THE PRESS AND POLICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 4

THE PRESS AND POLICE

(By Will U. Shake Aleg.) (With Apologies). Once more unto the park, dear friends, once And fill the stands up to the very brim. For, sooth, there’s nothing more delights a Than seeing P’lice and Press on Spriggens Park. And now the annual match arrives again. Close up the house and summon up the crowd, Discard all worry and with cheery smile. Just lend the face a merry aspect. Let it beam o’er the players as they tread Out on the paddock ; don’t let brow o’erwhelm it But heartily become a Rugby fan. And hang and jettison confounded slump. Cheered by anticipation of the game. Now show a grin and stretch the cheeks full Hold hard the breath, and shout out everyone To their full strength: “Come on ye P’lice and Press.” The game is to be played for charity. Players, like so many All Blacks (they say!) Have met upon the park in former years And raised large sums to help the unemployed. Dishonour not your city: so go hence Unto the match, where you shall surely see A game of games that comes but once a year. Then urge them how to play! And you, stout (1) players, From Wellington and Wanganui picked, Produce some heady play, that we may swear That you are worthy of your calling, which we doubt not. For there are none so slow nor cumbersome That could not score a try upon this day. You’ll see them run like greyhounds (!) o’er the course. Straining after the ball. The game’s afoot : Follow the crowd there, and along the way Cry “Good old P’lice and Press, hip, hip, Hooray!’’ count of its lamb production. The The greatest interest will, however, centre round the Corriedale "splash” in the "wool and carcase combined” in the ewes and in the hogget classes. Particularly up the Parapara is the splash of Merino being used to obtain a finer and denser fleece with a more lean carcase, while in the Mangamahu district prominent farmers are using the Corriedale cross to produce a finer wool and mdre milk for the lamb. Very many successful farmers, however, still maintain that there is no fault to be found with the Romney and the majority of the entries in the farmers’ section will be of this breed. In this district quite a few breed flock Romneys on a large scale while the breeders of flock Southdowns are most numerous. It is anticipated that the ram classes in hese breeds will also be well filled.