THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, September 19- 1935. LOCAL And GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 86, 19 September 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, September 19- 1935. LOCAL And GENERAL

Politics! #ddlress. 1 The National Candidate. Mr W. Sullivan will deliver an address in the' Waiotalii Hall, at 7.30 tLfii.- to-night. LI3M Earthquake. A light earthquake shock was felt in thei Opotiki district on Saturday night! ■ ... . ,’. 1 . * i*. . •?’ "• : : • '* ■ , • Shipping Activity. There was unusual activity at' the Opotilqi wharf to-day when, three vessels left tor Auckland, these being the m.s. Waiotalii, Seagull and Katie SBusiness Acquired. Having acquired the business and premises of. the Graphical Studio, Mr F. Wrigley will hold a removal sale. Announcements are made on pages 3 and 4 of to-day’s issue. Siren Sounded by Lightning. The fire siren sounded at about midnight on Saturday as a result of a lightning flash and continued for a iong period, many people being under the impression that an outbreak of fire had occurred. Football. The Opotiki District High School team journeyed to Gisborne on Saturday and played the Gisborne High School second fifteen. The Opotiki team suffered defeat, the scores being: Gisborne 10, Opotiki 0. Auction Sale. Attention is drawn to the auction sale advertisement 011 page 4, to be eondueted on behalf of the estate of the late .Mrs Gordon and M'r A. IL'ngJisli. Mr C. Pipe will be the auetion-

Point-to'-poin.t Meeting. The Opotiki Hunt Club will hold their first point-to-point meeting at the Tablelands on Wednesday, when a comprehensive programme will lie run off. Considerable interest is being taken in the meeting and a large attendance is expected. Natural Freak. Among natural freaks produced during the last- harvest season, one iound in the kumera store of Mr Dan Tamlira ro. Whangara. deserves recording. It is a kumera root which reproduces in almost perfect detail the outline and proportions of a swan, with wings partly opened. Supplementary Roll. The supplementary roll will dcse at G p.lll. on Thursday next. September 22. The roll in the Bay of Plenty electorate is expected to he a lnirl> lengthy one. Parliament will be dissolved to-morrow. The writs will ho issued 011 Seotemher 22 and nominations will close on October 3. Opoliki-T&neatua Railway. The sum of has been placed on the supplementary .estimates for the commencement of construction of the Opotiki-Taneatua railway. The Minister of Public Works, the Hull. R. Semple, states that the work of ((instruction will he pushed ahead as fast as possible. Heavy Thunderstorm. Heavy thunder was experienced in the Whakatane and Opotiki districts early on Saturday night and at about midnight. A downpour occurred on the hills between Whakatane and r l a-neat-ua and the road was temporarily blocked by debris from the hills and traffic interrupted. The weather was stiil very changeable yesterday and (o’id ami windy conditions prevailed.

The Gi-arantead Price. Satisfaction with the new guaranteed price for butter was expressed in Gisborne 011 Saturday by representatives of two dairy companies operating in the district (states the PdfHerald)- Mr M. Doyle, chairman of directors of the Kia Ora Co-operative Dairy Company. Limited, said that the price was as high as he had expected, and being above the present London parity must he considered satisfactory from-the producers’ point of view. Mr H. P. Hamilton, secretary of the Okitu Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, expressed a somewhat similar view, and said that while the price might not- be satisfactory to, everybody it seemed quite a- fair one based on present London values. ,

Opotiki Youth in Trouble. Charged with the thqit of £lO from his father, a Maori youth, N- Coleman, aged 19, pleaded- guilty when lie appeared recently before Mr E.«L. Walton, S.M., in the Tolaga Bay Magistrate’s Court and was convicted and placed on probation for a year and ordered to make restitution. The accused was represented by Mr M, It. Maude, Gisborne. The youth admitted receiving £lO from a man in the Native Land Department and that ho was to have given the money to his father,. Tui Coleman, Opotiki. He, had spent the money and there was none left, but v he was willing to repay the money put of his wages-

Faked : Picture.

Protesting that films of the recent Louis-Schmeling fight shown in Berlin had been “patched up” in order to prevent the public seeing how baclr ly Schmeling had.been outclassed, Mr John Boxborougli, co-manager for Joo Louis, cabled to Mr Hugh "Wilson, United States ambassador in Berlin, asking him to make a formal protest to tlie German authorities. The mcssage stated that the films being shown in Germany were untrue. Shots of the fight had been deleted and afterwards combined with pictures of the first Schmoling-Louis bout which had been won by the German to the advantage of the German fighter.

Nibbling, Budgerigars. A budgerigar enthusiast in Gisborne learned to-day, after having kept a colony of the Australian bush birds for many mouths, that the strong beak's of this species are capable of nibbling a- way through timber Mrs S. Dennis, Gladstone road, found -her colony dispersed, and discovered that the birds had taken their liberty through a sizable hole in their cage. Suspecting that someone had assisted to enlarge the hole, through which a thrush easily could have, passed, Mrs Dennis consulted another fancier, who from experience was able to inform-her that budgerigars while away their duller moments in steadily nibbling at any edge of timber exposed to their beaks. The nibbling process, in this case, must- have continued long after the hole was large enough for the birds to escape.