The game, which it was originally intended should be played on the Carisbrook Ground as a "curtain-raiser" to the big fixture, was played on the Oval. The ground was in a very sloppy state, and the game, taken all round, did not produce a display indicative of much organisation on the part of either team.
Still, it must be said that the Canterbury girls stood out, comparatively, so far as combination was concerned, and their lead in the second spell was the result of far-seeing, combined efforts which, luckily for Otago, were frustrated in the first half.
Cr rails against flour mill
Cr Larnach moved, in accordance with notice: "That, pursuant to the agreement between the Dunedin City Council and the Crown Milling Company, the said company be given six months’ notice of the intention of the Dunedin City Council to determine the concession by which the company has the use and enjoyment of a private railway siding across Princes street south, and that the said concession be accordingly withdrawn."
Cr Larnach, in moving the motion, quoted by-laws to show that the company had no legal right to cross the corporation’s street. The crossing was fixed at a cost of £76 some years ago, and this, in his opinion, should be paid by the company. The cost of the upkeep of the crossing was about £250 per annum, and he suggested that the Crown Milling Company should pay £50 of that amount.
Cr Tapley opposed the motion, and in doing so said that the company had enjoyed the privilege for many years, and, if they did not encourage the industry, they were driving it to the south, where so many others had gone.
Cr Shacklock said that he was not in favour of the motion. If Dunedin was to grow as many of its public men thought it should there should be many more sidings than at present.
The motion was defeated by a substantial majority, Cr Larnach calling for a division.
Cable cars’ double trouble
After a long spell without mishap, particularly on the Mornington tram line, both the Mornington and Roslyn hill services came to a sudden stop shortly after 5 o’clock last evening. The stoppage on the Momington line, which occurred at 10 minutes past 5, was caused through a strand of the rope breaking and becoming bunched up in a wheel.
The broken piece was cut out and the ends temporarily repaired so that the service could be set going again by about 7.30. Permanent repairs were to be effected during the night. The trouble which brought the Roslyn cars to a standstill at 6.17pm was of a more serious nature. The engine main shaft coupling broke, and the repairing of it is a big job.
The work, however, will be carried on all night, and the manager hoped to be able to recommence the usual time-table running up to time this morning.
Referring to these mishaps in the City Council meeting last night, Cr Scott said he believed that was the first occasion on which these two lines had broken down simultaneously.
ODT, 14.9.1922
