THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, June 3o, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 201, 30 June 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, June 30, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki Radio Artist. Opotiki! listeners will be pleased to bear that Mr. C. Fleming, of Opotiki, ■will be giving another of his entertaining presentations from IZM. Mamirewa, on Sunday next, after noon. Temperatures. North Island temperatures at 9 a.m. yesterday were : Auckland 58 degrees, Tam anga 55, Opotiki 53, Fust tape 59, Cl is borne 48, Napier 46. and Wellington 51. City 3rd. .Grade. The following players will represent City 3rd. grade in the match with Woodland's at Connelly’s paddock to be played at. 2.45 p.m. to-morrow : Cooper, Benufoy, Chat field. Morgan, Collins. Fleming". N. Abbot, Lovell, Reeves, Lake, Moore, Warren, Gold-, smith, Fall, Thompson, L. Abbot. Gisborne District Highways. The following amounts have been recommended! for allocation by the Main Highways Board in the Poverty Bay district£sß,3sß for. expenditure on the Gisborne-Te Araroa ►State, highway j £57.210 on the Gig-borne-Whakatane. via Waioeka, State highway; £40,331 on the Gis-borne-Napicr, via. Hangaroa. State highway. Meeting of Unionists. A meeting of Opotiki unionists was held in Opotiki last night- when the following resolution was carried: “That the members of the Opotiki Branch of the Auckland District Labourers and Belated Trades Industrial Union of Workers have every confidence in our organisation as at present constructed and- protest against any attempt to register a south Auckland Union, because of the noisy demands of a Jiandd : ul of uuion-splitters.

Tc-marrow’s Shield Match. .The first To Hurinui Apanui Memorial Shield match toi he played this 'season will be- between Apanui (holders) and Tauranga. The shield was handed hack to the Biay Union by the Rangitaiki Union and the Apanui Union was selected to be the first holders this season. The result of the first round in the I’arata Cup competition would tend to show that no Bay of Plenty, representative' team is in any way outstanding and that the ■representative fixtures should be fairly evenly contested. The Tauranga players leave home to-dav and will spend the night in Opotiki, leaving here to-morrow morning in time to give the team a good rest before the game is played at Te Kalia.