It is customary to have a boy plying near in a boat to recover the ball whenever it goes into the water; but he was not on the scene on Saturday, when the match Zingari-Richmond v Port Chalmers was played.
Early in the first spell the ball crossed the railway line and rolled into the water. Another ball was forthcoming, and the game was not delayed.
The second ball, also, went into the harbour, and the occasion afforded a large crowd of schoolboys great amusement. Rocks, stones, and missiles of every description were thrown at the peninsula side of the ball, and eventually it was carried to the water's edge and was promptly secured by a youth who waded in.
The game was then resumed. By that time the first ball had been carried by the outgoing tide and wind 400 or 500 yards away. Several boys commandeered a boat, and managed to secure it after it had got round the peninsula point into the channel.
During a recent meeting of the Tauranga Acclimatisation Society interesting details were given by Mr Macmillan with regard to the disposal of New Zealand eggs in England.
A gentleman residing in Derby had informed him that he had frequently bought New Zealand eggs, which had gone to London and been sold there as fresh-laid Derby eggs. Out of curiosity he had frequently set New Zealand eggs, and from the preserved variety had secured a fair percentage of chicks. But in frozen eggs there had been no signs of vitality.
From these facts Mr Macmillan thought a way might be found of solving the problem of importing partridge eggs and rearing young partridges therefrom. Were the English partridge eggs just sufficiently preserved, they might be conveyed here and hatched successfully. This little discovery, he added, might enable societies to introduce in a cheap manner new strains of blood among both partridges and pheasants.
The typhoid fever epidemic in the Epsom and One-tree Hill districts continues to spread, and the Health Department has reason to fear that the water supply is the source of the trouble. Since April 1 (says the New Zealand Herald) no less than 47 cases of typhoid fever have been reported to the Health Department from the Auckland city and suburban area, and of these 44 have occurred in the Epsom and One-tree Hill districts.
Only one case has been reported so far from Onehunga. Stringent measures are being taken by the department to render the water supply perfectly safe. - ODT, 17.5.1915.
