The Opotiki News Wednesday, November 29, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 265, 29 November 1939, Page 2

The Opotiki News Wednesday, November 29, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shipping. Owing to tiie unsettled, state of iho weather and the heavy sea running in the Bay of Plenty, the day of arrival of the usual weekly boat to Opotiki is indefinite. Card Evening Postponed. On account of ‘‘Charley’s Aunt” being held to-night, the usual Wednesday night Rehekah Lodge card evening will ho hold on Thui'sday (to-mor-row) evening. Temperatures. Temperatures at. 9 o’clock yesterday morning in the North Island were as follows?—Auckland and Tauranga 03 degrees, Opotiki OS, .Bast Cape 02, Gisborne 04, Napier GO. and! Wellington 68. Success in Competition. Arranged by Messrs. \\ . and R. Fletcher Ltd., a competition lor the purpose of promoting winter bacon production was held at the Westfield Works last week. In the Bay of Plenty section the results were: J. B. Bla'okburn, Katikati (173) 1, W. H. Mathewscn, Rotorua (I.GBA) -• E. A. Ha u I tain, Rangitaiiki Plains (108) 3. L. ,\\ l.ooney, Opotiki (107) 4, A. Nieol, Opotiki (.105) 5. Slowing Down of Public Works. In an announcement at Auckland', the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple. announced a new ]ilit ll of operation to meet the changing ciPcumstaneos. r l his plan will grade the work at present under construction and an easing i'll in construction will he based on the result. Important work of particular value to the nation or to various parts of the country will not. he stopped, but work may he slowed down on other jolts. Overseas Finances. In on address at the annual meeting of the A iff kla ml Manufacturers’ Association, the Hon. P. C. M ebb, -Minister of Labour, .said that he knew the manufacturers were perhaps facing a hard time for six months, but he was assured by the Minister of Idnance, the Hlon. "W. Nash, that financial daylight would he seen at the cm! of that period and that, .within a year, he hoped manufacturers would be able to purchase all the raw materials that were needed for industries that justified their existence.