Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 21, 7 June 1939, Page 4

Local and General

o LIQUOR ON SUNDAYS In Quebec, beer and wine may be sold from noon to 3 p.m. and Iron* 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. only,, on Sundays amd holidays. These hours are the result of a tightening up of liquor jaws. OPPORTUNITY ,FOR BUYERS A. J. Canning and Co announce two special auction sales on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Bargain hunters are urged to make a point of attending and seeing ioi themselves, the remarkable household ranges that are offering. THEY. BEAT HIM The old gardener meant well b'i'c he was very lazy a.nd spent most of the day dozing, leaning on his spade. One day he remarked: "This garden's overrun with slugs, sir. I can't keep pace with them." ''Yes, 79 replied his employer dryly. "I've noticed them whizzing past you.' 3 DAMAGE AT SHOW A strange mentality was shown bv some persons who during the week, end pulled down a portion of the temporary iron fence from the corner of the Winter Show Building nearer the wharf to the low.water mark, a::d threw the fence into the river, fortunately the fence caught on tha wharf piles and was recovered and placed in position again. FOR SUITABLE WEDDING GIFTS. Inspect our exclusive Chinese handworked Linen Cloths, etc. —''The Gift Shop" next Post Office.

NEW LIBRARY BOOKS The monthly meeting of the Whakatane Library Committee was held on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, when the president, Dr Dawson, presided. The following new books wdre selected for June: The Rains Came, Louis Blomfield; Turnabout^, Thome Smith; Rabble in Arms, Kenneth Rob crts; Guns or Butter, Bruce Lockhart; Reaching for the Stars, Nora Wain; The Gallows of Chance, E. P. Oppenheim; Tales of Mystery and Adventure; Go West Young Man ? Bernard Farmer; The Destroyer, S. Holler; Pull the House Down, Mabel Tyrrell; The Land of the Lost, William Satchell; The Shadow of the Wolf, Austin, Freeman.