LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, 1 March 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Street Stall Rotorua members of the Whakatane branch of the Plunket Society on Saturda.y afterRoon will conduct a street stall in Tutanekai Street. Donations of any kind will be igratefully reeeived a,t the stall or will be called for on ringing phone 404. Game, Liberations During last week the conservator of iish and game, Mi*. A. Eean, has been busy liberating pheasants in his district. A consignment was sent to Wairoa some day© ago and liberations are now proceeding in the Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Tokaanu, and Rotorua. Most of the young birds have been secuired from Messrs McLean and Whitworth's Austral Poultry F.arm, Rotorua, and are a fine healthy lot. Lord Wemyss, who breeds 10,000 birds a year in his Seottish estate, saw some recent liberations at Taupo and declared that he had never seen stronger or hetter birds. Good Fly Fishing Fishing repnrts from Taupo show that sport was quiet during the latter portion of last week owing to the strong south- west gales and the rivers were much discoloured .Around Rotorua the fly fish'ermen seem to be coming into their -own; using waders or boats at the mouths of creeks. many anglers. have secured good bags. Sport has been particularly good lately at Hamurana and Awahou. The fish are in good condition and have been taken up to 7£lb. Opotiki Plunket Society The Opotiki Plunket Society .announces in this issue it will hold a stall in the Parish Hall on Thursday. Afternoon tea will be provided and it Is reported that a Micky Mouse side show will also add to the attractions. The movement is one worthy of suppoiit and it is hoped that the public will assist by liberal buying. W.D.F.U. Rest Home It was resolved at the last meeting of the Tauranga Women's Institutte that the Rest Home Committee be a*sk ed to endeavour to arrange with the federation to hold the official opening of the Rest Home at Mount Maunganui on March 15. This is the date which has also been fixed for tho picnic of the Tauranga Women's Institute. Curious Paper Weight A specimen of a peculiar marine "formation, which was found on a Bay of Plenty beaeh during the Christmas holidays, continues to excite interest of those who notice it in use as a paper-weight. It appears to be a small stone in which is embedded portions of shells and pieces of wood, but the peculiar feature is that through it there are pieces of steel | wire. The probable explanation of its i formation is that rust, forming on the fragment of old wire rope, collected sand, shells and drift-wood and sealed it into the hard, solid mass.

Fire BHgade Competitions A conference between members of the Te Puke and Tauranga Fire Brigades was held at Tauranga on Tuesday evening for the purpose of drafting regulations for a competition for the Tim and Ru Cup presented by Messrs John Reid and Go., of Timaru. The competitions are to be held halfyearly, in April and October. The first will take place at Te Puke and will consist of the following events: One man (dry), two men (wet), three men (disabled), four men (disabled). An Interesting Coin A coin of a kind not often seen was picked up in Dee Street last evening by Mr. S. Jordan, of South Invercargill, who saw it glinting in the gravel recently spread near the Spey Street intersection, says the South land News. It is a little Iarger than a six-penny piece, pale gold in colour, ! and fairly light. On the obverse is the head of George III., crowned with a laurel weath, with the inscription around the edge, "Georgias III., Dei Gratia." The reverse side bears the Royal Arms and the words "In Memory of the Good Old Days," with the date, 1788. The edge is milled, and the condition of the coin is extremely good, if the date inseribed is the date at which it was minted. A local jeweller said the coin was not gold, and appeared to him to be some kind of souvenir or token, possibly made to commemorate a special occasion. It was a fairly accurate reproduction in miniature of a spade guinea.