Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 62, 15 September 1939, Page 4

Local and General

HEAVY SEAS The strong wind over the last day or two has whipped up a good on the bar and the breakers on the reel's at the end of Kohi Point were quite spectacular yesterday and on Wednesday. STATE HOUSE TENANTS Six more State houses have been completed and allotted to those chosen being Messrs F. R. E. Darvill, A. Oldham, T. S. Ryan, S. Ma-jor, E. Hirst and V. H. Kemp. DICTATORSHIP DEFINED A group of Frenchmen in a cafe were talking politics. "And how would you describe a dictatorshipV' asked one. Several definitions were suggested, but none of them seemed concise and comprehensive, until a little fellow on the outside of the group spoke up. "It's a system ol government where everything that isn't forbidden is compulsory."' THIEF TRAPPED Some time ago a farmer in Tauranga County had a quantity of benzine taken from a drum on his property. Following the theft the drum was emptied and a large quantity of water was poured into it. In due course the drum was raided again, at night and next morning it was ascertained that a motor vehicle was found halted on the roadside not far from the farm, s,ays the ; Tauranga Tijnes. -i-';

BIG JOB They were travelling through the Waimana Gorge. The passenger looked out the window and said to the driver: "Just think; it look hundreds of years to carve this great gorge out.' 1 "Blimey, is that so?" replied the other. "I didn't know Scheme 13 was in operation, all that time. *' "CARRY ON" "I am afraid that our discussion is overshadowed by the calamity that has overtaken the British Empire and other countries through the lust for power of one said the Mayor of Morrinsville, Mr W. Hetherington, in opening the hall committees' conference this week. "I have had several inquiries as to whether the meeting would be held or not. I think the best way in which we can help the Government is to carry on as usual until we hear otherwise.'' HEADS PARK About a chain of the rock wall on the Harboui Board section of Wairaka Centennial Park remains to be completed and then the inner parking space will need grading. The borough portion of the park is furtlier advanced the filling behind ti;e wall having been graded. It has not yet been grr-ssed nor have the native trees been planted out. The neat concrete dressing sheds are complete but a start has; not yet been made on the kerbing, and i channelling for the road.. : - ; (

MOTOR CYCLIST HURT Shock and Efbrasions w<|r.p receivc/l by lytr S._ jjSir&ons&i^ when his motor cycle collided with a bridge on Monday. He was admitted :t o the ■ Whakatanc Hospital 'and discharged yesterday, i .A LI ENS REGISTER n!.---Thfc;i reminder to aliens iij - last Wednesday's. BEACON has resulted in a quick response for a number have registered with the Whakataro police in the last few days. The term of grace expires on Monday, n fortnight after the declaration of war, and those unregistered after that day may be fined £100 or given three months' 1 imprisonment. "They are all very harmless people,'' said Constable T. .J. Cummings. "Still, they have got to register." MAORI CARVED HOUSES An endeavour is being made by the Dominion Museum authorities to compile a complete census of all Maori carved houses in the North Island, and lo this end photographs of carved Maori houses are being collected wherever possible, says the annual report of the director, Dr. W. R; B. Oliver. The museum collection of such photographs has been classified, and records of previously unknown localities obtained where possible. Additions to the Maori collection during the year include a poupou of a house from Wai kato presented by Mrs T-. M. V. Horton: a stone adze, Southland, presented by Mr A. Duncar<; a stone no.sc-flute from Taumarunui; a stone pounder from New Plymouth presented by Mrs R. L. Cross: and a Maori paddle from Bay of Plenty, presented by Mr W. E. Lear. Thi" last article was dug up during work on the foundations of the new Whakatanc Hotel. ECCLESIASTICAL PUBLICAN That the present Bishop of Wet--9 lington had been the proprietor of a hotel in England before coming to New Zealand was mentioned by Archdeacon It. Hodgson when reviewing the differences between the conditions of hotels in England and in the Dominion in the course of a meeting which discussed the hotel boycott in Rotorua on Saturday morning. Many of the English hotels were administered by the Public House Trust ? the first chairman of which had been a bishop. The publicans were allowed a greater profit on the meals sold than on. the liquor, he added. This, combined with the later closing hour and the general social atmosphere was amongst factors making the English "pub"' a vastly different place from the New Zealand hotel.