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The Opotiki News Monday, March 28, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Surf Demcnstraticn. The Whakatiuie Surf Club’s team was not able to accompany the. Opotiki Club’s team to Gisborne on Saturday for- the inter-dub demonstration yesterday. Visiter “At Home”. “There is no Dominion in which I have travelled in which an Englishman or a Scot should feel so much at home as New Zealand,” said Sir Hector Duff, a Scottish visitor to Napier. Large Trout Caught. ' * Fishing in tlie Waioeka river yesterday, -Mr \V. Jteece caught a trout weighing 61b. 4oz. This is the largest trout caught to date for the President’s trophy. Mew W.D.F.U. Branch. At a meeting held at Matawai last week, a branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union was formed. Airs White, d Tauranga, organiser for the tiivison. in the Bay of Plenty, was present and gave an address. Congratulations. ‘ At a meeting of the management committee of the AVainui Surf LifeSaving Ciub, held last Thursday, opportunity was taken to congratulate the week-end patrol team on its linework in effiecting the first save to the credit of the club. Congratulations were extended also to the bellman Air. L. Clarke. Young Farmers’ Visit. A visit to the Bay of Plenty wiil be made by a -party of 1-10 young farmers from the Alanawatu in Alay. The party will arrive in Opotiki on Alay 21 and will then leave for and Tauranga. f .l he party' will be brought by six motor buses, with other vehicles to carry tbs baggage, two cooks will travel with the party, which will bring its own bed. J lie total cost to each member will be Co. Presentation to Constable Julian. The congratulations of members of the Gisborne, police force were extended to Constable It. Julian last Thurs. day afternoon on his recent marriage. On behalf ol the force, -inspector G. J 3, Edwards presented Constable Julian with a crystal table lamp and referred to his popularity among his fellow officers and the cordial relations existing between, him and the public. Other speakers who took* the opportunity or congratulating the newlybeda were Senior-Sergeant J. F. M-ALu-namara, Detectives G. A. McAVkirtcr and G. 15.I 5 . Belton, and Gunstables H. Hunter and Al. Teoee. Constable Julian made a suitable reply.

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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 16, 28 March 1938, Page 2

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The Opotiki News Monday, March 28, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 16, 28 March 1938, Page 2

The Opotiki News Monday, March 28, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 16, 28 March 1938, Page 2

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