GRANT OBTAINED

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 6

GRANT OBTAINED

RUGBY PARK SCHEME IMPROVEMENTS TO COST £2500 The New Zealand Rugby Union had decided to grant the loan of £2500 to Ihe Waikato Union for improvement to Rugby Park, Hamilton, said Mr S. S. Dean, chairman of the executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union, on Saturday. Mr Doan said the terms of the loan still had to be arranged. The money is to be expended in banking up terraces around the ground with spoil from Garden Place and with improvements to the seating accommodation. The scheme is part of a long-range plan to bring the facilities in Hamilton up to the standard required. Mr Dean said he found that the facilities in Hamilton, the centre of such an important union as Waikato, were not, at present, up to the standard required. Tribute To Fijians Speaking at a complimentary dinner given to the tourists by the Waikato Rugby Union on Saturday evening, at which the president of the Waikato Union, Mr D. it. F. Campbell, presided. Mr Dean paid a high inuute to me standard of piay ana good sportsmanship of the lour.ag Fijian payers, both on and oil file n ua. He said the tourists had comp-.cd a unique record in touring New without a defeat. He paid a ir.nuie to their skill and ability on ihe lleid and to their supern physical fitness. Their physical condiiiou contributed, in no small measure, to their extraordinary success.

An elderly woman pension in England was taken to hospital recently, where she claimed she was too poor to pay even a penny lor medical aid. In the squalid shed where she lived, authorities discovered two bank books containing credit balances of £G4S and £SOO 1