LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 November 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ngongotaha Fishing A good trolling catch was taken by Mr. Morrison and party fishing off Kawaha Point over the week-end, the party taking- 20 fish, all in good condition. The best fish turned the scale at 6ilbs. Fly-fishing is reported to have been good on the Ngongotaha side of the lake during the week-end and it is reported that two lixnit bags were taken on the fly off the nnouth of the Ngongotaha stream. School iSwimming Sports The annual swimming spohte of the Rotorua High School will he held to-morrow in the Bluie Baths, the girls' sports being held in the morning and the boys' sports in the afternoon. Swimming has been particu■larly enoouraged at the school, one of the pupils holding the South Auckland intermediate championship at the present time. Ladies only will be admitted to th'e girls' sports but a general invitation is extended the public in the afternoon. Admission is free.

Church Bazaar The St. Luke's Church Bazaar will he held this year in the parish hall on Deeemher 6 and it promises to'be well up to th'e usual standard of enjoyment. There will be plain and fancywork stalls, cakes, dolls, sweets, flowers, hran tubs and competitions with a good amusement programme. Contrihutions for the stalls will he ■gladly reeeived at the vicarage or by any member of the guild.

Little-Travelled Mian "Whai do we know of England, who only England 'know," says the poet, but apparently the sentiment is equally applicahle to New Zealand. A tourist in North Canterbury recently took a side road, trying to reach' the sea, and asked the way of an elderly man he happened to meet. Though the station the man worked on fronted the sea, he had never been past the immediate precincts of the homestead, in spite of having been there for several years. In the 78 years of his life he had never heen south of Akaroa or north of Omihi, which is less than 50 miles north of Christchurch. Police Commissioner "Paid Out" A case which caused considerable amusement came before Mr. T. 'E. Maunsell, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court in Nelson recently, when sa man was charged with failing to move to the left to allow an overtaking vehicle reasonahle space to pass, after the signal had been given. The defendant pleaded guilty. The evidence showed that defendant had kept th'e ear behind him all the way up the Moutere Hills from the Moutere side and part of the way down the Nelson side. Unfortunately for him, one of the oecupants of the overtaking car was the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. G. Wohlmann. Defendant said that he pulled ever twicey, hut th'e car did not pass,. so he adopted the "pay out" tactics and kept the car behind. It cost him £1 in fine and costs.