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Shannon News, 20 March 1923, Page 2

“Eighty-four years of age, a 'magnificent horseman, and a remarkably fine billiard player, he was the. niost wonderful man 1 ever met,” said a witness at the inquest at Marylebone, London, on Mr John Wreford Budd, a solicitor, of Paddington, who died “from injuries received'by a tali from his horse while following the Pytcliley hounds on November 18 Just. Dr. A. W. James said that Mr Budd rode continually throughout yie summer with the Devon and Somerset staghounds, and in winter he went to Rugby, to follow the Pytchley. His vitality was tremendous, and after the hardest .day’s hunting, he would display his finest form in the billiard

Says an exchange: “Football jerseys are an expensive item nowadays, a -.d recognising this the Wanganui Rugby. Union last year ordered a quantity direct from the Old Country. These came to hand recently, and are of excellent qdality. The landed cost of the jerseys ran out at about a third less than what they would have cost if purchased in Wanganui.” It looks all right on the surface, but it is the New Zealand people who support Rugby football, and in most towns, it is the business people who provide ’ the trophies and' medals x to i"? played tor.

Although the large, majority of soldiers who served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force have re* ceived the war medals to which their services during the late war entitled them, there are many* who have neglected to inform the Defence Deparfi meat when they changed their places of address, and for .these, medals, certificates, etc.,, are being field. ’On Anzac Day, which is not far distant, those who take part in memorial or other services should wear all war medals which they have earned by reason of the sacrifices made lor the Empire, and it, therefore, behoves every member of the N.Z.E.F., who has not received medals and. who considers he or she is entitled to‘be issued with them, to communicate without delay, with the Officer-in-Gharge, War Accounts and Records Office,. Wellington. The same procedure should-be followed by those who are entitled to receive medals or memorials on account of,-soldiers who served overseas and are deceased, and for those soldiers who died prior to embarkation. \

The Otago Medical School lias enrolled this year 43 new students, 37 of whom are first-year students, and the other six second year students who have completed tlieir first year’s studies .in one of the other centres. The total is much the same as last year’s, but considerably below the record of two years ago. The Dental School lias established a record in its history by enrolling 26 new* students.

The Dargaville Times reports that there was some excitement at the conclusion of the Ladies’ Doublehanded Saw at the Baupu-Mapau sports.. One of’ the pair who were runners-up, went (d congratulate the winners on their victory, and for her trouble received a fair amount n abuse. A committeeman, who tried to oil on the troubled waters, alsu came off second best, and for liis trouble received a smart smack on i .e Jfuce from /the younger' member of the winning pair. It appears that the winners have been runners-up in past years to the pair who came second yesterday, and were out to ratrieve their past defeats, but in the moment of victory so far forgot- themselves as not to appreciate the chivalrous action of their opponents in offering congratulations.

The largest forging in. the world lias recently been turned * out by Messrs. Cammell, Laird at their Sheffield works. The steel ingot from which the forging was made weighed 160 tons. The forging itself, wiien finished, measured over 7ft in diameter, weighed 120. tons, and was 50ft long. The plant required to- turn out tills' immense forging was of exceptional capacity. Messrs. >Cammei, Laird were the successful tenderers for one of the two big war vessels which are being built for iho Admiralty.