Invercargill venue praised
Although Rugby Park was heavy and in places greasy as a result of recent rains, the ground was not in such bad order as the visitors from Dunedin were led to expect.
In the morning a considerable quantity of sand was spread on the ground, and it helped the players to keep their feet, though causing the game to slow down when these patches were struck. The ball did not become very wet, and the Otago backs were able to give a line exhibition of the passing game.
The Southland Rugby Union owns the park, and I have to congratulate it on having secured such a fine property. It is going to prove a firstclass playing area, and I consider the authorities are doing the right thing in putting sand into it.
If sea sand were utilised, however, better results would be obtained. — by ‘Full Back’
Sinclair ladies farewelled
A very pleasant evening was spent last Friday, when about 90 residents of the Hoopers Inlet and Wickliffe Bay districts gathered at the residence of Mr Sheppard at Wickliffe Bay, to do honour to Mrs Sinclair, a very old resident of Hoopers Inlet, and her two daughters, who are severing their connection with the district.
Mr Macandrew, after referring to the high esteem in which they were held in the district presented Mrs Sinclair, on behalf of the residents, with a handsome oak and bronze clock, and the Misses Sinclair each with a gold pendant and chain and trinket box. Dancing followed till early morning.
Women underrepresented
‘‘Women and Municipal Works” was the title of a paper read before a wellattended meeting of the Women’s Citizens’ League by is president (Mrs Spence Clark) last night. Mrs Clark dealt with her subject from several aspects, and invariably in a manner highly interesting, and often informative. Applause was frequent and the discussion following the reading of the paper showed that those present were in wholehearted support of Mrs Clark s view that, ‘‘so long as the citizens consist of both sexes, so long should their representatives in municipal government be of both sexes.”
Considering the splendid opportunities offering, she proceeded, women were surprisingly few in the public life of New Zealand, but it was equally true that there were many behind the scenes, striving unostentatiously, without whose assistance it would have been impossible for those more in the public eye to achieve what they had.
She went on to say that Dunedin had no women on its Education Board, its University Council, its City Council, nor the Townplanning Society.
School committees, again, were dealing with matters of infinitely more interest to women than to men. But women were absent in the committees. Men were concerned with pleasing the eyes and the ears of the children, and they were anxious to see that there was an abundance of prizes, but they gave little attention to the question of sanitation. The average man did not see dirt or disorder, nor smell bad air from a lack of ventilation. Nor, evidently, did he possess the initiative to assist women to where she could remedy defects he overlooked. But perhaps he was afraid of being stirred out of the rut where he had allowed himself to find a place. — ODT, 6.9.1922