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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5646, 19 June 1919, Page 2

Football is generally marked for its roughness, but judging by incidents which occurred during one qf the hockey matches at Napier op Saturday, spectators may in future change their minds. A lady player, having evidently had an injustice served out to her, ‘•lauded one back' 1 on another player with her stick, which, by an unfortunate chance, hit the jaw of another lady, necessitating ti nt unfortunate’s removal from the field. Still later, the “receiver of injustices’’ again) turned the tables, tins time inking for her mark an opponent’s eve, wbicb appeared rather tlie worse for its treatment. A rq’mantio jvvar story, which is known to be true, has come to the knowHedgo on the Acting-Oofence -Minister of Australia. The conduct of a young married Englishman led to Ins wife separating from him, apd regarded as a hopeless ‘waster,” ho went to Australia, enlisting in the Australian forces at the beginning of the war. lie received bis commiswou. in Era and ivas seriously wounded. Tie woke to ■onsciousness to tjnd that his nurse in the clearing station, where he was being retained owing to being in too serious a condition fo,- further transport, was Ins wife, who had nude-taken nursing work. The fact that tla.i “waster” had made good, and the. loving kindness of his nurse, removed the estrangement. and the couple are now hanpilv fijjitcc|.