Fifty Years Ago Today

Southland Times, Issue 23141, 6 March 1937, Page 8

Fifty Years Ago Today

(From The Southland Times) MARCH 6, 1887 Southland Rugby Union.— At a meeting of footballers on Saturday night it was decided that the colours of the Southland Rugby Football Union should be maroon jersey (with gold monogram on breast) and stockings, blue knickerbockers and cap. The rules of the Otago Union were, with a few alterations, adopted. Not In Good Humour. — An elocutionist gave recitals in the Gore Town Hall on Thursday evening. The preliminary arrangements had not been well made and that, with the rough night, brought but a small audience, and the performer did not leave in the best of humour. Her reciting greatly pleased some, while others thought they could do nearly as well themselves. Most of the latter were Scotch. Poaching Trout.—Two young men charged in the Gore Magistrate’s Court with poaching trout were each fined, with costs, a total of £l3 12/-. As they could not pay the amount and had no property on which to distrain they were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour on the first charge, and one month on the second (there were two charges against each), the sentences to rim concurrently. It is to be hoped that the fate of these two young men will act as a strong deterrent to those who love trout not wisely but too well, and are guilty of those highlv reprehensible practices which do so much to counteract the excellent work of the Acclimatization Society.

When the Arawa, the fine liner which has been reconditioned by the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line, leaves Wellington on March 27 on her first Homeward trip on the England-New Zealand run, she will carry many New Zealanders of importance. She will have as passengers the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) and his secretarial staff on their way to the Imperial Conference, and Messrs E. J. Howard, W. J. Broadfoot, and F. W. Schramm, members of Parliament As the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party will be in session in Wellington at the time, the Prime Minister may expect a more than ordinarily enthusiastic send-off. The third New Zealand cricket team to tour England also will travel by this vessel. By special arrangement Reuter’s World Service, in addition to other special sources of information, is used in the compilation of the overseas intelligence published in this issue, and all rights therein in Australia and New Zealand are reserved. Such of the cable news in this issue as is so headed has appeared in The Times and is sent to this paper by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of The Times unless expressly stated to be so.