THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, April 24, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 173, 24 April 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, April 24, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Annual Meeting Rugby Union. ,Tlie annual meeting of the Opotiki Kugby Union will he held to-night in the Mission Hall, commencing at. 7.30 o’clock. Shipping. The jn.v. Waiotahi arrived at Opotiki on Saturday and will leave Opotiki to-night for Auckland. The vessel will leave Auckland on the return ’ trip on Thursday/ at noon. Temperatures. Temperatures at 9'. a.in. on Saturday at North Island centres were: Auckland and Tauranga 55 degrees, Opotiki and East Cape 57, Gisborne 51, Napier 52, and Wellington 50. Dog’s Long Swim. A Wanganui party which rowed; four miles up the Wanganui River for a picnic was amazed to hud that a dog, belonging to one member, which had started to swim after the boat, had swum practically the whole distance. Urgent Auction Sale. A short notice auction will take place at the- auctioneer. Mr. C. Pipe, on Saturday next, on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Payne, St. John Street, who are leaving the district. Particulars will be advertised in next issue of the News. Slip in Waioieka. A fairly big slip blocked the Waioeka roadl on Friday night and for some time on Saturday morning. Mails from Opotiki to Gisborne were delayed and did not reach the post office there until late in the afternoon. The slip occurred! at Oponac. Big Fresh-water Eels. Two Maori fishermen using eel-pots in the Motu River took an outstanding catch recently, in the form of two eels with an aggregate weight of 4Slb. The larger was 321 b. in weight, and measured sft. sin. from nose to tail, the greatest circumference being 16-. V in. The fishermen were Messrs. Jackson and McLean. Bad Portion of Road. Complaints have been made that the section of road along the Torero beach is l in very bad condition, being badly corrugated and holed. The surface of the unmetal led parts of the Coast road, where new work has been recently undertaken, has become, very slippery since tile vain set in last week and these parts will require immediate metalling before, the winter sets in otherwise the road will become very/ cut up.. Countryside. Well Soaked. . •Tii' tlic fiv«i- days qtCivnse'ttlod won tlief-; - the: Opotiki district ' foceivod a good soaking, the total fall in the borough being ; 2;3S 'inches."’ The heaviest fall was for the 24; hours ending at 9 a.m. yesterday, when 100 points was registered. The weather turned very cold during the week-end but the ground is still warm and there has already been a noticeable increase in the growth of grass. ft is hoped that conditions will remain fav,aide 'fen;- ;'-a;ood supplies yoL grass to conie 'ahiiy‘for winter feed.’’'" Serious Accid'ent.yyihdkirH-;} b--31.0 Master GordpnC .Alibotjusitiged e 11, younger son of Mr.TrindxSits.-JLindsay •Abbot, of Waioeka, :^\^iig in an on- tlio main highway this’ morning, suffering from severe injuries to. file head. : The injured boy was, taken iHlo'a'jnearby' resident- and alter was taken to the Opcfilet-" where l bis condition is serious. The boy left borne thjsf rno'nH ing on horseback .for the . School, but it is not known ? hew hei leceivcd his injury. ' c.

'•y • • Pitchforks Replace Lines. • 'my-fk Fish caused traffic hold-ups niut large congregations of pedestrians at the main Mutt Fridge in .Lower Hutt the other day. In the shallow waters beneath the bridge kahawai had come in numbers that, would make even the most attractive tourist-seeking fishing brochure lock modest by comparison. It was a day of the slaughter of the innocents. There was no skill attached to the catch. Hordes of small hoys andi o' leaven of adults caught the kahawai with pitchforks and with other instruments equally far removed from the sportsman’s method of the hook and line.