THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, November 21, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 263, 24 November 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Friday, November 21, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Cricket Representatives. Mr. El. Weils. Mr. A. Smith'andl Air. All. Le Pi tie have been, selected as mein hers of the .Bay of Plenty cricket team to. play a friendly game against Waikato, at Rotorua on. Sunday next. Temperatures. Temperatures at 9 o’clock yesterday morning at various North island centres, were as follows:—Auckland 62 degrees, Tauranga 70, Opotiki 6*5, East Cape 6*3. Gisborne 70, Napier 74. and Wellington 55. Notifiable Disease. Six cases of notifiable disease were reported to the headquarters in Gisborne of the East Capo health district for the week ended at noon to-day. Four of the notifications were of enteric lever and two of tuberculosis. Opotiki Cricket. The following players will represent C'itv in the match to Ik- played against Woodlands on Sunday: J. O’Sullivan, T. Sothcrau. 11. Lake, j. Fowler. M. Sing, H. Hawkins, J, Serjeant, H. Ashdown, F. Clements, J. Smith, S. Hay. Patriotic Committee. The Opotiki Centennial Committee lias been appointed by the authorities to act as an Opotiki Local Patriotic Committee, and an important meeting will he held in the Mission Hall on Wednesday next at 8 p.m. The business is urgent- and all members of tin' Patriotic Committee are asked to attend. Watt Cup Competition. Opotiki will meet Waimana in the second round cf the Watt Cup in the Bay of Plenty Tenuis Association’s competition. This match will ho played on December 10. The next game will not. be played until February 18, when Opotiki will meet Rangitaiki. On March ;j the winner West (KotoruaTauranga) Zone will meet the winner of East Zone (Opotiki-Waimnna). Red Cross Dance. 'l’he committee of the Red Cross Flannel Ban'co to take place at the Lyric Hall, on Aloiiday next, tire 2/th. inst.. thank the business proprietors for their donations for novelty dances and supper etc., given so willingly. Nothing lias been left undone to make the dance a success and a good night is expected for this deserving cause. The final •committee meeting takeplace at the l)e Luxe tea-rooms at 8 o’clock to-night, not 6 o’clock as previously stated. Universal Petrol Price. '.l’he member for the Bay ol Plenty, Air. A. >G. Hnltquist, has received the following letter from the Duller branch of the Automobile Association (.Canter-bury-:—“At a recent meeting of my association, the comments recently made by you and as reported in Hansard "ere read and considered. Aly members were unanimously of the opinion that your contentions are in order, and 1 have been instructed t O , write to the member for our district, the lion. P. C. Webb, asking him to support you in the matter of a universal price for petrol.” Shortage of Canvas. •■'Pile buying rf canvas from the warehouses in New Zealand is impossible. as not even a yard of material-is procurable.” said a Gisborne tentmaker to a Gisborne pressman, when tellili<i ot the effect of the vrar and tlie consequent increased demand for tent material by the army abroad and in tlie Dominion. The'.Gisborne man said that he had foreseen a shortage and was holding a large stock that- was land'ed in Gisborne two days before the outbreak of war. Alter Christmas lie considered that the shortage would he serious. Although the import restrictions had not been altered lrom those ruling last year the price was now prohibitive. The cost in England of cotton goods had advanced bv 40 per cent., insurance was up 50 per cent., ami freight: charges had increased by 25 per cent.