Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5289, 30 December 1946, Page 4

Local & General

To-day's Weather Forecast Tlie Government Meteorologist has issued the following weather report and forecast. Situation: A ridge of low pressure now over New Zealand is moving slowly eastwards, while a deep depression in the south-west Tasman Sea is moving south-eastwards. A low fi-ont associated with this depression is expected to move on to the South Island to-morrow. Rotorua forecast: Moderate variable winds at first, turning north-v/esterly to-day and freshening- somewhat. Weather fair, with miid, warm day temperatures. Hawke's Bay Apples It is estimated that the Hawke's Bay apple crop this season will yield 435,000 bushel cases compared with an actual overall harvest last season of 839,500 cases. Pears are expected to yield 150,000 cases compared with 103,200 actually marlceted last season. Christxnas Chickens Stolen Forty dressed fowls, expectantly awaited by Rotorua guest houses and private homes, disappeared en masse from the farm which had been their home, a few miles from Rotorua, on Christmas Eve. Up to the time of go-ing to press, the birds had not been i-eeovei-ed. Marching Contest • A girls' marching, teams competition arranged by the Mount Maunganui 5000 Club, was held there on Saturday, the winner of both the street and field marching events being the Rainster (Tauranga) team. Rotorua State Forest won the prize for the best-dressed team. -Tents Sold by Auction Some two dozen American twoman tents from the War Assets Realisation Board were sold by auction in Hastings just before Christmas, at £2 each. There was a fair demand for the tents, whieh eould he used by hikers, for picnics, and on the beaeh. They were of the same type as those sold in Wellington by -auction at £2 5s each. Exchange cf Apples „ While apples have been coinpletely off the New Zealand market for many weeks, Canada is en joy ing a crop of 16,739,000 bu.shels — moret hau double the pi-evious year's harvest. Mr. M. R. M. Dale, assistant commercial secretai'y for Canada in Wellington, said ■Canada would like to see l'ecipi'ocal trade in apples. i'We would like to have New Zealand apples in our off-. season, and vice versa," h6 said. Edible After 22 Years After standing on a shelf in an ornamental glass jar for 22 years, some English sweets of a type onee well -known in New Zealand, ai'e still in excellent condition. Mr. W. J. Mitchell,, .Christchurch, who opened the jar after buying. the sweets in 1924, sent some of'the contents back to the Bnglisjh manufacturers as proof of how they had withstood the passing of the years, The firm in reply says it believes some of the sweets ai-e pro'bahly the last of their kind anywhere in the world. They contained.Brazil nuts, which have not