THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, September 27, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 239, 27 September 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, September 27, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pig Sale. . ' The usual fort-nightly pig sale: will be belcli in the Opotiki .saleyards on Monday next. ''License Refused. The application of .Messrs. Walker Bros.. To Kalia, to install a-, petrol pump at their Te Kalia .store, lias been refused by the .Bureau of Industry. Shipping. The in.v. Waiotahi is expected to arrive at Opotiki this evening and will leave again for Auckland to-mor-row night. Temperatures. North Island temperatures at 9 a.in. yesterday were: Auckland 5S degrees, Tauinnga 57. Opotiki 58. .least Cape 55. Gisborne and Napier 54. Wellington -Ilk Concert anti Community Sing. Next Tuesday -night a retrea l ion concert and community sing will- he held in th(> Regent Hall. A silver collection will he taken up and the proceeds will g n to patriotic purposes. Car Over Bank. A car driven hy .Mr. T. Garland .of Auckland left the read near the houndarc at Nukiihoii. going over a steel) hank. The driver suffered extensive injuries mid the ear was bady damaged. Recreation Week Dancd. A dance organised by the Ifigli School Ohl Pupils’ Association wili lie held in who- Lyric Hall on Saturday, 7LI I . October. 'The funds will be devoted for patriotic purposes and the function will be a ijtting conclusion to recreation week. Slaughter-house License. An application was received Ibis week by the 1 Waikolm County Council from Air. N. L. '.riioiuas for a slaughterhouse license fer premises at Motu. 'l’lic application was referred to the Opotiki County Council, tlie slaughterhouse being in that district. Cisborne-Motuhcra Line. An, increase of £455 was shown in tlie revenue from the Gisborne-Motu-hora railway line for the four weeks ended August 19. compared with the corresponding period of 1938. 'J he total revenue for this year’s period was CtiboO, while the expenditure* was £2,01.2, as against £-2-189 in 1938. '.I lie net deficit rn the four weeks’ operations was £552. compared with £BB4 lastyear. Heavy Rain In Cisborne District. Several inches of rain have been recorded) in the borough of Gisborne dining the last few days ami the Jails in the country districts have been oven heavier. All creeks and the river in the Motu district have been in high Hood and further rain has been reported. Up to yesterday morning nearly lOiu. of rain had fallen at r ! ikitiki. Foil the 24 hours ended at 9 a.in. yesterday the rainfall totalled oin.. while the week-null tally to to Monday morning was 4.87 in. Losses of Potatoes. The extensive loss of crops oi early potatoes in the Napier district as the result of the recent heavy frost is the more serious because of the present shnitage <T mtpplfcs. In the Tarn-dale-area two-acre crop of plants several timlms high was severely da imaged, and numerous instances have been reported of the loss of smaller crops in all parts of the district. Marly tomatoes and certain early blossoming varieties of fruit also .suffered.

“Hitler on Wheels”. • “This mini sixmos to think lie is a sort of Hitler on wheels,” said the luagistrahe. .Mr. H. W. Ihindio, in the. Dunedin Police Court, when summing up the evidence against a doiondant who was ohargeiil with tailing to obey a tiaffie inspector. His Worship imposed a line oi' Co and costs ( Cl Us), and suspended the delendant’s license tor a month, the conviction to lie enthused on • the license, “dbo socuer he learns ordinary courtesy and to show consideration tor other users ol the road, the hotter tor him,” j\lr. Bundle added 1 .