LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 666, 19 October 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lodge Menvbers Entertained On Tuesday a social evening and dance was field in the Druids' Hall by tfie Mancfie&ter' Unity, I.O.O.F., at wfiicfi memibers of other Rotorua Lodges wiere present and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Daneing was interspersed with items hy Bros. W. R. Harris and J. Shdels and a tasty supper was provided. Courthouse Repairs A long-delayed trimming up of the hedges around the courthouse has been put in band. This work certain- j ly gives the place a more tidy ap- [ pearance but it reveals the fact that a coat of paint is sadly .needed. { Willing Helpers In the course of the report supplied the "Morning Post" regarding the Methodist Bazaar the names of two very good workers were inadvertently omitted. Mir. Nicholas, as well as his wife, gave material help in the Thursday stall and Miss Wylie did her full share with the ladies in charge of the Saturday stall. Sheep By Rail j It is. anticipated that thS~ reduction of 15 per cent in the railway freight rates for live-stock — the schedule which became effective in Februhry •lastj — will promote an inerease in the numbers carried during the current financiial year. For the year ended March 31 last th'e total of sheep railed was .10,146,975, a slight droj. from the fally of the previous year, but an improvement on the figures of the three preceding years. New Zealand has lower rates for sheep than those of the Australian States or South Africa. The difference in favour of New Zealand farmers hegfins with a penny per head on 50 mdles (6d against 7d) and increases with' the longer distances. South Afriea's charges comie second to New Zealand's. The Railway Department is ready for bigger business in the carriage of live-stock. The number of wagons available for sheep has increased from 2,418 in 1929 to 2,935 this year. Cathedral Consecration An important event in the history of the Anglican Church in the Waikato will take place on Sunday, when the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, will be consecrated by the Bishop of Waikato, the Right Rev. C. A. Cherrington, in the presence of the Archbishop and Primate of New Zealand. Carvers For Tokomaru Bay The Director of the Maori School of Arts and Crafts, Mr. H. Hamilton, yesterday received instructions to proeeed to Tokomaru Bay together with the five carvers engaged at the school to complete carvang work on a large meeting-house which is -being opened by Wiremu Potae, one of the leading Maoris of the East Coast district. A considerable amount of carving for this house was carried out at the school about two years ago but •a large amount of work still remaiins to be done. It has been decided to open the house on January 25 and the five carvers under the direetion of Mr. Hamilton expect to be engaged exclusively on this work until Christmas. The carvers leave Rotorua today for Tokomaru Bay. New W,restling Assn. Unfortunate Th'e recently formed Tauranga Wrestling Association has had -had fortune with its initaal match which was to have been stage d to-night between Mamos and Meeske. All preliminary publicity had been carried out and programm.es haid even been published and distributed when word was received that Mamos had injured himself in a match in th'e south. On learning this, the Auckland association, which had billed the same match for the preceding night, Wednesday, cancelled the bout leaving Tauranga faced \vith the possibility of having to do the same- thing. Fresh arrangeanents were made to substitute Pereira but ,a.t the last moment, Meeske closed the argument by announcing that he was not prepared come np from the south for the sake of one match at Tauranga and that unless he could also secure the Auckland match, he was not prepared to wrestle. Auckland, however, would not proeeed and as a result, Tauranga also had to abandon th'eir match. As the wrestling season has now practieally closed and the- majority of the overseas wrestlers a.t present in the | country, are retuming to Ameriea this week, it is very unlikely that the new association will be able toi oper its season with a professional boul this year.