THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, July 20, 1938 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 59, 20 July 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, July 20, 1938 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Basketball Club’s Dance. A dance, under the auspices of tlie Opetiki Basketball Association, will bo held in' the Lyric Hall on Wednesday, 27th. inst. Orphans’ Club. The next session of the Opotiki Orphans’ Club will be held on Friday. 29th. inst. Wednesday, 28th. September, has been fixed for “ladies’ evening”. Bachelors’ Dane®. A bachelors’ dance will be held in the W a iota hi Hall on August sth. Music will be supplied by the -Melody blasters’ Orchestra. Circulation Extended. As the result of a request iron Waimana, copies of the “Opotiki News” are now being distributed to supplies to the Waimana cheese factory. The circulation of the “News’’ is now ap])roximately 1050. De Luxe Theatre Improvements. During the past few days decorators have been at work in the De. Luxe Theatre and have very attractively painted the interior of the building. The theatre now compares very favourably with those seen in larger towns. Too Much Talk. Is there a moral for New Zealand wives in this story, told by the Rev. B. T. Butcher who is visiting Wellington after 33 years in Papua ? There is no feminine, gentler in the Papuan language. A native who had killed bis wife was asked why. He replied: “He talk, lie talk, lie talk too much, so 1 kill him.” He got off with a light sentence. Farmer’s Car Ransacked. To have his car ransacked while lie was enjoying a wrestling bout in Palmerston North was the experience of a. visiting farmer who. going to town earlier in the day. left a number of parcels in the ear tor .safe keeping. The vehicle was parked in the Square, and when he reached it after the contest lie found that a window had been smashed and most of the fruits of his shopping expedition removed. Bioys’ Narrow Escape. A report from states that Alorris Crctty, aged 12. of Ivanhoe. and another hoy unsuccessfully attempted to draw the pin from a Mills bomb which they found in the municipal tip at Ivanhoe. Crott-y took the bomb homo, and his father unscrewed the bottom and found that it contained explosives. Police searched the tip. hut found no more bombs. It is believed that the bomb was a war relic, which had been thrown away with refuse. Expensive Oysters. Seventeen shillings worth of oysters were eaten at a meal by Mr W. Machin dining his recent visit to England, according to liis own admission to the Canterbury- branch of the Economic Society. He was not. however, illustrating .his ability to consume oysters, hut the price of oysters in England compared with the price in New Zealand. Those oysters cost 8s (id a dozen, so it was no Gargantuan meal. “I sorrowfully reflected that- there is balm in Gilead, in that oysters are much cheaper here,” said Mr Machin. Incident in Waiooka! Gorge. While journeying northward through the Waioeka- gorge on a recent evening, Mr H. A. Lowe had a narrow escape from serious trouble, and suffered extensive damage to the body-work of his ear. Mr Lowe happened to observe, on the hillside aImve the road in front of him. the beginnings of a substantial slip, and endeavoured to brake his car to avoid the fall cf debris. The machine: having just passed through an open ford, tin* braking action was slow, and, finding that lie was in danger of bringing the ear to a standstill right in the track of the slip, Mr Lowe accelerated and dashed past the danger spot. A number of rocks fell on the hoed of his car and pierced it. one sizable chunk of metal falling between Mr Lowe and his companion, Mr’ A. I'ilkingtoii. The car returned to Gisborne during the weekend. hearing many signs of the experience.

Dance at Woodlands. A dance, under the auspices of . the Young b anners’'Club, will he held in the Woodlands Hall to-night. Auction Sale. An auction sale, on account of Mr A. W. McGregor, will he held at Air C. Pipe’s Mart on Saturday, commencing .at 12 noon. Special attention is drawn to the single-barrel gun to he offered, tliis being of 12 here, not 11, as previously advertised. dispersal Sale. A combined dispersal sale will beheld by Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. in the Opotiki Saleyards on Monday next. Particulars are advertised. \ Tennis. The annual meeting of the- Opotiki Lawn Tennis Club will he held in St. John’s Hall to-morrow night, at 7.45 p.m. o’clock. Pedigree Jersey sale. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. will conduct a sale of pedigree Jerseys on Mr W. J. Paul’s property, Yen-all’s road, Opotiki, on Wednesday, 27th. July.

Race Meeting at Matamata. A special winter race meeting will lie held oil the Matamata racecourse on Saturday next. Particulars are advertised. Mr. Sullivan’s Campaign. The National Party candidate at the forthcoming elections to contestthe Bay of Plenty seat, commenced another tour o-t the Coast this week. He will he delivering an address at Waipiro Bay to-night Addresses were given at Hicks Bay on Monday night and at Tikitikji last night. Shipping. Owing to the shallowness of the Opotiki bar the m.s. W aiotalii lias been unable to- enter the Opotiki harbour and it has been decided to unload the cargo at the lvutarere wharf. The Waiotahi will proceed to Auckland for another cargo and it .is hoped that on her return she will lie able to negotiate the bar and discharge both cargoes at the Opotiki wharf. Rt'Uresp.r.tatiye Fcctfcaili. The Opotiki representative footballers will visit To Puke on Saturday and will meet the Te Puke representatives. The following players have been c-hosen by the sole selector. Air W. T. Burrett to represent- Opotiki: — Full-back, J. Walker; three-quarters, K. Dclamore, S. Apamvi. C. Walker; five-eighths, Jones. J. Aliliaere; half, AlcDonald; forwards. T. Walker. \\ atene. 1. Walker. Ashdown. Delamere, Poihipi, Tairua, AlcLaughlin. Emergencies: M. Delamere, Ford. Taka.. Arrangements are being made to secure a match for the Opotiki junior representatives for Saturday, when it is hoped that a team from the Coast will visit Opotiki. The. Weather. The following weather forecast for the 24 horns commencing at 9 a.m. to-day was issued by the meteorological office :—The indications are for moderate to strong north-easterly winds, later turning to southerly. Weather overcast- and unsettled with rain and some heavy falls, Imt later becoming more changeable. Temperatures mild. Seas on East Coast rough hut later moderating; on est- C oast sligit to moderate but rising. Pressure lias risen considerably in the south with the approach of an- anticyclone across the southern r l asimm Sea. |A complex depression still lies across the North Island, liowovei, with a centre to the west of Auckland. Famous Queen Passes. A message from Bucharest- announces the death of Queen Alarie. the Queen Mother of Rumania. Queen Alarie was horn at Eastwell Park, Kent, in 1875, the eldest daughter of Alfred. Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria. In 1893 she married Prince Ferdinand, afterward King of Rumania. From this marriage six children wore born; Prince Charles.. who married Princess Helen of Greece; Princess Elizabeth, married to King George of Greece; Princess Alaria. later Queen of Yugoslavia ; and Princess Nicolas and Alircca, and Princess Henna.. Queen Alarie took a great interest in the development of her adopted country. She wrote extensively for the American and other press.