Auckland Cricket Championship.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1940, Page 4

Auckland Cricket Championship.

The Auckland senior cricket championship for the 1939-40 season has been won by the Middlemore Eleven. Badminton. The opening night of the St. Matthew's Badminton Club will be held in the St. Matthew’s Parish Hall tomorrow night, at 7 o’clock. Fleet of Buses Visit Masterton. A fleet of buses drawn up outside the Midland Hotel, Masterton, this morning attracted considerable local attention. The buses were conveying a large party from Dunedin on a conducted tour of the North Island, and had stopped at Masterton last, night on the return trip home. Rugby Football. A number of Rugby football clubs in the Wairarapa opened the season on Saturday with practice matches. For so early in the season, there were good attendances and satisfactory individual form was shown. Arrangements are being made for a match to be played at. Masterton between the Red Star and Hutt seniors. Band Concert. An excellent musical programme was given in the Park yesterday afternoon by the Masterton Municipal Band. There was a large attendance of the public, the audience being most appreciative. The conductor, Mr. G. W. Hutchinson, had every reason to be well satisfied with the band's performance.

Military Enlistments. The following men have enlisted at the Masterton Defence Office for service overseas: Messrs P. B. N. Gaskin, J. L. Verner, B. P. Thompson, L. J. Newland, R. J. Morgan, B. J. Savage, R. L. Faulknor (all of Masterton); A. S. Anderson (Greytown) and C. A. McLeod (Martinborough).

League of Nations Union. Members and others interested are reminded that the annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the League of Nations Union will be held tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the W.D.F.U. Rest Room. Annual reports, including that of the Summer School held in January at the Frederick Wallis Home, Lower Hutt, will be presented. Officers will be elected for the coming year and also representatives for the Patriotic Committee and the Red Cross Society. Straight Out War Gift.

A straight out donation of £lOOO to the Government for war purposes was made by the Otago District Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows at the half-yearly meeting of deputies on Saturday. C.S. Bro A. Sligo, who made the suggestion, emphasised that if the Allies lost the war, friendly societies would be in dire trouble, and the Manchester Unity’s funds of nearly £500,000 would probably be confiscated. It was only a form of insurance that would be well spent. They commended the Government for the manner in which it was prosecuting the war, and they should not forget that the Governments had always stood by the friendly societies. They should do something in the interests of the Empire to see that there were funds to carry on the war. The suggestion was approved unanimously.

Deaths From Tuberculosis. That the very grave loss for human life and the toll of human suffering caused by tuberculosis in New Zealand could be very materially reduced within a period of but a few years was emphasised by Dr R. S. R. Francis. medical superintendent of Otaki sanatorium, in an address to members of the Palmerston North Lunch Club. Quoting from the weekly bulletins of notifiable -infectious diseases issued by the Health Department, Dr Francis said that for 12 weeks from the beginning of last December there wore 802 eases of notifiable diseases, of w.hich 298 were tuberculosis, representing 37 per cent of the total. Deaths during the period from notifiabe diseases numbered 143, of which 126 were from tuberculosis, equally 88 per cent. In other words, more than onethird of the notiable infectious diseases were caused by tuberculosis, which accounted for nearly 90 per cent of the death rate. The average weekly number of tuberculosis eases, as shown by the bulletins, was approximately 25. and there were 10 deaths each week from the disease.