THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, November 9, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 107, 9 November 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, November 9, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hunt Club Balt. The Opotiki Hunt Club’s ball will be held toi-mght in the Lyric Hall. Opotiki Pig Sale. The fortnightly pig sale will he held in the Opotiki saleyards on .Monday next, when 2.50 'head will be offered. ' | \ Business Sale. .Ytessrs. T. S. ; Johnstone and Co. Ltd. who are giving up business, are making a special reduction of 20 per cent- oil all stock >vith the exception of proprietary lines. Waioeka Dance. - ’ ' % The attention of readers is drawn to the alteration of the date of the Waioeka dance .which wak, to have been held on. the IGtii- mst. The: dance will now he held on Nov., 10, on, account of the boxing tournament’wjiich will be held on the 16th. inst. . & Public Works Tenders. Mi .Tenders accepted recently by the ihiblic Works Department for contracts in the Opotiki district include: Supply and delivery of metal for a section of the Waioeka Valley road, .Messrs. A. W. Huff and Sons, £663,; alterations'and additions to the Opotiki Post Office, Messrs. Boon, Sullivan and Luke, £l-1,69. ! '

Soaking Rain. Steady rain commenced to fall at an early hour finis morning and .oHiu. was recorded ibr the 24 hours ending at 9 a-m. to-day, bringing the totai for the first nine days of iNovember to l.Soin. Steady rain continued throughout- tiie Jay and has brought the iigure to well over two inches, and giving the country a much-needed soaking. New Footpaths. Good progress is being made in the provision oi a concrete footpath irem Church Street to St. John Street. The section fronting the school buildings has been completed and tilling is being put down on the lower end oi the street, where tliei path will skirt the fence along the-'deep ditch. I lie fenced-olf portion of sideroad iu St. John Street has been made narrower to permit the new path to he placed further back Jroin the' roadway. I lie fence was removed and re-crcctcd some days ago- A start will he made on the path as soon as possible.

The Holiday Season. For some time tourists have been patronising the Opotiki camping ground in small numbers, hut during the past few days quite a number of holiday makers have arrived in Opotiki, staying loir two or three days. The use of large caravans is very popular and most of the tourists are using trailers, some ol which an* oi very elaborate design and very roomy.

Building Activity. Builders are very busy in Opotiki at the present-time, the main contracts being the building of a large moter garage lor ,"\i. O. Kidd Ltd., the additions to the Opotiki Tost Office and the erection of the first State houses. The ecu tractor, -Mr. ' Wyldc, Inis already laid the foundations for two ol the houses, which are being built in Brabant Street-

Young Cildo Again. Au unexpected trout is in store lor Opotiki boxing; enthusiasts next Wednesday. when tht* amazingly e-lever boxer will miik<* liis second appearance in Opotiki to meet Brian .McKay, of Auckland. The Honolulu boxer, Young Gildo. amazed Opotiki followers when lie made bis surprise visit to Opotiki a short lime ago to fill a breach caused by ill-health on the part, ol a piolessional and played with the -New Zealander Cnltniix in much the same wav as did the negro boxer Jones, at Auckland on .Monday night. -Many Opotiki people who would have liked to have.',setm • oung Gildo in action now ol seeing him make his lust appedraut'e in :S’ew Zealand before :le}ivin.g‘lora’A-Usdralia. where his ser'eagi'rly sought. 'I here in Gildn’s style ol a h%sptiert’til 1 y <‘lever exhibition ol boxing asiwdiw'tr.v people rarely have the seeing. It is certain that r -;thci.iJX’<ifeksio nj, l bout on. Wednesday Ynighty ijitiiiivttraet a good attendance. series of amateur hunts in the programme.

Sale of WorkThe St. Stephen’s bazaar , and sale of work will be held in. the Parish Hall to-morrow (Thursday).

o;3Ctiki Dental Clinic. After a wait of many years, a start has been made on the Erection of the Dental Clinic building at the Opotilii District High School. The building is being erected oin the-northern side of the Technical »Sch6ol|k ■ -'V V* ■' Armistice Day. Armistice Day (Friday November lltli.) will be observed as usual throughout tlie ‘Dominion. The County Chairman, -Mr. W. A. Gault and the Mayor. Mr| G- S. Moody, request that residents of the district should observe the usual twp- minutes silence at 11 o'clock and that all traffic uhd activities bo suspended for the period/*^

Yesterday’s Temperatures. Gisborne wits, tlie'i only place in the North Island Jresterday .morning to' report blue skifs, ov&qast conditions prevailing elsewhere with light rain in places. Tepiperatures at 9 o’clock were: Auckland 61 degrees, Tauranga and Wellington 04; Opotilii and Napier 68, East Cape 63. and Gisborne 07.

Dry Month at Cape Runaway. The driest 'month since February, 1961. was .experienced last month at R-ukuhanga station. Cape Runaway. The rainfall registered in 1931 was .58in., whereas the total fall recorded last month was .62in. October was a very, dry month with Strong winds from the west,' south-west;;, and northwest. Imt oh October the wind veered t 0 the north, bringing file-shea viest rainfall of .29in. The fall for the same month last year was ,1.39 m., rain falling on live days, compared with six wet hays this year. The total rainiall for the year to date is 63.39 iii., and the comparative figure for the same 10 months last year 59.46 in.

Voluntary Unknown Witness. ‘•Car No crashed into you, and cleared off,” , was the text of a note iefund recently in a car that had been parked in Gisborne during the absence of the owner. The subsequent police inquiries were greatly assisted by the information supplied in the note left by the observant bystander. In a minor case such as the one 1 in question, th(' police explained that there were many difficulties to ho met hj them he lore the offending parti could be traced. The car had been parked in Peel street while the owner was at the theatre, and it was when he returned to the vehicle that lie noted the damage to his rear carrier and found the message iroin his unknown witness pinned to the steering wlieer. Driest October in 10 Years. Last month proved the driest October that has been experienced at Pakihiroa station, oil the slopes oi -Mount Ilikurangi. for 1U years. Iho total loi the 1 mouth was 1.46 m. lor nine lamdays. as compared, with 4.08 in. in Ootoiier, 1937. when there were seven days with rain. The heaviest day's full was on October 2,. a reading ol

.:57m- being taken. The recorder added that there had been little spring growth and pastures were hadly in need <;l: ram. As a insult of tile exceptionally wet period earlier in the year Pakihiroa has reecrtled a total ol lA2.33iii. lor the 10 months. as against. 83.13 in. lor the corresponding period in 193<. Rain has iallen at that station on 131 days so tar this year, making an average reading ot tin. for each rain-day. In comparison Gisborne's average daily reading tor the 12.-, wet days up till August 31 was lour-tenths of an inch.—l*.B. Herald.

Marveiici/s German Roads. “The frontier roads in Germany are really marvellous,' and it is very obvious that the new roads have been Imilt tor military purposes,” states a New Zealand businessman m a letter written during a visit- to Germany. “The old roads, which are left intactand which are still used, are in perfect- order and run alongside the now ones. Every 10 miles or so a siding is laid about half a mile in length, and although not in concrete, it is perleot]y constructed in metal, with a slightly higher crown.”