The Opotiki News Friday, October 18, 1940. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 323, 18 October 1940, Page 2

The Opotiki News Friday, October 18, 1940. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Competition Results. llesults ot competitions at the Patriot.c Shop last Thursday were: lhg won' by Mrs. Schwieters; cake won by JVirs. Wells; mats won by Mrs. Dodgson. Struck by Pick. While engaged in piek.ng up the tar in front of the Post Office on Wednesday, one of the workmen struck himself on the front of his leg, the point of lhc< pick penetrating a short distance and causing considerable bleeding. Competition Results. Following are the results, of recent Red Cross competitions: Canaries won by Mrs. Quirk (re-sold to Mr. Jtau); picture won by Mrs. Shannon, Patriotic Shop. The results being obtained by the Opotiki Patriotic Shop are t very gratifying, and support is steadily increasing. Next Thursday the shop will be conducted by the Opotiki Women’s Institute when cakes, Christmas cakes and farm produce will be available.

Collision. A head-on collision between two motor-cars occurred on Wednesday on the Ilukuwai road near the turnoff to Tablelands. The cars were driven by Miss Marie Reid and Mrs. Anderson. None of the occupants of the cars was injured, ami only slight damage was suffered by the vehicles. Warm Temperatures. Although Opotiki people thought conditions were much warmer than usual yesterday, Gisborne was a great deal warmer •according to the usual North Island figures issued at 9 o’clock yesterday morning. These read: Auckland, 60 degrees; Tauranga, 63 ; Opotiki, 60 ; Gisborne, 70 ; Napier, 61; Wellington, 68. A Coincidence. New Zealanders in England probably scan the faces of New Zealand troops there in the hope, of seeing someone they know. The chances of running across an Opotiki resident in London would seem a remote possibility but such a meeting took place recently. Mr. Norman Elliott who went to England with the Second Echelon was surprised when he met Miss M. Gate, formerly of Opotiki, in the streets of London. What is “Vicinity”? “IT is not quite so bad as that,” commented Mr. W. 11. Woodward S.M., when a defendant at the New Plymouth Police Court stated that lie understood a person broke the law if he was found with liquor within half a mile of a dance hall. “The law defines, the term rather loosely as 'in the vicinity of a li.all whe>'e a dance is in progress,” added the magistrate.

Woman Works Team of Horses. am in my sixtieth year and help to do all sorts of work on the farm,” said a woman witness in the ■Compensation Court in Hamilton, lii reply to a question witness stated that she helped to .milk every morning and evening and did all sorts of odd jobs, including working a team of horses, in harrowing operations and eradicating ragwort by sodium' chlorate solutions.

Golfers Watch Air Battles. Golf in parts of Britain has become. exciting since Hitler launched his air attacks. A director of on*' of England’s biggest shinping firms in a letter just received in Chr stehureh said : “T saw some exciting air battles yesterday while T was playing golf, and a number of Germans were brought down in the area visible, from the course. T saw no less than five Germans bail on*

their parachutes at one time. The work of the Royal A’r Force to date has been beyond praise and exceeded anything that we could possibly have, hoped for.”

No Need of a Gasmask. “Well you. can toss it overboard now. You won’t need it any more,” was tile reply given to a lliree-year-old boy who told a man at the steamer-express gangway that lie had his gasmask. This was the son of Mr. G. Maxwell Keys, Christchurch, who lias just returned from England. Mr. Keys said that his son had the gasmask container, and thought the gasmask was in it. Proudly he told the man at the gangway, when leaving Wellington, that lie had Ins gasmask. “1 saw that the men there were moved when they realised that here was a little boy of three having to carry that thing,” said Mr. Iveys.