THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, October 18, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 248, 18 October 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, October 18, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Centennial Celebrations. :t A special general meeting of the Opotiki Centennial Celebrations Committee is to be held on Thursday. October 20, when very urgent business will be discussed. AH members are especially requested to be present. Opotiki Delegates. The following Opotiki delegates were present at the meeting of the s.ub-pro-vincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union held at Etlgeeuinbe recently :—Messrs. G. M. Vaflstone. G. F. Joblin. J. L. Holman, K l . Thompson, A. HO. Martin.. , '“Opotiki Methods’’. Under the heading “Opotiki Methods”, the AYhakatane Beacon has published copies of letters recently forwarded to the Acting Prime Minister and the .Member for the district, in connection with matters arising out of the public meeting held in Opotiki some time ago. Temperatures. Temperatures throughout the North Island at 9 a.m. yesterday were as follows:—(Jape Palliser. 62 degrees, Cape Maria Nan Diemen, Tauranga, East Oape. and Napier 59, Anckland SS, Opotiki aiul Wellington 57, Gisborne 55. •On Monday the Opotiki leading-was the only one above-GO degrees. Nurses’ Acciammiodaticn. / At a special meeting of the Opotiki Hospital .Board, .Mr. J. D. Clark referred to the need of improving the nurses’ accommocilation at the hospital, pointing out that the rooms were b a tile in need of papering and brightening up. He stressed the need of making the living conditions much better ail’d considered the . Opotiki accommodation inferior to other hospital. Tlu» board decided t 0 take immediate steps to renovate the nurse and domestic accommodation. Mr. Clark said that the board could dot expect to keep the nurses if inferior accommodation is provided. \ Coeds Commandeered. At a meeting of farmers held at Edgeeumbe, it was stated that a Government inspector had visited the Kangitaiki dairy factory with three big lorries and had removed the company’s stock of rooting iron and; water piping, it was stated that the-com-pany by judicious buying had obtained a large quantity of iron and piping for use by factory suppliers. Complaints are now being made that tbe farmers will be unable to roof their pig houses and assist in thei Government’s appeal for increased production. It is understood chat iron had also been commandeered irem AYhakatano firms. Early Day Land Values. The early days in the Dominion, when tin'* Government embarked on its “cheap land” policy, were recalled by Mr. I>. G. Begley, speaking at a meeting of-the Hastings branch of the Farmers’ Union. In Hawke’s Bay land was offered for sale at ss, and in some cases at 2sJ 6d. an • acre, lie said. It was on record that a man who is now a prominent laud-owner in the district offered one a<cre for every two acres that a man would plough.