Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 13 December 1946, Page 4

Local & General

To-day's Weather Forecast Thes Government Meteorologist has issued' the following weather report , and forecast:— Situationi Depressions . are still eentred to the south and south-east of New Zealand. The anti-cyclone in the north-west Tasman Sea is moving slowly eastwards. v Forecast for Rotorua to midt night: Moderate west or southwest winds freshening at times. Some showers in the ranges hut weather otherwise fair to fine and mild. The imaximum temperature recorded in the town area yesterday was -60.3 degrees, eompared with 64 idegrees the previous day. In the 24hour period ending- at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, .04 inch *of rain was registered. Municipal Lijjrary Membership of the Municipal Library at November 30 totalled 1822, these numbers including 1063 in the borough, 552 in the county, 195 children and 12 paying memhers. During the month, 8265 volumes were issued, 5988 of these being fiction books. • Inquest on Ehgine Driver A verdict of death by drowning when the engine of which 'he was driver fell into the Manawata River as the result of a collision with a slip on August 20, was returned by the cofoner/ Mr. C. L. Mowlem, at the inquest on the body of Basil Miller Craighead, which was found in the river on December 2. Building in the Borough For the three weeks ending December 2, building permits to the value of £6936 were issued by the Borough Council, the total amount including the estimatecL, cost of three dwellings. The (greater part of the,. survey work for the contour map of the 'borough has been completed and it is expected that work will be finished early in the New Year. Three-day Show Fixture t "Owing to the unqualified success of the three-day show this year, it is the considered opinion of this committee and it should be a recommendation to the incoming committee : that a three-day show should be an . annual fixture." This resolution, | moved by Mr. F. S. Veale, was passed J. unanimously at a meeting of the executive committee of the Waikato i Agricultural and Pastoral Association . yesterday.

Vice-Regal Visit to Rotorua Tjhe Governor-General, Sic-Bernard Freyberg, has expressed to the Ma^or of Rotorua and the Borough Council his" grateful thanks for the excellent arrangements which were made in connection with the first official' visit of Uady Freyberg and His Excellency to Rotorua. Their Excellencies greatly appreciated the sincere reception accorded them and they carried away most happy recollections of their visit. Extra Toll Ch'annels Opening Three new direct toll channels between Wanganui ujnd -Palmerston North will be in operation before Christmas. The instal-lation of the new equipment at the ;Chief Post Office, Palmerston North, is proceeding to the fu'll capacity of the skilled technicians available. Without any adiditional equipment, Palmerston North toll operators put through 41,200 outward calls during October, as against 29,000 in October, 1939, and.on one day alone this month 1572 outward calls were put through. Peter, the Tiger, Is Dead Peter, 22-year-old tiggr at the Newtown Zoo, Wellington, is dead. He was mauled by a young rival, and because of his age, it was found necessary to despatch him. A good whiff of potassium cyanide was sufficient. King- of the tiger den for many years, Peter was eriginally brought to the zoo to replaee a tiger presented by the Prince of Wales, which died. Father of 20 tigers, Peter distinguished himself as the father of quintuplets and triplets. His latest four were born on Saturday last. Gisborne Tops Food Drive Gisborne regained first place in the 35th week of the New Zealand Famine Emergency Committee's campaign to save food for Britain, its contribution of 513 'butter coupons- and 17,2^5 meat coupons being equivalent to two coupons for each household in the distriet. Gisborne has been first 17 times since the campaign started, and has been among the first three 28 times. Last week Oamaru was second and Wanganui third, The tota] Domihfon contribution since the campaign started is 292,033 buttei coupons and 7,1'16,575 meat coupons.