LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 124, 19 December 1938, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Christmas Eve Closing. Advice lias been received mini the Inspector oJr Awards' that business premises must be closed 1 at in p.m. sharp l on Christmas J‘Jve. Tho Reply Courteous. A Canadian farmer, in reply to a request, for payment of instalments due. <>u 1 1 is laud, wrote: "Dear Sir, I got your letter about what J owe you, Now be paehent, L ain’t: forgot you. Please wait. Whim 1 have the money, I. pay you. 1 If this was .Judgment Day, and vom was n<? more prepared to meet your Maker than I am to meet my account, you sure would .ha ve to go. I hides. Trusting you will agree to do this, I am yours truly.”

Stock Sales. Attention is drawn to the advertisement in to-day’s issue announcing the alteration in the date of the monthly •stock sale. The sale will now he held on Friday 13th. January. The next pig sale will be held on 9th. January.

Temperatures. North .Island temperatures on .Saturday throughout the North island at 9 ai.m. were, as follows:—Auckland, Opotiki and East: (Jape 02 degrees, Tnurnnga Oi, Gisbcrne 05, Napier OS, and Wellington 53."

Swimming Certificates. Stating that the .number must be a record for any school of the same size in the Dominion, the headmaster of the Opotiki .District High School announced at Thursday nigiit’s prizegiving function, that 177 certificates of proficiency in swimming were to h«* presented: tot successful pupils. Hen, Mothers' Kittens. A at Tarawa, Southland, is fortunate in living in New Zealand instead of in the United where the death penalty is imposed* for kidnapping. The hen has kidnapped front a eat its litter *of kittens and shelters them under its ample wing during the day time, while the mother sits forlornly hy and is net allowed to approach within striking distn,nee of the lien’s beak. It is only at night time that the cat is able to gather her family together and feed them, making the best of the hours of darkness lor an all too short family reunion.

New High School. The Mayor, Air. G. S. Moody, was the first to appreciate tlio humour in Mr. A. G. Hultquist’s remark during Ids address at Thursday night’s school prize-giving function. Air. Aloudv had previously stated that he had attended the: present school. In referring; to. the grant for the building of the new high school, Mr. Hultquist said he now had *a very sound argument to put iorwanl 1 in support of the grant. He would announce that the Mayor, Air. .Moody, had attended 11 10 school as a hoy, and the grant would lie made immediately.

Nurses and Smoking. The may it tragic tiro at the nurses’ home iu Nelson has brought home to hospital hoards throughout the country’ the necessity for initiating proper precautions against fire in quarters occupied by the nursing staffs, and the Cook Hospital Board on Thursday .adopted a report by the manag-ing-secretary, Mr. O. A. Harries, laying down various measures for the reduction of tin* fire hazard's in the nurses’ home. The hoard was informed that three incipient fires in the Napier Hospital nurses’ quarters had been traced to cigarettes left burning in bedrooms. One recommendation to the hoard, which found unanimous support fruit! the hoard,' that all appointments to the nursing staff must he made on the condition that an offence against the no-smoking rule would lead to dismissal.