Summer Sports

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 59, 6 December 1946, Page 4

Summer Sports

The popularity of summer sports is very evident among the younger generation tight now. Tennis has a firm grip (tennis, that is, which utilise the main road for a court), whilst ‘test’ cricket matches are also in full swing.'Where before motorists needed only to dodge the groups concentrated round a game of marbles, now they must weave their way through half a hockey team spread out all over the road. Most, we feel, will be glad when marbles once again hold sway. Gloomy Outlook

“The Trade Union Council is using its power to press wages up and to shorten hours without any corresponding pressure on the need of production—none, at least, that reaches the man at the bench who feels that he is making hay while the sun shines and that, like Joshua, he can make it shine for as long as he likes.” This comment is made in a letter received by an Auckland businessman from an English firm which wrote to warn him that he could not expect deliveries of its goods at the same rate as ruled at present. “The immediate result,” the letter adds, “is that the industry of the country is running down to a stop and the further result can only be inflation.”