LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 October 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Buffeted by strong winds in the Bay of Plenty for five days, during four of which he had no food or water, Andrew Anderson, who had been miss--ug from Waihi ,beach since Wednesday morning, landed near lOpotiki on Sunday afternoon. On one occasion he reached Mayor Island, but in an endeavour to return to the Waihi Beach nis open 16ft. boat, with an outboard motor, was blown toward Tauranga, then to White Island and Whale Island and* eventually to Opotoki. Anderson, who is a fisherman, experienced a particularly arduous time. The boat was swamped four times and on each occasion he found it necessary to ump overboard 1 and bail out the water. n he sea was particularly rough and when the engine failed he rigged up a mil from a sack, but the wind blew

:im out to sea. On Friday evening: he readied White Island, but the sea was too rough to permit a landing. Information that Zane - Grey will come back to New Zealand in 1931 for the swordfishing season has been received. He will make Mercury Bay his headquarters. Writing to the president of the Mercury Bay Swordfishing Club he says: ‘‘l will definitely come to New Zealand in 1931. I will be in my new yacht and shall fish Mercury Bay. Please thank the people who will let me camp in the hay across from Mercury Bay and say that I shall avail myself of that gracious permission.”

The national Y.M.C.A. gymnastic competitions were held at Trentham during the week-end. Wellington won the championship, Auckland being second and Christchurch third. The best individuals were: J. T. Hurley (Wellington) 1, K. Muff (Christchurch) 2, C. Middleton (Auckland) 3. At basketball Auckland was first and Hamilton second.

Arapuni still stands stripped and deserted, like a gaunt skeleton of a former glory, bleaching in the weather, says the Auckland “Star.” The place seems denuded of life, and, except for an occasional scurrying figure battling against the wind -on the upper ramparts, no animation is observed. What rough preliminary work it was considered might be necessary should any one of the alternative schemes suggested by Professor P. G. Hornell, the Swedish expert, he adopted was completed some weeks ago. Since then everything has been at a standstill. The work that was then undertaken was of a nature that would he of use in any event. Although the session of Parliament which ended on Saturday was supposed, according to tradition, to he the “working” session, the sum of its activities cannot be said to have come up to expectations (says “The Dominion”). It is true that a considerable amount of ground was covered in the 71 days on which the House of Representatives sat, that 69 more Acts were placed on the Statute Book, and that much that was necessary was accomplished. But Parliament was prorogued with outstanding national issues still unsolved, and. for the most part, still awaiting to he attacked in earnest.