Otago Girls’ wins swim relay

There was a large attendance of pupils and friends of the various girls’ colleges yesterday afternoon at the Municipal Baths to witness the annual contest for the four-a-side relay shield, over a distance of 133 1/3 yards.

At the start the girls took the water in fine style. The end of the first lap saw Archerfield with a slight lead, while the Girls’ High School, St Dominic’s, and Columba touched together, St Hilda’s were some yards behind. In the second lap Archerfield lost the lead to the Girls’ High School by some five yards, with St Dominic’s a close third, Columba next, and St Hilda’s well back. On the completion of the third lap the teams closed up a bit, but High School still held the lead. Archerfield gradually closed on High School, but failed to win by some six inches, the results being: High School 1, Archerfield 2, St Dominic’s 3, Columba 4, St Hilda’s 5.

The Girls’ High School retains the shield for another year. The relay was won in the fast time of 94sec, which is a Dunedin college record, the best previous time being 115 seconds by the Girls’ High School last year. The winning team’s average per girl for the 33 yards was a little under 24sec, which is a marked improvement all round in this branch of college sport. Mr Tom Hughes and G. Westwood acted as judges.

Mr Henderson, who presented the shield, referred to the marked improvement the girls had shown this year.

Mr E.H. Olds, the instructor to the colleges, acted as starter.

The topic of the hour

The urgent significance of the general strike in the Home Country can hardly be exaggerated. 

The malign influence of the upheaval is sure to extend to all parts of the Empire in indirect ways, and the special pity of it is that this overwhelming trouble should have occurred at a time when British trade seemed to be fairly on the upward incline. — Editorial

Rail replacement buses

The Mornington cable car service was again interrupted yesterday, a heated main bearing necessitating three stoppages between 2pm and 5.30pm.

Four corporation buses, however, maintained a service via Stafford Street during the periods in which the cable cars were not running, and the bearing was finally adjusted about 6pm, from which time the cable cars ran uninterruptedly.

Prowler stalks girl boarders

That social pest, the ‘‘Peeping Tom,’’ is at his nocturnal work, a private boarding school for girls having received his unwelcome attentions.

Two of the girls were in the bathrooms the other night when one of them, feeling a draught, went to close the window, but almost collapsed with fright when she saw a face peering through. She hastened into the next bathroom to warn the other occupant, and, glancing towards the window, the girls saw the prying individual peering through the window. The second girl received such a fright that she fled and left her companion struggling with the door handle in a frantic effort to get out. The cries roused the whole school, but the intruder made off speedily. – ODT, 7.5.1926