Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 220, 2 October 1940, Page 4

Local and General

Safety Patrol at Taneatua. The school safety patrols, a system inaugurated in the Auckland ■Province by the A.A. (Auckland) about ten years ago, is in operation at Taneatua, where the system is working smoothly, backed enthusiastically by the boys kee.fi on the work of patrolling and the other school children. Social Security Department. Yesterday a change was affected by the Whakatanc Branch of the Social Security Department, the office, formerly situated in the Courthouse, being transferred to the Strand* opposite, the BEACON Office. This is a more central locale for a Department which, over the last ffcw months," has handled, an increased volume of business. The new telephone number is 215 and the officer in charge is Mr E. B. Noble. Whakatane-Opotiki Highway. Pot-holed and corrugated conditions on portions of the Whakatane to Opotiki highway have been the subject of local' complaint recently, and the Association's .representative who visited the Bay of Plenty regarded the road surface as below the standard usually associated with a first-class 'State' highway, states the current issue of the Automobile Association's Official Bulletin. It is added that the co-operation of, the Highway Board's representative has been solicited. Warning to Cyclists. The number of cyclists in Whakatane, always large, is increasing, and that applies also to the number .of-bicycle thefts. In their own interests cyclists are urged to take precautions. For a shilling or two it is possible to purchase a light chain and lock to secure a wheel to the frame. By some such precaution cyclists would save themselves possible delay, inconvenience and loss. Another Heading. Readers will note that the Edgecumbe dance advertised in the last two issues as being in aid of the BEACON Fund for the Relief of Distress in London has a new heading, 'Dance in aid of the-National Patriotic Appeal.' The change is made because had the proceeds; of the dance been acknowledged in the BEACON list, Edgecumbe would have lost the credit for the amount raised. Proceeds will be handed to the honorary treasurer of the InterZone Patriotic Committee.