LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 574, 4 July 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lambs at Mamaku. Early 4ambs have made their ap- i pearance at Mamaku.- Romney e.wes were seen with lambs at foot ten days ago. Multiple Prizes Two residents of Rotorua were very pleased yesterday when they were tjie recipients of ch'eques for £27 and £9 10s respeetively as a result of investments in a multiple system. Rugby Helps Unemployecl. The Waikato v Bay of Plenty Rugby match at Arawa Park will provide 'work on the day for 8 of the unemployed. Shortage of Paper. Some peculiar teams' lists are handed in to the Rotorua Rugby Union at times but the limit was probably reaehed last night when one was handed in written on a portion of a cigarette packet. Scrub Fire. The services of the Rotorua Fire Brigade were called for shortl-y before 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon to deal with a fire which had' broken out in the scrub behind Tarewa Street in the Kuirau Reserve. The outbreak was suppressed without any great difficulty. Sulpbur Working at Taupo. It is stated that there is some chance of a new industry being com- i menced at Taupo a syndicate having inspected the sulphur deposits at R otoka wau with a view to their being worked. Inspection of District. On Saturday Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Under Secretary of Internal Affairs, made a tour of inspection of the Te Teko and Bay of Plenty districts in company with Mr. A. Ke-an, Conservator of Fish and Game, in connection with acclimatisation matters in the Bay. He rejoined his chief, Hon. J. A. Young at Auckland. Increase in Herds. Apart from the ordinary increase in farmers' herds there will be a large number of heifers brought in this season under the Government schemes. At Galatea about sixty will be established on pasture and at Ngakuru about 420. These are all bred in tbe district and it is not e-x-pected that it will be necessary to bring in any heifers from other parts as in former years.

Military Ball. The committee of the second an- . nual military ball to be held in the ! Majestic Ballroom on Wednesday, ! July 12, is working energetically in I order to make the function an even i greater success than that of last j year. Replies to invitations have j been received from Whakatane, Matl amata, Morrinsville and Tauranga J and together with other replies there j is every indication that there will be j a large attendance. [ Horses from Coast. | Several small mobs of horses, most1 ly unbroken half-draughts and milkj cart sorts, have passed through Rotoi.rua during the past fortnight on their i way to the horse saies in the Wai- ! kato. With the improved prices now r obtaining for horses more attention j is being paid by farmers to breeding I and the price- of brood mares has ad- ' vanced, as much as £17 having been l.paid for a 14-year-old mare within Lthe past week. I Fast Swimming Times. j When speaking to a "Post" j representative on Sunday evening, ' Miss Ena Stockley, the well-known \ New Zealand swimmer, inquired as to which end of the Blue. Bath was used for starting purposes in carnivals. : When told that some races finished at i the shallow end she said that although j similar arrangements were sometimes J made in Sydney the principle shonld j be avoided. "I think it is, probably, hy j finishing all races at the deepest end j of baths that the Americans make l their good times," she said. House Burned Down The discovery that a five-roomed dwelling house on the property had been burned down during his absence, was made by Mr. J. Williscroft, manager of the Campbell estate near Kaharoa yesterday afternoon. The house in question was unfurnished and stood in a rather sequestered position where it was not easily visihle from the road. It was used by Mr. Williscroft when baching on the estate but was oth'erwise untenanted. The conflagration was not observed by any of the neighbours hut the fire had apparently occurred not long hefore Mr. Williscroft's return, the ashes and embers still being warm. The house is situated about two miles from Ka- ' haroa and about 14 miles from Rotoj rua off the Tauranga Road. Governor-'GeneraFs Relief Fund The following letter, dated June 27, has been received at Government House, Auckland, from the Cook Islands Department: — "By yesterday's mail from Rarotonga came ad-vice that in response to the appeal made by Their Excelle'ncies for gifts in kind or in money for the relief of distress in New Zealand, three sacks of kumeras, weighing 5051bs gross h'ave been , forwarded by the s.s. Maunganui -as contributions towards the Governor- . General's Winter Relief Fund. The donors are; Makea Nui Tinirau Ariki, 1 sack; Avarua School, II sacks; Arorangi School, I sack. A parcel of Rarotongan coffee, containing approximately lOlhs, whichj was supplied by the Girl Guides Association, is also forwarded, and it is asked that it be sold and the proceeds handed tq the Appeal Fund."