The Opotiki News Tuesday, October 28, 1947. LOCAL & GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1041, 28 October 1947, Page 2

The Opotiki News Tuesday, October 28, 1947. LOCAL & GENERAL

Shipping. The m.v, Waiotahi will leave Auckland, to-night lor Opotiki and is expected here on Thursday. Flower Show. The Waiotahi Women’s Institute will hold their annual flower show in the Waiotahi Hall to-morrow. Nomination Day. .Nominations for the various local bodies, both Country and Borough close to-morrow at noon. Huge Lancewood. Believed to be the largest lancewood in existence, a tree 70ft. tall and sft. 6in. in circumference stands a quarter of a mile from the Dawson Falls house, on the slopes of Mount Egrnont. “Cigam” To-morrow Night. Readers are reminded of the big show to take place in the Regent Hall to-morrow night when the great magician “Cigam” will give a performance. This show has drawn good houses wherever it has been put on and it is expected that Opotiki will be no exception.

Dairy Election. Messrs. E. J. Baigent and F. R. Looney, the two retiring directors were again returned to the directorate of the Opctiki Dairy Association at the election held last week. The result of the ballot was as follows E. J. Baigent 2464, F. RLooney 2156, W. A. Gault 1836. Labour Week-End! Once again the Labour Hay weekend piovided very unsettled weather conditions. However most of the sports held in Opotiki were run without much interruptionAHer the spell of warm and dryingconditions the rain was welcome to farmers and gardeners and the ground has been nicely softened up for cropping. Origin of Term “The Diggers” The origin of the term, “the Digbers,” as applied to Australian and New Zealand soldiers of the Great War, is recalled by the death of General Sir lan Hamilton, who was Commander-in-Chief at Gallipoli in 1915. After refusing to re-embark the Anzacs on the night of the first landing on Gallipoli in April, 1915, General Hamilton, in an order to hie troops,, said: “You have S°k through the difficult business, now you have only to dig, dig, until you arc safe.” Referring to an earlier campaign in his book, “Listening for the Drums,” General Hamilton partly attribues the lose of the Battle of Majuba Hill to the failure of the British commanders to dig in—“a crime, not so much against the science of war, as against the art of war.”