The Opotiki News Wednesday, October 2, 1940. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 318, 2 October 1940, Page 2

The Opotiki News Wednesday, October 2, 1940. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waimana Golf Dance. The Waimana Golf C'lub are'holding a dance in aid of Patriotic funds on October 10th. An invitation is extended to all dancers to attend and help a worthy cause.' Stock Sale. The monthly stock sale will be held in the Opotiki saleyards tomorrow (Thursday). Included in the entries are pedigree Jersey bulls on account of Mr. J. G. Murray. Orphans’ Club. The* men’s evening of the Opotiki Orphans’ Club w-11 be held this evening at 8 o’clock. Colonel Loach, of Christchurch, will be present, and the club’s annual meeting will be held. Stud Bull Sale. The South Bay of Plenty Jersey Breeders’ Club will hold its annual sale of stud bulls at the A. and P. Showgrounds, Whakatane, on Friday next, October, 4, when 112 butterfat Jersey bulls will be offered. Tenders. The Opotiki Hospital Board inv.tes tenders for the supply and delivery- of bread, meat, groceries and provisions to the Opotiki hospital for one year commencing Ist. November. Particulars may be had from the secretary, Mr. J. A. T. Henry.

Exceptionally High Tide. Backed up by the wind and a heavy sea running in the Bay of Plenty yesterday, the tide last evening was an except-onally high one, and covered Volkner’s Island. Other low-lying places along the coast were also flooded by the tidal wat-

Mail Sorting. . v Mails which were previously sorted early in the .morning at the Opotiki Post Office are now being sorted at a later hour. Businesspeople and other residents were previously able to get their mail from the boxes shortly after (1 a. in. The sorting of the mails docs not commence now until 8 a.m., with the result that it is some time before the mails are sorted. Delivery by postman is also later than usual. Tim new arrangement is proving rather inconvenient as businesspeople were previously able to attend to the mail in the slack time of the morning and also to get replies away by the 10 o’clock mail without undue hurry. Others who work in the country are having to leave for them work when only a portion of the mail has been sorted.

Effect of Heavy Loads. At the recent meeting of the Opotiki Borough Council, the town clerk, Mr. W. 11. Briggs, informed the council that the new scaling work m Church and Bridge streets was showing the effect of heavy traffic. An examination of the road surface shows that the heavy loads being taken over the streets is actually -causing the road to bend and distinct depressions can now bo seen in the surface where extra heavy loads have gone over -the highways. The sealing is beginning to crack under the heavy stra.n and unless something is done in the near future, water penetration will begin to have a serious effect on the new sealing. It would appear that the foundation material being used is too soft, as patches of the same type of foundation put down in St. John Street have also commenced to disintegrate, with one exception. Other parts of St. John Street which were sealed on the original gravel surface have stood lip to the heavy traffic a great deal better than the thick rock foundation put down in several places. Over-Enthusiastic Waste Collection.

A suggestion that some children were being rather too enthusiastic in their collection of waste metal was made to the Simmer Borough Council, Christchurch, by Mr. P. G. Fenwick. “The schoolchildren have been asked to collect copper, brass taps and pieces of lead,” he said. “Several agitated people have told me that these things have been collected from their homes, but without their consent. They value the lead sheeting aroflnd chimneys because it keeps the rain out. It is all very well for a child to be told that it will be a good thing if it arrives at school bringing a brass tap. But the trouble is that the tap might be--long to their unfortunate neighbour.. I’m looking after my brass taps.” Another member of the council said that some time ago metal was stripped from the bathing sheds, but not for patriotic purposes.