Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 237, 13 November 1940, Page 4

Local and General

The Red Cross Shop. The Red Cross Shop was in the care of members of the Whakatans Women's Institute on Friday and the ladies succeeded in raising over £10 by their efforts. Competitions conducted resulted: Cake, Sylvia Sims; Dinner, Mrs Gartshore; Duchess Set, Mrs L. E. Fennel]. Waste Metal Salvage. In answer to the mayor, the Borough Foreman, Mr W. S. Henderson, stated at Monday night's meeting of the Borough Council that the results of the collection of non-fer-rous metals per medium of the collecting bins placed at convenient points throughout the town ban not been extensive. The total secured would be about one bin full and he was of the opinion that a house-to-house collcction would be a better system. Unusual Case. An unusual charge heard in the Whakatane Magistrate's Court yesterday was that brought by the Re-, gistrar of Births, Whakatane, against Charles Richard Whittle (Mr B. S. Barry) defendant /haying failed to register the birth of a child within six months. The Registrar said that the proceedings were brought only as a warning and a heavy penal tv was not asiked for. Mr Barry explained the failure and said that defendant had taken immediate steps to effect the i-egis-tration when he was informed of the matter. Defendant was convicted and discharged.

Heavy Fall at Edgecumbe. No less than .75 of an inch of rain fell in half an hour at Edgecumbe last Monday at about 2.45 p.m. when one of the heaviest showers for some time took place. Two Other Mulberry Trees. Anent the recent article appearing in the BEACON with reference to a Mulberry tree growing at Thorn ton a borough resident has notified us that in Domain Road there are two trees which have been growing vigorously on a certain section for the past 18 years. Domain Road Lighting. Cr W. Sullivan said at the monthly meeting of the Borough Council that Domain Road was very poorly lighted. There was a good deal of pedestrian traffic and he moved that the Electrical Engineer should investigate the possibilities of improving the sei-vice and report back to the council. German Prison. Camps. Comforting news of conditions in German prison camps has been received through the Red Cross So-" ciety by an Auckland woman whose son is a prisoner of Avar in Germany. The letter was posted on June 23 from Camp Oslag, Germany. It stated that the society was sending weekly food parcels to camps and making arrangements for large quantities of warm clothing to be sent to the camps in bulk for distribution by the camp captains. Change of Mind. When the name of Ernest Isaac Cartier was called in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, defendant being charged with breaches of rhe Oil Fuel Regulations, Sergeant M. Farrell, police prosecutor, said Cartier had intimated that he would plead guilty to the charges and witnesses had not been warned.. Since then defendant had advised that he had consulted his solicitor and would plead not guilty to the charges. In the circumstances, said Sergeant Farrell, he would have to ask for an adjournment of the case and this was granted, the charges being set down for hearing on December 10.