THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday. June 2, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 190, 2 June 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday. June 2, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Refcekah Lodge Dance. The Rebckah Lodge annual dance will be held in the Lyric Hall on Monday night. Temperatures. North Island temperatures at 9 a.m. yesterday were as follows Auckland and Gisborne 49 degrees, Tauranga 51. Opotiki 46. East Cape 55, Napier 48, and Wellington 50.' King’s Birthday. Monday next. June 5, will be observed as the King’s Birthday throughout the British Empire. As the day is a statutory public holiday, the Opotiki News will not be published on that day. Football. The City third grade team to play Woodlands at Connelly’s paddock tomorrow is as follows:—Lake, Fleming* Warren, Goldsmith, Burton, Ball, Thompson, Moore, Reeves, Chat-field, Collins, Shalloon, Abbot, Beaufoy., Morgan. Lovell. Sheep Dog Trials. The first event at the North island Sheep Dog Trials, now being held in Gisborne, resulted' in Mr. J. McGaveston’s Zpe, Waipukurau, securing first place with 47 points. In this event, the Long Head, dir. W. G. Butler, of Opotiki, secured seventh place with 434 points, _ hi,s dog being ‘‘Leon"’. P.O. Holiday Notice. On Monday. sth. June, King’s Birthday, the. Post Office will be closed in all branches except the exchange which will observe the usual continuous attendance. Mails for offices north of Taneatua and south of Matawai will be despatched and will close at- -3 p.jn. Air mail correspondence for Gjshor.se- and forward offices will close at 9 a.m. Piha Case Sentences. The final scene in the Piha lire case was the passing of sentences by Mr. Justice Fair in the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday, in the presence of a gathering of about 200 members of the -public. Gordon. Robert McKay was sentenced to four years’ hard labour and his companion. James Arthur Talbot t.cx two years’ hard labour for arson and improperly interfering with a dead human body. State Highway. Support to representations being made by the Waikolni County Council regarding the condition of the State highway between Opotiki and Gisborne was given by the Gisborne Borough Council at a meeting this week. TJhe county council in a letter to- the council stated that the county representatives would take the opportunity shortly of meeting the Minister of Public. Works in Wellington and the Mayor, Mr. J). W. Coleman, M.P., said that he would give the deputation support when it waited on the Minister. Senior Representatives. .The Opotiki senior representative team to visit- Whakatane for a friendly game, on Monday (King’s Birthday), will be chosen from the following players :—Le Pine, McKenzie, Starkey. J. Walker, 0. Walker, Jones. Mihaere, N. Slialfoon, Lendrhm, McDonald v ' Roberts, i. Walker, B. Taka, Rogers, M. Delamere, Tairua. Delamere, T. Walker, Shannon, J. Keller. The team will he announced alter Saturday’s game. Any of these .mentioned who are net available are requested to notify the selector as soon as possible. “Walter Nash on His Knees” “While a request that the exchange rate should be raised would he met with open opposition from the Government. 1 think there is no doubt that- it would be received with secretpleasure,” said Mr. C. A. Campion at a meeting of the Mid-Canterbury provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Ashburton, when consideration was being given to the altering of the exchange as a means-cf solving farmers’ pmblems. “If we asked for a higher exchange Walter Nash would go down on ids knees and thank God we had done so.” lie added.