Points for the Shield.

Messrs. Burns, Harris and Plank had assisted Mr Wild in the preparation of an amended schedule of points for the Tournament Shield and with a few alterations, these were adopted. The "girls' big effort," basketball, has become more important as far as the Shield is concerned Basketball indeed received much attention from this Committee, as Auckland's motionfor increasing the number of N.Z.U. Blues to nine, a full team, was passed.

"A hundred years ago our affairs for good or evil were wielded triumphantly by rhetoricians. Now our affairs are hopelessly muddled by strong silent men."—G. K. chesterton.

There is no subtle spiritual evil in the fact that people always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become intolerable.-Robert Lynd.