CHOPPING MATCHES.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 194, 27 January 1905, Page 2

CHOPPING MATCHES.

(to THE ID1TOB.) Sis, —I noticed in your last issue that it was probable • meeting of residents would be held shortly to arrange to hold races at Kawbia. Now, I am not against races by any means, bnt 1 would like to suggest that it might he better to bold a. woodcboppiog carnival instead. I believe that some correspondence has been received from the secretary of the /semen’s Association of New Zealand relative to holding chopping matches at Newbie, promising support and the attendance of some champions also, if a programme ot events could be arranged. Considering the amount of axe work that has been done (and will have to bo done) in this district, the use of the axe should lie fostered, and I feel sure that an axemen's carnival would be a benefit to all concerned. A good guide as to the interest evinced in chopping contests is the attention which was given to these events at the recent sports, it being unanimously voted that the two chopping controls wore the best items of the two days' programme. Hoping to see a big axemen’s carnival arranged to be held in Kawbia.—l am, yours, eio., AXEMAN.