LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 70, 15 August 1938, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki Boy’s Success. Mr Dick Pipe, who took part in the inter-college, boxing competition between Auckland and Wellington Training Colleges, was suceesswul in winning the middle-weight championship. Match Abandoned.

The Opotiki High School. Rugby team was to have visited Gisborne on Saturday last for a friendly match against a Gisborne High School fifteen, but owing to the state of the road between Opotiki and Gisborne, the secretary of the Poverty Bay Union was advised that the match would be abandoned.

“Rairvß'ow Politician”. “Mr Doidge has been dyed many political colours, almost as many as the rainbow; in fact that would he a good name for him —the rainbow politician,” said Mr Barclay, M.P., at To Puke on Monday night-. “Mr Doidge,” he continued, “was not standing for Rotorua this election because Rotorua remembered too much. He called Mr Coates a Socialist and many other hard names when he stood for the Rotorua seat.”

Gisborne Factory Payout. The directors of the Okitu (Gisborne) Co-operative Dairy Company, .Limited, iu the report to be submitted to the annual meeting on Thursday, recommend a further payment of per lb. buterfat in addition to the Id per II). already paid out. This will bring the season’s average over all grades to 14.599 d., the finest average being 10. Gd.

An Imaginary Theft. A false statement to Constable R. AY. Beasley that he had had a jersey, a gold ring, a pair of spurs, and four tins of tobacco stolen from his whare led to Pi hi Wiwi, a T.okomaru Bay Maori, being convicted and lined £3 and costs £1 2s 3d when he was charged before Air E. L. Walton, S.M'.. in the Ruatoria Magistrate’s Court with making a false statement. After Wiwi’s complaint was made inquiries followed and nothing could be learned of the complainant ever having bought the articles he had allegedly lost. Later he denied that they had been stolen.