LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 October 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Golf Tournament at Taupo The first golf tournament to be held by the new Taupo Golf Club on the Tuhara course, will commence on October 25 and extend over three days. Entries for the tournament close with the secretary to-morrow. Some of the events to be contested are the Taupo Amateur championship for the Morrice Cup, the first 16 in the qualifying rounds to play for the trophy. There will also be bogey and medal matches in conjunction with the big event. Arawa Rifle Club's Wind-up The Arawa Miniature Rifle Club will hold a wind-up meeting on Friday evening, when members will shoot for the trophies hbld by the club and not yet won outright. Two matches will then he fired which will be open to all members of the new Rotorua club. The matches will be as follows. — First match, five rounds grouping and five rounds deliberate; second match: five rounds snap (four seconds per shot) and five rounds rapid (in 30 seconds). The entrance ! money for the events will be used ; for the purdfase of trophies for the i Rotorua Club.

J Returned Soldiers' Reunion The Rotorua Returned Soldiers' | Assoeiation will hold their annual re- | union at the Geyser Hotel, on Novemj ber 6, at 7 p.m. It is hoped by the j executive organising the function that this year's reunion will prove as sucj cessful as that held last year. i New Fishing Season The Tourist Department's painters are at present busily engaged in making notice boards to be erected in the Lake Rotoiti and Lake Taupo districts, in preparation for the new fishj ing season. Notices are also being ! made to mark the recently altered : boundaries of the shooting areas j around the Rotorua district, where : much more freedom is to be allowed ' this year than in former seasons. I New Route up Tarawera 1 The climbing of Tarawera Moun- • tain was undertaken by a party of 1 trampers last Saturday, following a ' new route. The climbers commenced j from Waimangu and skirted the edge j of Lake Rotomahana before making jthe ascent. The leader of the party j was Mr. G. W. Gilchrist, vice-presi- | dent of the Auckland Tramping Club, who is at present working in Rotorua ! on the installation of the new branch- * ing multiple switchboard in the tele- . phone exchange. He was accompan- , ied on this expedition by Professor I Burbridge, of the Auckland Univerj sity and Mr. Mclsaacs, of the Rotorua Post and Telegraph staff.

"Long Enough." i Two Maoris not so very far from ) Rotorua were discussing with a paI keha representative of the forces of I law and order, the ethics of helping j themselves to any of their neighbours goods which they might happen to covert. "What's the good of taking a small thing," remarked one "if you are going to steal anything get a hundred quid." Very properly, the representa?tive of the law pointekl, out that the only argument against lifting a hundred pounds was that it was somebody else's property. "That all right," remarked the second Maori, "the other fellow, he have it long enough."

"Confetti is Childisli." Couples who wish to be married at Friern Barnet (Middlesex) Parish Church must, in future, give an undertaking that confetti will not be used, or deposit 5s to be forfeited if confetti is used. This is the announcement made in the parish magazine by the rector, the Rev. E. G. Hall, who regards the confetti habit as "childish." Library. — New books are arriving direct from London regularly for our Lending Library. Terms, 5/- ar.d 3d per hook. Special arrangements made for turists. Central Book Shop (M. and B. Dorset), next Grand Picture Theatre, Tutanekai St.*

Brown's Boot Shop wish to announce the arrival of new merchandise each day to complete their stocks of ladies', men's and children's shoes. Also several lines of cozy slippers. All of this merchandise was bought on a falling market, assuring the keenest of prices . Brown's Boot Shop, next to Aard Motors, Tutanekai Street.* Baby's weight. Keep a record of Baby's progress free. We invite you to make use of our up-to-date scales and present you with a card to keep particuiars on. Len Fisher, Ltd., Chemist, Fenton Street.*