THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, September 20, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 236, 20 September 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, September 20, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tendsrs for Supplies. The Opotilci Hospital Board invites ’tenders for the supply of bread, meat and groceries and provisions. Particulars appear in the advertisement. . * - ‘ -■ '* • : Temperatures. North- island temperatures at 9 a.m. yesterday .morning were as follows: Auckland 54 degrees, Tauranga 60, Opotiki 52. East Cape and Gisborne 53. Napier 4?, and Wellington 52. Recreation Week. All sports-"bodies have been asked to co-operate and arrange special functions to. assist the recreation committee during Recreation Week which will be held from 29th. September to 7th, October. Any functions arranged will he recognised by the committee as part of Recreation Week. The Half-holiday. The majority of the business premises in Opotiki did not 'observe the usual half-holidlay to-day, having previously notified their intention of-clus-ing on Saturday afternoons in future. - and remaining open on Wednesdays. One or two shops have decided to postpone the change-over for another week, while a few shops have decided to make no change at all. Late night this week will be observed on Friday night by the shops which remained open this afternoon. Trout Liberation, The Department of Internal Affairs is extremely busy at present carrying out liberation of trout fry in many parts of the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty districts. The hatcheries at Ngongotaha and Tokaanu already have handled this year approximately 10.000.000 ova. 2.250.000 fry having been liberated in lak,es and streams ol the district. 'The first lot of eggs hatched at the. Waikaremoana plant has been liberated, and the hatchery there is again filled to capacity. With the 193940 season only- six or eight weeks away, the staff of the department is -working at full pressure.

Women and Civilisation. His belief that woman’s home-mak-ing instinct had been one of the greatest forces making for human progress was expressed by Dr. R. A. Millikan, the celebrated physicist, in a lecture at Auckland University College. Tlie beginning of the process, he said, had been correctly dated by Kipling from when the cave woman first hung a wild 'horse's skin over the cave doorway and invited her husband to wipe his feet before eutoiiug. Dr. Millikan added that four-sevenths of man’s staple food plants were the descendants of; wild grasses and tubers collected and cultivated bv the American Indian squaw thousands of years ago. Threw the Butter. The majority of Aucklanders have .taken a. philosophical view of the restrictions which have followed in the - wake of the war, hut here and there resent- , ment is still expressed at the rationing system imposed by grocery firms. This was revealed in no uncertain manner by a woman customer in a suburban store recently. -The customer asked for and was furnished with a pound of butter, and she then, requested that she be supplied with a bag of sugar. 'Politely the shop assistant informed her that the maximum amount oi sugar that, she could purchase was Uh. Ho was given a thorough tonguethrashing for his pains, and the irate voman. fired with sudden inspiration, oumlcd off her tirade by picking up form the counter the butter she had ordered and hurling it at him. Praise for School Dental service. “The training school for the school dental service in Wellington is very efficiently run, and the New Zealand method of handling dental problems in school children is the most complete and effective one I have yet met with.'! said Dt\ Eugene Schmitt, a New York dentist, who is visiting Christchurch. l)r. Schmitt emphasised the need, which has lately been discussed by the New Zealand Dental Association, for pre-natal care, and attention to young children, to ensure god teeth. He said that there was a tendency to neglect the teeth cl. children. parents hesitating to pay the necessary dental lees. ‘‘But I doubt whether, under the present economic structure, the average man will ever; get enough money to pay for adequate dental care,” he said.