THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, September 7 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 80, 7 September 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, September 7 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Football. file Old Boys second grade football team will not be playing on Saturday. High School will -play City third grade team. • ? ; Snow on Ranges. Slum; fell on the higher 'levels of the Raukumara Range on Sunday night and Monday- The glistening jop of Mt. Hikurangi could be easily seen from the borough yesterday afternoon. Shipping. x Tlio m.s. 'VVaiotalii arrived at. Opotiki late this afternoon. The ni.s. Motu is expected to arrive at Opotiki on Friday afternoon.

Power Board Conference. Mr F. J. Burt, chairman of the Bay of Plenty Electric Power Board, Mr J. 1). Dicker, engineer-manager, and Mr G. A. Hathaway, secretary, will leave during the week-end to attbud the Power Boards’ Conference to be held at Wellington. T v ; - ' f Address on Pig Diseases. An instructive address- illustrated by cinema film, on prevention, causes and effects of pig diseases will lie presented by Mr Hastings, Dominion Organiser of the N.Z. Co-op. Pig Marketing Assn. Ltd. on Monday next at the Wattle 1 Tea-rooms. In view of the rapidly growing importance of the pig industry in the Opotiki district the address should he of great value to all pig raisers in Opotiki; Light Frostsi After a spell of several weeks, frosts are .again being experienced in the Opotiki district. Only a very light frost was seen this morning but the ground was fairly well coated with frost at daybreak yesterday morning. Opotiki lias not experienced a- really severe frost this winter and ic-e has only been seen on a few occasions and was not as thick; as usually seem

Cock County Rate Collection. Ratepayers of the Cook County Council have established a good record this year in the payment of rates in timci to qualify, for the rebate offered bv the council. Up to the last day on which the rebate could be claimed, £32.454 of a total rate of £33.935 was paid, this figure comparing with £29,700 out of a total of £53.986 paid up to the last rebate day of last financial year.