FURTHER HONOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27572, 14 December 1950, Page 5

FURTHER HONOURS

Oamaru Sporting Family

The Nuttall family, of Oamaru, has again come to the fore in sportmg circles. Some months ago, lan Nuttall was selected as an emergency for the South Island Rugby team against the North Island at Auckland. A member of the Excelsior Football Club, he has represented North Otago at Rugby for several seasons, writes our North Otago Rugby correspondent. He has played cricket, is a keen sqjuash racquets player, and is also a member of the Oamaru Yacht and Power Boat Club, Last Saturday, he and his brother, Keith, secured a second place at the yachting regatta between the Oamaru and Timaru clubs.

Latest honours to be gained by this sporting family is the selection of Miss Ngaire Nuttall as a New Zealand representative in softball. On several occasions Miss Nuttall has represented the Oamaru Amateur Swimming Club with success at the Country clubs championships and has also swum for Otago against Southland. She has represented North Otago in the Otago track and field championships. Keith Nuttall was a North Otago Rugby representative last season and Colin Nuttall has played in North Otago junior Rugby teams. The youngest of the family, Noel, is an/up and coming footballer.

PAKISTAN HOCKEY TEAM’S VISIT

There will be fejoicing among followers of hockey in New Zealand if the New Zealand Hockey Association s invitation to the Pakistan Hockey Federation to send a team to New Zealand in 1951 is accepted. It was at firsft intended to arrange a tour by a Pakistan services team, but because of the present world situation, the New Zealand association was advised that it would be impossible to spare members of the forces for the suggested tour. Pakistan reached the semi-finals of the last Olympic Games, the team being beaten by Great Britain, 2—nil. In November of this year, Pakistan sent a team to the international tournament at Barcelona. It is entering a team for the 1952 Olympic Games at Helsinki.

The federation has been in existence only since 1948, when it was founded following the partition of India. Since that time Pakistan .has lost only two international matches, one to Great Britain and one to Holland, which finished third in the Olympic Games

Fund-raising Effort

Novel and unusual items have been a feature of the Otago Ladies’ Amateur Athletic Club’s Queen Carnival to date, and next Saturday night it is proposed to hold a “hayride.” A well known New Zealand champion field athlete has been engaged to drive “ dobbin ” and the wagon to an unknown destination, where a barbecue supper will be organised.