CROQUET TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 5

CROQUET TOURNEY

Gold and Silver Mallets OPENING DAY’S PLAY The Wellington Croquet Tournament for the Gold and Silver Mallets commenced yesterday morning, all competitors assembling at the Karori lawns. Mrs. Austin, on behalf of Captain Hartnell, president of the New Zealand Croquet Council, welcomed all the competitors, especially the visitors, and wished them all a very successful and Ijnnpv time during the tournament. Mrs. Earl McKenzie then read the rules of the tournament, after which play commenced immediately. The following are the results of yesterday’s games: A SECTION. Mrs. Roes (Wellington) beat Mrs. Morton (Seatoun). Mrs. Cleland (Woburn) beat Mrs. Frost (Nelson). Mrs. Greig (Upper Hutt) beat Mrs. Kirk (Wanganui). Mrs. Morgan (Shannon) beat Mrs. Lowery (Wellington). Mrs. Bush beat Mrs. Burd (Kelburn). Mrs. Greig (Upper Hutt) beat Mrs. Morton (Seatoun). Mrs. Cleland (Woburn) beat Mrs. Kirk (Wanganui). Mrs. Brice (Hataitai) beat Mrs. Aclieeon (Nelson). Mrs. Ross (Wellington) beat Mrs. Roffe (Kelburn). Mrs. Bush beat Mrs. Acheson (Nelson). B SECTION. Mrs. Henderson (Wellington) beat Mrs. Higgin (Seatoun). Mrs. Manton (Wellington) beat Mrs. Hogan (Wellington). Mrs. Mount (Waimarie) beat Mrs. Page (Seatoun). * Mrs. Sargissou (Ngaroina) beat Mrs. Small (Seatoun/ Mrs. Woodley (geatoun) beat Mrs. Walker (Woburn). Mr. .Bryan (Palmerston North) beat Mrs. Chetwin (Kelburn). Mrs. Gardner (Kelburn) beat Mrs. Flint (Karori). Mrs. Henderson (Wellington) beat Mrs. Higgins (Seatoun). Mrs. Henderson (Wellington) beat Mrs. Manton (Wellington), 1 Mrs. Mouat (Waimarie) beat Mrs. Page (Seatoun). Mrs. Mouat (Waimarie) beat Mrs. Sargisson (Ngaroina). Mrs. Small (Seatoun) beat Mrs. Page (Seatoun). All unfinished games are to be finished first thing this morning. The draw for to-day is as follows: — Kelburn: Mesdames Acheson, Richardson, Brice, Bush, Hoss. Frost, Greig, Morgan, Burd, Morton. At noon: Mesdames Hogan and Page. Mount Victoria: Mr. Bryan. Meedames Henderson, Woodley and Small. Island Bay: Mesdames Chetwin, Mouht, Manton and Walker. Wellington: Mesdames Flint, Sargisson, Gardner and Higgins. Karori: Mesdames Kirk, Roffe, Lowery and Cleland.

FRIENDLY SOUVENIRS i The habit of keeping an address book is certainly to be advocated if one has a wide circle of friends. There is nothing so irritating as a long hunt for an address or telephone number when letters have to be written or a call to be put through in a hurry. But address books are dull affairs, and it seems to need a strong-minded person to keep them up to date. A much more exciting affair is the address book which, so to speak, your friends keep for you. It may be the ordinary address book alphabetically arranged or one of the old-fashioned autograph albums put to a. new use. Whenever a friend comes to your house get her to sign this glorified guest book. See that she puts her name and address and the date of h.er visit. You will have, then, your friend’s autograph, a souvenir of her visit, and a note of her address all in one. An autograph album is really the friendliest medium for this unusual kind of guest book; it is rather more interesting when the autographs are all mixed up together—some, say, from one part of the world and some from another. But if ybu should happen to be a very busy person with a particularly large circle of friends and acquaintances an alpha-betically-arranged book would be more convenient. Holiday snapshots, especially those given to us by holiday and everyday friends, are very apt to pass into undeserved oblivion. And consideriug the care with which they are taken and the cost of printing and developing, it is rather ungracious to tuck them away from the light of day in drawer or desk. Why not, then, a guests’ snapshot book also? Most snapshot enthusiasts keep little albums of their own, and possibly include in these some snapshots taken by their friends, but there are many people without cameras who manage to collect in one way or another quite a number of happy snapshot souvenirs. A good way of passing an otherwise empty evening would be to stick these into an album and some time in the future get the friends concerned to autograph them. Guest books and snapshot albums, like the old-time confession books, are always pleasant to look through, and mean entertainment for your friends as well as yourself. The St. John Free Ambulance service will not be commenced in 'Wanganui until the new ambulance arrives about the end of January, according to definite advice disclosed at a recent meeting of the committee. The official, opening of the new ambulance service’ 1 is to be arranged at a date to be announced. Tlie draft of the agreement to be entered into with the Wanganui Hospital Board was considered and was unanimously approved. An appeal for funds is to be held on the last Friday in March.