GREAT CROWDS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 7

GREAT CROWDS

CENTENARY EVENTS COOK’S HOUSE ACQUIRED AUSTRALIA’S RECOVERY STRIKE ALMOST CERTAIN CYCLING RACES DECIDED By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 11.35 p.m. Melbourne, Oct. 15. Great crowds are attending the AllAustralian' Exhibition organised as an industrial contribution to the centenary celebrations to mark a century of development. Opening the exhibition the Premier, Sir Stanley Argyle, said that Australia was built upon industrial self-reliance. “Manufacturers have helped Australia to offer solid resistance to the world depression, so that Australia is described overseas as a country showing the greatest economic recovery,” he said. Yesterday Captain Cook’s cottage from Great Ayton, Yorkshire, came into the keeping of the Victorian people. Built 178 years ago, it was transported stone by stone to Melbourne and reconstructed at the Fitzroy Gardens. It was presented as a centenary gift by Mr. Russell Grimwade, a member of a Victorian pioneer family. The cottage has been re-assembled in an old English garden, similar to its erstwhile setting. The Premier announced to-day that a special committee appointed by the Ministry had submitted proposals for dealing with all traffic requirements in the event of the tramway men carrying out their threat to cease work.

An auxiliary motor-bus service was planned that would operate substantially along the tramway routes. The principal centenary topic to-day is the prospect of the tramway strike. Definitely no trams will run to-morrow morning, when a stop-work meeting will be held. Only an eleventh-hour development will enable the service to run at all. The meeting is likely to be lengthy. The moderates do not favour a strike, realising tr.at the tramways have a duty to the public, especially in view of the centenary. The authorities are awaiting developments. No emergency services will be run tomorrow unless a strike is declared. Only 300 buses are available to carry the traffic of 1200 trams. Furniture vans, charabancs and all types of vehicles will be pressed into service on Tuesday afternoon if 3500 tramwaymen at a stop-work meeting in the morning decide to strike. The union will advise “no surrender.” The public is viewing the dispute with equanimity as the railways are not affected. COMPLAINT OF CATHOLICS. A complaint by Archbishop Mannix that Catholics were excluded from the united thanksgiving service on Sunday was replied to by the organiser, who said that Archbishop Mannix was. invited to co-operate but expressed his unwillingness to take part. A dispute has arisen between the city council and the Police Commissioner over the latter’s order restricting evening traffic in the city streets while the Duke is here. The order says that only a single file of cars will be allowed in the city area to witness the illuminations and must pass through without stopping unless attending theatres. The commissioner is emphatic that the order will be enforced.

The Colac to Melbourne cycle race, the official event for amateurs, over 100 miles, attracted 301 starters. The race resulted: H. Chegwin 1, A. plant 2, T. Beard 3.

Fastest time was secured by R. Bradley, 4 hours 5 minutes 59 seconds. The cycle race for professionals over 140 miles resulted: S. Howdeh 1, S. Andrews 2, H. Guyatt 3. The fastest time award went to W. Stewart, Australian professional road champion, who covered the journey in 6 hours 35 minutes 39 seconds. There are 42 entries in the centenary open amateur and professional golf championships, including the New Zealand professional. George Watt, N. H. Fuller, John Lambie and A. J. Shaw. One New Zealand amateur has not accepted because he was placed on a two handicap. The meeting opens on November 15 and entries close on October 22. Mrs. Linch, r New Zealander, is among four players seeded in the draw for the women’s amateur squash racquets championship being played on October 22. CANADIAN ATHLETES ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 15. A team of Canadian college athletes to compete in the Empire events at Melbourne arrived by the Makura from San Francisco, and will continue the journey to Sydney to-morrow, accompanied by the New Zealand team of college athletes. The Canadian party is under Dr. A. S. Lamb, of McGill University, Montreal, and consists of L. J. Fleming, W. J. Homer (captain), R. Jansen, M. N. Dimont, J. W. Loaring, H. M. McPhee, R. Mitchell, A. Zizis, S. Richardson, W. G. Savage, E. C. Wares. The boys were chosen after a series of trials in different provinces and at a national sports meeting. Richardson is a negro aged 15 who won the long jump at the British Empire Games in London in August. Wares, who comes from Calgary, broke the inter-scholastic record, putting the shot with 48ft. 5 5-Bin., which is better than the best performance by a New Zealander. Jansen, from Stevensville, Ontario, beat the high jump of 6ft. 1 3-Bin. by one-eighth of an inch. The team was me* by Mr. H. McCormick, chairman of the Secondary Schools’ Athletic Committee and a member of the N.Z.A.A.A., also by Mr. H. I. Austad, another member of the N.Z.A.A.A. Council.

The team is having a work-out at the Wellington College grounds to-day.