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THE OPOTIKA NEWS Friday. August 26, 1935. LOCAL AND GENERAL

:Dance at Toatoa. . ; A dance will be held in the Toatoa hall on Tuesday, next. \ , Monthly Stock Sale. The ■monthly stock sale will be held in the. Opotiki saleyards. on Thursday next. Particulars are advertised. Concert. A concert in aid of the Mission shower for footballers will lie held in St. John’s Hall to-night. Anderson’s Shoe Sale. Mr If. Anderson announces in today’s issue that all oddments in shoes will be sold at half sale prices. Shipping. Loading was completed on the mot-or-ship Wniotahi last night and the boat left for Auckland at an early hour this morning. Concrete Footpath. Good progress has been made in the laying of tile ten-chain section of concrete footpath in Bridge Street, only a short section being unfinished this morning. Casting of Wharf Piles. The work of casting the reinforced concrete piles for jtlie extension to the Opotiki wharf is now nearly completed. 30 of the required 36 having been completed. It is expected that a commencement of pile-driving will take place at an early date. White Butterflies. "White butterflies have been seen in Gisborne during the last few days. Only isolated ones have appeared so far, but- if the warmer weather continues they may be seen shortly in every garden. Power Trouble. The peculiar behaviour of electric: lights in Opotiki early on Wednesday nigjit was due to the trouble experienced in the main line south of Tuni, on the route to Hawke’s Bay. The result of the failure . temporarily affected the whole of the inter-connect-ed power system in the North Island. Fortunately the power supply in the Bay of Plenty was not cut off and. the only noticeable feature was the dimming of the lights due to the surging of power. Liquor for Accident Victims? Whether it. is advisable to give brandy to a driver and other persons after they have been involved in an accident has been raised following a head-on collision between two ears near Waipawa. After the accident it was stated that somebody with the best intentions prpduced a- bottle of brandy, and this factor was questioned on the ground' that it might easily have led to the supposition that the driver had been drinking prior to the accident.

Mr Lysnar’s Campaign. The Independent candidate for the Gisborne seat, Mr W. -IX Lysnar, returned to' Gisborne on Wednesday night from Auckland, where he has been making arrangements for the early portion of a Dominion campaign of addresses which he plans for nextmonth. Mr Lysnar has arranged to open his campaign with an address in Auckland next week, and will follow this with addresses in Hawke’s Bay. Oil his return journey to Gisborne. he will give an address in Wairoa on September 3. Later he will give addresses in other North Island districts, and subsequently in the South Island. > "The Last Straw”. A firm belief in the adage that ac-tions-speak louder than words was demonstrated by a young lady at- the competitions in Wellington. In the part of a noisy virago she was expressing vigorous disapproval of the philanderings of her stage husband, at the same time eating her frugal tea of fish and chips. At one particularly forceful passage , she brandished aJoft her fork on which were impaled two luscious chips, and; as if to add force to her story she dexterously flicked the fork forward, sending the greasy fragments of potato sailing across the footlights and out into the audience, one piece scoring a' direct hit on the sheet upon which the judge, Mr W. Russell-Wood, was making his comments. The item was entitled “The Last Straw,” but the judge’s- comment was not for publication. , •*

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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 75, 26 August 1938, Page 2

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THE OPOTIKA NEWS Friday. August 26, 1935. LOCAL AND GENERAL Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 75, 26 August 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKA NEWS Friday. August 26, 1935. LOCAL AND GENERAL Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 75, 26 August 1938, Page 2

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