Sports Page To-morrow.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 4

Sports Page To-morrow.

Tlie weekly page reviewing sports will appear in to-morrow's issue of the Herald-Tribune. First. Coods Train. The first regular goods train to be run on the East Coast railway — NapierWairoa- Waikokopu section — reached Wairoa at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. It comprised 10 trucks, with a loading of 100 tons of .superpbosphate. The train left New Plymouth and went on yesterday from Putorino L&ne Cup Rugby. The first round of the" Lane Cup senior Rugby competition will be played as a curtain-raiser to the Hawke's Bayfaranaki representative match at Napier on August 28. One game only will be played for the first round — namely Hastings v. Marist — ail otfier competing teams having a bve.. Springboks Autographs. The task tif signing autograph books is becoming a very serious oue for tlie members of tlie Soutfi African. Rugby team, and the position has bcconie so acute that tlie New Zealand Rugby tJiiion has uow asked that people will refrain from sonding any further books. At present there are no fewer than 75 books "awaiting siguatures, and there have been so many requests for autographs thr.fc the members of the tearn camiot possibly fulfi] them. Mcori Expression of Affcction. "There is no equivalent in Maori for 'dearest' and .'darling,' and all that gioppy sentimentalism Avliich you liear on the wireless," said Mr Te Ari Pitama in an address. "The Mythopoetic Maori," at Christchurch. Explaining that the Maori expresscd affection more by song, lie said that the one term of endearment was used ior a person wh0 had died. The p'akeha was the converse of the Maori, he added. The pakelia met a w-omnn at a dance. He started off at boiling point and finislied in a few. years, in Court. at freezing point.

Hydatids in Dogs. The spread of hydatids and the damage done by stray dogs among sheep at night were attributed by Mr W. Buchan, at tlie monthly meeting of tho Temuka branch of the New Zealan'd Farmers' Union, to favmers kceping too many dogs and not being able to care for them. In suggesting a limit to the number of dogs farmers might keop on their holdings, he proposed two dogs for 500 acres and one dog for every ' 500 acres or part tliereafter. The union decided to fonvard a remit to tlie provincial executive urging more rigid enforcenient of the regulatioifs. Four Tests on Saturday New Zealand sports teams will be engaged in four internaticnal test games on Saturday. The coincidence of four tests is probably unprccedented iu tho itnnala of New Zealand sport. Occupyiug the greatest attention will ; be the meeting, at Wellington of the New Zealand and South African Rugby Union tcams at Wellington. At Auckland tho New Zealand Rugby League representatives will try conelusions with the Australian team which is on its way to England ; . at Sydney the New Zealand hockey representatives will meet Australia; and at the Oval the New Zealand cricketers will begin the tliird aud final test againstEngland, ' '