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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16651, 22 May 1928, Page 5

When it is a case of lost hall in a Irieket match six runs are added to the score, but no rule on the subject has been framed for football, perhaps for tbe reason that a much larger and softer ball is used, and it'is less likely to gP astray (says an Auckland paper). There was a genuine case of lost hall at Cai'lnw Park in the Newton-Vonsonby match. At the dose'of the game one'of the players took umbrage at something, and with a mighty kick sent the hall sailing high over the fence' into the Auckland Domain. In the gloaming some small boys searched long and industriously for the lost "wallaby," but without result;

An unusual letter came before the Upper Hull Borough Council the olhev night, when a letter was received Iron, •i ratepayer suggesting Ih'al he should present his sections to the council in lieu of rates owing. The letter read as follows :—""Re summons for rales which I. received to day, would yon accept the sections as payment for same? They are of no value to ine and they might be, of some value (o von for getting boulders and shingle as'(hat. is all there is left of thorn, the river having washed them all away before it changed its course. I,i tin- event of this not- being acceptable would yon advise me the best, way to get them taken off Hie rating roll, m there is nothing left to call 'sections?' The council decided to seek legal advice as to how the ratepayer could be relieved of his difficulties.