LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 November 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Miaori Prophet An interesting visitor to Rotorua last week was Rua, the Maori Proipet. He left again for his home in the Urewera Country by the R.M. service car on Friday morning. Week End Angling There was a f,air. number of rods operating over the week-end at both ends of the Ohau Ch'annel and some fair bags of fish were taken. Anglers had most success on the Mission Bay flats, off Coehrane Park. Wdth lvery few exceptions, the fish were in excellent condition but owing to the amount of green beetle on the water, fly fishing was diflacult. Rotary Speaker At the weekly luneheon of the Rotorua Rotary Club to-day the speaker will be Mr. M. H. Hampson, of Rotorua, who will address members on "The case for, and against, the Gerald Lane scheme." Bright Prospects for Season The enthusiasm being displayed by conipetitors augurs well for another most successful season by the Rotorua Amateur Swimming Cluh, which will hold two carnivals during the present month. At a meeting of the executive on Friday evening, 41 new members were enrolled by the club. Lucerne Ousts Thistles That lucerne, on the right class of land, will oust a plague of Cialifornian thistles has been proved by Mr. J. Gillanders, presiden-t of the New Zealand Milking Shorthorn Association, on his farm at Greendale. Included in the area sown down in lucerne is a 50-acre paddock, which a few years ago was a mass of thistles. •Even last year, while a wealth of excellent feed was available, the issue was still in doubt; but the few remaining thistles showing at the present tim'e are weak, and in all probahility the pest will be eradicated in this piaddock in the course of another season. The area adjoins the Hororata River, which seldom fails in its water supply, and it can almost he said th'at the land is favoured with suh-irrigation. Tirnied Oysters from Southland ' A resident of Hedgehope (near Invarcargill) forwards the following extract from- a letter he has reeeived from England: "New Zealand is getting quite enterpfising. A shop has been opened this week in Finchley displaying New Zealand products, and th-e public are invited to walk in and. look round. I noticed amongst the tinned goods something I had never seen -before in tins — oysters, land from Invercargill too! I do not feel tempted to try them. Have you iever had them out of tins? If so, what are th'ey like? They also have a display of apples at 6d a pound— 1 quite nice and of good size. But would you pay 6d a pound for colonial apples if you could get good English ones at 2d, 3d and 4d a pound?"