Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 71, 6 October 1939, Page 4

Local and General

PLUNKET COMPETITION RESULT

The secretary of the local branch of the Plunkot Society announces that the winners of the competitions held at the garden party on Monday last were as 'follows: Baby outfit > Mrs Hollis, Senr. No. 74. Cake, Mrs Gibbcrd, No. 10.

TRIBUTE TO PLUNKET NURSE

Nurse Strachan who leaves Whakatane this morning, Friday, to take up her duties at Patea on October 9th, was the recipient of a beautifully worked supper cloth with serviettes and tray cloth to match a presentation fioin the mothers of Edgccumbe and Awakeri. WHITEBAITING A few whitebait have been taken by fishermen in the Whakatane river lately l ,. They have been hard to catch in the last day or two, possibly on account of the numbers of kahawai in the stream. Some good catches of these latter fish have been made. GOOD CARGOES Parry Brothers' Vesper came in and left in the middle of! the week with full cargoes in each direction. The Northern. Company's Clansman brought about 220 tons of general cai'go when she came in on Thursday. She sails for Auckland ok Saturday about midday with a big cargo of butter and cheese. CANADIAN TIMBERS The Canadian Court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, with a floor area of 8322 square ifeet, i? made entirely of Canadian timber. The walls will be panelled in Canadian cedar and yellow birch, The annual value of Canadian forests in production is abotit £85,000,000 and the forest areas total 1,222,522 square miles. BAD DAIRYING SEASON The past season was the worst experienced by dairy farmers in the Auckland province in the matter cf production for 11 years. Average pio duction of butterlht for 93.851 cows tested bv the New Zealand Co-opei-a-tive Herd Testing Associa.t : on in the past year was the lowest since the 1927-28 season. The average was 229.961b, while the highest producing herd, comprising 41 head owned by Mr C. T. Bones, averaged 4061b for the the test covering 2io days', milking. POPULARITY THE KILT "Tartans are becoming more popular and those who can claim even a remote Scottish ancestry feel that they have something to be proud of in a kilt," said Mr G. M. Telfer, president of the New Zealand Highland Pipe Bands Association, when speaking at a ■ gatnering o1 ChristchurcW bands reports the Press. He add 3d that there was a growing tendency fcr tartans to be worn for general use, and this was having a stimulating effect on the activities of the Scottish community.