Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5286, 24 December 1946, Page 4

Local & General

To-Day's Weather Forecast The Government Meteorol0 has issued - the following ^ report and forecast:— Situation: A depression eas the Pouth Island is moving sj, eastward, while an anti-cyck situated in the western Tan Sea. • Forecast for Rotorua : Mod« westerly to south-westerly a few scattered showers, th( weather in most parts rather warm. The maximum temperature re ed in the town area yester4ay 74.3 degrees compared with it Sunday, and 69.8 on Saturday, Saturday morning 5.1 degrei frosLwere recoi*ded. Fourteen Pounder at Rotoiti A new record fo-r the present ing season was set up on Lake iti wh'ere Mr. N.- F. Cun-ie lari( 14-pound Rainbow trout. Tht was caught on the fly at Tapa haruru, and was .in perfect coni Long. Forestry Serviee A man completed 45 years o broken serviee with the State 1 Department yeSterday. He wa Whiti Rateme, who eomiuenced . with the Forestry Departmei 1901. To him fell t-he task of ihg the trees which now sui Rotorua, and he is now millin trees that he planted over 40 earlier. ' 0 Missing Yacht Located The yacht Wlylo. (Mr. A. D. 5 skipper), " missing in the Welli Picton ocean race, has now bei firiitely sighted. Yesterday afti at 2.30 the Rangitira came o Wylo off Kaikoura. The captain steamer informed the erew o yacht of its position and advisei the nearest harbour was Kai The Wylo then asked that a ] he sent out to assist, and thisn was complied with by the Marii partment. Abandoned Cars With Tyre Tr A fair indication of the stat large number of New Zealander: and tyres was gained by an Au motofist who stated yesterday t had passed no fewer than 23 tended cars parked at the side road between Rotorua and Au: Xearly all of the abandoned vi had obvious tyre tro-uble. Iu quarters, a high rate of roa: idents is feared this summer b of the increased amount of available for travel, and the tionally poor tyres on most ve Raglan Election Recount Inquiries at the Magistrate's ' Hamilton yesterday, indicatei the date for the official recou the Raglan election, granted 1 S. L. Paterson, S.M., last wee not be decided npon until all tbf seas serviee votes have arrivei Japan and elsewhere. It ha: anticipated that the recount woi gin on Monday, December 30 continue on the following day, date will not be fixed until all papers, including overseas i voting papers, arrive in Haniill Hawke's Bay Crop Damage Growers could hardly believt eyes when they foun-d that one latest frosts recorded in Hawke had damaged crops in the souti ern part of Hastings on Sa morning. After a week of si ing weather in which the Shad perature climbed to 88 degre: frost, slight though it was, wa unexpected, and none the mor come. Some gardeners were completely unawares and sueh plants as p-umpkins and toi were eut. One grower who h ready replanted tomatoes twi( season because of frost damag part of his crop blackened, Record Stay in GPort? If the Port Halifax, now a Plymouth, • completed her dis yesterday, as scheduled, she wi taken 19 days, including Sat and Sundays, to rid herself of which took ahout five 'days to lo the time the vessel dischargf tons of slag and a few hundre of other cargo, and has loade tons of frozen produce for I her stay at New Plymouth wi! ably be a record for the port vessel arrived from Auckland ( cember 4, and it looks as if be at New Plymouth anothei night, or possibly t-hree weeks Monkeys for Newtown Zoo After a sea voyage lasting six weeks, a party of 29 ni have arrived at the Wellington given their clearance fi'om t^ Narbada at Auckland by vhic travelled from Calcutta, they the final stage of the journey t lington by train. Three of t| mals died during the voyage> t rest were fit and happy uPon s A meal of carrots and peanu given to 'the monkeys while tra between the railway station a zoo. Wihen the party oi'flVl green nasturtium and thistle were a weleome change to shi diet, and were seized upon o'usly. Current Ration Coupons - Ration coupons available f( week en'ding December 29 are. (ration ls. -6d. or 2s. eoiupon 3d., except H8, w worth 9d., others 3d.; ^ ® 9d. or ls., J coupon 3d., which is worth -6d.) — -Nos. > 10. No. 10, which is usuaiy ahle from December 30, was a from December 23. Butter 6oz. weekly, eaeh coupon 8°^ 9 to 11, available until Jan ' and No. 8 available until Decem Sugar (ration 31b. rnon coupon 12oz) — ;Nos. 9 to 1 > until January 19. m available until December (ration 8oz, montbly, e'?c , , 2oz) — Nos. 9 to 12, availabh January 19.