THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, June 9, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 192, 9 June 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, June 9, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Temperatures. North ’lsland' temperatures at 9 o’clock yesterday morning were: Auckland and Tauranga 57 degrees, Opotiki 59,' East Cape 58, Gisborne 56, Naxher 61, and Wellington 55. National Party. The annual meeting of the Opo tiki branch of the New Zealand National : Party will.- be held, in; the Parish Hall oh i/nursday. next, commencing at 8 j),m. All members are urged’ to at- | • . • . - - tend. Shipping. Oh account of the rough sea on the bar, the m.s. Waiotahi was unable to arrive at Opotild to-day" /The boat will come to Opotiki 'as. soon as conditions are favourable) Injured Motorists. Residents will be pleased to learn that Messrs. W. A. Gaylt, J. T, Merry. and, W. W. Upton, who wore in--jfdred in the motor .accident on the Maraenui hill on Tuesday night, are ail progressing very favourably. Third Grade Football 1 . The City 3rd. grade team to play High School at the reserve to-morrow at 1.30 p.m. sharp, is as follows':-— s Beanfoy, Oiatfield, Collins, Morgan, Siialfoon, Lovell. Fleming, Abbot, Peeves, Lake, .Moore, Warren, Goldsmith. Pall, Burton.

Display and Lecture. .. The monthly cihspluy and lecture evening of the Opotiki and District Horticultural Society will he held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday next. An interesting; lecture will be given during the course of the evening by Mr. Greig. •Government - .inspector. Ihe general public is cordially invited to attend the display and lecture. Storm Off Shore. A very;.heavy swell was funning An the Bay of Plenty this merning. and'' evidence of a heavy storm off shore was given by the countless numbers of seagulls which came inland at daybreak this morning.. Haddocks m every direction in the borough: were white with the seabirds, which later moved on into the country. • r

Tender Accepted. Tenders were received! tor the supply of materials and the construction of a steel girder bridge, together witi six chains of approach road on the jVlarunioko road near Motu, at the recent Oounty Council meeting. _ liiie engineer’s estimate was £SBO and the tenders received were: J. G. ku, £586 and T'. Cl. Maliy £645 10s. 4in lowest tender was accepted, subject c. the department's approval.

Bishop Predicts Shorter Hours, “1 don’t think the human being was made to bo a slave to work, said the Hi shop of Vi aikato, tlie Kt. Jjtcv. C. A. Cherrington, at the Church of England Men’s Society eon- ! terence in New Plymouth. “We have The 40-hour week, but tho time will come when we will work only three days a week. The twentieth century is better than the nineteenth, but there is a twenty-lirst ail'd twentysecond'; century to come.”’' - Clay Bird Shooting. Opotiki competitors were successful at the Poverty Hay flay birds championship matches, which were shot at Tataponri on Monday at a meet organised) by the Tokomaru Hay Gun Club. Conditions were unfavourable for accurate shooting, the gusty wind affecting even the most experienced contestants, and only in the eye-open-er was.:There a possible recorded. Mr. Jack Young,, Opotiki, tied with H. 14.I 4 . Sniytli in the six-bird eye-opener match, with the possible, and first and second prize money was divided. In the twenty-one bird Morere Cup match, j. Whitfield was in the second' prize money, and F. Harris :n the third prize division. In the third section of the twenty-one bird Poverty Hay Championship. single rise, F. Harris was in the four dividing second and third money. In the ten-pair Poverty Bay double-rise .Championship. Glennie Joblin and F. Harris tied for second place with 13 breaks each. In the first section of the sweepstakes, Joblin ancl Harris, with six breaks divided third money. In the second section, F. Harris, Opotiki, was cue of four with seven breaks each and the prize monev was divided.