Fishing at Okataina

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 691, 17 November 1933, Page 4

Fishing at Okataina

inshmg on tne • JJOgger naM Lake Okataina this week, a Te f angler tooki eight good fish avera? 51bs for a day's fly fishing. ' angler used the same yellow mat fly throughout the day. W.D.F.U. The monthly meeting of the bnanch W.D.F.U. was held in Ti atua on November' 3 with a goo} tendance- of members. It was dee to hold q social evening on Not: her 17 and invite the sepiqr btf and a few friends qs it is th'e W hirthday. Tbe coprpetition |ot month — the best sdones made fii) butter — iwas won by Miss T. w with Miss I. Grace second. Sup was served by Miss I. Grace 1 Miss J. Swannell. Shooting of Live Pigcons A member of the Wellingtoe ciety for the Prevention of Crff to Animals whb' said he had shotpigeons in his youth, suggestei the annual meeting' that the socs endeavour to have this sport sto? in New Zealand. Domestic p'Se were used in this country, ¥ Europe, where matches for 1 high stakes, such as £1000, ^ held, hlue rock pigeons were | They were much more difficultjj the domestic pigeon to hit. sportsmen here preferred clay tTh'e use of live birds had l>e®^ vented in England. Petrol Quality It may he of interest to the miotoriot that the ma:in disti® between first and second-grade J® ■spirits has always been one of ^ tiiity. In the simplest language * means that a first-grade spirit f lower average boiling temp®8, . than a second-grade. The mostj? ■tile spirits, and hence the Wf. pensive to manufacture, are ab? spirits; next in order are first-?5 m'otor spirits, th'en second-grado J Tols, wdth kerosene last. ' sign of recent years has tew? reduce the demand for second-?® petrols in England and U.S.A'i contrarjr to popular belief, f°r last three or four years in A® the mottorist has demanded grade spirits equal in volatility ® leading brands sold in NeW 2eu This better volatility for firs^ iservefe to cure a number of evils•as had s,tarting, slow pick-up ^ tendency for th© heavier fract® ^ second-grade spirits to dfi^ crank-case oil and damage its^ cating quality. B'oth gnades a® th'e same price in New Zealf P.B.'A, , . J