Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5301, 14 January 1947, Page 4

Local & General

To-Day's Weather Forecast The Government Meteorologist . lids issued the following weathex- ; i'epoi't and foi'ccast;- — i Situatiorii An antx-cycldiie covers ; the south Tasmati Sea and southern 'New Zealand The tropiGal c yelone north of New Caledonia, is -moving southwards Forecast for Rotorua to midj night: Moderate south-easterly 1 winds Widespread rain developing. I TemperatureS cooiler. ! The maximum temperature reached J in the tow'n area yesterday was | 69.6 degrees, as compared with 68.2 ; degrees on Sunday and 71 degrees i on Saturday. For the- 24-hour period ■ ended 3.30 p.m. Sunday, a rainfall of .11 of an ineh was registered, and j for the same period ended yesterday, 1 .02 of an inch was recorded.

Late Fruit Crop Whereas more than 400 cases of pip-fruit had been delivered to the I.M.D. depot by Hawke's Bay fruitgrowers by this time last season, reeeipts so far chis season amount to only 280 cases. The figures give a striking illustration of the lateness of the fruit crop in maturing* this sea- | son. i Ilex on Way Horae 1 By mid-night on Saturday, the keteh Ilex had approximately 10 00 miles to cover on its retum voyage to Wellington. The ketch was then 300 miles out from Sydney. Experiencing a scuth-south-westerlv wind of 15 m.pA., it was making a speed of between' seven and eight knots. Should favourable conditions prevail, the Ilex should reach Wellington by Friday. This Week's Coupons Ratipn coupons available for tbe week ending January 19 are: — Meat (ration Is 6d weekly, H coupon 3d, g'thers 3d; child's ration 9d weekly; J coupon 3d.). — Nos. 11 and 12, Butter (ration 6oz weekly, each coupon 8oz). — Nos. 9 to 11, available until January 19. Sugar (ration 31b monthly, each coupon 12oz). — Nos. 9 to 12, available until January 19. Tea (ratic-n 8oz monthly, each coupon 2oz). — Nos. 9 to 12, available until January 19. Samples Stolen from Car Dress samples to the value of £100 were stolen from the car of a visitor to Rotorua, outside B'rent's Hotel, on Saturday night. The visitor, who is manager of a large flrm of dress manufacturers in Welling- , ton, was combining business with his holiday trip, and was carrying a suitcase full of samples in the back of his car. On Sunday morning, he discovered that the vehicle had been broken intc- and the suitease removed. The police are investigating. Overdiue Patriotic Ardour The patriotic ardour of an American war worker wasted its expression on Lower Hutt's peaceful air when the fibre linings of American Ai*my helmets — purchased from the War being unpacked for sale in a chain Assets Realisation Board — were store branch. In one of the helmets, whose appeal is mainly for children at the modest price of 9d., was found a message from a certain lady of Magholia, Massachusetts, whc-se exhortation to the eventual owner of the headgear was: "Hit a Jap for me, or a Nazi."