Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 40, 24 July 1939, Page 4

Local and General

READING LAMP The holder of ticket 98 was the winner of the sports competition fur the electric reading lamp. LADY KICKS OF.F With : a "ice right-footer which Whakatane unchivalrously .rc't'urned well down, Mrs T. B. Dunderdale, kicked off for Rangitaiki in the Tom Dunderdale Gup match at Te Teko on Saturday. CLEARING SALE Farmers'will be interested to know that 100 dairy cattle, a pedigree bull, lambs, pigs and a .full range ol farm implements will be offered by the Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co on account of Mr A. J. McGreedy on his farm at Edgceumbe on, Wednesday, July 26 at 11 a.m. A light luncheon will be provided. SHIPPING The Clansman which came in cn Thursday ■-sailed again for Auckland on, Saturday morning with about 97 crates-of 250 boxes of butter and about 200 empty drums. She bmught inwards about 250 tons of general cargo, including about ' ?7 otns of cement and 404 drums of benzine. About ten tons of cement were for the papdr mills. *'' . ' i CARS COLLIDE A taxi driven by Mr V. Allen, j '9 came off rather badly in a collision with an R.M. service car, driven by Mr S. McLeod, Whakatane manager for the firm, in Commerce Street on Thursday evening. The accident 00. curred near Brabant's service station. The rear of the service car was damaged, the taxi suffering in front. The mudguard was broken the iator smashed in and the front axle and steering assembly pushed out of line. No one was hurt. * NIGHT TRAINING Enthusiasm over night training has been shown by footballers now that "the new lights pre in vd-ice in the Domain. On Thursday n'ght there were sixty or seventy seniors and juniors cut on th grounds, the bulk of the gathering being made up of Star and Old Boys teams, but including Whakatane players and a number of the Buccaneers, who are training solidly for their match against City next week-end. Even Mr W. S. Henderson the president of the Rugby Union, had dug hishorts out from the moth balls and joined in.

FOOTBALL REPORTS Owing to pressure on space the detailed reports of Saturday's Senior. B and Junior Representative matches against the Rangitaiki teams will bc> held over till Wednesday's issue. PLANET MARS Officials of the Carter Observatory Wellington, are making observations of the planet Mars, which is now its closest to the earth. It is quite easy to pick- out its reddish light in tbe eastern sky. A discovery of the observatory is a black dot at the equator. White patches crossing the surface have led to the belief lhat there i.s cloud and, atmosphere surrounding Mars. ''TOM'S" MEMORY At the end of the game at Te Teko Mr W. S. Henderson, Whakatane Rugby Sub-Union president congratulated Rangitaiki and handed the Dunderdale Cup over to E. How* ell, their captain. He praised Mr L. Anderson's display of refereeing, Howell thanked Mr Henderson. He was sure that if all successive games were as keenly contested as this one had been then "Tom" would not be forgotten. MR WALTON'S ADVICE Advice to husbands in their ac-» tions following a quarrel was oflered by Mr E. L. Walton, S. M., in the Magistrate's Court at Gisborne during the hearing of a maintenance case. A male defendant was givirgevidence to the effect that, in a ro>v with his he ha<l not struck her but had merely defended himself. "A man does not defend himself against a woman, he either beats her or runs away," commented His Worship. ''My advice to you when you have a row with your wife is to run away and throw your liat back in/'