STRATFORD’S NEXT FIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1930, Page 10

STRATFORD’S NEXT FIGHT

RECORD OF CLEVERLEY.

Alfred J. Cleverley, Wellington, who iis to fight Miller, Stratford, at Stratford on May 20, was born in Oamaru in 1907 and spent his school days in that town. Hiss all-round record is considered one of the : best ever held by a New Zealander!

i Among' other athletic achievement# he ' won the. lightweight boxing championship of the Wellington Boys’ Institute at the age of 14. Three years later he had fought in light, welter, middle, lightheavy and heavyweight and was never ’ defeated. In 1926 he won the. light heavy-weight championship of the army and in 1928 won the heavyweight championship of the army and navy. At the age of 18 he won the 1926 middleweight boxing championship of New Zealand (be.ing the youngest boxer that has ever held that title) and in 1927 won the New; Zealand light-heavyweight championship. ■ . The list of boxers whom he has defeated is:—Lightweight: Robinson on points, Rathner on pointe, Falloon k.o. second round. Welterweight: Ridgway (champion of the navy) on points. Middleweight; Qunnion (champion of Wellington) on pointe, Gordon (champion of .Hawke’s. Bay) on points, Cotter (champion of Westport) on pointe, Pocock (champion of New Zealand) on pointe. Pocock won .the title.again in 1927 when Cleverley was competing in the lightheavy weights. Light-heavy weight:. Love technical k.o. first round, Evatf (champion of New Zealand on points), Davis (champion of the navy) on points, Schinanski (champion of Canterbury) on pointe, Hepburn (champion of Hawke’s Bay) by. default, Higg (champion of Auckland) k.o. first round. Heavyweight: Fitzsimmons (champion of Wellington). Cleverley, has since defeated the 1925 and» 1926 champion heavyweights of New Zealand on. points; Tyree (1927 champion, of Wellington) on pointe; Marshall (champion of navy) on points. Cleverley represented New Zealand as a cruiser-weight boxer at the world's championship (Olympic Games) in 1928 but was beaten on pointe by G. Jackson (champion of Great Britain). He also represented New Zealand at the Tail-, teann Games at Dublin in 1928, when he defeated T. Melton (champion of Wales); and H. T. Floyd (champion of England) but was beaten in the final bout on points by W. J. Murphy (champion of Ireland). A, member of the 1928 New Zealand Olympic team stated that Cleverly did not become acclimatised while abroad and was unable to strike form. RAILWAY LEASEHOLDS. POSITION IN STRATFORD. Acting for several mortgagees of railway leaseholds in Stratford, Messrs. Halliwell, Thomson, Horner and North recently wrote to the Railway Lands Officer stating they considered the present position as to tne registration of documents very unsatisfactory and that the present system did not encourage wouldbe investors to accept the leases as securities. Steps, they thought, should be taken to have these, leaseholds brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act. Throughout New Zealand now, lands with deeds registration .titles were being so dealt with. “The registi. .ion in connection with the railway leaseholds here,”, the letter concluded, “te nob even as satisfactory as registration in the Deeds Registry Office, and if it has been seen fit to bring deeds registration titles under the Land Transfer Act, there is still greater rea-. son why these railway leaseholds should be brought under the Land Transfer Act.”

The -following reply has been received from the Land Officer (Mr. T. Snow): “The whole question of bringing longterm leases of railway land under the I Transfer Act has been under consideration. It has been decided that where a suitable survey plan of such leases is in existence, the matter will be put in hand at once, but where it is necessary to have a new survey made, the lessees should bear the cost. In the case of the Stratford leases we have a plan it is considered will meet the requirements of the district lanu registrar,and this plan has been submitted for .his approval. If this plan is suitable steps will .be taken to place the land under Land Transfer.” . EAST ROAD EUCHRE AMD DANCE. A euchre party and dance was held in Mr. H. Johnson’s'wool shed on. the East Road on Friday night by the, Kahouri Bridge committee. There was a large attendance of residents arid; visitors from Stratford.?, ’Fourteen tables ! were engaged in euchre, the results of the competitions being: Mrs. C. Garlick 1,/Mra. H. Trotter 2,: Miss B. Paynter consolation; Mr. W. Bfoadley 1, Mr, B. Paynter 2, Mr. E. Crowe consolation.

■Following the euchre, the floor, which was in . splendid order, was .cleared for dancing, music being supplied by Mr. H. Waite. \ \

KING’S THEATRE, STRATFORD.

JOO PER; CENT. TALKING . COMEDY.

“Dames - Ahoy/’, sparkling Universal comedy with Glenn Tryon, Helen Wright, Otis Harlan, Eddie Gribbon and Gertrude Astor, at the King’s Theatre, is one continuous i laugh from stem to stern. The irrepressible Tryon appears as a young gob who is hurled by a hurricane of events slambang upon the reef of matrimony. He. is one of the trio of sailors bound together by a mutual fear of “the dames,” The fun starts when they go ashore to search for a blonde who h'as snared one of their number, played by Otis Harlan, into signing away half his pay. The only clue to her identity is a strawberry birthmark on her leg. Fortun-. ately the action takes place on an amusement beach, where the search is not-so difficult as it might be elsewhere.. Efforts to extricate Harlan from the feminine net only result in Tryon becoming similarly snared. Unaware of thv impending reward. Tryon wins a dance contest which carries a prize of £lOO, a nice little bungalow-^and : a bride.