THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, December 9, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 120, 9 December 1938, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, December 9, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Year Dance, A dunce will be held in the Woodlands Hall on New Year’s Eve, December 31. School Cleaner, Applications are invited by the Opotiki. District High School Committee for the position of school cleaner. Horticultural Society. The Opotiki and District Horticultural Society will hold the next monthly exhibit and lecture evening in the Parish' Hall on Tuesday next. Taneatua Dance. The annual hospital dance will be lie Id in the Taneatua Hall on Monday night next, December 12. The music will bo provided by the .Electrotone Orchestra. Death of Norway’s Queen. Flags were flown from Coverumeut buildings throughout New Zealand yesterday, as a tribute to the memory of Queen Maud of Norway, whose funeral was taking place. New Stamp Machine. With the object of catering for the new overseas postal rates, an additional stump machine has been installed at the Opotiki Post Office. Although the machine is operated by inserting a penny) two half-penny stamps are ejected, not one, as thought by some people.

School Functions. Particulars are advertised of the Opotiki D.H. School functions to be held next week. The annual garden party will be held in the grounds of the headmaster on Wednesday and parents and the general -public are invited to attend. Other interesting events will folloiw on Thursday and Friday. Couldn’t Take Off! During the flights of the plane from the Opotiki aerodrome yesterday a large tractor was busily engaged drawing a heavy roller across the landing field. 'l"he tractor came roaring across the field towards the plane and then pulled up near a group of people. “It’s no good.” said the man on the tractor,” she won’t take oil.” Opotiki’s Cheap Wharfage. When a .number of bowser I links was delivered in mistake to' I lie Wliakatane wharf instead of lo Opotiki, the wharfage on each tank cost 17s (id. The wharfage on the tanks at the Opotiki wharf is only 4s (id. It is interesting to note that the W hakatalie wharf is controlled 1 by a harbour boord.

Temperatures. North Island temperatures yesterday at. !) a.in. were as follows:—Auckland and Gisborne (35)' degrees, Tauraug.i and Napier 71, Opotiki 08, East Cape 00, and Wellington 01. Temperatures on Wednesday were: Auckland and 'laurauga o‘s degrees, Opotiki 05). East Cape 0-1, Gisborne 00, Napier o‘J, and Wellington od. Dog Tax in Germany. According to Dr. Theodora Hall, wife; of the superintendent of the Gisborne hospital, who has just returned from a. trip to Europe, a tax of £2 10s is deposed for keeping a dog in Germany. The idea, is to discourage the use of foodstuffs lor unproductive animals. I)r. Hall also states that the German people arc finding synthetic wool unsatisfactory, and are now using, two-thirds of .Merino wool in its manufacture, the large proper tion of natural wool being introduced to withstand the damp which was detrimental to the artificial Inline.

Chinese in the East Indies. “Most of the domestic trade in the Dutch East Indies is in the hands of tin* Chinese,” stated Dr. \\ . I*. Gisoli, who is at present visiting New Zealand on furlough, in an interview with an Otago Times representative. “There is a number of native trailers, hut they are in a small way. and their dealing are only with the native population.” The Chinese were treated on terms of equality, he said, hut intermarriage, between the races was exceptional. In response to a question, Dr. Gisolf said that the Japanese wore not numerous in the Dutch colonies, and their influence was not great.

Cricket.

The following team will represent Town in the match against "Woodlands : 31. Le. Pine, J. Henry, ax. Hawkins, S. Sotherland, F. YVTigley, J. O’Sullivan, T. O’Sullivan, Clements, ' J). Murray, * It. Londrum, S. .Cooper and “J. Serjeant.

Babies Decline; Dogs Increase. As the human birth-rate in England has declined the birth-rate of dogs line increased, said. Or. A. 11. O’Brien, who returned to Christchurch recently from a trip to Europe. The London suburban streets were made filthy by dogs, he said, and the numbers of dogs were increasing. He had seen figures which stated that in 1905 900,000 babies were born and 1,000,000 dogs; and in 1935, 000,000 babies and 2,500,000 dogs. These figures might very well be correct. “With the decline in the babies there has been an increase of dogs,” he said. “From the King downward they all have dogs—you hardly ever see a photograph of the King without a dog,.”