Otago’s unbeaten record

The return match between Otago and Southland was played at Carisbrook on Saturday before an attendance of about 12,000. The game was spoilt to some extent by the strong cold southwest wind, a wind which struck diagonally across the ground. Otago 14 points, Southland nil. The season of Otago interprovincial football which was concluded on Saturday has been responsible for the setting up of some records which will probably last for many years. In the first place, Otago has played the largest number of visiting teams she has ever met in one season in Dunedin — Canterbury, Hawkes Bay, Auckland, Taranaki, Southland (as well as in Invercargill), and Wellington, and North Otago; secondly, she won every match; thirdly, the attendances and the gates were easily records quite beyond ordinary expectations; fourthly, the matches were favoured, taking them all round, with splendid football weather.

Situation looking ugly

The news which we publish this morning respecting the developments of the conflict between Turkey and Greece is of a grave character. Up to a point it seems to justify the predictions respecting the danger that was likely to grow out of the victory of the Kemalists over the Greeks in Asia Minor. The Turks are elated and emboldened by their success in recovering Anatolia by force of arms. To them is now ascribed a determination to press forward towards their frequently avowed objective  and perhaps further. The whole situation therefore wears an ugly look. The Turks cannot actually go further than they have already done without coming into conflict with the Allies who are responsible for the maintenance of the post-war status in Thrace, at Constantinople and at the Dardanelles. Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish Nationalist leader, is credited with some bold statements respecting the military intentions of his Government if the Turkish national aspirations are not quickly humoured.

Te Rangihiroa records arts

Emphasising the need for putting things on record in connection with Maori anthropology, Dr Buck stated in the course of his lecture to the Ethnological branch of the Auckland Institute that when recently in his old district, Taranaki, endeavouring to obtain records and details in connection with Maori basket-making, several Maori women 50 and 60 years of age were unable to assist him. They had forgotten the weaving and shaping of certain shapes. "Fortunately," added the lecturer, "I found a woman of 80 years, who, though not able to make the articles at once, eventually decided to try her hand at the old work, and soon made the baskets I wanted."

Car trips not worthwhile

A journey by motor car from Auckland to Wellington has just been completed by Mr George Henning, who covered 600 miles by road in stages covering three and a-half days . Mr Henning does not consider very seriously the ambitions of certain southern motorists for long distance driving, for example, between Auckland, and Wellington, and Lyttelton and Bluff. After his three and a-half days’ travelling he is convinced that such trips will only be made once in a while for pleasure. From a business point of view it would be impossible. — ODT, 18.9.1922