LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 586, 18 July 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Optimistic .Witness ( "I hope that it is going to increase and that the railways will bring down freights," said a witness at the sitting of the Gentral (Transport) Licensing Authority when giving his evidence respecting the timber trade at the Rotorua Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. * | Arbonr Day Ceremonies / It has been decided in viiew of the fact that Arbour Bay this year falls on a Sunday, to hold the ceremonies connected with the day on suitable j dates. This year aceordingly, Arbour | Day will be celebrated in Rotorua on Wednesday, July 19, wh'en ceremonies i will he held at both the High School and Prirpary School. It is expected that the Mayor (Mr. T.. Jackson) and members of the Rotorua Borough Couneil will participate in both ceremonies. The function at the High School will take plaee at 1.30 p.m. and the function at the Rrimary School at 2.30 p.m. Three Charges Preferred On charges of • being drunk in a public pla,ce, committing a grossly in. decent act and using ohscene language in Tutanekai Street on SatuiUay evening, Hugh Jones, described as a seaman-lahourer, appeared at the Rotorua Magistrate's Court yesterday morning before Messrs R. Griffiths and Rl. B. Nesbitt, Justices of the Peaee. On the first charge he was eonvicted and diseharged, while he was fined £1 in default seven days' imprisonment on the second, and committed to two months' impnisonment for using obscene language. Band Contest for Rotorua Information has been received that the next annual band contest of the South Auckland Brass Bands' Union is to he held in Rotorua next Easter. The venue for the contest was decided by a ballot taken among the 14 bands [ affiliated to the union-. It is expected that upwards of 400 bandsmen will ; participate and the contest will occupy two days.