Saturday’s test was poor in comparison with the first test against the Australians, played on the same ground in 1922, when the public were treated to a exhibition.
China’s main weakness, which has been apparent in all their matches, is that of endeavouring to run the ball through into goal instead of shooting more often, and this has proved their undoing on more than one occasion throughout the tour.
They are wonderfully accurate in heading the ball, being much superior in this branch of the game to the New Zealand side which played on Saturday. Although in a losing position all through the game the Chinese never lost heart, and played gamely to the final whistle.
The New Zealand team was perhaps the best that has so far represented the dominion against the Chinese, and they quickly had the measure of the opposition. — by ‘Corner Kick’
Care in pregnancy to cut deaths
Mrs Carmalt-Jones, who holds the certificate of the Central Midwives Board, London, expressed the conviction at the recent conference of the National Council of Women, over which she presided, that it is possible to reduce the high maternal mortality rate in New Zealand.
She emphasised the need of care in respect of internal and external cleanliness and bodily health on the part of the expectant mother.
If it was said that they were "frightening the women" she replied that the older women had got to frighten the younger women in order to warn them of the intense danger of apathy with regard to their health, in what ought to be a normal condition, that of child-birth.
It was impossible to emphasise too strongly the necessity for carrying out the easy advice given, and given entirely free, by the Plunket Society and St Helen’s Hospitals in their pre-natal clinics. It was advisable that the dress should not be worn too tight; the present fashion lent itself to such advice.
Persistent 1-shilling bid fails
Articles of varied description are being lost by people every day, but the articles left or lost on railway trains, or in specified railway departments, give a good indication of the carelessness of some people. Such a multifarious collection of lost property as that sold by auction on account of the New Zealand Railways, is not often seen. There were 208 lots which included clothing, bicycles, watches, jewellery, suit cases, walking sticks, baskets, boots and shoes, separators, rabbitskins, water bottles, umbrellas, spectacles, sheepskins, linoleum, lime and cement and numerous other things. The articles which sold most readily were walking sticks and umbrellas. As each article was produced, a woman in the front row started the ball rolling by calling, out "A bob." Although she did this with consistent regularity she did not have an article knocked down to her. — ODT, 11.9.1924
Compiled by Peter Dowden
