QUEENSTOWN NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 11

QUEENSTOWN NOTES

(From Our Correspondent.) We have had a good touch of winter thus early in the season. There have been white frosts and ice. However, these conditions are fortunately not continuous, and a gooa deal of rain has fallen. As a rule it is fine overhead and visitors are able to get out and enjoy our vigorous climate. GOLFING SEASON. Members of the local Golf Club are now “getting into their stride” on the Frankton links. The attendance at the links on Wednesdays and Saturdays is quite up to last season, and there is a keenness which bids well for the future standard of play. The • club, or the individual members of same, have spent some time in improving the greens and fairways, and although not nearly approaching rhe condition of town courses, the keen golfer can always depend on a good afternoon’s sport. The club issue day, weekly or monthly tickets to visitors. A series of medal matches in the men’s section will be commenced shortly. RUGBY FOOTBALL. The clubs have all held their annual meetings and appointed delegates to attend the sub-union meeting which will be held on Friday next at Arrowtown. It is difficult at, this stage to say much about the merits of the teams which will be put on the field this season. Queenstown should be strengthened by the inclusion of Pulley and Muir, late of Otautau, and Wells, late of Nightcaps, and if the players take the game seriously they should have a good chance to regain the cup this season. Country Pirates Club had a very good combination last season and made football more interest- ■ ing than usual. It is doubtful whether this club will attain last year’s standard. The members are so scattered that it is im possible to get cohesion. The members as a whole are a sporting lot and they deserve to win. Arrowtown is sure to have a good team, although they have lost two or more of their best players. The Queenstown Club sent a team to Cromwell last week to play a match with the local club. The visitors, i however, were decisively defeated, the scores being 27 to 6. Queenstown and Pirates Clubs will meet at Frankton for a friendly game. THE ELECTIONS. The excitement of the local elections has almost died down and things have returned to normal. It is many years since there was such enthusiasm shown in the election of representatives to our borough council. For this very desirable interest in a town of such growing importance the local Progress League was almost entirely responsible. The League, believing that a change was I desirable in the personnel of the council, to enable a more progressive policy being pursued, nominated a practically new body. Those holding other views, however, put up men for each ward. Hence the contests. The League scored all along the line in respect of the new Mayor as well as the council. The keynote of the new council is progress. They made this plain to the ratepayers at the public meeting which was held in one of the halls in the town prior to the election. New fire brigade quarters and equipment, public conveniences and drainage were the principal planks in their platform. How much they will accomplish during their term of office is hard to say. It is generally recognised that the new council is composed of men of sound judgment and progressive ideas and if they get the backing of the ratepayers they should be able to show good results. GENERAL. The local meeting of householders to elect a school committee lapsed. The council election seemed to dwarf interest in any other affair in the town at that time. The sum of £l2 18/- was raised in Queenstown by the sale of poppies in connection with the Poppy Day appeal. The p.s. Mountaineer has been put on the “stocks” for her annual overhaul. She sprung a leak forward on her run to the Head of the Lake last week, and it was thought expedient to put her on the slips for the necessary repair as well as overhaul. Several local sports went out duck shooting at the beginning of the month. The ducks are said to be very plentiful and some good bags have been reported. | The rainfall in the town for the four : months of this year was 16.06 inches, as | compared with 10 inches for the correspondl ing period of last year. ; A local centre has been formed in coni nection with the Bible-in-schools movement. ; The Rev. J. Collie was elected president and I Misses Simpson and Salmond joint-secretar-I ies. The centre will be responsible for ' working the districts around the lake and ■ Arrowtown, Crown Terrace, and Gibbston.