LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 670, 24 October 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yesterday's Bowling Sixteen pairs took part in a progressive pairs tourney held yesterday by the Rotorua Bowling Club, A. McMeekin winning the skips section and W. Rowe the leads. The high wind made conditions difficult, but nevertheless an enjoyable day was experienced. [ Brown Beetles The hrown hcetiles were on the wing in swarms dn looal .gardens last evening (says Friday's Bay of Plenty , Timles) and >devoted their. destructive | aittention to fresh growth on trees j and in gardens. I

i Nearly £600 from Sings j The season for community singing I dn Wellington has now ended-^saving, of coilrse, the possihility of exbra sings and special sinlgs — and the resulfc of the season financially has [been remarkably good (says the Wellington Post). Twenty-one mid-week

gatherings and one Sunday eveinng concert were held, and the collections totalled £575 11s 7d, a suhstantial as- , sistance to the mayor's fund fo-r the relief of distress in the city. Only One Way Out ;in Newtown, Sydney, four deltectives followed a aniotor-car that was driven -down a narrow lane. The lane was blind, and the oar could not proceed, hut when questioned by the deteetives the driver reversed at high speed. The detectives jumped aside as the car lurched from one side of the lane t0 the other. Finally it stopped on striking a brick wall on one side of the lanie:. Arrest, and a -charge of theft of paints followed.

Deer Destruetion In their first week, working in the vicinity of the M|t. White Homestead, one of the parties of men which ave conducting the Waimakariri River Trust's deer-destruetion oaanpaign, shot 98 deer. There are four mten in J this party (says the Sun), which by - now will have worked considerahly I farther into the back country. The i intentdon was to go up the Esk, and I thence to the east hranch of the | Poulter. The second of the shooting ! parties is concentrating on the coun- [ try round the south hranch of the TTnrn.rmi.

A Holiday Week-end Although there were no partieular scheduled attractions, Rotorua wao very evidently a popular rendezvous for Labour Day week-end and all hotel accommodation was well taxed. Yesterday afternoon, the homeward exodus of niotor traffic, the majority of it Auckland bound, was very noticeable, while the excursion train which arrived on Saturday departed yesterday with 375 passengers. It was unfortunate that weather conditions were so uninviting f oi" there was a holiday-malting spirit in the air. In one well-known hotel, this manif ested i itself in an unscheduled collection of footwear from ontside bedroom doors i and a "re-issue" of boots that was ! considerahly more unpopular than I anything the Unemployment Board j has so far thought of. t A Windy Week-end I Yesterday was probably the windi iest experienced in Rotorua this year, | the wind Teaching pronounced gale I force at times. Shortly before 10.30 1 a.m. the force of the gale snapped tkA Tnurist Denartment's pow-

er transmission lines abont a mile on the Rotorua side of Ngongotaha. A repair gang was immediately on the joh, but power was cut off until 12.30 p.m. Other intermittent trouble of a similar nature was experienced on j some of the Public Works lines. Considerable damage was done in many S gardens where spring flowers were broken down, while in one or two ! places, small trees and shrubs _ were | uprooted. A tree on the Arikikapa- | kana golf course was uprooted in this ! manner and in another case it is reI ported that a falling tree struck_ a ' stationary car, fortnnately while its ! passengers were picnicking on the I side of the road. The car was dam- ! aged to some extent and had to be i towed into a garage for repairs.