CROQUET

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2700, 21 February 1916, Page 3

CROQUET

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Rotorua, February 20. The Rotorua croquot tournament concluded to-day. Mr. l'enn (Christchurch) won the champion singles, with Mrs. Dillicar, of Hamilton, second. _ Mr. Penn won the break competition willi I227"iielievod to bo a New Zealand record.

The weekly session of the Star of Wellington Lodge, 1.0. G.T., was held in St. Peter's Mission Hall, Taranaki Street, on Thursday evening, Bro. It. ltigarsford, Cs.T., presiding. Three new members were received. Sister Fraser was elected to the position of F. Secretary, and Bro. Montgomery to that of E.D. A letter was received from Bro. T. J, Brown, win Went on active service with tho "Fourths," and who is now on sick furlough in England. The programme for the evening took the form of a. "question' box," many interesting subjects being discussed. For next meeting Bro. Knox is responsible, and an enjoyable evening is anticipated.

France, in order to preserve tho acts of heroism of her soldiers, fins sent many of her best artists to tho front. Among them is Charles Fouqucrny, noted principally for his marine paintings. To an interviewer for Cartoons Magazine, M. Eouqueray explained how lie worked.. "I keep/' he said, "two or three miles in tho rear, and when the lighting is over, I rush to the battlefield, make quick sketokes of various points before the bodies and the debris have yet been removed; and the soldiers, who have taken part 111 the battlo explain to me the positions and tlie very attitude of the fighters, often even mimicking them before me, and pointing out on my sketch the changes I ought to make."

A subaltern In tho field suggests that people at Home who are at a loss to know what to send the soldiers should make carpet slippers. He writes: ''Tho ordinary infantryman is only allowed one pair of boots. In weather such as we have now with us in the trenches, this pair of boots is always wet. Even when we nro taking our rest in billots behind the trenches, the men have only too often to sleep in their wet boots. In the trenches themselves this is inevitable; but when men are not in the trenches they could, and most certainly would, wear warm carpet slippers, and bless the hands that made tlicni. And many would be saved from that dreadfill malady, 'trolich feet.' "

A very interesting excursion of the Wellington Field Naturalists' Club took place 011 Saturday afternoon. The club met at Island Bay, and thence, the services of two fishing boats having been procured, were rowed to the island, which, under the direction of Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., was . thoroughly fiearchod by the party, and lists and collections were made of its native and introduced flora, Tho excursion wos very well attended, a'ld prow' enjoy•Ma wul instructive..