LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, 31 August 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Meteorological Readings. The following' are the barometer maximum and minimum thermometer and rainfall readings' recorded at the i Government Observation Station by the Tourist Department, for. the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. Saturday : — Barometer, 28.938ins; thermometer j (max.), 57.2 cleg ; thermometer (min. I on grass), 18.0 deg*. ; rainfall, nil. j Mlxed Golf Foursomes. I Elghty four golfers, many of them j visitors from other clubs, took part in a mixed foursome on the Rotorua Golf'eourse last, Saturday. Conditions were ideal and so,me good cards were retuined. The winners were Mfs. Knig'ht and W. Barker, 89 — 21—68. Mr. and Ivlrs, Gillies, 91 — 22 — 69. A Compliment. 1 » Gne of New Zealand's best known advertising agents, in a letter to the "Posfc," had the following compliment to pay to the new issue. "I was very interested indeed to see a copy of your issue of 24th instalifc and want to congratulate you 011 the excellent issue you have turned out. The paper j is scarcely recognisable* as eompared , with the old "Ghronicle," and I hope, that with the lauhching of this jour- ' nal you will meet with the success and good fortune whieh your elforts de- | serve." Fire at Mamaku. ( Fire totally destroyed a four-room-ed cottage in Arahiwi Road, Mamaku, -j at 8 a.m. yesterday morning. Thp | building was occupied by Mr. J. Kilj gour. The insurances are not yet available. May Emp'oy Relief Workers. The manager of the State experimcntal Farm, at Mamaku, has recentiy received authority to employ xe'ief workers under the No. 5 unemploymeht seheme, for any stumping and eleaTing*. woik that may require. to be done on the farm. Cut It Fine. There was much consternation and bustle at ihe railway station on Saturday .morning when the RotoruaAuckland express, already pulled out was held up for .some minutes for a party of six tourists who had just arrived in Rotorua by service car, and who were evidently in a hurry to continue their journey. New Books.. The following books have. recently been added to the Rotorua Public Library: — Courts of the Morning (John Buchan) ; Storm Drift (E. M. Deli) ; Young Apollo (Anthony Gxbbs) ; The Captain of the Sahara (E. M. Hull) ; The Spy (Horler) ; The 1/ecker (Gxaeme Holder) ; The Trail of the Skull (Gavin Holt)*; A Richer I Dust (Jameson) ; Castle Island (Matj teram) ; Jim Grim (Talbot Mundy) ; First Athenian Memories (Gompton Mackenzie) ; The Concave Mirror (W. B. Maxwell) ; Hopalong Cassidy and The Eagle.'s Brood (Mulford) : The

Uovexnor of ICattowity (Graham Seton) ; Memories of a Fox Hunting xvxan (Siegfrledi Sassoon) ; The Pathway to Fame (Paul Trent) ; Burnt White (Woods); On The Spot (E. Waliace) ; Great Strength Through Muscle Control (Maxick) ; How to Decorate (Jones) ; A Wild Bird (Maud Diver) ; Mr.- Corrington (Barford) ; The, Long Loop (Bower) ; Twenty-four Hours (Louis Bx'omfieid) ; Gitana (R. W. Chambers) ; Topsy, M.P. (A. P. Herbert); Visitors at the Flower Pateh (Klickej nan) ; The Corn Kmg and the Spring j Queen (Mitchison) ; Mrs. 'Arris Again I (Pou:tney.) ; God in the Slums (Redwood) ; Forced Landing (Berta Ruck) ; Comments and Critisims (Sir John Simon) ; The Last Day of September (Pamela Wynne) ; The Bengal Lancer (Yeats Brown) ; The. Story of San lVtiehell (Axel Munthe). Round the World 1 A North American Indian reached Engiand a few weeks ago eight years after -he staxted his world walk. He completed the circle. An Ixidian cycxist recently finished a world tour awheel which had taken seven years. Two other men are at present trying to circle the world by sea, one in a 37-foot boat, while that in which a Finnish saiior is sailing is but 20ft. xongt In spite of the comfort of modern travel, men manage to invent tasks for themseives which keep alive the old pioneering spirit of adventure. A Record. 'According to the official record for the last year's rainfall, Maraehako, a small district between Opotiki and Cape Runaway, experienced the heaviest rainfall in the Dominion for a period of 24 hours, nearly 12 inches being recorded. Milford Sound had the heaviest rainfall for the twelve lnonths, about six yards of j rain being recorded. Germany's Press Joke. Rea..ers of th'3 Nationalist and Cominu-nist papers were puzzled the other May, says the Berlin correspondent of "The Times," to find on the front page a column article set in such small type that few could read it comfortably without a magnifying glass. After deciphering it they found that it was an appeal hy the Government urging the electors to boycott the referendum to he taken onrthe question whether the Lower House of Parliament in Prussia shall be dissolved -or not. Under a recent Government decree, the article had to be inserted without payment and without comment. The newspapers . obeyed the decree. Unusual Spectacle. Ti'avellers on the main road between Balclutha and Milton recently witnessed the rather unusual spectacle of a farmer shovellihg snow from the ground in order to enahle him to proceed with his ploughing, The paddock upon which he was working consisted of an open hilltop with occasional dark sidlings, upon which the snow still lay in drifts to a depth of from 1ft to 2ft, offering an effective barrier to the passage of the plough. Rather than allow his ploughing operations to be completely held up hy these drifts until the increasing warmth of the sun had melted them, the farmer had adopted this method of opening up a passage for his team and plough. Baby's weight. Keep a record of Bahy's progress free. We invite ybu to make use of our up-to-date scales and present you with a card to keep particulars on. Len Fisher, Ltd., Ghemist, Fenton Street.*