TE AWAMUTU NEWS
SUCCESSFUL PICNICS ACCLIMATISATION CLUB (Special to Times) TE AWAMUTU, Monday The Te Awarnutu branch of the Acclimatisation Society organised a successful picnic during the weekend at Mr Fullerton-Smith's farm k Frontier Road. An event that was a novelty to most people was the flycasting competition, in which quite a number of fishermen took part. A series of clay-bird shooting contests was popular and "perhaps most attractive of all was a demonstration of oldtime Maori cooking methods, a hangi being arranged by Mr and Mrs Roti Roa and Mr and Mrs E. Beet, of Puketotara, with other helpers. Results of races and competitions were’ as follows; —Boys, under 10 years.—D. Erickson 1, J. Turner 2, B. Kerr 3. Girls, under 10 years.—R. Duncan 1, S. Turner 2, N. Forkert 3. Boys, 10 to 14 years.—K. Livingstone 1, B. Bell 2, E.* Beet 3. Girls, 10 to 14 years.—S. Page 1, P. Rudkin 2, H. Oliphant 3. Single ladies’ race.— Shirley Paige 1, M. Rudkin 2. Single men's race.—First* heat; M. Haselden 1, D. Yaniioutto and K. Silleet .(dead heat) 2. Second heat: W. Beet 1, B. Watson 2, R. Silleet 3. Final: Beet 1. Haselden 2. Married men's race.— First heat: E. Bell 1, W. Armstrong 2, W. Brinkworth 3. Second heat: A. McLean and D. N. Macown dead heat) 1, K. Henry 3. Final: Bell 1, Henry and Armstrong (dead heat;. 2. Ladies’ chain-stepping.—Mrs Fulton I, Mrs J. Wilson and Mrs Hat lion '-dead heat) 2. Men’s chain-stepping., —M. Pratt, A. Rowan 2. Ladies' naildriving.— Mrs Eketone 1. Mrs Boot and Miss Rowan dead heat, 2* Men’s Snail-driving.—B. Watson 1, E. Bogun 2. Senior married ladies’ race.—Mrs Gamble i, Mrs U-urke 2. Junior married ladies' race.—Mrs Eric Beil l, Mrs Bogun 2. Fishermen Try Casting Fly-casting competition: G. Voss v 7Bll. loin. 1, E. Beil .69ft. 1 in.; 2 F Harper (66ft. Sin.) 3. Clay bird shooting: In a six-bird eye-opener match seven of the competitors tied and divided the sweepstakes. In the trophy shoot seven tied, with six birds each, and in the shootoff T. Hall was first and W. Brinkworth second.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20742, 28 February 1939, Page 8
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356TE AWAMUTU NEWS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20742, 28 February 1939, Page 8
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