LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 637, 15 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Failure to Account On the applieation of Senior-S'er-geant E. J. Carroll,'a forestry worker, Gordon Tier, was remanded to appear before the court on September 21 by Mr. O. H. Coleman, J.P., yesterday morning on a charge of failing to account for sums totalling £9 due to G. M. Daniels, storekeeper, Kaingaroa. Rotorua Golf Club Club competitions of the Rotorua Golf Club will be suspended to-mor-row, enabling players to arrange friendly matches. Wrestling Bout In connection with the big professional bout which is being arrange d for September 30 the local association is desirous of eneouraging local amateurs to provide bouts and is inviting them to submit their names. An advertisement "appears elsewhere in this issue. Commerclal Travellers' Concert During the past few weeks the Rotorua Dental Clinic Committee has been active in finalising arrangements for the concert to be given by the Auckland Commercial Travellers' Association concert party in the Majestic Theatre on Friday next, September 22. This concert, which is being provided to assist the clinic's funds, will be of a type which it is seldom the privilege of Rotorua theatregoers to listen to, the entertaining ability of the visiting concert party being well-known. Wind' Uproots Tree A strong gust of wind was responsible for a large tree being uprooted in the King George V. Hospi'tal grounds yesterday. In its fall, the tree also damaged a concrete- post carrying a light standard. Boyce Cup Match The Rotorua junior representative Rugby team will travel to Te Awamutu onl Saturday where it will meet Waipa in a ch'allenge match for the Boyce Cup. The game "will commenee at 1.15 p.m. and the team will leave frohi Fuller's corner at 8.15 ia.m. punctually. Animai Friendship A kitten and a young opossum have struck up a close friendship at a residence in Greytown. Some time ago a baby opossum was noticed "cuddling up" to a kitten, and the progress of the friendship has been watched with interest. Now the two animals are almost inseparable friends, and feed regularly from the same saucer. The opossum rides everywhere on the kitten's baclc, and after meals cleans up the kitten's milk-splashed whiskers as a matter of course. Yiolets and a Horseshoe When Mrs. E. R. McCombs came on to the platform at her Beckenham meeting she was carrying a bouquet of violets (says the Sun), and she remarked later that it introduced something new in election fashions. It was presented to her at her earlaer meeting at Mt. Pleasant. She was also wearing a littles gold horseshoe, bearing the inscription "From the Mothers of Heathcote." She had been •told to wear it with the open end up, tas that was the most lucky way. Married Milkmaids "I am a young married man with one child, and I will not have my wife milking for any other fellow," writes "Married Farm Hand" to a northern paper. "On account of this I have found it very difficult to obtain employment. My present employer wanted a couple who would both milk when he took me on, and yet he was only prepared to pay the same wage ! as he is paying me. He tells me he I is quite satisfied. Anyhow, why should i a man have to drag his wife (whe- | ther she goes willingly or not) into I a cowshed for from four to six hours ! daily to earn the paltry wages offerj ed by farmers to-day, when the man | himself puts in approximately four- ! teen hours daily?" ! German Owl Defended ! So much has been said and written I in denunciation of the grey owl (commonly known as the German owl) since its introduction to New Zealand about 30 years ago that a word or two in its defence will not be out of place. Mr. R. Hanning, secretary of the •Otago Acclimatisation Society, has received the following letter from Mr. W. H. Hinton, secretary of the Earnscleugh Fruitgrowers' Association: "At j a meeting of our association on the 2nd inst., attention was drawn to the fact that protection had been taken away from the grey owl in North Otago. In our district the owl has done and is still doing a great amount of good, not only in keeping down the small bird pest, but also keeping the earwig pest in check. These birds in Central Otago, if opened, are found to be full of earwig and beetle shells. We would respectfully ask that the protection be retained in fruitgrowing districts. On behalf of the little owl."