LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 68, 10 August 1938, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A• ■> ,-’ ■- ■ Lunar'Rainbow. : -V-WCcrw : . f - v ; S During’ last , night’s thunderstorm a Itiuar rainbow was seen in Cue eastern .sky. the moon shining through a break'in the clouds. This is the sec- - ond occasion recently that a lunar ‘ rainbow has’ been seen in Opotiki. ' Cleaving Sale. ~ '/’ .. - ; v . i ■ ■ ■" ■■'' ;: 'Acting * under instructions from 3fr P. J. Power, who' has sold his farm at Woodlands; the New ;2Jealnnd Loan and' Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. vill sell by public auction, the whole of his. dairy stock, horses and chattels on the farm. The sale will he held bji Friday. August 19. , ‘ . Wlrakatans Power Station. In reply to' a question .by Mr Sumner in connection with the stand-by power supply to the llangitaiki dairy factory /Mr Dicker stated at yesterday’s meeting of the Power Hoard that the Whakatane power station had to be maintained until the duplicate line had been completed. The new line was well under way. and the poles had been erected from Arapuni . to about Xgongatnha. New Electrical Wiring. At yesterday’s meting of the Bay of Plenty Eilectric Power Board., the engineer-manager. Mr Dicker, referred to a new type of electric cable,, which ’ eliminated conduiting. in installation work. The new cable could be> procured with any number oi wires in the core. This new method of wiring had been used at the W hakatane Paper Mills for the first time in New Zealand and in some respects liad advantages over the conduiting. He thought- the new method would he an advantage in dairy sheds and would save a good deal ol servicing. He stated that a motor had been installed at the Opotiki factory with the new cable and the work had been done in about a. quarter of the time that would have boon taken by the old method. He was endeavouring to procure enough of the cable to do about ’2O dairy sheds as a trial.