Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5297, 9 January 1947, Page 4

Local & General

To-Day's Weather Forecast i The Government Meteorologist ' has issued the following weather I report and forecast: — | Situation: Anti-cyclones are situj ated far to the south of New Zeai land, while a complex systgm of ua- • pressions cecupies the Tasman Sea i area | Forecast for Rotorua to midnight: | Weather fair at first, but becom- ! ing overcast to-morrow. TemperS^ | tures snoderate. I | Railway CoiistrUction Movie A 7000-foot film taken during- the j construction of the railway from ! Napier to Raupunga, in 1920, was t found in Napier recently. It was sali f vaged from some rubbish about to [ i he destroyed.

McLean Cup Cricket Matches in the fifth round of the McLean Gup competition, eommencing on Saturday, will be played between Kahukura and R.S.A., at Kuirau Reserve, and Old Boys and Ngongotaha, at Ngongotaha. If a suffieient number of junior players from the clubs assembles at the Pererilca Street ground, a match will be ai> ranged for them. Pacific.Air Service As the outeome of the Australian, New Zealand and American air agreement signed in Wjashington on December 3, the Civil Aeronautics Board's examiner has recommended the board to authorise Bi^tish Com- . monwealih Paci'fic Airlines to pperate the service from Australia to San Franciseo and Vaneouver via New Caledonia, Fiji, Cakiton dsland and Honolulu.

Railv/ay iQining Rooms Close Owing to the lack cf staff the Wellington railway station dining room is closing down to-day. The cafeteria will remain open. Staff shortages in the dining room have cotttinued for some time, although waitresses were olfered £4 fbr a 40-hour week, spread over seven day«. and travel copcessions. Only one waitress was offering of the 14 required. Tv/o Fire Calls Yesterday Two calls were answered by the Rotorua Fire Brigade yesterday. The first, the alarm for which sounded.at 9.55 a.m., was- to a chimney fire at the Grand Hotel. The seccnd call eame in the af'ternoon at 1.30 o'clock, and was to a burning timber stack at the corner of Rutland Street and Old Taupo Road. Both outbreaks were extinguished by the first aid equipment.

Glamour Wears Thin Mere than half of 1400 girls in the Auckland province who at one thne deelared their intention of travelling to the United States to- marry American servieemen have changed their minds, states an exchange. Since the clamour by fiancees for passages in June and July, a progressive improvement in shipping and air services has enabled 160 to leave New Zealand, and d further 261 are ' making arrangements for departure, but it is understood that the remainder have mqde little reeent effort to implement their earlier plans. National F&rty Caucus A caucus of the Parliamentary. members of the Natienal Party will : be held in Wellington on January 30. As this will he their first meeting since the general election in Novem- , ber, it is almost certain they will (iiscnss the results of the election and the political situation generally. In a statement after the completion of the offieial count of he votes east at the election, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. S. G. Holland, indicated that at its first meeting the party would appoint working committees and make its plans for the present year.