THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, November 2, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 104, 2 November 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, November 2, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Cojf Dance. The annual golf dance and presentation'of trophies will be field tonight in the Lyric Hall. Monthly Stock Sale. The monthly stock sale will .be held in the Opotiki' saleyards to-morrow. Additional entries are advertised. Cricket. The draw for play on Sunday resulted in Otara v. Old Collegians on No. ’ 1 pitch, and City v; ’Wood-lands on No. 2 pitch. October Rainfall. The total rainfall for the month of October in the Opotiki borough was .only 1-02 inches, this being a very . low figure for this month. Ten points of rain was recorded for the 24' hours ending at 9 a.m .to-day. Very heavy rain was reported to have fallen in tlie Waikato yesterday. Obituary. After a brief illness the death took place at Bapakura early on Saturday morning of Miss Cecelia Dorothy Neal, eldest , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Neal, of Bapakura and until recently of Opotiki. The late Miss Neal >vas in her eighteenth year and her untiinely death was received with deep regret by. her many friends in Opotiki, several of whom attended the funeral at Bapakura on Monday a I ternnonRanger Transferred. Mr. 1C Dickinson who has served the Hay of Plenty district for some years as a fish and game departmental ranger has been transferred to Rotorua where lie will assist in raising game for the Department. Mr. Dickinson was previously stationed in the Wlnikatane district. Cermen Women and War. Women in Germany, did not welcome the prospect of war during the recent crisis, according to a letter received from a Christchurch woman who left Germany after Mr. Chamberlain’s first negotiations with Herr Hitler. “What hurt me most in the whole episode,” she writes, after describing extensive troop movements seen on the roads, “was seeing the German mothers and young wives crying as their boys moved out of Munich- If war bad come that is the picture that worn I<l have been in my mind.” Continental Cars. “A determined effort, is being made to market the cheap German cars in England at present, but 1 do not think it will succeed,” said Dr. B. J. Dudley. of Lower Butt, who lias just returned! from a holiday tour. “Except for tourist ears, 1. saw no British ears on the Continent, each country supplying its own. needs, and the smaller tiie ear the more noise it makes, the sound <>f some of the horns being frightful. The German small cars are quite efficient, even if they have not the same finish as the British ears. Keeping a car in London is somewhat of an expense, as garage expenses run into £1 Is per week.”

Cheap House-Building. Witii costs c;l housing in tlicir minds, Cislionu Katsmans hoard with envy from IVIr. J. Konaldson, of British West Africa, tluit lie- could build si house o!' four largo rooms in Sierra J.eone for £2. Air. Konaldson described briefly the manufacture of houses according to the native style, which included the planting of uprights in the ground, the lateral lacing of these uprights with vines, and the uplugging of tin 1 interstices with puddled mud. a jo!) which fell upon the native women. When finished l with repeated layers ol mud, these houses have a clean, •smooth surface, and are surprisingly weatherproof and cool. House-building is brought almost to a fine art by some of the African tribes, he said, hut in the eases of other tribes house-build-ing falls to the elementary stage of leaning fallen boughs against a tree or hank, and crawling inside.