LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 243, 4 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Plunket Committee Members of the Rotorua Plunket Committee are advised that the annual meeting will be field on Tuesday, June 14, at 2.30 p.m. in the Methodist Hall, the business being the election of officers for the ensuing year. Rotorua Boys' Band The recently formed Rotorua Boys' Band made its first- full-dress public appearance yesterday when it rendered an excellent programme at the Rotorua Athletic and Axemen's Club's carnival. Under the baton of the borough musical director, Lieut. E. Tregilgas, the band made a xpost promising showing, and definitely proved itself as a musical organisation. Ex7 perienced bandsmen stated that the standard shown hy the band" was exceptionally high in view of the short time since its inception, and expressed the opinion that with further training, it would hold its own against any junior competition. To-day's Football Matches.

The Rotorua Rugby sub-union did not arrange any games for yesterday as it was anticipated that the gallery would be greatly reduced on account of other attractions in town. To-day, however, a full programme of club games will be staged several of which should prove interesting contests. At Arawa Park the senior matches are, Waikite v. Hikuwai and Rotoiti v. Whaka, and the junior matches are, High School v. Rotoiti, Ngongotaha v. •Horohoro, Whaka v. Kahukura and Old Boys A v. Waikite. The senior game, Kahukura v. Ngongotaha, will be played at Ngongotaha. A bus leaves Fuller's corner at 2 p.m. r t;

Bowling Green Over Hot Sulphur Bed. •Difficulties are often encountered in Rotorua in connection with building operations, the. construction of drainage schemes, garden making, et'c., as a result of su'bterranean thermal activity. One case in which these difficulties have been overeome, and which is unknown to most people, is under to top bowling green in the Government grounds.- On the northern side of the green a hot sulphur bed was found. This was detrimental to the growth of a good sole of grass and pipes were laid to tap the heat and fumes, which were led to an outlet in the bank at the side of the green. There is now no trouble in maintaining the grass sward on the . -gfound above the sulphur bed.

Mixed Foursome Members of the Rotorua Golf Club played a mixed foursome competition on the Arikikapakapa course yesterday. The best scores were returned by: Mrs Tapper and A. French 87-18-69; Miss Manson and McMillen 93-22-71; Mrs Butler and McElroy, 88-16-72; Mrs Neville ai^d Worthington,, 91-18-73. Ingenious Device An ingenious device for signalling the results in chopping competitions was used in the axemen's events at yesterday's carnval of the Rotorua Athletic and Axemen's Club. The device, which is the invention of a Rotorua resident, consists of a string attached to the top of the block and running through a pully on a horizontal arai fixed above the chopping base. The other end of the string is attaehed to a swivelled number, with the result that when the block is severed the fail of the top portion pulls the number into a vertical position. The attachment operates instantaneously and not only gives the judges a reliable indication of the placings of the men, but allows the spectators to follow the progress of the heat with certainty.

Posed as Strangers. The common enemy to the movement for relieving real distress is the tnan who resorts to "a try one." A small party who planned such a scheme in Dunedin last week found the agent upon whom the trick was sought to be imposed quite prepared with a foiling counterstroke that will "settle" them for the time being. They posed as strangers who had walked 150 miles to this city, fagged out and utterly destitute, and asked for hotel accommodation. They ended their enterprise by being recognised as old and known residents of Dunedin. Found — Ten Shillings. A woman spending the afternoon in Christchurch picked up a 10s note in the street and inserted an advertisement in the "Lost and Found" columns ^ the Sun. Soon after the paper had come out she had received no fewer than seven telephone rings from various people who had lost that sum in town that day — but unfortunately none of them had dropped it anywhere near the spat where it had been picked up. Ten shillings is still looking for an owner.