OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1922, Page 6

OPUNAKE.

(From Our Own Correspondent). At a meeting of the Opunake Power Board tenders for supply of wire, insulators, poles, ironwork, transformers and other requisites in connection with the reticulation were determined. The total amount involved in the tenders accepted is £16,500. The Boy Scouts on Saturday set out to collect eggs for the hospital and were successful in securing over 150 eggs. Opunake tennis players journeyed to Kaponga and defeated Kaponga by a small margin. The Opunake players spent a very enjoyable day. A large crowd assembled on the Opunake beach to hear the Federal band give an excellent programme of music. Master Jim Clouston, who was awarded first prize in the ealf-rearing competition in connection with the agricultural classes for schoolboys at Opunake, was also awarded first prize at the Auroa competitions in the junior school class. ‘Some very good crops of .oats have been cut and stacked, but the rain impeded the work. The crops cut now are for winter feed. Farmers who are cropping for oaten chaff are delaying until the weather is more settled. Feed is plentiful and paddocks shut up for hay show signs of running to seed quickly. The potato blight is also noticeable.

Mr. W. J. Knell, who was for some years local manager of the Bank of New Zealand, spent a few days here. Mr. Knell was the first president of the Opunake .Seaside Society. Mrs. Knell accompanied Mr. Knell.