SOUTH OTAGO NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23371, 14 September 1939, Page 15

SOUTH OTAGO NOTES

[From Ooa Cobkssfonden?,] COURSING. Mr Jas. Gold presided over a wellattended meeting of the South Otago Coursing Club last night, when the secretary (Mr C. Garside) presented a balance sheet of the meeting held last Saturday. This disclosed that the club had shown a small profit, which was pronounced very_ satisfactory, all things taken ihto consideration. It was decided to write a letter of thanks to Mr E. 6. Price, who had acted as judge. It was also decided to make application for permission to run a stake for local dogs only on September 23 for the vice-president’s cup, all nomination fees to go to the club funds. The matter of introducing tin-hare _ racing was dismissed, and it was decided to go further into this matter later. MINIATURE RIFLE SHOOTING. The weekly shoot of the Balclutha M.R. Club took place last night. N. Rutherford won the A grade button with a score of 79, and, incidentally, placed himself in an unassailable position for the A grade championship, his scores over the three shoots being 79 78—80, a total of 237. _ N. Mitchell won the B grade button with a net score of 76. The B and C grade championships are still undecided, there being one more shoot before finality is reached. The season will close on the 27th. Next week will finalise the championships, and on Saturday, 23rd, it is hoped to shoot a match with a team of ladies and men from Dunedin. The final shoot on the 27th will take some special form. Last night’s scores:—X. Rutherford, 79—2—79; L, Cockerill,

74 0—79; G. Sinclair, 78 —1—79; A. Hayward, 77—3—79; L. Jory, 748 — 79 { A. Low, 74—9—79; A. Arbuthnott, jun., 78—1—79; V. Reach, 77—2—79; D. M'Feeters, 76—5—79; C. Cochrane, 76—5—79; R. Arbuthnott, sen., 76—3 —79; C. Clode, 76—3—79; J. Smaill, 75 —79; H. Henderson, 74—12—79; N. Mitchell, 76—2—78; S. Macdonald, 74 R. Chalmers, 72—6—78; J. Fallowfield, 74—4—78; D. Lattimore, 75 3—78; R. Henderson, 744 —78; B. Gold, 67—10—77; J. Barclay, 73 4—77; R. M'Bridc, 76—1—77; L. Bell, 73—4—77; A. F. Renton, 733 —76; C. Falconer, 76—0—76; \V. Sloan, 7.3 —2—76; J. Dippie. 71—4—75; C. O’Hara. 67—7—74; H. Sinclair. 72—2 —74; D. Sutherland, 09 —4—73; W. Wright, 69. GENERAL. An interesting relic of the last war was shown at the mooting of the S.O. Coursing Club last night. This was a loaf of black bread which was the last

ration issued to Mr E. B. Gold, formerly of Balclutha, and now of Ravenshourne, when he was a prisoner of war in Germany. The loaf, which is now 21 years old, is still intact, but is riddled with borer in places, which would go to justify the opinion of the recipient that it was mostly made of sawdust. There is at present on view in Balclutha a really splendid piece of work done by pupils of Form 11. of the Balclutha Primary School. This is in the form of a large framed picture depicting the development of Otago over the past 100 years. It is divided into five panels—“ The Free Kirk’s Advance Guard,” “ The Edinburgh of the South Seas.” “ Ages of Transport,” “ Glimpses of Otago,” and ‘‘The Story of Otago’s Shipping.” All the pictures in each group have been done in Indian ink drawing by the pupils, ami have been taken from actual photographs. On either side of the title 1 One Hundred Years in Otago: 1840-1940.’ is the drawing of a Maori chief and Captain

Cargill. The whole reflects great credit on the pupils concerned and on Mr A. E. Paterson, their teacher, who is responsible for the exhibit, which is _ to 1 be sent to the Centennial Exhibition for display in the primary schools’ sec- 1 tions. A somowhat similar exhibit dealing I with the history of South Otago has also been sent to Wellington from the South Otago High School. Ten applications for enrolment were received in Balclutha on Tuesday, and others have since been received. On Tuesday night about 60 returned _ soldiers paraded with the local Territorials through the street, and Mr H. C. Holgate, vice-president of the B_.S.A. commended the Territorials on their enlistment. At a subsequent function' held by the returned men, it was unanimously decided to forward a message to R.S.A. headquarters, requesting that in view of the existing national emergency the Government be urged to in- ,

traduce compulsory military training forthwith. . At Tuesday’s meeting of the South Otago Hospital Board, six tenders were received for an additional wing and other alterations to the nurses’ homo at Balclutha Hospital, and the lowest, of . Messrs R. Mitchell and Sons, Dunedin, at £13,400, was accepted subject to the approval of the Health Department.