THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, November 4, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 105, 4 November 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, November 4, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Victory Danse. A Labour “victory clance” will be hold ill the Lyric, Hall on Wednesday, November 23Health Stamps. ■ J; v '•‘ V•' v A request wss received' hom the Postmaster by tlie Comity Council today that the council use Health Stamps om correspondence. The council deckled to take no action. Temperatures. Overcast conditions, with rain geneera 1, were reported throughout the North Island-yesterday. There was a wide range Auckland reporting 62 degrees, Tauranga and Napier (30, Opotiki 63, Hast Cape and Gisborne 59, and Wellington 50. Christmas Numbers. in response to many requests for further supplies of the-Christmas Number of the Auckland Weekly News, an announcement is made in to-day’s issue that further supplies are now «- vailable and obtainable at,Cresswell’s. IV!r. J. H. Reidi Honoured. At a meeting of the Opotiki A. and P. Association, All 1 - J .H. Reid was elected a life, member of the Association, in recognition of bis valuable services to the Association and district. ■Dressing Shed. Tim Opotiki Surf Life Saving Club wrote to the County County Council asking for permission to build a dressing slied for the club adjoining the club’s present building on the Waiotalii Beach. The council decided to oiler no objections. Good! Rainfall. There has been a very noticeable improvement in the countryside in the Opotiki district as a- result of the rain during this week. 'The total lor the first lour days of the present month is 1.23 inches. 'The rain on the Hats has been light- and steady throughout enabling all the water to penetrate the ground with no run-off. Flower Show. Although competition is open, to members only, there is expected to he a large attendance of the public at the Opotiki and District- Horticultural So. ciety’s iirst quarterly show to he held in the Parish Hall on 'Tuesday evening next. Allan hers are asked to have their exhibits staged not later than 7.30 p.m. and the hull will ho opened as soon as judging is completed. Salvaged! Bridge Span for Kereu. Steel spans salvaged Ironi idle old Cawa Diver bridge at Tolaga Hay aie being used temporarily to overcome a shortage o| steel lor public works bridges in the district- One of tliese spans is being dispatched Ironi v;,isborne to Keren, on the Opotiki-Cape Runaway rood, where traffic was blocked several times during last winter owing to damage to the bridge. 'Hie span was mounted on a lorry and trailer, and was to travel by way ot the Waioeka Valiev to Opotiki. on route to Keren. The passage through the valley was expected to provide some interest lor the driver and his mate, as the length of the main members of the span would probably necessitate the jacking of the trailer on sonic o-l the narrower bonds. Ccast Road Bridges. Though the isolation of the job and the repeated floodings in the liver which occurred during the autumn and winter have caused many -delays with the ,’haiigapaniea bridge, near tape Runaway, better progress lias been shown lately. '1 his bridge is one of tie chief links in the Last Coast main highway-, and was put in hand late last year. It is one of three impel taut bridges on the highway, the others being those at Keren and Raukojkere. As indicated elsewhere, the Kereu is to. be spanned by a steel span from the old Cawa River bridge at 'Tolaga Bay, which will serve temporarily. 'The Whangaparaoa work is under the direct control of the Public 'Works Department; and tin' Ratikekore, with which many delays have occurred. is being carried on by contract. Their completion will remove the chief difficulties in all-weather use of the highway.