LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 209, 28 April 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Winter Bowling A sub-committee, eomposed of Mr. T. Kelly and Mr. H. Hamilton, was set np at a meeting of the committee of the Rotorua Bowling Club on Tuesday evening, to approach the district manager of the Tourist Department at Rotorua, Mr. L. J. Bayfeild, with a view to ohtaining his consent to the use of a portion of the croquet lawns in the Government Gardens, during- the period that the bowling greens will be closed for the winter returfing which is to be carried out. It is understood that. the greens will be closed shortly and a few rinks on the croquet lawns would provide members with an opportunity for winter play. Ground Passes for Footballers The question of whether a football team with a bye should be given free admittance to the ground to see other clubs in action, was raised at Tuesday night's meeting of the Rotorua Rug'by management- committee. Formerly 17 passes were provided for each team, whether it played or not, but it was copsidered that this might cause some ill-feeling, as some of the members of the nonplaying club woxild get a pass and the others would have to pay. The provision of free passes to all registered players was considered unreasonable and it was finally decided not to grant passes to members of a team with a bye. The Service Car Standard. "You should travel with the service drivers as much as I do about here and you would see just how a car should be driven," remarked Mr. S. L. Pat.erson S.M. to defending counsel in a motor collision case in the Rotorua Magistrate Court yesterday. Proclaimed Sanctuaries ' As a large number of young pheasants have been liberated in the Rotorua district this season, certain residents of the district are prohibiting shooting on their property, so that the birds may have an opportunity to become acclimatised. The land-owners ohthe following areas and properties who will not shoot on their properties themselves, will prosecute for trespass any unauthorised person and shoot any dog found on their properties: Tihiotonga; N. B. Hunt, J. W. Wrigley, H. P. Ford, J. H. Powell, H. C. Hardcastle, W. J. Scott and Kawaha Point. Bowling Club Committee A meeting of the committee of the Rotorua Bowling Club was held on Tuesday evening at the club's pavilion in the Government Grounds. The president, Mr. T. Kelly, presided. The main business dealt with was the verihcation of the competition prize lists. Labour Campaign At a meeting of the executive of the Rotorua branch of the New Zealand Labour Party held last evening, it was announced that Messrs C. IL Chapman (Wellington North) and A. S. Richards (Boskill), Labour Members of Parliament, will visit Rotorua 1 during the coming week-end and will address a public meeting in the Grand Theatre on Sunday night, when they will outline the policy of the Labour Party in accordance with the Labour campaign at present conducted throughout the country. Wednesday Bowling. The Rotorua Bowling Club's handicap pairs series was advanced a further stage yesterday when the following two matches were played on the rinks in the Government Gardens : Snell and Webber 28, beat Kurney and Cottrell 18: Morland and Hall 22, beat Wood and Merriman 21. Stoats and Weasels. An intensive campaign against stoats and weasels was advocated by Mr. A. Leigh Hunt at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Native Bmd Protection Society in Wellington last week. Mr. Hunt said that stoats and weasels were nothing but pests, and were causing heavy mortality among the small native birds of the Dominion. "A war should be waged against them, and this should be one of the foremost activities in the work of the society," he said. Fishing at Rerewhakaitu Mr. F. Greenfield, of the- Hotel Australia, took a party of tourists to Lake Rerewhakaitu fishing yesterday. In the party were Mr. Waring and the Misses Waring (2), of Blaeklmrn, Laneashire, England; Miss Crombie, of Gisborne; Mr. A. Greenfield, of Auckland; and Mr. Williams, of Dunedin. They had a good day's sport, taking 20 fish for the day. The largest, which was eaught by Miss Waring, weighed 6Ubs., and the average was well over 31b, all the fish being in excellent condition. Mr. Waring and the Misses, Waring were greatly delighted with the day's outing, and would have liked to have had more time. They are due to leave- New Zealand for England shortly, via America. They expressed the intention to return for more fishing in the near future.

Frosts and Petrol. Now that sharp frosts are being experieneed the petrol at the bulk station in Ashburton is beginning to aet strangelyj" states the Guardian. It is pointed out that a change of only one degree in the temperature of the petrol represents a difference of three and a half gallons in every 1000 gallons stored. It does not take a very great drop in temperature to make a huge difference in cases where thousands of gallons of petrol are stored, and the technical advisers to the companies are kept busy working out the adjustments. Missing* Books. The completion of the annual stocktaking at the Dunedin library discloses the loss of two volumes from the reference library, fifty volumes from the lending library, and f our volumes from the juvenile library, a total of fifty-six volumes. Five years ago, when the total circulation of books amounted to 229,000 volumes, the losses were twenty-eight volumes. To-day, with a circulation inereased to the large total of 369,000 volumes, it was antieipated that the losses would he inereased, and the advance to fifty-six volumes is considered not out of the way. ,