OPIKI.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 217, 13 August 1937, Page 3

OPIKI.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) OPIKi, Aug. 12. A meeting of (lie Hall Committee wa«s lie id cn Monday night, Mr 13. A. Norman prodding. The Women’s Institute wrote offering to carry out ( the beautifying of the hall section by planting shrubs, etc., and soliciting advice and assistance. The inat/tcT was discussed thoroughly, and though it was considered that the object \\as a most praiseworthy one for which ilie institute were to be commended, it wo? with regret that ilie committee decided that thev could not see their way to lend co-operation at the piescnt juncture. This decision was reluctantly arrived at, chiefly owing to the lateness of the season and also to the fact that it is hoped shortly to put in hand work previously decided upon, in the idiape of a weather porch in Hunt 01 the main entraino of the building. The secretary. was instructed to obta.n quotations tor a huituble ccal and coke grate for the open fireplace, and also to purchase teapots, milk jugs, and a fire--I'VMM‘ii. Jr is proposed lo hold the annual hall social in the second week in September conditional iiumi .t being possiole to engage :t suitable orchestra. •/J’hc Opiki branch of the New Zealand Farmens’ Union met last Wednesday. Mr Xorman presided over a good attendance. A letter Mr Hunter M.P., was received in answer to a request for information about the proposed Makcrua-Rarigi-tanc State highway. The letter explained that the site for the bridge could not be fixed until the report on the Manawatu River control had been received from the engineer engaged by the Government on this survey. Alarm won expressed at the suggestion of the union president that the union seriously should consider political partisanship. It was considered that the union’s, strongest position lien in the strict maintenance of n non-party'attitude. A pro test wan lodged against tlic action of the Ucminion executive in drawing up a union policy on the eve of the annual conference without previous reference to branches. Support was given for ilie resolution earned at tlic last executive meeting—“ That a select commit tec be vet up to deal with miusticcs to farmers,**. Ir wrn .resolved that before further representations are made lor a reduction in rural telephone charges, the fact that a reduction is actually a justified request nhould be first established. “That any addition to the guarteed price be made introspective to the extent of the average rise in costs during the previous 12 months” was another resolution passed at the meeting.