The Opotiki News Friday, April 1, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 18, 1 April 1938, Page 2

The Opotiki News Friday, April 1, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Raukokcre Bridge, Slow progress is still being made in the construction of the Raukokore river bridge and it will be a considerable time before the structufevjs completed, ;H., Waiotahi Dance. 1 A dance will be held by the Upotiki Young Farmers’ Club in the Waiotahi Hall on April 6. The Kit Kat orchestra will supply the music; Hunt Club. The annual meeting or the Qpotiki Hunt Club will lie held in the it.S'.’A. club-room on Thursday 7tlij April, .V , 7 commencing at 8 p.m. i March Rainfall. The rainfall, for the month of March in the 1 Opotiki borough was 3.80 1 inches. Rain fell on IT Mays, the heaviest! fall being on the ‘s,th. when I. inches fell. Uj, Matawai Branch L.P. At the annual meeting of the Matawai branch of the .Labour Party, the president, Mr. 11. B. Baird, stated that the branch, winch was started in August with 10 members, had increased to 130. Auction; Sale. Headers are reminded of the auction sale to be conducted at Mrs. Searle’s boarding-house, Bit-hard street on Saturday morning. The auctioneer will he Mr O. Pipe. 1 *■ 1 . \ Clearing: Sate. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. will Conduct a clearing sale on the farm of Ml’. Id. G. Neal, who has sold liis farm and is leaving the district. The sale will be held on 12th. April. Opening of Coif Season. The Opotiki Golf Club will officially open the golf season on Saturday (tomorrow). The links will be declared open at 1.30 p.m. \A mixed foursome will be played during the afternoon. The ladies’ opening day will he on Wednesday next, April 6. Two rounds will be played, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Parking Device. Something of interest to all motor car owners was seen in Dunedin recently at a. demonstration of a safe-ty-parking device, an invention of 31 r J. Hicks. Mosgiel. The device is claimed to be one that will baffle even the cleverest motor thief, and to prevent would-be thieves from operating. New Cemetery. Work is now well in hand in preparing the new cemetery section on the main highway on the opposite side of the creek to the present cemetery. Owing to the large number of deaths in Opotiki during the past few months tin- old cemetery has practically no vacant plots. Only a portion of the area available at the new cemetery is being prepared at present, to keep down maintenance costs. Kereu Bridge Repaired. The spans of the Keren Over bridge which were washed away by, Hoods some time ago, have now been replaced by the contractor of the Ban kokore bridge. 'The bridge has been m use for some days, and lias done away with considerable inconvenience to users of tlu- coast road. The new ropc-wav has also been installed at the crossing to enable cream supplies to be sent to the To Ka.'m factory in the event of flood again damaging the low-level bridge before the permanent structure is completed. Maori War Skeleton. The skeleton of an old man, with the ' skull smashed in was found on Tuesday afternoon at AYainui beach 1)v a gang of men engaged in. clearing and levelling a portion of the ground to the south of 31'iss A. Irons’ residence, near the Olcitn Creek, states the -Gisborne Herald. Cases have been reported before of human remains having been unearthed at Wainui, but interest has been aroused in this instance! by the fact that the skeleton is complete and the condition of the bones indicate that the man died from wpr injuries perhaps 100 years ago.

Freedom! Association. Headers are reminded of the address to be given by Professor R. 31. Algie, organiser of tlie Auckland Provincial Freedom Association, in the Regent Theatre to-night. Radio Offer. A special offer of five radio sets at substantial reductions will be made to-morrow by the Farmers’- Trading Co., Ltd. Dance in Lyric Hall. The Opotikj. Amateur Athletic Club will conclude the season with avmouster dance in the Lyric Hall to-morrow night. Trophies won during the season will be presented at the function. r . Shipping. y '>4 The motor-ship .Waiotahi! arrived at Opotiki this morning. The 1 - vessel had a very rough trip, due to' the southeasterly gale which prevailed' during the run from Auckland. The vessel is scheduled toi leave at 6.30 a.m. tomorrow. Funeral. The funeral of the late Mr Romeo 31'oore which was held at WAiawa yesterday, was largely attended by waterside workers from Opotiki. i . The; Weather. *‘ The following weather forecast lor the 24 hours commencing at 9 a.m. to-day was issued by the meteorological office The indications are for moderate to strong south-easterly to easterly winds, later backing in places to north-easterly. Weather cloudy to overcast and in places misty rain is to be. expected. Temperatures warm. The barometer has a falling tendency. Seas rough.