LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 641, 20 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Visiting Footballers A Sydney League football team which is visiting the Dominion shortly will arrive in Rotorua toward the end of the month and will spend three days here viewing the sights. Clearing Camp Slte General clearing work is being undertaken by the borough council workmen at the municipal camp sitc in Ranolf Street. The large pine trees on the site are also being cut back. Relaying Railway Sidings The railway sidings in the Rotorua station yard are being taken up and relaid in order to give a better sweep for the handling of goods traffic and other rolling stock. A Rough Game The memlyms of the Rotorua Chess Club were warned by Dr. W. S. Wailis at the club's farewell to Mr. L. E. Andrews that chess was a rough game. Sometime ago he was consulted by a patient with a paralysed leg. He had been playing chess and had sat for so long waiting for his opponent to move that he had temporarily paralysed the sciatic nerve and as a result spent a week in bed. The doctor said that he had attended many cases of football knee, tennis elbow, etc., but this was his first experience of a chess leg.

Rotorua Wrestling Fixture From a number of matches offered by the New Zealand Wrestling Association, the Rotorua Wrestling Association has accepted a contest between Rumberg and Varga for its second match to be held in the A. and P. Show Building on Saturday, September 30. The match should prove one of the most interesting at the present time, Rumberg having been undefeated since his arrival in the Dominion, and Varga being the only wrestler who has beaten Walker this season. Rugby Dance At the last meeting of the management committee of the Rotorua Rugby Suh-union, Mr. T. Anderson reported that the special committee set up for the purpose had gone into the question of holding >a Rugby Ball at the end of the season. It was recommended that, in view of the lateness of the season and the big initial expense necessary to run a big ball, to holdj' a dance and card tournament in Tarne te Kapua. As there was some uncertainty regarding the dates upon which the hall would he ! availahle final decision w&s posti poned until next Monday night. | Saturday's Rugby In view of the fact that several | memhers of the Arawa tribal footj ball team are playing in the Rangitaiki team against Waiapu on Saturday the tribal fixture set down for i next Saturday has been postponed j until September 30. The only game i to he played at Arawa Park on SatI urday is the final of the junior | knock-.out competition between Dld ! Boys A and Kaharoa. This game will he played on No. 1 ground at 3 p.m. A Kindly Act Recently an anonymous donor forwarded to Mrs. W. A. Carter for the Kindergarten Class at Devon Street Sunday School, a musical chair together with appropriate ribbons«to he used upon the occasion of the birthdays of the little ones. The gift, and more so the kindly thought which prompted it, are very much appreciated and in our issue of to-day an advertisement appears thanking the donor.