LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 102, 21 December 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Preparing for Carnival Preparation worlc for the Carnival is in hand in the Rotorua Town Square, where the grass is bedng cut and a stage erected in readiness for the various entertainments. This area will be the centre. of activity throughout practically the whole of Carnival Week. Thousands of Wires Work is progressing steadily with the installation of the new branching multiple telephone exchange at the Rotorua Post Office. There are in all 96 small frames to be wired and over 100 wires are connected to each. about 25 have already been finished, but as only 'two frames can be done by one man in a day, it is expqcted that it will be near the end of January before the system is working. Improvements At Aerodrome The Rotorua Aerodrome is receiving attention from the borough staff at present, and a certain amount of levelling and clearing work is being carried out. This work is part of a general clearing up before the Christ- | mas programme. P.O. Becoming Busy The mails going through the Rotorua Post Office are beginning to increase, but the Christmas rush has not yet started in earnest, according to the postmaster, Mr. G. Nelson, yesterday. It is expected that the really busy period will commence early next week. Bowling Club The Rotorua Bowling Club has completed its club fours competition, and until the beginning of January there will be no further competition games. The club pairs and singles will be commenced on Wednesday, January 6, and Saturday, Jar.uary 9, but all intervening Saturdays and Wednesdays will he free. Your Paper While Away Subscribers to the "Morning Post," who will he away from home during the Christmas and New Year holidays may have the newspaper posted to them fo any address in New Zealand if they will communicate personally or by telephone with the "Morning Post" Office.. New Air Mail Stamp The proposal that the new 5d air mail .stamp'should he issued has been approved by the Postmaster-General, and the new stamp is now available at the Rotorua Post Office. The . stamp is the ordinary 3d air mail stamp overprinted with the words , "Five Pence." Its issue will epable users of the New Zealand air mails to prepay with one stamp the initial postage and also the air mail charge ! on a one-ounce letter. Taupo Fishing. Taupo launches have been fairly busy during the past week, and some j good, though not outstanding catches I of fish are reported. The general I average of the catches has been in | the vicinity of 5 to 61bs and the eondition of the hen-fish particularly has been extremely good. New Library Books The Rotorua Public Library advises that a number of new books ! have been procured, among which - are: Herrin Jennie (Edward Albert) ; I The Radiant Years (Elizabeth Car- ! frae) ; Broome Stages (Clemence Dane) ; A House Is Built (Barnard M. Eldershaw) ; Green Memory (Barnard M. Eldershaw) ; The Brontes Went to Woolworth's (Rachel Ferguson) ; No On© Man (Rupert Hughes) ; Return, I Dare Not (Margaret Kennedy) ; Buttexeups and Daisies (Compton Mackenzie) ; First Person Singular (W. Somerset Maughan) ; Two People (A. A. Milne) ; The Caiends of Cairo (Leslie J.. Mitchell) ; Modern English Short Stories (E. J. O'Brien) ; Sinners Beware (Phillips E. Oppenheim) ; Stormbury (Eden Phillpotts) ; Red Pepper Returns (Grace S. Richmond) ; The Island of Terror (Dapper); Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (Siegfriend Sassoon); Dorinda Darling (A. A. Thompson); Into the Island of Nod (Horace Annesley Vachell); Judith Paris (Hugh Walpole); The Hidden Child (Franz Werfel); If I Were You (P. S. Wodehouse); Sowing Glory (P. C. Allen); Julian Prohert (Susan Ertzy); Bargain Basement (Cecil Roberts); T,he Road (Warwick Deeping) ; Finch's Fortune (Mayo De La Roche); The Jade of Destiny (Jeffery Farnol); Maid in Waiting (John Galsworthy); The Golden Years (Philip Gibbs); The Gringo Privateer (Peter B. Kyne); Disraeli (Andre Maurois); The Comely Lass (Thomas Moult) ; The Procession of Life (Horace Annesley Vachell) ;The Canon In Residence (Vietor L. Whitchurch),