Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 72, 9 October 1939, Page 4

Local and General

HEAVY WEATHER High seas during the week-end gave spectacular displays at the Heads, where the breakers assumed fairly large proportions and sent up showers of spray as they struck the rocks on the foreshore. The sight throughout Saturday and Sunday attracted many sightseers to the spot. RED CROSS A meeting of the executiev. committee of the Taneatua Red Cross Suh-'Centre was held on Wednesday evening. It wa~. decided to proceed immediately with the home nursing [ course and these classes will be eonducted by Mr;; G. Phillips each Thursday evening, commencing on October 12. THE DUST NUISANCE The approach' oil summer, and 'Ik* increase of road traffic, has brought with it the attendant dust menace, which this year promises to be as bad as ever unless the roads are carefully Avatched, and Avatered from time to time. Jt is pleasing to note.' the progress of the tarsealing on the Taneatua main highAvay, and also the preparation for 'fVirther permanent Avork on the AAvakeri roadway, and the Edgecumbe route.

TOTAL CLEARANCE EFFECTED The grove of tall gum trees on a corner section at Kopeopeo have been completely cleared. The section, now is quite bare, and its tall and stately decorations of a few weeks ago are purely a memory.. FORTHCOMING BAZAAR The annual Methodist Bazaar is to be held on 19th October.' There will be the usual stalls of produce, fancy work etc. and the first class concert in the evening. FREAK EGG An oddity in the way o-fl eggs was brought into the Rotorua Morning Post by a resident of Rotorua, who had procured it from the farm of Mr M. Mclntcer v near Te Aroha. The egg had been considered a doubleyoked one on account of its size, but on examination contained within another egg though the larger one contained no yolk. The inside egg was in all resnccts an ordinary one, and the complete egg harl been laid by an ordinary Black Orpington hcn„ never before known to make a similar mistake. It is perhaps a coincidence that a chicken with six legs was hatched out on the. property just, over a year ago, to be followed this year by a freak calf } ancl later a freak pig,

THE HEADS PARK The recently sown grass on ths area soon to be known as the new Centennial Park, has taken good root and a thin green sward now apparent, The park should be a "real a:.set to the town, during the summer and should go a long way towards making the Heads a popular resort. FILM CENSORSHIP During the last financial yea-i- 186(i cinematograph films of all classes, totalling 4,713 790 feet, were examrr> ~ * incd states the annual report of the Department of Internal Affairs, Of this number, five were rejected in the first instance, two were subsequently passed after reconstruction, 112 were passed subject to excisions, 183 were passed with recommendations that they were more suitable for adult audiences, and three were passed with the caution that they were not suitable for children. SEPTEMBER RAINFALL The month of September shows: some interesting meteorological variations. At Whakatane, with rain on 16 days, there was 4.2 inches, Edgecumbe 17 days and 5.0 inches, Lichfield rain on 22 days and a total fall of 6.68 inches Upper Atiamuri r.lso 22 clays with a total fall of 6.55 } Waiotapu 22 days, 6.21 jnches, Kaingaroa Plains recordings on 22 days, with 5.01 inches, Murupara^

22 days, and 4.65 inches, Taupo, 2-3 days with 5.62 inches o? rain. At the Lake Rotorua station, however, although rain was recorded on only 14 days, it totalled 7.2 inches. FIRE DISTRICTS The "fire .season'' in connection with the fii'e districts throughout New Zealand began on Sunday, and will continue until April 10. Ihere are several of these districts in the vicinity c.n Rotorua under the law constituting them, no'" only State forests and thos? controlled by companies, but also any ai'ca of over 200 acres, may ]>■> included if the owner desires. In the six months of the fire season it is illegal for any person to light a fire within one of the fire districts without first obtain ing permission of the officer in charge and carrying out all the precautions mentioned by him. Another clause O'fi the law, not generally known, is that a forest officer can: call upon any male over the age of IB years living within the fire district or within a radius of five miles of an outbreak of 'fire, to assist in the fighting of a fire. Failure to respond to this call, unless there is adequate excuse, is punishable by a fine.