THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, December 1938; LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 119, 7 December 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, December 1938; LOCAL AND GENERAL

Cricket. Following is the draw fox; matches to be playedi during the week-end : Town v. Woodlands No. 1 pitch. Otara v. Old Collegians No. 2 pitch. Bobby; Calf Season. The New Zealand 1 Co-operative Fig Marketing Association announces that the hobby calf season has closed in the Opotikj district. Opotiki' Pig Sale. An exceptionally large, entry of pigs ■will he offered at the fortnightly pig sale tot be Ifold in tli© Opotiki saleyards on Monday next. Waiotahi Dance. A dance will lie held in the Waiotahi Hall to-night. A demonstration of the Lambeth walk will be a feature of the evening. Gisborne High School. Attention is drawn to the advertisement in connection with the Gisborne High School. The prospectus and full particulars may he had from the secretary. - Temperatures. Temperatures in the North Island at 5) a", in. yesterday at various centres read as follows: —Auckland (12 degrees, Tanninga 63. Opotiki f)8, Last Cape 64, Gisborne 61, Napier of) and Wellington 60. Fireblight in P.B. Never in the history ol Poverty May has fireblight infection been so extensive as it is at present, infected trees having been found in almost every part of the district, including all. portions of the Borough of Gishorne. Garage for the Maid. “Wo were told that unless garage accommodation is provided for the maid’s car it is practically impossible to keep the! maid.” said Mrs. \\ . J. Robinson. Wanganui, who has just • returned’ from a holiday in America, commenting on the development ci modern trends in America.

Boat Bar-bound. On account of the bad state ol:' the Opotiki bar the jn.s. Wahhabi lies been delayed at Opotiki since last week] and boats arc also not able to get intoi the harbour. A narrow spit' of sand is blocking (lie .entrance to the Opotiki river, which is running parallel with the beach in an easterly direction. Stock Movements. After a spell of a few weeks stock is now passing through the Opotiki district in increasing numbers. .several mobs of sheep havei left Opotiki during the last week or two, including a very large mob at the beginningof the week. No indication has yet hem 1 given of the likely number ol sheep to travel from Poverty Pay to the Waikato and other districts. Paying for Presents. Judging by what has already happened ui several instances, quite a number of New Zealanders who will receive what- jM*e intended to he Christmas gifts from overseas will find that they will have to pay quite substantial sums of money for them. A case in point was a- small packet received by the last inward air mail. The sender in Kngland had attached only a lew pence as postage—enough doubtless under the old rates lor packets. Hut the. recipient at this end luul to pay .‘ls, which sum represented double the amount of deficient postage, the packet having come by air mail.

Clear Atmosphere. “()ne> of the things we noticed most in Kngland, and on the 'Continent, too, was the lack of the visibility obtainable in Now Zealand, ’ commented .Hr. P. G. Million, of the Kairanga, in speaking to a, Mannwntu reporter of his impressions in an overseas tour. “People in -England just cannot comprehend when you tell them that on a clear day in New Zealand you can see 100 to 120 miles from a good, vantage point. The limit to the usual visibility over there appears to be about 25 miles, and in all the time, we were in England or in Europe we had very few days like today.—nice, bright sunlight and good, clear air.”

Narrow Escape. - Falling, into a tank containing six thousand gallons of tar at the iSumner gas works, ai resident hail a very narrow escape from asphyxiation. He was caught on the. edge of the well by a heavy gust of wind, and, losing his balance, was soon struggling lor his life in'the' cold, viscous fluid, fortunately, help was at hand and lie was safely assisted from. the sticky, mass.

Woman’s Daily Swim. At the age of 74 an English woman, Mrs. Spanton Cooper, of Hampton, Middlesex, takes a daily swim. She is an excellent diver. Last year Mrs. Cooper cycled about 170 miles in three days to a Cheshire rally of the Autumn Tints Cycling Oub and thoroughly enjoyed the trip. She began cycling when she was 38 and did not learn to Swim until she was 130.

Maize Trials. A further maize trial for variety andj yield has been put down on Mr. A. C. MePhaii’s property, Poverty Hay. This will he similar toi the one which was carried out on Mr. C. Tietjen’s farm last season. \ arieties planted are: lowa Silver Mine, Uoono County White, Silver Queen, Clmarra White Cap, Golden Glow, Learning, Karl Vi Matador, Marigold. Gisborne Horsetootli, Wellingrove, T itzroy and Funk’s Yellow Dent.

Stopping a Gar. Tests have shown that the average person loses isec. before applying the. brakes of a ea,r in an emergency. A car travelling at 00 ni.p.h. will have travelled 44ft. in that time and even with good brakes this means that a car will liave travelled approximately DOft. before being pulled up—that is the reaction time plus the stopping ability of J-lio* ear. \’cry lew .invers realise that last point and more attention should ho given to what may bo termed the most mis-used part of the oar—the braises.

War’s After-Effects. “'There were those of us who believed that iiu man could go through that hell of shot and flame without impairing his constitution,’ said Mr. R. A. Wright, at a R.S.A. reunion in Wellington, in pointing to the difficulties which some members ol Parliament. hacked by the representations from the R.S.A., had experienced m impressing upon the Government- of tlie day—whatever Government was m office —the. fact that breakdowns after the war were due to war service. The fact was that, without showing any signs in the beginning men who had served did suffer breakdowns. and the difficulty was that tlio doctors could not • definitely attribute the cause 1 to war service. In that they were, no doubt, quite right. However, it did seem that- men. even though they were not- wounded, did suffer in after life by reason of what they had gone through during the war.

Fast Lift Travel. Alter a trip in an express lilt in' the Empire State building in New York, Air. C. Bryant. of Christchurch, who lias returned from a tomabroad, found himself rather short of breath. The building is 102 storeys in height, and Air. Bryant was rushed up to the eighty-sixth storey in .19 seconds. Incidentally his hotel room number in New York was *3Ol-2. anil from his window lie had a view of over 40 niiles. "While in tlu* I 1 1 ited States lie found that touring was expensive. with the exception of cheap transport on trnmenrs and buses. It was possible to travel 40 miles in such vehicles for 2-Vd. In the United States and Great Britain, also, the tipping system was nu abomination, and lie often praised New Zealand in that respect.