THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, July 18, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 58, 18 July 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, July 18, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Air Mail Rates. - v Full particulars of the Overseas uir mail rates can he had by applying to the Opotiki Past Office, where circulars are available, . Autd’s Winter Sale. y .Messrs Au'ld anil Co. announce that they will commence their winter sale oil Thursday next. 1 - \ Pig Sales.' Owing to a • shortage of pigs, the usual fortnightly pig sale will not be held in Opotiki. The next sale will he held one mouth after the last sale date. Motorist Injured. While travelling from Opotiki to Gisborne on Friday night, Mr Hutchison. the driver, was injured, when the ear ran up a hank and capsized. The injured man received medical attention in Opotiki and then resumed his journey by service ear. Boat Still Delayed, The Opotiki bar, which has been giving trouble as the result of the recent heavy seas, is still unworkable and the m.s. Waiotahi, which arrived outside the harbour this merning. again had to return to Kutarere. Court News. A charge of using obscene language in a public place, a telephone booth, was brought agaipst Percy Morrison in. the Opotiki Police Court this morning before Messrs F. J. Short and J. D. Clark. J.P’s.. The charge was brought forward as the result of n complaint from an operator eu tlie exchange'. Defendant was convicted and fined. iii default 1-f days’ imprisonment. Prayer Before Courtii Meetings.

With only one dissentient. the Hastings Berough Council has decided that future meetings will he opened with prayer. The suggestion was made to the council-! by Air [A. Weston, who forwarded 'copies ofSprayers used by the Nelson and Wanganui City Councils. Transfers on Windscreens. “Some windscreens are literally plastered with transfers, which must affect the vision of the driver.*’ saitl a member of the executive committee of the Automobile Association •Manawatu), at the ’monthly meeting. He considered that there should he a law made prohibiting transfers and stickers being put on windscreens. Cold Conditions. On Friday morning last Opotiki had the doubtful honour of being the coldest place in the North Island at 5) a.m.. the temperature being only 88 degrees. On Saturday, Auckland -produced' the coldest reading with ‘l2 degrees. The warmest point was Gape .Maria with o2 degrees. An exceptionally good day was experienced in Opotiki yesterday. the temperature being mild, with bright sunshine. Tree Avenue. The balance of the trees along St. Jo In i Street have been planted and gaps in the original planting made good. M'nny of the trees which were first planted have already grown into fair sized trees. Some of the trees are already flowering this season. The plantation on the western side of the street between Ford and '.Richard streets has now been fenced in and planted. • The trees in this plantation have been planted much closer and when growing well should make ji big improvement to the condition of the street, this section not very long ago being very unsightly for a main route. The Indian Railways. The fact that the mileage of the Indian railways was second only to that of the United States was mentioned by Air 1.. 111. Burrows, late Commissioner of the Burdwan Division. Bengal, in addressing members of the Auckland' Chamber of Commerce. Mr Burrows was illustrating the part that British capital had played in the development of India. Much capital had also been expended on irrigation and industries. “Capital is still required in India,” lie added, “and so is skilled direction and supervsion.”

Passengers Threwm Into Water. The discomfort attached to travelling in an open touring car during the past few days must 'have been groat, (states the P.B. Herald), hut to; bo tossed out of the ear and into a ditch full of cold water was the misfortune of a party of five Mfaoiris early on Friday evening at Patutahi. The vehicle, owned by Mr Tu Para, was in tho vicinity of the Patutahi power sub-station at 6 p.m. when it suddenly left the road and capsized, straddling' into 2ft. of water. Tim hood was badly damaged, hut the Maoris were able to 'free themselves and make their way in a dazed condition to the hank and road level. No cue wa« hurt. Child Drowned in Sump. While playing in the backyard of liis parents’ home, at Kaiteratalii, O-potiki-Gisborne highway, on Saturday morning. Terence John Figg, 3-J years, son of Mr and Mrs Frederick John Figg, fell into a sump hole and was drowned. The hole was Git deep and had been dug in the yard to servo as a dump for the household rubbish, hut during the recent rain had become half-filled with water. The top of the sump was covered and it is thought that the child, while playing, had uncovered a part of the protection and had fallen in.

Cas Found in Tunnel. Issuing with a fairly strong pressure behind it, and burning with a flame 18in. high, a gas vent opened up during tunnel,ling operations on Friday at the head of the W aikufn Valley has furnished construction workers on tin 1 Gisborne- Waikokopu railway route with an interesting new topic. The vent has . been plugged in the meantime, samples of the gas having been taken lor analysis, and work on the tunnel is proceeding. The gas‘is believed to he similar in type to that found at To Puia. where underground supplies are trapped at the vents and employed in the pro*dnotion of power and heat. In the surface tests made on Jj riday m tho Waikura tunnel, tho gas burned With an almost colourless flame, and maintained its strength of flow until the crevice in the rock through which it was issuing was plugged with blocks of timber.