O. Reid winning the final of the 100 yards handicap at the
Dunedin Amateur Athletic Club's meeting at the Caledonian
Ground on March 12. - Otago Witness, 23.3.1910.
The cost to the Otago Rugby Union of providing alcoholic
liquor for visiting football teams was a subject upon which a
question was preferred to the chairman of that body at the
annual meeting on Saturday night.
Mr Leonard, who asked the question, said he thought the item
was one that should be done away with.
He did not think it right for any athletic body to provide
liquor for young men.
This sentiment was greeted with some applause.
Mr Campbell, in replying to the question, said it had been a
time-honoured custom that when a team visited Dunedin they
should be received by the president of the union and the
committee and their healths drunk.
Of course, the men were not asked to take it if they did not
want it, and he was very pleased to say that he had noticed,
particularly in the case of visiting teams, that a good many
of the men did not take anything but what was called "soft
stuff".
He thought it was not a practice of the Rugby Union to spend
money on alcoholic liquor-that was a thing they had always
put their face against,-but on a team visiting Dunedin there
was some little formality to be gone through.
In regard to the custom of Sunday drives to visiting teams,
also, the chairman added that it was the expressed wish of
the New Zealand Union that these should be discontinued.
• The Lake County Press learns that mining is being pushed
ahead with much vigour in the various mines in the Skippers
district.
Messrs W. Gordon and M. Seffer are prospecting at the
branches, with encouraging results.
In this locality, the head of the Shotover, there is a big
field for enterprise.
In the early days of the diggings portions of the branches
were profitably worked, but there is a very large extent of
likely country yet untried.
Lower down the river the Branches Syndicate has started
operations under the management of Mr J. S. Collins.
The mode of operations will be hydraulicking, and the ground
to be worked the river bed.
Unfortunately, for the last three weeks the river has been
too high to permit of operations being commenced.
The plant has been tested and works well.
- ODT, 21.3.1910.
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