LATE SPORTING

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 6

LATE SPORTING

ELLERSLIE RACES T OTALIS ATOR FALLS A decrease of £19,867 was registered on the totalisator at Ellerslie today. when the machine handled £59,606 for seven races, compared with £79,474 for seven races last year (when the first day of the meeting was held on the King's Birthday. RUG3V FOOTBALL Te Aroh3: Old Boys 8. Tui Maori 6. Matamata: Patatere 8. Waiwere 6; Matamata 8, War-dviile 0ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL WIN FOR ROTOWARO With both teams playing fast and oxciting football. Hamilton Wanderers suffered their second successive defeat at the hands of Rotowaro when the South Auckland Football Association’s senior competition was continued at Seddon Park this afternoon. The score was 2—l. both goals for Rotowaro being scored by R. Teytor W. Bullock scored for Wanderer#.

APPEAL TO BE LODGED IMPORT REGULATIONS SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT GOVERNMENTS’ DECISION WELLINGTON, Saturday The Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G, R. Mason, stated to-day that consideration has been given to the judgment of Mr Justice Callan in the lest case brought by E. Jackson and Co., of Auckland, against the Collector of Customs, for wrongful detention of imported goods under the import control regulations, and it has been decided to appeal to the Court of Appeal. An application for a fixture for hearing the appeal will to the next sitting of the Court of Appeal at Wellington, which will commence on June 12. SUBMARINE TRAGEDY NINETY MEN STILL ABOARD RESCUE OPERATIONS DELAYED LONDON, June 3 Rescue operations on the sunken submarine Thetis, with 90 men aboard, have been abandoned till dawn. SAILORS STILL ALIVE? NOISES IN SUBMARINE LONDON. June 3. The Admiralty announced that divere reported faint tappings from the submarine Thetis at 2 a.m„ indicating that there is still life aboard. Salvage operations are being resumed and a further attempt is being made to raise the stern as soon as slack water permits. Slack water 'is at 6 a.m. and no further reports am expected before then.