Indoor Basketball.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1939, Page 4

Indoor Basketball.

On account of many players being absent on holidays, only practice indoor basketball games were played at the Y.M.C.A. Gymnasium last evening. Team captains are reminded that the championship competition will commence next Tuesday. Totalisator Returns Increase. Totalisator receipts throughout New Zealand this Easter show an increase of £90,469 10s over the same period last year. Twelve months ago several fixtures were held in unfavourable weather, but this year the weather was exceptionally fine. Good Fishing “Bag.” Two local fishermen had an exceedingly successful outing over the weekend. Fishing on private property in the Dalefield district and using the dry fly twenty-nine well grown and good conditioned brown trout, were landed. The average weight of the fish was 51 lbs. which shows that there are still good fish to be obtained in the district. Station Approaches. The sealing of portion of the parking area at the Masterton Railway Station, which was recently completed, has made a vast improvement to the station approaches, which was greatly appreciated during the rush of holiday traffic at Easter. Previously the area in question was in a decidedly rough state. Motor Accident. Late on Monday afternoon a car travelling from Masterton to Dannevirke went off the road, one and a-half miles north of Woodville, and capsized. A passenger, Mr Vivian Lee, of Clareville, received a cut on the shoulder from the broken window glass and was medically attended. The driver of the vehicle was Mrs D. J. Oliver, of Walton’s Avenue. Masterton, whose sister. Mrs M. Eishop, of Dannevirke, was also in the car. Creed of Fascism. “Those who are opposed to Fascism should be specially careful at this time not to confuse it with any national people,” said Mr H. Winston Rhodes in an address to the Workers’ Educational Association in Christchurch. "When we fight Fascism we fight that alone and not the people and the culture of Germany and Italy. In time of crisis people are too apt to blame the German people for all the crimes of Fascism. Yet there are thousands of Germans, just as there are thousands of Italians, who are our allies.” Awatea Delayed. The late arrival of an express train at Sydney, a strong westerly set of the current and a head swell in the Tasman all served to delay the Union Steamship Company’s liner Awatea which arrived at Auckland yesterday morning nearly two hours behind schedule. .The liner was scheduled to leave Sydney at 5 b’clock on Saturday afternoon, but owing to the delay of the Melbourne-Sydney express on account of heavy floods she did not sail till 5.30. For‘the first 30 hours after clearing Sydney heads the vessel s progress was retarded by a strong current. A head swell was expei ienced for some time, but in every other respect the passage was good.