Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 11, 15 May 1939, Page 4

Local and General

MISSIONARIES CONFER Two hundred Presbyterian missionaries held a, week's conference at the mission station at Te Whaiti, the gathering breaking up on Satur. day. DEER KILLING The government party slaughtering deer around Te Whaiti have now ceased their operations. During the period of huniting several hundred were shot. 175 LIVING DESCENDANTS One hundred and seventy-five living descendants are claimed by Mrs T. Parkin, of who celebrated her 90th birthday last week. Of her 11 children eight are still alive. There are 68 grandchildren and 99 great-grandchildren. Mrs Parkin was married twice and has survided both husbands. GROUPING OF PLANETS All the naked-eye planets. with the exception of Mars, are in the morning sity at present and have been noted by early risers. .Four planets are within the confines of the constellation Pisces. Of these, Jupiter is first to rise, being visible about 3 a.m. Within half an hour Venus follows it, and about an hour later and then Saturn also becomes visible. Finally, uranus is also in the morning sky at present, but lies too close to the sun to be seen.

j HILLCREST Mr A. G. Lunn and Mr H. A. Moore chairman of directors and sec-< retary of the Whakatane Develop, ment Company visited Whakatane on Friday, leaving again, for Auckland yesterday. Mr Lunn said tnat Jlillcrest development was proceeding, very satisfactorily. He believed that the estate had the finest building sites both from a scenic and health point of view. Sections not as good in Auckland were selling at up to £1500 each. HORI IN REPOSE Blissfully obvious to the passing crowds a heavily girthed Maon slumbered on the seat in the lee of Pohaturoa Rock last Friday afternoon. The twitching of an occasional eyelid belied the turbulent thoughts that flitted through the brain of the sleeping brave. Perhaps he saw in savage array his ancestors neatly impaling their pakeha opponents in battic or better still became a partaker in the juicy and succulent feast that followed. Whatever his thought however, they were rudely shattered by the blatant blare of an approaching motor car the shock of which si nt the tattered recumbent form, a clear foot in the air and deposited him on the grass, once more in the modern world of cold hard facts.