A low-ceilinged room with generous skylight space provides for the •Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association a much more congenial meeting place than many sports bodies have at their disposal. The management committee of the association found the other evening, however, that such a room has its disadvantages. Shortly before 5.30 the secretary’s reading of the minutes was completely drowned out by the battering of hailstones on the skylights. Fortunately, the uproar did not last long, but shortly after the members had' another reminder of the unpleasant weather outside when a late-comer, with studied absent-mindedness, entered the room and took his place at the table, with his head still cowering beneath a large umbrella.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1940, Page 2
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