LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5602, 7 April 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lochiel Golf Club The Lochiel Golf Club will open its links for play during the week-end, when a competition for members and visiting players will be held. Returned Services Association The annual meeting of the Te Awamutu branch of the Returned Services Association is set down for to-night at the Town Hall. King Country Schools’ Sports The Te Awamutu District High School is well represented at the sports meeting being held at Te Kuiti to-day.

Golf Competition The concluding round of a senior and junior stableford competition of three rounds was played last weekend, and resulted in a tie between R. F. Armstrong and E. Kirk, 68, 59, 62—189 points, and M. Barnett and T. P. Quick, 62. 63, 64—189 points. Golf at Otorohanga

Te Awamutu golfers attended the opening of play at the Otorohanga Golf Club’s links recently, and as usual there the day was made a most enjoyable one for visitors. Mr E. Kirk (Te Awamutu), and partner were within half a point of the winners of the mixed Canadian foursomes competition.

Winter Feed Shortage As a legacy of the wet summer, West Coast farmers are facing a shortage of winter feed. Adequate supplies of ensilage could not be provided, and numerous turnip crops failed to mature. To meet the demands, it will be necessary to purchase supplies from Canterbury. Dairy farmers who are under contract to supply milk to Greymouth and other centres are in a difficult position, as they must obtain sufficient feed to maintain production. Otherwise, it may be necessary to bring milk to the West Coast from Canterbury.

Reputation of “The Royal New Zealand Air Force can set an excellent example for the Americans,” said the News Chronicle war correspondent in the south-west Pacific (Mr Patrick Maitland), speaking of the part being played by New Zealanders under General MacArthur’s command. “The New Zealand pilots are of the very best. It is a pity that they have not got better machines, and that they have not been given a greater opportunity to take the air offensive over the Japanese,” he said. There was a great demand for New Zealand navigators, Mr Maitland said. Where some other countries had turned out partly-experienced men who sometimes erred under combat conditions, the New Zealand navigators had a world-wide reputation for their thorough training and deadly accuracy