhar. at Balclutha. Kaitangata has fhe bye. Personal Mr C. J. Elder, who has been connected with the Milton Post Office for about three years as telegraphist, is under orders to transfer to the Cromwell office.

Welcome Rains The unusually prolonged spell of dry weather in the Milton district, which was having a detrimental effect on pastures and retarding the growth of crops, has been broken this week. Welcome showers fell during Tuesday and Wednesday nights, which revived the growing crops. A heavy downpour of rain commenced shortly before 2 p.m. yesterday and continued throughout the afternoon. The rainfall will be welcomed by farmers and gardeners.

Lawn Tennis The following team will represent St. Mary's Club in the match against Milburn on the latter’s courts to-mor-row afternoon: —J. McMurtrie, J Floyd, V. McMenamin. Dowdall, Misses B. Hassett, A. Hassett, D, Kreft, and F. Dowdall. Other C Grade club’s fixtures are Milton I v. Milton 11, Lovell’s Flat v. Tokoiti, at Lovell’s Flat. To-morrow is an off day for A Grade matches, and in the South Otago Association’s B Grade competition the fixtures are: —Balclutha v. Clinton, at Clinton; Waiwera v. South Otago High School, at Waiwera; Kaitangata v. Benhar, at Kaitangata: Stirling, a bye.

Evening Sports Meeting Judging from the large attendance of spectators at the Toko Harrier and Amateur Athletic Club’s first evening sports meeting for the current season on Wednesday evening, public interest in amateur athletics shows encouraging signs of revival. The programme of field and track events resulted as follows;

75 Yards Flat Handicap.—First heat: J. Hand (6yds) 1, O. Holmes (7yds) 2, F. Corbett (scr) 3. Also started: A. L. Fagg (2yds) and R. Freeman (syds). Time, 8 l-ssec. Second heat: R. Fraser (7yds) 1, R. McCallum (7yds) 2, C. Keppel (Iyd) 3. Also started: A. Martin (3yds) and R. Carruthers (4yds). Final: R. Fraser .1, J. Hand 2, R. McCallum and O. Holmes dead heat for third place. Time, 8 l-ssec. Half Mile Flat Handicap.—A. L. Fagg (10yds) 1, C. Keppel (15yds) 2, A. Martin (25yds) 3. Four others competed. Time, 2min 13 l-ssec. Long Jump.—R. McCallum (2ft 6in handicap), 19ft lin, 1; A. Martin '(lft), 18ft 4Jin. 2; R. Carruthers (Ift 6in), 17ft lOin, 3. Six others competed. Throwing the Discus.—R. Carruthers (25ft handicap), 92ft, 1; A. Martin (25ft), 83ft 3in, 2; R. Morgan (30ft), 80ft 6in, 3. Two others competed. Ladies’ 75 Yards Flat Handicap.— First heat: B. Kreft (scr) 1, M. Millar (6yds) 2, L. McKeach (syds) 3. Second heat: M. Lillicrapp (3yds) 1, J. Shaw (9yds) 2, H. Tye (syds) 3. Final: M. Lillicrapp 1, B. Kreft 2, H. Tye 3. The heats were run in 9 3-ssec and final in 9 l-ssec.

Ladies’ High Jump.—L. Martin (scr), 4ft 4jin, 1; B. Fagg (6in), 4ft 4in, 2; H. Mclntyre (scr), 4ft lin, 3. In addition to the foregmng a programme of races was carried out for pupils of the primary department of the Toko High School, also Tokoiti School and the Dominican Convent School, for which trophies will be awarded by the Athletic Club for most points gained by pupils of each school on the season’s series of evening sports.

BALCLUTHA Fire Brigade Competition In the annual competition among local fire brigadesmen the various events resulted: —Five-men event — Firemen A. Stewart, R. Stewart, G. Munro, B. Gold, and N, Briscoe, 1; Firemen T. Gold, A. Low, I. Stewart, E. Morris, and J. Morris, 2. Threemen event —Firemen B. Gold, A. Stewart, and R. Stewart, 1; Firemen I. Stewart, T. Gold, and A. Low, 2; Firemen E. Morris. J. Morris, and N. Briscoe, 3. Two-men event—Firemen T. Gold and A. Low, 1; Firemen A. Stewart and B. Gold, 2; Firemen I. Stewart and R. Stewart. 3. One-man event-r-Fireman N. Briscoe 1, Fireman R. Stewart 2. Fireman A. Low 3. Points were allotted to individual competitors, and Fireman R. Stewart won. the Saxton Shield with 45 points. Firemen J. R. Gold and A. Stewart being equal for second with 41 points each. ) Cricket Fixtures for to-morrow are as follows: —A Grade: Balclutha v. Kaitangata, at Balclutha; Milton v. Owaka, at Milton. B Grade: Balclutha v. Benhar, at High School Ground: High School v. Owaka, at Owaka; Waiwera v. Lawrence, at Lawrence: Milton, a bye. Schools’ Reopening Owaka and district schools that were closed on account of infantile paralysis will be reopened on Monday. Personal Old residents of Balclutha, Mr and Mrs Simon Wright, left this week to take up their residence in Dunedin. Sale of Sections Considerable interest is being taken in the sale of borough sections at North Balclutha. to be held at Messrs Nimmo and Blair’s auction rooms this evening. There are 13 sections in all, and the borough is selling the freehold in order to meet a demand for building sites. Owaka Court There were no police cases at a short sitting of the Owaka Court, held yesterday before Mr H. J. Dixon, S.M. Two defended civil cases were adjourned.