Visitor Before Court

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

Visitor Before Court

Found drunk in Tutanekai Street on Saturday evening. a visiting Auckland man wias yesterday fined 7/6 and costs 2/6 at the Rotorua MagistTate's Court by Messrs R. Griffiths and R. B. Nesbitt, Justices of the Peace. Profits from M.C.C. Tour The secretary of the Bay of Plenty Cricket Association (Mr. L. H. Gresham) has received from the New Zealand Cricket Couneil, a cheque for 1 £15 as the association's share of the New Zealand allocation of profits from the recent Australian and New Zealand tour of the M.C.C. side. It was recently decided by tbe couneil that a grant of £50 from the profits should be made to each of the four major associations in New Zealand and a grant of £15 to e'ach of- the minor associations. Not In His Line "I h'ave no opposition to the grantI ing of a license on the Taupo route," said Mr. J. F.' Wilson, representing the Railways Board at a sitting of the Central (Transport) Licensing Authority yesterday. "I suppose . that is because dt does not compete with the railways," commented the chairmans Sir Stephen Allen. Thrown By Horse A painful accident befel James Steele, aged 8 ye'ars, the san of Mr. and Mrs. I. Steele, of Opotiki, when a horse he was riding to the football match on Saturday shied and threw him to the ground. Hds injury was a broken thigh which necessitated his removal to the Opotiki Hospital. Footballer Plays ivith Hurt Hand Onlookers at >the Opotiki-Te Puke football match on S'aturday noticed that the Opotiki scrum half, Rex Jones, appeared to be a little off his previous form in th'e second half of the m/atch.hut dt was not until iafter the game that it was discovered that he had broken a hone in his hand. Jones will he. out of action for some months as a result. Maori Remedies Writing in the Sydney Bulletin "A.H.B." says: "Henare has always had his own health, remedies, many of them nsed hy the old women of this day. Long ago, when the Arawa flying columns were on Te Eooti's trail, there was a sprinkling of pakeha soldiers about Rotorua, Oue night when visiting a Maori house two gay white warriors slipped into a hot pool. Each had a leg scalded to the knee. One was taken ;to military hospital; the other stayed wdth the Maoris. The pakeha doctor used lint and linseed ail. The Maoris sent women to dive in a deep lagoon in a swamp at Hinemoa's Point, whence they brought up a blackish iron-oxdde mud. This mud was thoroughly pounded and liquified, and poured upon the irijured leg. In about three days the pouLtice drtied and cracked. The patient was then taken to- Okahukura hot poll and washed clean; and his leg healed much sooner than the one under civilised care. Some time later, at a football match on the famous Pukeroa Hill, the natives'- patient made hacks of the opposition. The exqitement of his Maori nurses. and their friends was terrific. "Ka pai ra te waewae Maord," they screamed. "Koot on te Maori leg eivery tim.e." > ; . -