LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 30 June 1939, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gate Receipts Up.— Opunake's Rugby fifteen are "in the boom" again. Two seasons ago, when the team aspired to and eventually attained the top' of the South Taranaki tree, gate receipts 'for home matches approached record figures. fteturns which were received by the Opunake Borough Council last night concerning takings at the Domain indicated that the team again ranks high in publi" favour, and is compensating 1 for its last year's lapse. For the first four matches of the present series, takinirs totalled £59 16/fi. as compared with. .£3B-0/6 for the same number last year and £6O-1 fi/G in the nra/ious Reason. Councillors expressed gratifi cation with the results. Vandalism.— Placed at convenient points in Main Street in order to prevent accumulation of litter in the shopping 1 area, the rubbishbaskets recently acquired by the Opunake Borough Council have been subjected to abuse. One of the receptacles was discovered vesterday on a vacant lot in the business section, where it: had evidently been placed after a street vandal of obviously low mentality had ripped it from the post to which it had been fastened. Among some members of the town's youth, there is a curious laek of civic pride, and of appreciation of the efforts made by the borough council to improve the appearance of the town. Added to this is the expense * which such hooliganism represents to the ratepayers. y