LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

N.Z. Broadcast. New Zealanders who were near ' their radio sets at midnight on Sunday heard a special broadcast from- L.os Angeles by Miss Nola Luxford, the weil known New Zealand film act- i ress. Miss Luxford is a dau'ghter of Mr. E. Pratt, of Rotorua. . Unemployment. In the article by Mr. Earle Yaile which appeared in yesterday's i'ssue ■ of- the "Morning Bost," -it Was st'ated that hy employing men at 1/- per day for from- two to four days per week, workers' earnings are limited to from £1 to £2 pdr week. The , , figuro per day should, of course, ' , have been 10/- not 1/-. Visitors at Whaka. i

The members of the English Rugby Lea'gue team at present in Rotorua | received a characteristic Maori wel- | come when visiting Whakarewarewa ; yesterday, .Paoro Tamiti delivering an eloquent welcome on hehalf of \ the tribe. The visitors were afterwards divided into parties and conducted by the guides around the reserve. Rotary Guests. The prefeets of the Rotorua vHigh School were the guests of the Rotorua Rotary Club at luncheon yesterday. The President of the Club, Mr. J. D. Davys, extended a welcome to the boys and stated that the club j was looking forward to the occasion soon when the boys would again at- j tend and address the memhers on questions- of the day. • In ' a neat \ speech, the head prefect, N. Hinton, | after introducing the boys individually, expressed their thanks and ap- ! preciation for the elub's hospitality. Road to Hospital. The serious condition of the road ' leading from Arawa Street to the King George V. Hospital was commented upon to *a "Post" _ representative yesterday by a patient attending the hospital for treatment. ; The bad grading and the rough material used on the roadway makes the passage of a car a very bumpy one, ; and is very trying to those who, through sickness, are required to negotiate it. Were the rough metal removed and a filling of finer metal used the road would not be the bugbear that it now is to all who find it necessary to pass over it. W.E.A. This Evening. Reginald Berkeley's much discussed play "The Lady with a Lamp" will be read hy members of the Rotorua branch of the W.E.A. at the weekly meeting this evening. There is a • popular conception of Florence Nightingala, in the words of Lytton Strachey as "the saintly, self-sacrificing woman, the delicate maiden of high degree who threw aside the pleasures of a life of ease to succour the afflicted. The Florence Nightingale of fact, however, was, not as fancy painted her and it is the real Miss Nightingale, more human if slightly less exemplary, which is presented in "The Lady with a Lamp."