LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 202, 3 July 1939, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shipping. The m.v, Waiotahi arrived at the Opotiki wharf this morning and is expected to leave for Auckland at about ‘ 7 o’clock- to-morrow morning. Temperatures. North Island temperatures on Saturday at 9, a.m. were: Auckland 07 decrees, /Tauranga 60', Opotiki amt East- Cape 58, Gisborne 51, and Napier and Wellington 53. Mstawai Young Farmers’ Glub. An enthusiastic meeting of young farmers was held at Matawai oil Thursday last, when it was decided to form a branch e-f the club in the district. Basketball. Weather conditions were very bad on. Saturday afternoon when a Gisborne team of basketball players met the Opotiki representatives. The game resulted in a win for Opotiki by 10 goals to 8. Despite the heavy'rain falling., another game was played l , the visiters, defeating Old Gills by 10 goals to 4. Apanui Shield Match. The first- challenge match for the Te Hurinui Apanui Memorial Shield was played at Te Kalia on Saturday under very bad weather conditions. Tauranga. (challengers) succeeding in winning, the shield from the Apanui representatives by 9 points, to 3 after a fairly even contest. Van Leaves Ro£id. A baker’s van. the property of Anderson Bros., left, the road and dived into a drain near the small bridge about, five miles from Opotiki on tli Waioeka'~road. The accident occurred oil Saturday afternoon, and although the radiator and hood of the van. were badly damaged, the driver,’'' Hiss ECorney, -was practically uninjured. Proper Colours. In commenting on the bo-xing tournament held in Gisbfj rn( > i as t week, the Herald -pointed put/that nearly 25 per cent, of those. wlicV too p part- did not; abide by tlie ruled that each amateur boxer must wear a , distinguishing band around liis waist. It- was thought that many the boys competing did not know'-of the rule. Missed One Match. \ Twenty-one years in his ‘village soccer team—and only, one n,\ a tch missed. That is the record of ’34-year-old Walter Brazier, of Headcd, ni Kent. “I’ve played in every position except goal,” Brazier told a re-portei,.-. “Decently I played in two League glguncs—one in the afternoon, another i. : n. tlieevening.” \- Prison©r Sentenced. -- . Robert Edward Sherman, committed from Opotiki, appeared before ’the Auckland Supreme Courtfor sentence on six charges of. breaking and entering dwellings., three by night and three by day. Five charges involved theft and oneinvolved intent to commit a crime, Mr. Noble said prisoner had been before the Courts for only minor offences hitherto. On each count prisoner was committed to a Borstal institution for two years, the sentences to be concurrent.