THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, November 21, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 112, 21 November 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, November 21, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Flag at Half-Mast. The flag at the Opotiki Post Office was flown at half-mast in re-, specit for the death of Kemal Ataturk, the late President of Turkey. / Photography. An announcement by Mr. 33. 'l'. Calvert, photographer of Hamilton, which will be of interest to many local residents, appears in to-day’s issue. Obituary. The death, occurred in Hamilton last night of -Mr. E, Scott. The late -Mr. Scott was a brother of Mr. Wilson Scott and Mr. George’ Scott, of Opotiki. Beating on River. The Opotiki harbour presented a busy scene yesterday afternoon when about a dozen dinghies and a number of yachts were on the river. Fishermen silent an enjoyable afternoon, the weather being ideal.

Temperatures. Temperatures in the North Island on Saturday at various points were as follows Auckland and Wellington 02 degrees, Taurauga and Napier 07, Opotiki 00, East Cape Go, Gisborne 00, and Napier 67. Cheques for Dairy Farmers. Cheques distributed by the Kin Ora Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, at Gisborne on Saturday totalled £lB,490 15s 2d. This represented a decline oH £llO2 on the November payments last year. Butter fat cheques were on a* basis of 14 c! per lb, conn pared with 12id jjer lb. a year ago, the lower production owing to season conditions resulting in the total payments being smaller. A Bradman in the Making? Mnoli is expected o! 12-vear-old K. Jackson, captain of the Kogarah Marist Brothers’ College, N.S.W., cricket eleven. In tin* final of the -Marist Brothers’ inter-school under 13 competition. young Jackson scored 222 not out. hitting 15 sixes and JO lours. With J. Hunter he figured in a partnership of JSB. made in one and threequarter hours. The Kogarah College won the championship in easy fashion. The school scored a total of 1720 runs for tin* loss of only 08 wickets, against 082 runs scored by eight opposing teams.

Further Butter Decline* The market for New Zealand butter in London lias continued the decline which set in three weeks si go, and this week prices were reduced by .‘ls per cut. Friday’s quotation of IOUs per cwt* is equal to 1-id. ])er lb., J.0.b.. or more tlian below the guaranteed price of 14.85)d. At no stage during the season since the announcement. of the guaranteed price has butter reached that level, although shortly before the' announcement butter reached its highest point of. the present season at I—-Is, which is appioximately equal to the 1.0. b. value ot 14.85K1. Australian butter declined even further than New Zealand last week', the fall in that case being os par cwt. _