SHEEP DOG TRIALS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1929, Page 10

SHEEP DOG TRIALS

TARATA SECURES CHAMPIONSHIP. GROUP COMMITTEE MEETING. A meeting of the. group committee of the Taranaki Centre of the Sheep Dog Trials Association was held at Stratford yesterday. Present: Messrs H. V. Gower (chairman), and P. Brown (Eltham-Takau), H. R. Scott (Hawera), T. Curry (Whangamomona), H. Lambert (Tarata), J. Edwin (Waihi) and L. Bunn (Mangaehu). - A welcome was extended to Messrs Edwin and Curry, who were not present at the previous meeting. Mr. P. Brown, of Mangamingi, who had been appointed acting-secretary, was definitely elected secretary. With- reference to the championship meeting, which has been allotted to the Taranaki Centre this year, Mr. Bunn moved that three challenge cups be allotted to the meeting, one each for the long-head, short-head and huntaway events, and the cups be provided by the centre in the event of the association not giving them. In addition the •three gold medals donated by the association would go with the cups and be retained by the winners. Mr. Scott seconded. Mr. Lambert moved as an amendment that the cups allotted be won outright and provided by the club holding the championship meeting. Mr. Edwin seconded. If the championship were allotted to: a small club it would be unable to finance the meeting when the added cost of purchasing cups was incurred, Mr.Bunn contended. Also that if the cups were, to be won outright they would have to be provided every year, whereas challenge cups would last for perhaps five or six years, or three at least. The amendment was lost, the motion being carried. By ballot it was decided that Tarata should organise the championship meeting next year about the dates on which Tarata usually holds its trials. It was further arranged that in future the dates for the championship meeting be so fixed that no more than two clubs in the Taranaki centre run trials after the championship meeting. Mr. W. Whyte, of Napier, will be asked to act as judge and in the event of his not being able to officiate Mr. 0. Haye, of Masterton, will be engaged. An additional nomination fee of 6d to meet executive expenses will be charged for dogs competing for group trophies. The next meeting of the committee will be held at Tututawa on the first night of the Mangaehu trials.

GENERAL AND PERSONAL. Mr. 11. C. A. Fox, who is returning to Hawera, will arrive in Wellington by the Mataroa on December 10. " A match has been arranged between Stratford and Eltham bowling clubs to take place at Eltham this afternoon. As members of the Stratford Club who will be available for a Saturday game are not fully known, all who can make the visit are asked to assemble at the pavilion at 1.30 p.m. A meeting of the chairmen of the various sections was held on Thursday evening, when final arrangements were made in connection with the annual A. and P. Show, which takes place on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Mr. aiid Mrs. W. Young/ who with their infant daughter have been spending holidays with Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Young, returned to their home in Wellington yesterday morning. Members of the Stratford Miniature Rifle Club held a very successful shoot in tdie drill hall on Thursday evening, when the 12 new rifles were in use for the first time. Six are privately owned, but the other six are available to members. An interesting match between teams captained by Mr. J. B. Hine and Mr. L. H. Jardine resulted in a win for the former by 419 to 418. KING’S THEATRE—STRATFORD. TALKING, SINGING AND DANCING. Fannie Brice is a name of which “movie fans” in Australia and New Zealand have heard little, but in England and America. Fannie’s name is a household word. The truth is that Miss Brice is one of the most popular stage stars on the other side of the world, and she is kept so busy with engagements that she gets little time to even consider paying us a visit “down under.” But we are not to be altogether deprived of seeing the famous Fannie Brice, for, after much persuasion, Warner Bros, induced her to make a talking picture for them, and this picture is coming to the King’s Theatre—as a talkie. “My Man” is the title of the picture and in it Miss Brice .sings several songs, dances and talks throughout the production. The talkies will, no doubt, bring many new faces to the screen, but none will, or can, be more famous than Fannie Brice. Anyway, audiences at the King’s Theatre will be able to see and hear for themselves the reason why English and American people are “Brice mad.” ELTHAM MUNICIPAL THEATRE. Patrons of the Eltham Municipal Theatre are to see one of the best programmes yet screen here, “Michael Strogoff” and “Diamond Handcuffs.” To describe Michael Strogoff is difficult, but it is a film of vibrant romance portrayed by great actor, love, intrigue, adventure, dare-deviltry, heroism at its height, sublime sacrifice, burning of a city filmed in colour, magnificience of the court of the Czar, wild, exotic scenes of barbaric splendour photographed in full, natural colour the gorgeously coloured camp of the Grand Kahn of Tartary, a cast of 6000, unbelievably huge, gigantic and awe-in-spiring. Heroism at its pinnacle! Enduring love, sacrifice, war and—a glorious ending! Words cannot describe the grandeur of the production itself. The cast is amazing. The big scenes dwarf almost anything you have ever seen on the screen. “Diamond Handcuffs” can shortly be described as a “Diamond trail of drama from the darkest Africa to the heart of -civilisation." The most unusual drama of the year —a etinging inditement of human greed, a trail of adventure, romance, and soul-enthralling conflict.