OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1922, Page 7

OPUNAKE.

(From Our Own Correspondent). Labour Day was observed as a general holiday. The bowling green was well patronised by bowlers and likewise the tennis enthusiasts made a special day of it at the nets. In the evening the Tennis Club dance was held at the beach pavilion. A big muster parade of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, under Scoutmaster G. Simister, took place on the Opunake beach. A sports programme was gone through with the following results:— Tug-of-war, B. Grade; 220 yards. W. McCallum; blindfold box'ing, G. Major; pillow fight, W. McCullum and Malcolm: girls’ race, N. Langton. The annual meeting of the Horticultural Society was held on Monday evening. The balance-sheet showed the society had a small credit balance on the year’s working and a membership o-f 50. The following officials were elected for the ensuing year: —Patron, Mr O. G. Hawken, M.P.; president, Mr -L Pettigrew; vice-presidents, Messrs D. Mouri. G. Baylis, J. Judson: secretary and treasurer, Mr G. Simister. A sub-com-mittee were set up as an executive to arrange and carry out the details of the forthcoming autumn show. Changes have recently taken place in Opunake business firms. Mr W. Perry, of Manaia, has taken over Mr Geo. Pulford’s bakery business. Mr D. Norcross (late of Holmes and Lyttle’s) has purchased Mr Arnold Richard’s, cash grocery business. The Church of England bazaar will be held in the last week of this month. The Seaside Society intend holding functions at the beach on Boxing and New Year’s Days. Opinion against the dairy pool is gradually gaining ground amongst dairymen in this district. A new argument is that co-operative companies have done a lot to create little villages, and if the dairy pool becomes a factor they will go a long way to centralise operations in the town, and the result will be to pull everything towards Wellington. Big .ideas will be evolved in the shape of storage and shipping from one port. If the table where the small committee of controllers is to be placed is Wellington, then that is where vested interests will pull for one control, one big storage, one port for export.