THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, July 13, 1938 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 56, 13 July 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, July 13, 1938 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Football Team to Visit Gisborne. As the result ol the proposed visit .of the 3rd. grade reps, to Gisborne on Saturday next, no third grade game will be played in Opotiki. Lunar Rainbow. A lunar rainbow was seen in Opotiki shortly after 7 o’clock last night. The rainbow colours were quite distinct and the right end of the bow appeared to rest on Venus, which is now very prominent in the west in the early evening.

Boxing Tournament. The attention of readers is directed to the advertisement inserted on page 4 by the Opotiki Boxing Association, where full details of the programme to be submitted at the. first tournament next week will be seen. Those intending to attend the tournament are requested to cut- out the full programme lor use at the tournament.

Itfeeting for Farmers. A lecture of considerable interest to farmers will be given in , the Parish Mall to-morrow night, when Mr If. Goodyear Smith, technical fields advisor to the Challenge Phosphate Co. Ltd., will deal with the manufacture of fertilisers in New Zealand and their place in modern farming. The system of mastitis testing, proposed by the Dairy Board, will also be explained. The lecture will be illustrated by cinematograph films. Rainfall at Cape Runaway. Rukuhanga, Cape Kunaway, is one of the few places on the East Coast whose rainfall for the. first six months of the year to date does not. exceed that for the corresponding period last year. The total for the six months there was '38.82in., as against '3B.9Sin. last year. These figures present an interesting comparison with those for' the neigh oouring station at Mat a ran, Hicks Bay, where up till the end of June there had been 72.97 in. of rain, as against Gl.2oin. for the same period in 1937. In June Rukuhanga experienced O.oOin. for 17 days with rain, as compared with 0.20 in. on 10 days in the corresponding month last year. The Ahuwhenua Cup. The Ahuwhenupa Cup, a handsome trophy presented by Lord Bledisloe lor competition among Maori farmers, was dispatched from Wairoa on Friday to Gisborne, on route to the Bay of Plenty, where reside the joint holders for the. current year (says the P.B. Herald). One of the two Maori farmers who tied for first place lives at Ruatoki and the other at Torero, both falling within the Miami land district administered from Rotorua. Arrangements have been made for official oversight of the trophy, which has a 'cusiderable value. The present Ahuwlionua Cup is the second of its kind, the first having been destroyed last year in a fire in Te Araroa. Wairoa Half-hcliday. A statement that several business men in Wairoa. had approached I’iin with a view to Wairoa falling in hue with other towns in New Zealand byhaving Saturday half-day, was made by the Mayor. Mr H. L. Harker, at a meeting of the. Wairoa Borough Council on Friday night. “1 think myself, said the Mayor, “that particularly sitlufted as we are. Saturday half-day would bo very suitable. No doubt it will take a little time for the people to adjust themselves to it.” Mr Harker mentioned that it might be necessary to conduct a poll for the proposed sewerage scheme for Wairoa and a poll for Saturday half-day could he held in conjunction with that. One councillor expressed the opinion that •practically all business was done on Saturday. The Weather. •The following weather forecast for the 21 horns commencing at 9 a.m. to-day was issued by the meteorological office :—The indications are for strong south-easterly winds gradually decreasing to-night. Weather squally and changeable with passing showers hut improving to-morrow. Temperatures cold. Seas very rough on the west coast and rather rough on the east. General Situation: Pressure is low to the east especially near East Cape, while an anti-cyclone of considerable extent covers the Tasman Sea and southern-eastern New Zealand. Barometers are falling over south-eastern Australia.