A Fish Story

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 675, 30 October 1933, Page 4

A Fish Story

A new fish story was toU^B meeting of the Palmerston Ro® climatisation Society last weel® member stated that he had fish from a stream recently ® curate measurement immedia® ter it was caught showed its® at 10 inches. The fly was t® moved, and for curiosity was applied again. This fish,® of adding a cubit unto its stat® modestly shrunk to 9S inche^H fisherman vouched for the a® of his measnrements, and as® "had nothing to drink that d® story must he credited as truej® siderable surprise was expre® the happening. ®

A Tea Strike ® The- option of going back ® or getting out of the camp h® given t0 the single men in t® road camp at Paraparaumti, \® heen on strike for about a v® ing to a dispute concerning ® and afternoon tea. The men h® given a day to decide what tend doing. Speaking to a W® Post reporter the district eng® the Pnhlic Works Departm® H. H. Sharp, said that he ha® ed a request from represent® the two returned soldiers' reli® at Paraparaumu, asking that® dissociated from the strike.- ®

Full Relief Wanted I Strong support for the ® relief workers' demands for ■ tenance during the next off® contained in simultaneous t® despatched 'by the Mayor o® ton, Mr. J. R. Fow, to the Pr® ister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Minister of Health and me® Hamilton, the Hon. J. A, Y® Leader of the Opposition, Savage, and the member ofl Mr. D. S. Reid. The telegra® "The Hamilton Borough Go® provided for its unemploye® the last five weeks. Its I®

now depleted, and the c°unci« n0 more. The Hamilton reli® ers' joint organisations der® sustenance during the off-® next of which oecurs next ® men and their families are ® destitution, and it is degr® them to have to beg for ® am satisfied that there is W of the majority of the men ■ any work, and I strongly m their demands." 1 Selling Wool fl

A South Canterbury passed at the meeting of th M ion exeeutive of the New ® Farmers' Union, in Wellu® week, asking the executije® inquiries as to the methods ■ wool in other countries, w® to having improvements ma® manner of selling w°°I m ® land. Mf. B. L. Hammond, VV® expressed the view that u® was a responsihle hody, simi® Meat and Dairy Boards, to ■ equally important wool que® the Farmers' Union insiste® they would get nowhere. n® it was quite time they wor® the fact that someone shoul® responsiible for the whole PW was useless discussing the ® tion unless they were »°® nnited and there was some ® tive hody to handle it. Mr« ■ ® (Otago) said he -thought tB® feeling in New Zealand ® were too many boards. His® that it was possible for/1 to he taken up without ™e of a board. j r'