Contrast in Cheers.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 4

Contrast in Cheers.

A ripple of laughter went through the crowd of onlookers at the hockey test on Spriggens Park, Wanganui, when the English women gave their customary three cheers at the beginning of the match. The crowd’s laughter was spontaneous and in no way meant to be discourteous. The contrast between the New Zealand team’s “hip-ray, hip-ray, hip-ray” and the English women's rather sedate "hip-rawh, hip-rawh, hip-rawh” was too much for the big crowd, and it was a very mirthless' individual who did not let at least one chuckle escape his lips. Icicles at Kakatahi.

When the Wanganui Rugby representative team which was travelling to Raetihi recently halted at Kakatahi for morning tea, members were greeted. with an unusual sight at the store. A small water pipe, which brings water from the higher levels to the stor?, had burst and the pressure forced a-fine spray out over a nearby fruit tree and long cocksfoot grass. Immediately it settled on the bare branches of the trees or the blades of grass the water froze. The freezing apparently began early the night before, because by 10 o’clock in the morning, when the sun was beginning to penetrate the low gully the break had occurred in, there were hundreds of icicles, inches thick, hanging from the tree and grass. Every branch and every twig was covered in ice.