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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20744, 2 March 1939, Page 6

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WELLINGTON TROTS Metropolitan Hand:#p; 6—4 Holen’s Bay (P. Gallagljer), 1: 3—3 Franz V |T.*r.^(A. # Q Far iand), 2; 7—6 Muto <T Roe). 3. All started. Wairarapa Handicap: 3 Jesso Owens, 1; 4 Aqua Bond, 2; 2 Laurenc Wood, 3. VISITING CRICKETERS SMITH’S SEVEN WICKETS OAMARU. Thursday P. Smith’s remarkable average of seven wickets for four runs off nine overs was the feature of the match between the Combined Colleges and Sir Julien Cahn’s XI. to-day. Baxter scored 43 and the Colleges were all out for 84. WIN FOR VISITORS The visitors won the match by an innings and 269 runs. Combined Colleges being dismissed in their second innings for 87 runs (Geary 35, Jackson four for 12, Walsh five for 33), CAR OVERTURNS Mr J. Cottor, of Te Kuiti, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital this afternoon suffering from a severe arm injury, when the car in which he was travelling, overturned at Rukuhia as a result of a tyre blowing out. Messrs D. Watson and L. D. Sorenson, also of Te Kuiti, who were in the car, escaped injury. "END THE RACE” FEVERISH REARMAMENT APPEAL TO GERMANY LONDON, March 1. The Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, in a speech, called on Germany to end the feverish rearmament and meet Britain in conference. "It is within Germany’s power to end the insane race by the simple expedient of crying a halt,” he said. "She wants equality. So do we. She will find us willing to discuss with her all matters of common concern, but she will not find us prepared to meet her with our hands tied behind our back while she holds a loaded pistol. "Let the totalitarian states take their courage in both hands and set their feet on the road along which Mr Chamberlain has already gone more than halfway to meet them.”