Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5295, 7 January 1947, Page 4

Local & General

To-day's Weather FoFScast The Government Meteot'Ologist has issued the following- weather report and forecast: — Situation: A depression to the scTith-east of New Zealand is moving away slowly and an anti-cyclone eovers the Tasman Sea and is moving eastwards on to New Zealand. A i vigorous depression over Tasmania is ^ moving south-eastwards. j ■ Fprecast for Rotorua to midi iiigrhti Winds moderate to fresh ! westerlieS.- Weather mainly fair j but a few scfitisred showers this J af iernoon in the hiffe. Temperai tures moderate or mild. I i Vital ^Statistics » i Bji'ths in Rotorua last month ! nuftibered 49, of whieh 27 were Euroj peans, while there was a total of *13 ; death/, five of whieh were Maori. . Marriages'fOr' December totalled 13. Christmas Mails for Jhpatt | The ship Nellore carrying* Christmas mails and parcels for troops ari J apan reaehed its destination on De- ; cemher 20, aecording to adviee re1 ceived by the Government, said the. | Minlster of Defence, yesterday, Mr. Jones adde'd that°he helieved the bulk ' of the supplies 0 11 board would have | been distributed by Christmas, 1 Humorists on Holiday • • The influx of holiday-makers is not without its spfinkling- of humourists, as is evidenced by the guesfc books of two Rotorua places of interest, The first oceurs in a page of the giuest hook, It reads: "I wish I could have afiorded to stay here." The other inscription in the visitors' hook at Te Wairoa buried village was briefer and more to the point: "Wot! No Village?" Yacht Cluh Trials AiTangemeiits for liolding the Idle Along trials on Sunday for the Bay of Plcnty fresh-water championships were made ac a meeting of the Rotorua Yacht and Power lloat Club last night. The f trials will begiii at 10 a.m. and will incorporate the usual club race in the afternoon, with a third trial, if necessary. The speedboat i'egatta was fixed for February 22. If a suffieient number is inter- . ested, the club proposed to hire a l>us to enable members to see the 18foot world ehampionship races in Auckland on February 8 and 9, Britain Needs a Change Adviee to those sending food parcels to friends in England to avoid the merely nourising and to include the type of food that would be a welcome ehange from the "deadening monotony" of rationed goods, was given by Mr. J. F. D. leune, who has just returned to New Zealand after two years' work abroad with UNRRA in Germany and Belgium. The people of England, he said, were in no danger of starving, becaase the ration Qwas enough to live on, but it certainly'was monotonous, and any break from the daily monotony would be weleomed. Test Fever Test cricket fever is highly eofitugious. Those with the latest issue of the newspaper are often approached by complete strangers for "the latest seore from Australia." People in trains and buses, obviously not well acquainted, are often heard chatting freely on the trend of Test play. The highlight was surely reached when a young man with a late edition of the evening paper under his arm, escorting a small girl through "toyland" in a big Christchurch store, was approached by a bewhiskered, red-robed Santa Claus, who "just wanted the paper for a raoment to see how the cricket was going." As he eagerly devoured the news of the great scoring effort of Bradman and Barnes, he seemed far removed from the roles of chimneyclimbing and driving reindeer, with whieh tradition had clothed him.