LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 23 August 1932, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A house to rent is wanted by a careful tenant. Practices for the children's fancy dress dance will be held in the Town Hall daily at 2 p.m. All children are welcome. Another big sing song to-mor-row night. Be there with your voice and radiate some joy germs. It will do us all good. All are wanted at the Town Hall tomorrow night. We ask all those who cannot afford the collection to forget about the money part of the programme and to roll up and forget their troubles in one grand, good-old sing-song. A razor which he has used since his 18th birthday is the proud possession of a Wanganui man who confesses to being over GO years of age. Though the blade has had more than 40 years' constant use, it is as good as ever, states the owner, who looks on his razor as a fine advertisement for the manufacturers of Sheffield. A solicitor, who is a member was nominated for the office of vice-president at the annual meeting of the Wyndham A. and P. Society. However, he declined. "The cows I milk would not be classified in the show,"' he said, amidst laughter. "Never mind, you're a good milker," interjected another member. The laughter was renewed, the solicitor obviously enjoying the joke.

C. T. Prosser, property salesman, reports the sale of Mr. Elliot Clegg's i-acre section on Gisborne Terrace, Opunake, to Messrs IT. J. Home and Sons, builders. A residence will be erected on this site at an early date.

While working on a new main at Waingawa freezing works on Saturday morning an electrical engineer, Cyril Harold August, aged 43 years, came in contact witli a high tension wire and was electrocuted. Artificial respiration was applied without avail for five hours.

Just as there are other ways of catching fish by rod and line, so there are others means of hunting wild pigs than with dog and gun, as a fisherman at Mercury Bay found out. One day he noticed a black object in the water, and he pulled his boat toward it, only to find it was swimming faster than lie thought. He continued to pull harder until its identity was established, and finally, ranging alongside, he .managed to strike the pig on the head with an oar, stunning it. Picking up his bait knife, by careful manoeuvring he managed to plunge it in the pig's neck, and after a long struggle, with the assistance of 'another man, secured the animal. When weighed the pig Avas nearly 4cwt., and other pair of excellent tusks has been secured. .*'