LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 418, 30 December 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Maori Boy Injured As a motor car was v proceeding through Ohinemutu yesterday many Maori children clustered round the vehicle calling out in the usual way, "penny for the haka." Unfortunately one of the little boys, George Moengaroa, fell beneath a wheel and was slightly injured . New Year Festivities One of the very brightest of the functions of the budding year will be held in'the Majestic Ballroom on New Year's Eve when Epi Shalfoon* and his.Melody Boys will keep toes a-tingl-ing and skirts a-swinging in old and new dances. New decorations and plenty of "pep" will be features of the evening and the latest music hy an acknowledgedly fine band will do the rest. "Fliti Filis" Entertains - . "Fliti Filis," the bucking veteran and pride of the R.M. Transport Company's fleet, made an after-dinner call at Brent's Bathgate House last evening and in generous festive spirit' ireated the guests to some highlights in motor transport. "Cruel Only To Be Kind" If the dueks on the pools in the Government Gardens do not die of a surfeit of kindness it will not he the fault of thie visiting children jand their elders. Yesterday morning fully a score of children (of all ages) were busily engaged in throwingj all sorts of com-estibles to the ducks. At the end, after doing their hest, thsy finally sought the seclusion of the vegetation, visibly lower in the water. Interesting Bevelopments Expected In connection with the running of the President's Handicap at Dargaville and the subsequent disqualification of several owners, trainers and jockeys, it is understood that an appeal has been, or is to he, lodged. It is freely pfophesied in raeing circles that the appeal will disclose some remarkable revelations and that at least a aozen prominent racing men are likely to be involved. ' Explorer Returns Having spent several weeks on the trail in the innermost parts of the Urewera Country, Mr. H. S. R. Cameron who is conducting exploration hikes on behalf of'the Royal Geographieal Society has returned to Rotorua for the holidays. He has made several interesting discoveries including a Maori axe which he found in a pig-rooting in the most inaccessible part of the route between Taupo and Te Whaiti, His next trip will be still further inland. Near the source of the Rangitahi river, Mr. Cameron got a spotted deer. The Mechanic's Holiday Task "Business is brisk all right," said a Rotorua garage propristor to a "Morning Post" representative yesterday morning, "and we are going for our lives all day and night. You see, so many people have decided from motives of economy to tour by car this holidays and they have tried to avoid expense by doing without a proper overhaul. Many of the cars which are coming in are in a very rieketty state and are simply running miracles. However they finally break down an dthen we come in, Tt's an ill wind' you know." Just then there arrived in town what was certainly a "running miracle." In its pristine youth it had heen a 1912 model of a now famous brand hut to-day it was hoodless, bomietless, practically tyreless, and according to the mechanic who was called upon to get it going, almost engineless.

His Luclc Was In Perhaps the luckiest man in the distriet is an unknown Maori. On Wednesday night or rather in the early hours of yesterday morning a motorist who was coming over the Mamakus noticed a hlack bundle in the middle of the road just after rounding a corner. Visibility was not good with slight rain obscuring the windshield. Prompt . application of brakes saw the car pull up a couple of feet from the object which turned out to be a Maori who had celebrated the festive season most successfully and had chosen the middle of the road to go to sleep on. Had the car been travelling fast there would probably have heen one less Maori in the next census. Fine Line of Lambs "I have been sheepfarming for many years in the Waikato, and I cannot recall an oecasion, at this season of the year, when a large line of fat lambs has killed out at 401b weight," said a leading Te Awamutu sheepfarmer, when discussing a line of 500 lambs raised by Mr. J. B. Hutchison, of Parawera, and sold a few days ago to W. and R. Fletcher, Limited. The firm's manager, reporting on the line, said the lambs averaged 40.2 61bs, and he complimented the breeder upon produeing one of the best large lines he had seen for years. The average was a particularly high one for the Auckland Province at this time of the year. Mr. Hutchison received 12/- a head net for the whole line.