IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 415, 23 April 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

ST. GEORGE’S DAY. To-day was S'-. Georg ’t Day, and flags wre flown on Government buildings, while the banks observed a holiday. UN'TED RUGBY TEAM. Yh United Old Boys Rugby Football senior team :o play Stratford ioTiorrow i s as follows: —F. Adlam, J Bowl r. G T. R'ch- r-lson, L. Lash. I. McCready. J. McCarrison, W. Lash. J. H Robinson, A. Kofoed, C. Thompson, J. Murphy, J. Hea h, L. O’Keefe, M. Bilski, O. Ries. Emergencies: W. 1. Cochrane, S. Bulmer. STRATFORD JUNIORS. The Stratford Junior team to play Eltham at Stratford at 1.30 p.m. tomorrow is as follows:—Pollard. Cuff (2), Harkness, Hardy-Jones, Tubby, Jackson (2). Collins, Lampshire, Shannon, Eagar, Dennehy, Bourke, See, Anglesey, Crighton, Charlton, Dickson. POPPY DAY IN STRATFORD. The s ale of poppies in Stratford to. 'lay was carried out by a number of lady sellers on behalf of the Return'd Soldiers’ Associa ior, and the r - <ponse by the public was. excellent The biggest cost in the manufacture of the poppies is labour, and this is all provided by disabled vet rans, so Itet .he cause is a most wor.hy, one. RUPERT BROOKE ANNIVERSARY. To-day is the anniversary of. the death of Rupert Brooke, po. t and. soldier. Brooke died e.:rly, though not before he had given th world immortal lines. In the 28 years of his life Rupert Brocke wrote verse Which nreathed the very ■■ ssence of that England for which he laid down his life on April 23, 1915. He was buried in t n olive grove on the mountainous 'eland of Scyros, in the Aegean, and yet ‘‘hath place In -i few minds ” “H wears "The ungathered blossom of quiet; *’S iller he ‘Than a deep well at noon. ... He is ‘Th e silence following great words of ptt’.ce.”