Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 189, 22 July 1940, Page 4

Local and General

Identification of Skeleton. The opinion that the giant fossil skeleton found in a 1000-<ton block of limestone in the Grey mouth Harbour Board's quarry at Cobcle.il was that of a whale, was expressed at Wellington by the director of the Dominion Museum (Dr. W. R. B. Oliver). He said the geological formation of that district gave the clue to the problem. It belonged to the Tertiary period, when there was a great development of wlialesi Conscience Money. Receipt of the following amounts forwarded by persons unknown as conscience money to the New T Zealand Government, is acknowledged in the New Zealand Gazette: £11 Bs. j £2, 10s, £1 ancl 10s to the Railways Department; £5 to the Mental' Hospitals Department; Is, 4d ancl Is to the Post and Telegraph Department; £1, £1 10s, £3,. £4, ; lis 3d, 2s Gel, £fi 12s and two amounts of £10 each to the Land ancl Income Tax Department; Is 9d to the Stamp Duties Department; 17s" to the Treasury Department; and £4 8s to the Customs Department.

Maori Meeting House. The Wahaiao meeting house at Whakarewarewa, when completed, will be the most elaborate communal building in the whole Arawa district. The designing represents Maori art and handicraft at its best, with the necessary innovations to meet the requirements of modern times. Hewn from great slabs of totara, each pillar and sidepiece is symbolic of some outstanding legend or incident of Maori history from the time of the departure of the Arawa conoe from the shbres of Hawaiki. Passenger Traffic. "The passenger revenue for the year amounted to £2,119,335, an increase of £333,089 over that for the previous year," said the Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sulilivan, in the House of Representatives on Friday morning. "Factors assisting this substantial increase Avere the heavy traffic in connection with the Centennial Celebrations and the Gen tennial Exhibition at Wellington, the transport of soldiers, the restrictions on the use of petrol, and the fact that there were two Easter holiday periods during the financial year."

Community Sing Postponed The community sing which was announced for Tuesday evening next has been postponed till Wednesday; July 24th. A Compliment Paid. The "YVaihi Borough Council, al its recent meeting, approved' the adoption of an emergency precautions scheme on the lines of that prepared by the Whakatane Town Clerk, Mr D. V. Saunders, for this town. This is a compliment to Mr Saunders. Collection of Horseshoes. A novel and interesting exhibit at the rota exhibition opened under the auspices of the Waikato Societ'y of Arts in the Waikato Winter Show was a collection of horseshoes of every known type, mounted and dis played in show cases. The property of the late Mr H. Veats, of Hamilton, the collection Av'as handed over to the society by Mrs Veats, and the president, Mr J. Treloar, stated that the society would act as custodian for the collection until Hamilton had a museum. Of various sizes, shapes and peculiarities, the horseshoes were designed for the cor rection of deformities and weaknesses in horses' hooves and to assist the animals when travelling over diffcult country.