GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1915, Page 7

GOLF.

NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. Oil Thursday, September 9, the New Plymouth Ladies Golf Club arc holding a Patriotic All Day Tournament at the Waiwakaiho links. The proceeds are to bo in aid of a hospital bed in a ward in which beds will be donated by the numerous lady golfers throughout the dominion. In the morning a bogio match will be held oyer nine holes, entrance 6<L A fourteen-hole flag medal match will be played in the afternoon. 6d entry. There will be driving and approaching competitions, and continuous putting on the club house green (post entries). Entries for the bogis and medal match clos; with the lion, secretary (Miss A. Bswipiv )m Saturday. September 4. The to'iTnanurct is open to all lady fjoi'ca vheiher affiliated to the L.G.U. or otherwise. A 'bus will leave Avery's shop at ten minutes past ten on Thursday morning, returning from the links after the tournament. NOTES. . The Christchurch Golf Club is living up to its trust as owners of the standard course of Canterbury, and one of the very finest in Now Zealand. A long series of improvements have been carried out, ranging from the re-plotting of the course and construction of fresh greens to ornamental planting, of which still more has to be done. Thanks lo the generosity of the president (Mr. Geo. Humphreys), the smoking room has been transformed by the end being taken out and a great bay window being put in, looking out on the first tec and the last green and down the course. Now, after much consideration, a scheme has been adopted for a high pressure water supply to the greens at a cost of £4OO. This will vastly improve the greens in the dry season, and greatly add to the at traetiveness of the course for summer golf, as well as ensuring the greens being in first-rate order at the beginning of the winter. * * * Si

Municipal golf will soon be in progress in Wellington. Authority !u;s been given by the City Council to the City Engineer to erect a golf house on the Municipal Links at Berhampore, at an estimated cost of £2OO. The Reserves Committee of the. council proposes to meet afc an early dato to arrange all details for the working of the course. The chairman of tho committee stated that tho links were now"alwojt completed. ' '