BUSY WEEK-END

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26632, 1 December 1947, Page 4

BUSY WEEK-END

BELLONA AT DUNEDIN THROWN OPEN TO PUBLIC Crowds swarmed over H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona, lying at Birch,, street wharf yesterday afternoon, when the cruiser was thrown open for public inspection. The Bellona is expected to sail at 6 o’clock this morning for Akaroa, where she will stay for two days before sailing for Wellington. Officers and men have had a busy time while the ship has been at Dunedin, and activities in the week-end included a boat race, a cricket match, and two water polo games.

On Saturday moi'ning the Bellona was visited by 27 Sea Cadets of the Otago Division of the New Zealand Navy League, and a boat race of about a mile was held between a crew of seamen boys from the Bellona and a crew fi'om the cadets. Twenty-seven - foot whalers were used, and the Bellona crew won by about three lengths. The race attracted considerable interest. The ship was open to the public in the afternoon.

Two water polo games were played between Otago teams and teams from the ship during the week-end. The first game resulted in a win for Otago by 6 goals to 1, and in the game between an Otago junior team and a B team from the Bellona Otago won by 4 goals to 1. Rain interrupted a cricket match between the ship’s representatives and a local team at Logan Park yesterday afternoon. Up to stumps the scores were:—

H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona

Higgins, cL. Watson, bE. Watson 1 Boyer, cL. Watson, bE. Watson 3 Copping, b Burke 2 Fletcher, b Graham 24 Green, c Miller, b Hellyer .. .. 1 Allison, c Mills, b Gough .. .. 5 Connels. b L. Watson 10 Rothwell, b Graham 4 Groves, c Burke, b Miller .. .. 5 Kings, b St. John 0 Vindon, b Miller 4 Bowling.—E. Watson, 2 for 3; Miller 2 for 1. Local Team Mills, not out 8 Graham, not out 16