Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 67, 27 September 1939, Page 4

Local and General

SHIPPING Two Northern Company vessels arc clue today from Auckland, the Otimai in the morning and the Clansman in the evening. They left Auckland yesterday. Parry Brothers' Vesper should also be in i)ort. PROUD RECORD If Hitler could see the type cl men New Zealand produced he would be sorry he started the war j said Mr L. E. Norriss. -when speaking tit the farewell to Messrs L. R. Preston, J. A. Stewart and W, H. Sargent at the Commercial Hotel on Monday night. The recruits had a great lra«dition to live up to. They must remember that in 1916 on the Sommo the New Zealand division was the first division in the war to gain all its objectives, and to hold tjhem. That was something to be proud of. HIDDEN MESSAGE "We are starving," wrote a German child to ;• pen-friend at Wanganui recently. The phrase was, naturally not written in the actual letter itself. The strict Nazi censorship would have ensured that the letter did not reach New Zealand if that phrase had been written in the ordinary fashion. Some time ago the Wanganui resident received a letter ilirom Germany asking if th- New Zealander was interested in saving stamps. A reply was sent in the negative, but the next letter from Germany had a stamp affixed to one of the pages. Curiosity aroused tli« Wanganui resident steamed off the stamp, when the words, "We are starving 1 ' were disclosed.

CAPTAIN'S CABIN A light-hearted crowd filled the Captain's Cabin at Ohope again on Saturday night when a second "whoo pee" dance was staged. The rain did not damp the spirits of the merry makers who danced to the excellent mus'c of Freddy Burt and his Canadians,. It was a good night and the forerunner of other successful dances PIPE BAND SUFFERS The call for recruits lias had a serious effect upon the personnel cifi the Whakatane Caledonian Society's Pipe Band five members of which have offered their services. The pipers are Messrs A. Martin, D. Dean, J. ColS. Stark and G. Tippett. The loss to the band is all the more unfortunate in view 7 of the wonderful progress that has been recorded since the arrival of the new uniforms. However it is confidently hoped that all those who have joined up with the forces will be back again in the near 'future to take up their old positions in the band. ■ AFTER THE WAR Though both Mr L. Preston and Mr W. Sargent doubted whether they would be sent back to Whakatane after the war, when they were' speaking at the dinner held in their honour at the Commercial Hotel on Monday night. ]\Tr F. W. Rajmond, manager of the Union Bank of Aussaid he was sure that thtf officers v.oi:ld be # stationed here again. He revealed that his bank would subsidise the army pay a? members oj; their staff, to the level or their present salary, arid added that he was sure that this would bo the general practice in the other institutions.