LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Narrow Win.

Masterton Park scored a narrow win over the Masterton Club in a B grade tennis match on Saturday. Both teams won 12 matches, but the Park scored 153 games to Masterton’s 150.

Swimming Records Broken. At the' Canterbury swimming championships on Saturday afternoon, two records were broken. W. Hart broke the New Zealand record for the intermediate boys’ 100 yards backstroke by 9 l-ssec (time. 73 sec.), and Miss R. Low broke her own provincial record for the 100 yards backstroke by 4sec, her time being 73sec.

Car and Lorry Collide. A car driven by Mr E. J. Longman, with a passenger, Mr H. Hamer, collided with a lorry at the intersection of the Whirokino Highway and the No. 2 line on Saturday, a Foxton Press Association message reports. The car overturned into the ditch. No one was injured but both vehicles were considerably damaged. Mr M. E. Cockram was the driver of the lorry. To Improve Library Service.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has granted £7500 to the New Zealand Library Association, to be devoted to a five-year programme which has been submitted to and approved by the corporation. It will enable the association to carry out its work more thoroughly and expeditiously, and to render a fuller service to the public through the associated libraries. The cheque for the first year amounts to £1750.

Yachting Championship.

By winning the fourth race for the New Zealand Idle Along yacht championships at Nelson on Saturday, Rose Marie (Bay of Plenty) gained an unassailable position for the title. With 22 points, Rose Marie had only to finish in the final event to win. Tornado (Wellington) -had gained 16 points, Mayfair (Nelson) 14, Marita (Canterbury) 12, and Vagabond (Marlborough) 9. Sailing a splendid race, Rose Marie also won the final evnt in the afternoon from Tornado, with Marita third, Mayfair fourth, and Vagabond fifth. High Jump Record Equalled.

A high jump equalling the best previous performance by a New Zealander marked a handicap meeting conducted by the Wellington Amateur Athletic Centre at Hataitai Park on Saturday. E. Phillips, who lias been jumping at. or near the 6ft. mark throughout the season, was credited with a leap of 6ft. Bin.. equalling M. H. Chadwick’s best New Zealander's performance last year. Recognition of Phillips’s effort as a record was precluded by the removal of the bar before the height could be measured by a steel tape. At the uprights the bar was raised to 6ft. Ilin., but when the measurement in the centre was made the height was given as 6ft. Ilin. The probable help given by a strong wind and the absence of a surveyor to make the necessary measurements of the bar and the take-off were other factors against the application for a record.

Angus: “Noo, Maggy, here's a ticket for- the conjurin’ show, and when the conjurer comes t' the part where he makes a teaspoonful o' flour into a dozen loaves, watch verra' verra’ close."