News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1939, Page 4

News Of The Day

Smaller Hay Harvest This Year. Good weather Is welcomed not by the holidays makers alone in Nortland. With crops of hay all ready for cutting, farmers are literally making hay while the sun shines. Oh many farms the yield this year is definitely down on the crop harvested twelve months ago, this being largely due to the late spring. A Maunu farmer estimates that his hay harvest will be only onethird of that gathered last year.

Weather Vagaries. Vagaries of the weather were discussed by a Pipiwai resident this weekend. During a recent storm, he said, the creek on his property rose three feet. There were thunder and lightning and rain “by the bucketful.” A house a mile and a half away, however, received no rain at all. Here the tanks had only two rings of water in them, and it was necessary to take the family washing a mile and a half up the valley, where water was plentiful.

' • • , * m Motorist’s Misfortune. More than unusual misfortune attended a motorist at Opononi yesterday. He had just parked his car on the roadside when another car struck it from behind, fortunately without doing serious damage. Dater in the day, the vehicle was standing by the road with several passengers”' on board, when it was struck again from behind, this time by a truck. Fairly severe damage resulted, one of the rear doors being smashed in and the rear windows shattered. None of the occupants was injured.

Careless Motorists In North. Many motorists unfamiliar with Northern roads, are experiencing difficulty in negotiating some of the Far North highways, reports our Kohukohu correspondent. A number of motorists failed to realise that Northland roads are not concrete speed highways. Sightseeing by drivers has been a common offence during the Christmas holidays, passengers diverting the driver’s attention on most dangerous roads. Speeding both up and down hills, and a general lack of courtesy, were noticed on the part of many, and it is considered surprising that no serious accidents occurred. • * * * The Trailer Craze. Much might be written about the trailers and caravans seen on Northland roads these holidays. There were caravans complete in every detail, and incorporating electric lights, sinks and, in the praseology of land and estate agents, “every modern convenience.” Some trailers were little more than boxes on wheels. Against this type there are trailers built to streamline designs. One seen in the street this morning was a splendidly-made Affair. It was all metal, and an ingeniously constructed metal top shielded the contents from the weather.

Maori Youth Killed. A Maori, Pirie Cyril WaKefleld, WM; killed at Wanstead, near Waiptifttovu: at 11.45 a.m, on Sunday, when a ftveseater car in which he was a pUMft ger somersaulted down an 80ft hMd| < after running over a low dope side of the road. The .driver car, pudley Ropiha, of jonly other occupant, suffered 1 abrasions and severe ; shock: ''-mWfjiv: admitted to the Waipukurau The youth had on the' been out singing carols with.a RUHhaf of Maoris at Porangahau, as is tof . custom there each year. accident occurred they were way to Waipawa. ' ' i‘* r : * v ••.u.V; ' • c,t. Shark At Opononi. r-< A shark swimming in, the HbklM|fl> V hiarbour' in the vicinity of OprtiKl;-' caused something of .- a; among holidaymakers on Sunday. v was first seen at Omapere, whiW ' bather made a hurried exit ftoai' ft*;;’.', surf as the creature snapped W* heels. The fish, layout eight f«rt ;)kw . then cruised around the Oponpßi wharf, upsetting the equilibritiUn ei large numbers of swimmers, . * * * . *"< ■ ■ ■ ■ •■ OSWWtejgMB Police Force Walks Ini ■ i. it.--; No ope had such a quiet as the Whangarei police forcai'-'Al-though members were on duty throughout the week-end, they had u remarkably quiet time. The dors were open to receive any criminal, but they were . still * and the cells unoccupied this mdtoiwT;. * Despite the density of the traffic volume throughout Northland, serious accident was repotted police station, nor was there’ drowning on the crowded beaches. H . ! was a working holiday of tranquility for the police they been obliged to record the IH®* - ber of mudguard dents of hides, however, they would a different story, for more, than Whangarei garage is fully straightening out dented parts; ♦ * * ' v ;-.- 1 ; v Northland Film The Northland film will be at the Waipu theatre on ary 6, and at the Hikurangi on Monday, January 9. The hdtotoWM| charges are 1/6 and 1/-, children. «•