Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5309, 23 January 1947, Page 4

Local & General

To-day's Weather Forecast •The Government Meteorologist has issued the following weather report and forecast: — Situation: A ridge of high pressure eovers the Tasman Sea and New Zealand with highest pressures over the j north-east Tasman. # Pressures are • I low to the south-east of New Zealand and a eold front lying over the north- - ern part of the South Island is advancipg towards the north-ea^t. Temperatures were very warm in many districts yesterday, readings of 80 degrees or more being reported in Gisborne, Wairarapa and inland Canterbury. Forecast for Rotorua to midnight: Moderate westerly winds predominating. Weather fair to fine and warm again to-day. Yesterday's maximum temperature in the town area was 77.9, compared with 73. '2 degrees on Tuesday. The highest figure reache^ this season was on January 17 last, when 78.4 was registered. ; Exchange of Photographs , The couneillors 'of Queenstown, County Cork, Eire, have unanimously agreed to send a photograph of their town to Queenstown, /New Zealand, and have decided to hang a 'photograph of its Dominion namesake on the council wall, alongside a photograph of Queenstown (South Afriea) | which is already hanging there, says ; a cable message from London. | Hockey • Tour Abandoned j. Because of transport difficulties ; between Australia and New Zealand, | the Indian all-s^rvice hockey team, I which was to have toured New Zealand, will be unable to visit the Domin- ■ ion this year, said the. secretary of ! the N.Z. Hockey Association, Mr. W. ■ H. Down. Ai-rangements 'had been made but the mishap to the Wanga- . nella finally prevented any immedi- | ate corisideration of the project.

, Murphy-Jones Contest ' A referee and two judges will be used: for the handling of the boxing contest hetween Bos Murphy and ( Willie Jones at the Petone' recreation ground on Saturday night. Referee ! will be Len Stewart, witb A. McKenna : and H. Domney as judges. Under the | rules of the N.Z. Boxing Association j the referee will have no say in a I points' deeision unless the judges disJ agree. In that event "the referee shall ; intimate his deeision to the announcer j who shall announce the deeision." ; Maori's Death in 107th Year I Mr. Tamehana Kohiti, believed to ' have been born in the year that the i Treaty of Waitangi was signed j (1840), died this week at his residence at Kauangaroa, about 14 miles from Wanganui. Born at a settlement on : the Wanganui River, then known as j the Knowsley ^liver, at about the ' time the first European settlers were arriving, Mr. Kohiti lived through j some very adventurous years. He : lived all the early part of liis life on ; the river and then settled at Kaua- | ngaroa, 37 years ago. Almost right j up until the last he could recall the t stirring times when there were two . blockhouses in Wanganui — the Rutland Stoekade and the York Stockade. j Sympathy for a Dog I A stream of callers and inquiries poured into the Hastings police ; station following a report that an ; injured dog- was occupying one of | the cells. It was stated that the dog, : which was suffering from a broken ■ leg received in an encounter with j a car, would have to be destroyed if , he were not claimed in a reasonable j time. Apparently, the sympathies of i many good-bearted people were aroused' by the thought of the injure'd "prisoner" awaiting his fate, for policemen at the station were besefc with solicitous inquiries. Strangely enough, shortly after the first callers arrived the dog limped away when nobody was looking and has not been seen since.

Transit Camp Heating Bore Residents in the Rotoi-ua Borough transit camp in Amohau Street are expressing great appreciation of the natural hot water bore recently sunk there by the borough engineer, Mr. H. B. Goodman. Although the houses have not yet been retieulated, the ablution blocks and showers have been conneeted for some time. The pressure of the water has in no way diminished; rather has it increased. The temperature has also remained above boiling poin.t, and at least one resident in the camp regularly brews her tea with fresh water that has passed through a heating jacket. The next job will be the construction of two cooking boxes, which will be naturally heated witb pipes from the bore.