THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, December 2, 1938.. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 117, 2 December 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, December 2, 1938.. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shipping. , The m.s. Waiotahi which arrived in Opotiki early this morning will leave for Auckland to-morrow. Penalty. Public notice is given in to-day’s issue by the Mist Coast Rabbit Board, that a 10 per cent, penalty will ho imposed on all rates remaining unpaid eh December 16, 1938. A Titty Cemetery. The Opotiki cemetery presents a particularly tidy appearance at the present time, and is in striking contract to the conditions riding a few years ago, when the cemetery, was overrun with weeds and tall grass.

Temperatures. i Overcast conditions wore reported throughout the North Island yesterday. Temperatures at 9 o’clock were; Auckland 70 degrees, Taurnnga 69, Opotiki (57, East Cape and Gisborne GO, Napier 68, and Wellington 61.. Moderate or smooth seas were reported everywhere. Week-end Cricket. The Woodlands team ten play the City team will ■' lk* selected from the following players.—l). ClaVk, .Davies, McLaughlin, D. Beat-tie, Grant, Perfect, Pilkington. McGregor, J. Shove, ( . Shove, Jones. Retail Butter Price. The price of butter has been increased in Opotiki to Is 7d retail. Prices in Gisborne have been fixed at Is Old per Hi. for cash and Is 7d booked. The increase to the figures mentioned followed the raising of the wholesale rate by, the Internal Marketing Department by 2d. per 1b.,, the new price operating immediately. Footpath Cleaning. Pedestrians should be troubled very little from the* paspalum nuisance in file borough this summer, as the council lias had workers engaged in cutting away the grass, on both sides of the paths, which are liow neat and tidy. In previous years the grass j encroached badly on to the path in the growing; season and even in single file pedestrians found it difficult, to escape getting the oaspalu.ni gum on their clothing.