LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 December 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pensioii Day. The Rotorua Post Office presented a very busy scene yesterday morning for in addition to the ordinary Christmas traffie the staff were paying out pensions and this absorbed a good deal of time. Mails have been particularly heavy during the past few days and the postal staff are working at high pressure. The mails are said to be heavier than for some years past. Somebody's Xmas Dinner. 1 Yet another raid upon the poultry in the Government Gardens has been staged and more fowls have vanished. Someone must have evidently determined that for him Christmas should not pass without some cheap' and • nourishing poultry gracing the festal board. A similar theft is also reported to have taken place at the King George V. Hospital, where a number of fowls belonging to the superintendent, Dr. L. A. Lewis, were stolen. Street Lighting. The electrical staff is busily . engaged in festooning the streets of Rotorua with coloured lights in preparation for the holiday and other festivities. The streets should look very gay when these are completed. "Messines" Mud GeYser Active. The mud geyser in the Arikikapakapa reserve which blew" out on Tuesday is still active and is functioning every 80 minutes, throwing out large quantities of mud. Yesterday afternoon large numbers of sightseers went out to the reserve attracted by the chance of seeing it in action and were not disappointed. Though not throwing out the mud as high as on Tuesday the activity is still well worth seeing. As the crater is unnamed up to the present it has been christened the "Messines" mud geyser. Special Holiday Train On Saturday evening next, a special holiday train will leave Rotorua at 10.30 p.m., and will arrive at Hamilton at 2.58 a.m. on Christmas morning, and at Frankton at 3.3 a-m. Here the train connects with the Welling-ton-Auckland express, leaving Frankton at 4.9 a.m. For fuli particulars see the advertising columns of this issue. Tennis Tournament Arrangements are now well in hand for the Rotorua Lawn Tennis Club's 1932 championship and handicap tournament, and entries may be made at the office of Mr. A. W. Shaw, accountant, in Hinemoa Street. The tournament will commence on Christmas Day, Deeember 25, but play on that day will be optional. Bowling Semi-Final The semi-final of the Rotorua Bowling Club fours competition was played yesterday between the following two teams: — Watson, Paul, Watts, Herd (s), and Mewburn, Steele, Morland, Pakes (s). The scoring proved fairly even until the sixth head when Herd was leading his opponent by one. In the following ten heads, however, Herd scored eleven to Pakes' two, but on the seventeenth Pakes recovered well to score six. However, tho following three heads gave Herd a further seven points and the match by 24 points against 13. Hard times? No, not at Maleolm's where the edge is taken off the depression and Christmas made happier by keen Christmas bargains. Men's black shoes from 12/9, 13/6, and 15/6. Strong working boots, 13/6, 14/6, 15/6. Tan uskide soles, J.7/9. New shipment ladies' white kid shoes, smart styles, high and low heels. British tennis shoes, 2/9 and 2/11. Malcolm's Shoe Store, near station, Tutanekai St.* Spring time is tonic time. Fisher's Iron Tonic is beneficial in all nervous and depressed conditions and poorness of blood. Suitable also for children*