Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 69, 2 October 1939, Page 4

Local and General

LAND TAX The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the; notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date 0,1 payment of Land Tax for the current year is on Tuesday, the 17th day of October 1939, uiid that the demands will be posted on or about the lOu day of October. - CRICKET OPENS Hillcrest and Post and Telegraph opened the cricket season on SatiUday with a friendly match in thd showgrounds. The wicket definitely favoured the bowlers, only '-our play ers, Spring (69), Jackson (1.8), Cutler (12) and Crapp (10) registering double figures in the first innings, whereas few of the bowlers tried failed to take a wicket. Keepa, bowling for P. and T. claimed' seven wickets for 44 runs. Hillcrest won on the first innings by .70 runs.. The game was a good try-out for the opening match and. brought to ligh« evidence o>f useful talent among nesV players in both teams.

QUEEN CARNIVAL MONEY

Those persons who are still holding sums of money in connection with the Queen Carnival are requested to hand same in to the various secretaries before? Wednesday evening next. It is understood that there are a number of books and competition cards still in circulation on behalf of the Basketball and Tennis Queen. Those holding these are asked to hand them 3n to the secretary Mr M. List at once, to facilitate the completion of the financial statement. MEAT PRICES ,"Fears that the Government would step in and fix maximum prices were undoubtedly the cause of an 8000hcaU yarding of fat sheep Aldington last week. Manv butchers think that the best way to get over the price-fixing difficulty would be for the Government to buy stock and sell it dressed on the hooks at the abattoirs at a fixed price per

pound. This price, it is suggested, could be revised every three or four months to fit seasonal fluctuations in supply, and thus give the trade the advantage of a stable market,.

N.Z.'S WAR EFFORT

-Yew Zealand's first overseas war effort is to provide 650 pilots ancl GSO observers and air gunners every year while the war lasts. These are to be despatched immediately they arc trained. SHELLS OF PEACE The things that av;11 help to win' the war, something that New Zealand has no need to frenziedly organ' ise to produce, came streaming down into the hold cj the Waiotahi as she lay alongside the Whakatane wharf on Friday afternoon. They were 3350 boxes of butter and as they thudded 'down into the hold at the rate of a box every two or three seconds they were real shells of or nails in the coffin of Germany.