OPOTIKI 37 YEARS AGO

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 67, 27 September 1939, Page 8

OPOTIKI 37 YEARS AGO

Extracts from the East Coast Guardian 26th January 1902. Writing from Durban, at the end of last month to a friend in Opotiki, a correspondent states that people ai'e flocking to Natal from Australia, AA'hich is a great mistake. Houses are unobtainable in Durban, and in Johannesburg a house of four rooms and a kitchen, unlfiurnishcd, rents at £15 a month ? paid in advance. We understand the cricket match betAAcen Opotiki and Whakatane AA'hich was to have takeif 5 place to-day has been postponed. Lieut Col. Commanding the Auckland Defence District, has says the local paper, ordered a Court of Inquiry to sit at Tauranga, to look into the general working and man agement, (financially and otherAvise) of the Tauranga Mounted Rnfics. Major PirHe presided. We are glad to hear that Mr W. 11. Herries ) M. H. R., has signified his intention of being present at the coming slioav. We note that the settlers shipping from Whakatane made a request at the last council meeting to be permitted to erect a small ),uilding in the township, for the purpose, fo holding butter AA'hile aAvaiting shipment. Is properly constructed, this should prove most useful, and if the same tiling Avcre put up at Opotiki and Ohiwa, especially at the latter port, Avould proA'c of great assistance to the dairying industry throughout the district. A first class dairying or agricultural farm (held under lease in perpetuity) is offered for sale at Opouriao, by Messrs Brodrick and Buckworthy Whakatane. The farm consists of 129 acres oifi rich alluA'ial flat Avell fenced, and in close proximity to cheese factory, school, and telephone office. The terms for purchasing are extremely easy, and those on the look out for land should make a point of at once inspecting the property. The Agricultural Department has ascertained that the mortality among the sheep at Loa'cll's ,Flat, Otago, aajis due to CA'er-feeding on new grass Avhich sprang up n.fitcr a long spell of dry Aveathcr,. Thrre are no less than ten branches of the Farmers' Union iioav established in PoAertyßßar.A r . Some experiments are being conducted by Mr Gilruth. Government Pathologist, in conjunction Avith the Chief Health Officer. Avith the view of deciding "as to the possibility of cancer being transmitted from the lower animals to human beings. Dr Mason is particularly interested in cancer as it is one of the topics on Avhich he has been im'ited to speak at the Australasian Medical Conference in Hobart next month. He has also supplied the GoA*ern.meni AA'ith a report on a. proposal emanating from the Napier Hospital Board for the establishment of a cancer hospital in the colony.