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

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 273, 20 December 1939, Page 2

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

Temperatures. North Island temperatures at 9 o’clock yesterday morning were as fol-lows-:—Gisborne 71 degrees, Tanranga 76 degrees, Opotiki 70, Wellington 67, Auckland, East■ - Onpe, Napier and Cast-lepoint, OS. Bowling. The Wliakalane and Taneatua Howling Chibs will make their annual visit to Opotiki on Boxing Day, when they will play inter-club matches. I*l ay will commence at 9.80 a.m. on both local greens. All bowling visitors will bo welcomed. Gisborne Railway Revenue. The railway working account shows that the revenue from the GishorneAlotuhorn line for the four weeks end- 1 ed November 11 was. £2385, compared with £2858 for the corresponding period in 1938, while the expenditure' was £2514), against £2576 for the four weeks last year. ** Christmas Service:. At the Ninas choral service held in St. .John’s Hall on Sunday last, the “Hallelujah” chorus was beautifully rendered on the- Orgatren by Air. John J’uryer, church organist. Air. I'uryer also trained .Kenneth and Walton Holmes, whose singing ol “J Know That Aly Bedeemer Liveth,” from the Messiah, was of outstanding merit. Farewell Luncheon.

A farewell luncheon will lit* tendered to -Mr. 11. Rowland at the Wattle Tea-rooms on Thursday, December 28, by the Opotiki Chamber of Commerce Businessmen and country friends desirous of being present are asked to telephone owe of the conveners, so that lull arrangements may be made. Particulars appear in kh advertisement. Must Not Slap Children. Slapping ol' children or boxing their ears is forbidden in the State schools ol' New South Wales, the education Department stated recently. Corporal punishment in Yictoria may be administered only to hoys ; strapping the pupil on the palm ol the hand is the only method permitted, and no pupil may he detained alter school hours tor more than MU minutes. Holiday Notice. On Christmas Day, 24th. December, Jinxing Day. liotli. December and New Year's Day, Ist. January, the Post Of lice will he closed in all branches except the telephone exchange which will observe the usual continuous attendance. .Mails lor offices north ol Taneatun and south of Mat awn i will he despatched on lloxing Day and New Year's Day and will close at <3 a.in. No mails will he despatched on Christmas Day. Paid Holidays for P.W.D. Men. Christmas leave for men employed on Public Works Department jobs in the district will commence on Thursday, and provision is made for all men who have complete da year’s lull service with the department to receive a fortnight’s clear holiday on lull pav. A margin of time is allowed under the regulations to cover travelling on the part of men employed on country jobs, and who prosmpably have distances to travel before they reach their homes. lo conformity with this police, men on railway construction and other country works will lay down their tools p,n Thursday,/-December 21. and will resume work on January 10. Men on jobs classified as suburban will enjoy leave from December 22 to January S, only a small number of men in this district falling within this classification.