SOUTH TARANAKI CROQUET

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1931, Page 10

SOUTH TARANAKI CROQUET

CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY BEGUN.

PLAY IN THE HANDICAP EVENTS.

Excellent entries, only five short of last year’s record of 105, were a feature of the South Taranaki croquet tournament, commenced at Hawera yesterday. The lawns —both the Park and Kia Ora clubs’ were used—were in good order, playing very truly, while the weather was most suitable for the event.

The .organisation was'' well handled by Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Bull, a large number of games being satisfactorily disposed of. Mr. J. M. Clague is the official'referee, with Mrs. Bull as assistant. Umpires are:—Mesdames B. C. Bennett, F. Evans, A. E. Stevens, J. W. Harding, A. V. Tait and Chadwick, Mr. A. J. Gibbs and Captain Hartnell. Mrs. Bull is secretary. The; president of the South Taranaki Croquet Association, Mr. G. J. Bayley, in opening. the tournament, welcomed competitors. He expressed the hope that competition Would be keen in every event.

Excellent catering arrangements by ladies’ committees had been made at both clubs. Mesdames Stevens and Milroy were in charge at the Hawera Club. Results of yesterday’s play are:— HANDICAP EVENTS. ■/. iA Grade Singles. First Round.—Harrington (SJ) beat Mrs. Washer (5), 26 —5. Second Round.—'Captain Hartnell (2J) •beat Miss Power (2J), 26—14; Exley (3) beat Mrs,.. Glenny (3J), 26 —-21. B Grade Singles. First Round.-—Mrs. Brass (8) beat? Mr?. Williams (7),224;6 —4; Mrs. Evans (7) beat Mrs. Dalrymple (8), 22—21; Mrs. Whitehead (8) beat Mrs. Ritchie (8J), 22—20; Mrs. Brennan (10) beat Mrs. Bell (8), 22—18. , Doubles. First Round. —Mesdames Tait and Gallagher (16J) beat Exley and Mrs. Exley (9A), 21—20; Clague and Mrs. Clague (SJ) beat Mesdames Penny and Johnstone (11), 23—20; Misses Irvine and Beale (15) beat Harrison and Mrs. Brass (13J), 17—13; Mesdames Evans and Wills (8) beat Mesdames Dawson and Tattersail (10), 26 —17; Mrs. Stevens and Miss Hay-MacKenzie (9) beat Mesdames Harding and A. Murdoch (0), 19—17; Mesdames Bell and Whitehead (16) beat Mesdames Meyrick and Winks (Hi), 26 —24; Mesdames Bennett and Kemp (6J) beat, Mesdames Masters and Gleimy (6),224;6 —-4; Gibbs and Mrs. Gibbs (5) beat Mesdames Williams and Evans (14),. 26—7. Second, Round.—Mesdames Rothe and Gardiner (16 J) beat Mesdames Ward and Williams (Hi), 24r—13; Mrs. Hollis and Miss Putt (15) beat Mesdames Brewer and Thurston (16), 17—15; Clague and Mrs. Clagiie (s|) beat Mesdames Tait and -Gallagher (16), 26—-7; Gibbs and Mrs. Gibbs beat Mesdames Bennett and Kemp (6i), 24—21; Captain and Mrs. Hartnell (7) beat Mesdames Campbell, and. Wylie (8), 26—17; Mesdames Hey and Barnett (12) beat Mesdames Jenkins and Ritchie (13i), 22—14. SOUTH TARANAKI TENNIS. ' HAWERA TEAM FOR PLAY-OFF. The following team will represent the Hawera Tennis Club in. the play-off with P>ark in the South Taranaki competitions.—K. McFarlane, B. McCarthy, R. P. Baigcnt and M. R. Jones, Mesdames Rudge and Duncan, Misses Knight and Buist. Reserves, J. J. Pease and Miss Walter. ’ The match will be played on the Hawera club’s courts on Saturday at 1 p.m. 4 ■_ • ' DRUIDS’ QUARTERLY MEETING, EFFORT FOR RELIEF FUND. The . quarterly meeting of the Druids’ Lodge was held at'Hawera on Monday evening,- Arch Druid Bro. L. J. Hall presiding over a good attendance. The success of the Christmas tree function and the picnic at New Plymouth were shown, by reports submitted by the responsible committees. .Ararngements for the euchre party and dance to be held to-morrow evening in ? aid;'of the earthquake relief funds were reported upon and. Four new members were initiated. gi AUROA FARMERS’ UNION. ; The Auroa branch of the Farmers’ Union met on Saturday, Mr. King presiding over a fair attendance. Arrangements were made to hold a cattle show as 1 usual. A donation-of £3 3s was made to the South Taranaki executive of the union fdr the earthquake relief fund. HAWERA THEATRE PROGRAMMES. “RAFFLES” AT OPERA HOUSE.” Ronald. Colman plays a smooth, and polished English gentleman, a society favourite .and'popular athlete in his third and latest talking picture, “Raffles,”' the mystery thriller which is coming to the Opera House, Hawera, commencing to-night at 8.15, for a season of three nights and a matinee. Refined and suave though he may .be, Raffles finds the lure of criminal adventure more than he can resist. In consequence his many distinguished associates are victimised time and again without the faintest suspicion of who the malefactor can be. Being parallel in theme, “Raffles” is a fit successor to Colman’s two previous successes, “Bulldog Drummond” and “Condemned.” A new force has come into Raffles’ life at the time this modernised version of the famous melodrama opens. The famour amateur cracksman has given up his obliquities in favour of love. Kay Francis, who gave so fine a performance opposite Colman’s friend, William Powell, in “Street of Chance,” is the Gwen of the story. She and Colman play out a touching romance that is an essential part of the play’s high adventure. Reserves are at Miss Blake’s.

A group of players probably more predominently British, than any similar collection in an American picture appear in “Strictly Unconventional,” the clever W. Somerset Maugham satire on marriage, which will be presented finally at the Grand Theatre, Hawera, to-night. The story depicts the amusing recurrence of a domestic situation in the second generation of an aristocratic English family. A woman deserts her son to run away with a man whom she loves more than her husband, and returns 30 years later to find that the wife of her son contemplates a similar procedure because, her husband is more interested in antique furniture than in her charms.