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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16772, 11 October 1928, Page 11

Kinks for Hub fours ou the Gisborne Bowling Club’s greens this season will be drawn on Ike same lines as rowing crews, according to the intimation given by Mr. 1. Stephenson, Hub president, in the course of his speech this afternoon, prior to liis declaring the season open. When the nominations gre received, the. skips will assemble, and the match committee will conduct the draw, the skips balloting for precedence in the choice of their respective threes; tho skip having last choice of the threes having first pick of the twos available. For the- selection of loads, there will be another ballot, ;pid when the draw is completed it is hoped that the fours will all be of reasonable standard, with no particularly strong or especially wen It combinations. This system of selection has obtained in the local rowing Hubs foe inany years, and on tin 1 whole lias worked out most satisfactorily; indeed, it is the one method short of handicapping by which crews cun be brought fairly closely together in the Hub racing. The innovation in tlk* Gisborne club probably is the result of recommendations by veteran oarsmen, of 'whom ;ho bowling Hub has a large number as members. An article in the August number of tho Contortii.nerv .hnnutl dealing with] ibe growth of the cocoa and chocolate trade slates that sci 1 consumption increased 79 per cent,, bole eon 1911 and 1926 as against an increase in tobacco of 44 per cent. The ini lease in the usage of cocoa and chocolate, in the United Kingdom in 1696 over tho average of 1911 to 1913 is given below, and is compared with the increase or decrease over the same period in certain other instances. The 1926 consumption compared with the average of 1911 to 1913, was as follows: Cocoa and eliocr. late, 79 per cent, increase; loliaero, 04 per eenf. .increase; tea, 36 per cent, increase; coffee, 26 per cent, increase; sugar, half per cent, increase; be*;!', 39 per rent, decrease. This growth of the. cocoa and chocolate trade, it is pointed out, has been made during t.lie past- 15 years in (lie face of the 'difficulties of the Great War and of the post war slump in the national and international trade, *