Happy Joe

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 6

Happy Joe

AL/L the masters and crew of the coastal boats trading- to Wanganui

know Joe Hayhow, the dapper little, chap m blue uniform who finds convenient berths for the steamers as they arrive, and waits on them at time of departure, day or night, to let go the springs.

Joe is also known to all the small boys who toss a line over the wharf to catch a stray herring or so. In .fact, there are few better-known or more highly esteemed personalities m the River City.

Just mention cricket and Joe is with you straight away. He can reel off the history of cricketers, matches and scores by the yard, and there Is not another man m the Dominion who has kept more complete cricketing records than Joe.

■ He is the life and soul of the local Cricket Association, and although he does not how handle either bat or ball, he can always be relied upon to x bethere on the spot to do all the detail work m matches big or small, even to gathering up the score-books at the end of the day's play.

Cricketers m Wanganui owe a lot to the genial Joe.. '