Boys’ Cycling Tour.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1941, Page 2

Boys’ Cycling Tour.

A party of 21 Y.M.C.A. boys from the Petone and the Hutt districts arrived in Masterton yesterday on a 1,000 mile cycle tour of the North Island. A cheery log fire and hot showers were provided for the boys when they arrived at the Masterton Y.M.C.A. Tea was served around the fire by representatives of the Ladies’ Auxiliary. In the evening a party attended the pictures. After spending the night at the local gymnasium, which had been suitably fitted up for the occasion, the boys left this jnorning for Palmerston North. Lost and Found.

That the tons of debris arising from the remodelling of Dee Street Hospital, Invercargill, contained a radium needle valued at about £25 was not known until some days ago, when a member of the nursing staff, in probing in the rubbish, came across something foreign to broken bricks and powdered cement. She forwarded her find to the hospital authorities, who have identified it as a radium needle mislaid in July, 1940, and which caused the Dee Street building to be probed from top to bottom by a special machine. Sheep Classes at Shows.

A proposal that all sheep be shown in natural condition, and that regulations be inserted in the show schedules, forwarded by the Mayfield Agricultural and Pastoral Association, was adopted at a meeting of the Temuka and Geraldine Agricultural and Pastoral Association. “It is a good idea it would be fairer if sheep were not trimmed at all,” said the president (Mr J. F. Hayhurst). “It would be better for the average sheep man,” said another member. “The prizes at present Went to those who" had the time and knowledge to ‘fake-up.’ ” ■ The Kilt in Poland.

A firm friendship has been cemented between the Poles and their Scots hosts which will outlast these shadowed times. There have been links between the two peoples through hundreds of years. One of the most notable goes back to Stuart times. Charles Edward Stuart’s mother was Clementine Sobieska, a princess of Poland. Scots have frequently travelled to and from Poland. Many settled there as refugees following the Stuart rebellion. Today, many Poles who have fled the Nazi terror, have taken refuge in Scotland, one among them whose grandmother was a Macdonald, of Clanranald. On his West Poland estate he used to wear the kilt of that Highland clan. Many such links are being found among the Polish forces in Scotland. Scots are learning the Polypi language at classes being held in many towns and villages.