LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 76, 20 November 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Election Nominations Close To-day Nomipations of candidates for the general election close with registrar ! of electors, Mr. J. L. Crowther, at . ; noon to-day. Candidates must be : nominated by at least two electors of the district and must themselves sign the nomination paper signifying their consent to nomination. At the time the nomination is lodged a deposit of £10 must be made. Should the eandidate fail to poll one-quarter ,of the total votes polled by the successful : .candidate, the deposit is forfeited. i Amateur Athletics To-night. Excellent arrangements have been made for the initial mee.ting of the newly formed Rotorua Amateur Athletie and Cycle Club at the High School grounds this evening. A large number of entries has been received and some ke.en contests are assured. The first event is timed to start at £ p.m. Pictures for Reljef Fund Tickets are selling rapidly for the screeriing of Tom Saxvyer at the Majestic Theatre on Sunday in aid of the Rotorua, local unemployment cominittee's relief funds and intending patrons are advised to hook their seats immediately at Miss Mac.dermott's as a packed house is anticipated. Relief Fund Campaign The Maori carved coal box which will be the prize in the candle burning competition in connection with the campaign to raise funds for local relief is on view in the Rotorua Furnishing Co.'s window in Tutanekai Street. Epi Shalfoon's Melody Boys' have given yet another demonstration of their public spiritedness, having oifered to provide the music for the Basketball Association's dance ip aid of the relief fund to he held in the Majestic Ballroom on Thursday, November 26. Yisiting Anglers. A number of overseas and New Zealand anglers who have visited Rotorua for successive fishing seasons over a long period of years are back agam this year. In a number of cases well known overseas fishermen have settled permanently in the district Veteran anglers who are at present fishing or who are expected later in the season, are Mr. A.D. Campbell of England, who has been fishing in the district since 1910, Mr. A. Clark of Melbourne, Major Blakeway and Dr. Marshall of England, and Messrs Wilkie, Booth and Turner. Fishing in Ohau Channel. A well-known angler reports that snielt are now running in the Ohau Channel, and that there is an excellent rise just before dusk each evening, when the fish can generally he caught with any long-tailed coloured fly. The rise lasts for ahout two hours and ' provides good fishing if the right fly is used. Missing Man. A carpenter named Montague Beetham, residing at Rotoiti, disappeared from the residence of Mr. W. j R. Broughton on Tuesday and was not discovered until late yesterday afternoon. Mr. Broughton became alarmed for the safety of his guest and communicated with the Rotorua | police who succeeded in locating the missing mart.

Curious Relics. Three most curious pieces of stone which may possibly be relics of an ancient people form part of a collection of the Con&ervator of Fish and Game in Rotorua (Mr. A. Kean). Two of the pieces, of which one is almost an exact miniature of the other are shaped almost like a solid pitcher. They are rounded, almost as if they had been turned ,on a potter's wheel and although they cannot have been devised as vessels, appear to have been fashioned by some human agency. They ar,e of a shape which might have enabled them to be used as pestles but are not in any way similar to any known Maori utensils or tools. Both pieces are of sandstone and were found by Mr. Kean in the Wa;roa district at the bottom of deep outcrops of river metal. In each case they were found at a spot which indicated that they had been between 35 and 40 feet below the surface yet the actual places where they were found, were 25 miles apart. The third piece is a large fragment of petrified wood weighing several p.ounds. This, in itself would not be remarkjable, but on both ends are cuts which have obviously been made with a speeies of axe. This piece was found with the larger of the two pestles aind from the depth at which it was found must have been buried for a very long period of time. A new selection of books from Nelaon's Edinburgh Library has just arrived. Call in and lo.ok oypr the titles; you are ?ure t.o be interested in many. These are the latest and of 1 a very high class. — Central Book Shop (M. and B. Dorset), next .Gyaji.d Theatre.