LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Accident in Mamakus A collision in which one car was daniaged about the bodywork, occurred in the Mamakus on Saturday. Apparently three cars endeavouring | to negotiate a bend found the road 1 aceommodation insufficient with the | result that one was pushed into the I bank and damaged. Nobody was in- | jured. : Rotorua Cyclist Injured ! A Rotorua motor cyclist, Mr. Poij hepe Warbrick, aged 26, was admit- . ted to the Waikato Hospital on Sat- ! urday afternoon with injuries to 'his foot as a result of a collision with a i car driven by Mr. McKinnon, of Kaipaki, at an intersection of two : Hamilton streets. Mr. Warbrick fell : heavily with his machine on top of him, but his condition is considered . satisfactory. i i Car Overturns ] A sedan car driven by a visitor, ; Mr. I. Dawson, overturned on the road in the vieinity of Fairy Pprings early yesterday morning. Fortunately neither the driver or any passengefs in the car were injured although the car was badly damaged and had to he towed into Rotorua. New Plymouth Car Stolen The Rotorua police have received advice that a motor car owned by Dr. Wade was stolen when parked in a New Plymouth street on Saturday. The car is a Morris Isis saloon, painted hrown with nickeled radiator and registered No. 74-397. Two leather : hags containing surgical instruments • were in the car when it was stolen. I | Heavy Postal Business j An indication of a more confident ! outlook is given by the busy week which has been experienced by all i departments of the Rotorua Post ! Ofiice. For several days prior to Saturday, the business handled was exceptionally heavy and on Saturday . the climax was reached when the ! staff worked lcng hours handling . business which nearly doubled that i recorded on Christmas Eve last year. In order to facilitate the delivery of j correspondence addressed to visitors, ! it has been arranged that the staff will sort inward mails into private boxes to-day, while letters will also be deI livered over the counter during the hours while the offiee is open for the despatch of telegrams this morning and this evening.