LAST COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1547, 31 August 1905, Page 3

LAST COAST NEWS.

, . (To tlio Editor Gisborne Times.) Sir, —Tho post offico authorities floom to think that anything is good enough for tho Coast. Time after time our letters and papers arrive wet. Not only is very little care taken to protect them hut tho bags also often havo holes m them. A man told tho writer thoro was a lotter for a certai person. Ho was asked how he knew, and he said he saw it through a hole in-the bag; "Why should Maori letters be treated differently from those of j the whites ? In some officos Maori (letters' are thrown on the counter and everyone helps himself. Tho present office in Tuparoa is nine by six feet, which leaves hardly room for two peo-1 pie to write telegrams at tho same I time, and there is also no privacy,! everybody who is in tho place being I able to hear those sent and received. I To take or send telegrams with any I attempt at seoreoy the postmistress has to turn every one out of the office and I lock the door, Surely suoh a state of I things'should not be ?—I am, etc. I Te Akau,

FOOTBALL NOTES.

j ' THE COAST MATCH. t c 1 • The representatives of the Waiapu » Sub-union are to be warmly congratu--1 latcd upon the splendid form exhibited ! in their match with tho parent union 1 on Saturday last. The visiting forwards out-classed the local vanguard in almost all departments of the game, and were continually on the attaok during the second half. The Murphy Bros., on the wings of the scrum, were in great form, and vetoed all attempts at passing by the locals. H. Murphy was especially prominent, and showed that as a winger he has lost none of his skill. As a general he proved himself the right man in the right place, and got the utmost out of his men. The try he scored was an exceptionally clever piece of work. M. Murphy was I responsible for a lot of hard work on the other wing. As Poverty Bay only played one wing they were unable to guard their half, and consequently the I ball seldom came away from the scrum I through that medium. Bailey, Delaney, Brooking, Leach and Fairlie were a formidable quintette and shone I out repeatedly in attack. Their line work was splendid, and they more than held their own in tho open. The only departments of the game in which the visiting forwards did not show favorably in comparison with the locals were their foot-work and their collaring. The home team, both backs and forwards, made a speciality of the latter, and the local forwards’ footwork was also of a high order. Of the j Waiapu backs Gerrard was safe at I full, and got his side out of difficulty on several occasions. The threequarter line, Walker, Aorere and Newton, played well, the latter showing some of his old Te Aute dash. Walker - showed good defence and twice pre- j vented Nolan from crossing the chalk j line.- Beynolds was safe at five- < eighths, and E. Williams did “a lot of work behind the scrum. The result i of the match should greatly encourage 1 football on the Coast, as the scores ‘ 8-6|show that there could have been f little difference between the two teams. i Mr R. G. Hallamore controlled the j game, and gave thorough satisfaction * to both players and spectators alike. * Messrs w. Gibson (Gisborne), and _J. H H. Jameson (Waiapu) held the line ; flags. , \V ; ;' 1 - i