OPUNAKE TIMES. Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 12 June 1931, Page 2

OPUNAKE TIMES. Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The local Methodist Ladies’ Guild is holding a street mart on Monday next.

The final screening of the picture, “Spring is Here,” will take place tonight.

The Dunedin Operatic Society's six nights’ season of “A Country Girl

realised £llsO. After paying expenses and accounting for a debt of £250. the society has £2OO in hand.

The Rev. W. J. Hooper of Wellington, has been engaged to conduct a week’s mission in the Rahotu Methodist Church, commencing on Sunday, June 28th. Mr. Hooper has had a lot of experience in this kind of work and always proves an attractive speaker.

The Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association, in order to curtail expenditure, has decided to make a general cut of 25 per cent., in prize moneys except in some of the jumping classes.- This derision, together with other economies, is expected to result in a saving of £373.

The Foreign Legion, that daring and desperate body of men whose martial qualities do much toward preserving peace in France’s vast African colonies, plays a big part in “Women Everywhere,” at the New Theatre on Saturday and Monday next.

Members of the Board of Managers of the Hamilton Technical High School spoke in warm terms of the school exhibit at the Winter Show. Jt was stated that the handiwork had been a constant source of interest to visitors and had been favourably commented upon bv master craftsmen.

A touch of novelty was added to the Court at Christchurch recently, when the chief traffic inspector, Mr. 11. Macintosh, made a voluntary appearance to answer a charge of driving without proper number plates on his car. “1 suppose a line of £lO would meet the case,” said the magistrate smiling. The penalty, however, was the payment of Os and costs, the magistrate remarking that defendant was “taking his gruel like anyone else.”

If a Christchurch tramwnyman succeeds in a claim for moneys in Chancery. ten New Zealand members of the family and a branch in California will benefit from a fortune running into over seven figures. Mr. Cl arence Pentecost of I,inwood, is contemplating taking action for the recovery of the money. A huge fortune was ammassed bv a Mr. John Meek, an Englishman, who died in 1811. On his death the money went into Chancery.

The competition for a fruit cake, held in aid of the local Basketball Club was won by Mrs. 8. Webb, Opunake.

There will be no euchre party at St. Patrick’s Hall to-night. The usual series will he continued on Friday next.

The prizewinners at the Bowling Club’s crib tournament were Messrs J. Trotter Ist, and T. H. H. Sinclair 2nd.

The guessing competition for the pet lamb donated by Mr. \\ , J. 8. Dudley on behalf of the Football Club was won by Mr. G. Hawkins.

The Mail way Department advertise in this issue particulars of cheap excursion tickets to Palmerston North in connection with the National Dairy Show.

A large iced cake will he the prize for a competition at the mart organised by the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild to be held in the main street to-mor-

A Masonic service will be held in St. Barnabas’ Church on Sunday afternoon at 2.d0 p.m. The address will bo given by the Rev. Canon W. Fancourt, of Auckland. The service will be open to all interested. It is anticipated there will be a good attendance of brethren, their families and relatives.

The headmaster at the recent meeting of the Te Aroha School committee asked whether the boys responsible for disfiguring their desks should he made to pay for the repairs. The chairman, Mr. F. V. Fitzpatrick, was strongly of the opinion that the boys should be made to shoulder the responsibility of their acts and it was agreed to adopt this course.

A handsome, two-storey, roughcast building, the new boarding-house and headmaster’s residence at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School is nearing completion. For some time, says a New Plymouth paper, the school has been urgently in need of better accommodation for its boarders, and the new building, while not increasing the accommodation, at least provides very comfortable housing for the boys.

Accounts of Gordon and Gotch (Aust.), Limited, for the half-year to March dl disclose a net profit of £27,892, after providing for taxation which contrasts with a profit of £41,(J7S for the corresponding period of last year. The dividend has been maintained at 8 per cent, per annum, absorbing £24.000. The sum of £17,198 is carried forward, against £13,306 brought into the accounts. General reserve remains at £211,094, apart from provision for contingencies and taxation.

A curious phenomenon in connection with the Murchison earthquake is reported from Whenuakura, states a farm property that had a fair depth of water all the year round have dried up since the earthquake and the lake bed is now excellent pasture land. It is more than probable that the drying up of the lake in the local domain is due to the same cause. It is also stated that wells in the district which formerly became dry after the ’quake and had to be deepened. The earth has apparently been so heavily shaken by the earthquake as to enable all surface water to perolate to the lower level underground.

Because he considered that the condition of the country’s finances did not warrant any unnecessary spending of ratepayers’ money, the newly-elected chairman of the Awatere County Council, Marlborough (Mr. A. J. H. Gavin) signified his intention at the monthly meeting of refusing the usual lionorviuui of £SO a year. It was not because he did not approve of the principle of the honorarium, he explained, for he thought that it was only light that anyone holding the office should receive some remuneration; but under the present circumstances he would like to see it left in abeyance for a period of twelve months.