CARTERTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1939, Page 9

CARTERTON

ROSE BOWLING MEDALS. (■‘Times-Age” Special.) Two members of the Carterton Bowling Club, civil servants, who are employed in the Carterton Post Office, followed their challenge to Wellington yesterday to play a game against the holders of the Rose Gold Medals. The match, which was played on the Wellington Club’s excellent green, created a good deal of interest and was stubbornly contested throughout. The victors. Messrs H. Simmonds and Geo. Riggs (s) defeated the holders, Messrs J. Redman and Thompson (s), 19/17. The winners were congratulated by their opponents upon their excellent play. Pragnell Cup. Playing on the Greytown green yesterday afternoon Mr Geo. W. Hart, of the Carterton Club, defeated the hold- - er of the cup, Mr R. G. Vile, after a good game by 17/13. An Excellent Record. It is many years since the Carterton Bowling Club had the distinction of winning the whole of the trophies under the jurisdiction of the Wairarapa Bowling Centre. Club members now hold the Grady Medals, the Pragnell Cup and the Champion Rink Medals. Besides this distinction, two members of the club were successful in winning the Rose Gold Medals trophies which can only be played for between Post and Telegraph officials throughout the North Island of New Zealand. Cricket Team. The Carterton junior team to play against St. Patrick’s College at Master- . ton Park on Saturday will be: —Berry, Ewing, Byers, Fitzgerald, Thompson, Steffert (2), Harp, Kennedy, Ward, Tretheway, Powell. The bus will leave Carterton at 1 o’clock sharp. A Pleasant Motor Holiday. A party consisting of Messrs Ross Hawker, of Carterton, George Townsend, of the Railway Workshops, Petone, and J. Binns, of Lower Hutt, left Carterton on Monday, December 26 on a motor tour of the North Island. Journeying through to Marton, they took the road by way of Taihape and Ohakune, thence on to the National Park and camped the first night at the Chateau. After breakfast the next morning they made their way through Taupo and on to Rotorua where they spent a very .pleasant five days in seeing the -wonders of the thermal regions. Their recommendation is to all who are able to do so to see Rotorua. After leaving Rotorua they spent a most interesting time at the Arapuni hydro-electric works and were amazed at what they saw. Leaving Arapuni they returned to Rotorua and thence on to Tauranga, the Thames and Auckland, where they stayed a few days visiting places of interest and meeting many old friends. On their return trip the party visited the wonderful W’aitomo Caves and inspected the beautiful stalactite formations, glow-worm cave and the Ruakuri and Aranui limestone caves. Their journey after leaving Waitomo was by way of Mount Messenger, through to Hawera, Wanganui, Palmerston North, thence through Levin over the Paekakariki Hill to Wellington and back to Carterton by way of the Rimutaka Hill. This trip took three weeks and they enjoyed every minute of it. In all they travelled 1500 miles, and during that

long journey were fortunate in not having a single puncture or mishap • of any kind. They met thousands of campers, and after leaving Carterton experienced no rain except for a shower at Taupo. Throughout their trip they parked in splendid camping grounds, best of which was in Auckland. Personal Items. The Rev. Pat Kokiri, one time a resident of Carterton and now of Wanganui, is paying a visit to Carterton. Mr R. G. Kemble left Carterton yesterday on a visit to New Plymouth. He will be the guest of his niece. Cheese Consignments. Large consignments of cheese left the eight dairy factories in this district on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The cheese was sent to cool storage in Wellington for shipment later.