LIQUOR ON BOWLING GREENS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13298, 6 February 1914, Page 7

LIQUOR ON BOWLING GREENS.

ENTERTAINING VISITORS. AUSTRALIANS AND A "DRY" GIIEEN. (Special to Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A discussion at the meeting of the Christchurch centre of tho Dominion Bowling Association took a somewhat unusual turn, when the question of the entertainment of the Australian bowlers was under consideration. The. executive committee, m the course of its report, stated that the second match with the visitors was proposed to be played on the Opawa Club s green. The vice-pre-sident of that club Jiad offered to_ entertain the visitors, and the executive recommended that the offer be accepted. One delegate mentioned that the Opawa Bowling Club had a rule to the effect that no liquor was allowed to be taken on the green, but he did not want the Australians to regard the Canterbury bowlers as "wowsers." The chairman : You must not use that term. The delegate : Well, I know that there are not many wowsers amongst the Australians. Mr Mat. Barnett said he was against tho -rule of the Opawa Club. "Our visitors won't get proper entertainment there," he continued. "I want to move that they can get proper entertainment. I move that, the match be played on the Canterbury Club's green." Mr MacDougall seconded the motion. Mr Bourne said he thought that the Opawa Club members might regard that as an insult. He moved that the matter be referred back to the executive. Mr Chegwin seconded the amendment. t -■■ The chairman :* Is it essential, for the proper entertainment of our visitors, to have liquor on the green? . ' Mr Barnett : Yes, I thin"k it is. Someone said that the visitors would have to put up with cold tea at Opawa. • ' Another speaker said that they would get hot tea. Mr Brown : I think alt the Australians drink tea. Mr Barnett : They will have to if they cannot get anything else. Dr. Sandstein said that as the Opawa .Club had offered to entertain their visitors, he thought they icould be relied upon to do so properly. > He wanted to know if this question _of entertainment of visitors had been raised m connection with other sports. Mr Baruett, said he took exception to Dr. Sandstein's remarks. ' He did not know anything about the sports bodies' entertainments, but he thought that Canterbury bowlers should entertain their visitors properly. Mr Chegwin : The Opawa Club is going to do the entertaining/not we. Mr Bourne said he would withdraw his , amendment and support Mr Barnett's motion. . He did not . like to go against the executive, but he felt very strongly on the matter, and he wanted to s see their visitors entertained properly. k , Mr McDougali said he would support Mr Barnett for the credit ,of Canterbury bowlers. Wherever they went they were always royally entertained. No limit should bo placed on what any man was going to consume. In Australia his difficulty as a bowler had been m refusing hospitality. Australian bowlers were accustomed to liquor. The secretary : The Opawa Club haß offered to entertain the visitors, and if the president is notified of. -this difference, it is sfoing to creat« some disturbance, and it may be hard to heal the breach. s Tho chairman: We cannot tell whether the Opawa Club is going to adhere m this case to their- rule against liquor. Mr Chegwin : The honor of this centre and the Canterbury bowlers -is at stake if we don't entertain our visitors m a proper manner. The chairman : I don't think our honor is at stake at all. The. motion, on being put, was lost, and the report of the executive was adopted. >fr MacDougall teaid he hoped the expression of the minority would be conveyed to the president of the Opawa Club. ■!■••,.- The chairman : They will hear about it all right.