LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Kiwi Football Club are holding practices on the Square each evening this week at 7 o’clock. Every member is requested to attend.

The. Hokitika Cycling Club are arranging for three cycling events on Cass Square on Empire Day. The events are juvenile cycle race 1 mile; maiden race 2 miles; and 5 mile open race. Nominations close with the Secretary on Saturday, May 20th.

For some time past an extraordinarystate of affairs is said to have existed at mealtimes on board some of the vessels in Wellington, states the “Post.” Men who arc either out of work or refuse to work have adopted the custom of inviting themselves to meals, and on one vessel jusi recently fifteen turned up for breakfast, fourteen for dinner, and two for tea. Tho waterfront police have been keeping their eyes ojien for these men, and on Friday Constable -Muuro arrested a man on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. On Saturday, when tho man was charged at the Magistrate’s Court, Sub-Inspector M’Namara had rather a strange story to tell of the men who go down to the ships for food. “These men,” he said, “ are really leeches on their follows, and sit at the crew’s mess-table. They are allowed there, for it is hard for a sailor to turn a nian away from the table. Sometimes'members of the crew have to go hungry, and some of the strangers even hove the iierve to complain that tlie soup is 'cold or tin* joint is tough.

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