The Opotiki News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940, LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 316, 27 September 1940, Page 2

The Opotiki News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940, LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shipping. The m.v. Waiotahi left Opotiki yesterday for Auckland. Mail Changes. Mails for Auckland and other Main Trunk offices which now close at 5 a.in., will on and after September' 30, close at the Opotiki Post Office at 5 p.rn. Full details' of the changes appear in the mail notice. Scrap Metal. Twelve loads of scrap metal of he types most suitable for quick and easy conversion to the service of New Zealand’s industrial needs were gathered in Gisborne last week in the first collection sponsored, by the district council of the national campaign to recover waste materials. £SOOO for a Spitfire. The Wellington Fighting Aeroplane Fund has produced some .remarkable examples of generous giving. A most striking example lies in the story behind an acknowledgment made in the Wellington Post of £SOOO for the fund, with an instruction that the contribution was to be anonymous, with an acknowledgment only to “S.” Scrap from Hastings. Two truck-loads of valuable scrap motal have been dispatched from Hastings as the first contribution to the Dominion's war effort to save waste materal. The consignment which is destined for the Petone railway workshops, comprised three tons of aluminium and four tons of lead, copper, brass and other valuable metals.

Italian Bombing. Apparently Italian aerial • narkmanship is not thought very highly of by New Zealand troops in Egypt. In a letter to relative in Opotiki a soldier from this .town expressed the opinion that the safest place to remain during an Italian, air-raid was by the objective they were attempting to bomb. Visit of Minister. HOll. P. O. Webb, Minister of Mines, passed through Opotiki on Tuesday, spending a short time in the district. He was met by the Mayor, Mr. G. B, Moody ; the county chairman, Mr; W. A. Gault; the town clerk,-Mr. W. Briggs; and the country clerk, Mr. J. T. Merry. Deputations only of a private nature were received by the Minister during liia visit. Sudan Newspaper. A copy of an interesting little newspaper, “The Sudan Daily Herald,” has been handed in to the “News” office for perusal. The paper contains four pages measuring JIl inches by 10 inches, being four columns wide. .PrAitcil in Khatoum, tlie paper is in English, and contains many items of interest. The maximum temperature on June 23, is given as J 12.1 degrees and the minimum at 81.4 degrees.

New Zealand’s Flowers. “I was much impressed when I first came to Now Zealand by the variety and quality of the (lowers you have here growing in the open without protection,” said Dr. W. A. ltiddell, High Commissioner for Canada, at the Hutfc Valley Horticultural Society’si Spring Show. "New Zealand is a land of flowers. There is more variety here than anywhere else I have travelled, which includes South America, and many places in the north temperate zone. At a time when we find so many nations organis cd to destroy and deface, it is helpful to know that there arc people striving to assist Nature in the creation of something beautiful.” No Linen Thread. "The sale of linen thread owing to the necessities of the war is being restricted to the manufacture of army clothing and boots and certain heavy industries. There is not a sufficient quantity to enable any allocation for the civil clothing or tailoring trade and the requirements for these trades or domestic purposes will have to be filled by cotton substitutes.” This was the answer received by.a New Plymouth firm of importers to an inquiry of Dominion agents for it renewal of supplies of these goods. The restrictions, it is stated by those concerned, are a serious blow not only to retail traders in threads, but to the clothing manufacturers business, pecially the tailoring trade, boot makers and all leather goods manufacturers and sail and tent makers, to whom cotton substitutes are of little use and in some instances quite unsuitable. i