Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 273, 19 February 1941, Page 4

Local and General

First Offenders. At the local court on Monday two first offending inebriates were convicted and discharged. Picnic at Ohope. The Ohope beach is ever popular with holiday makers and picnickers and each year more organised outings are being held there. On March 2, the children of the employees uf the Tunnicliffe Sawmills are to be taken to for their annual picnic.

Lost Letter. An unstamped letter addressed to Second-Lieut. Ghrichley, Naval Department, Devonport, was picked up in Commerce Street on Mondaymorning. The BEACON" has been asked to notify the writer that the letter has been posted. Special Auction Sale. A' special auction sale of household furniture is to be held at No. 33 the Strand, next Commercial Hotel at 1.15 p.m. on Saturday. Details appear in Messrs A. J. Canning and Co's advertisement on page 1.

The Menace of Dusl. Speaking of the dust menace. Mr W. Sullivan, president of the Whukatanc Chamber of Commerce, stated last meeting that he understood from a leading traffic inspector that move accidents could he attributed to this cause than to anything else. "And I can understand it," he said, "after travelling along behind another vehicle for some miles the average driver makes an effort to get past. We think it's time he &ot some of our dust after swallowing his for so long." "We're Getting Older" "I remember the time when with members of the P.W.D., we stood with the Minister of Public- Works on the hill overlooking Ohope discussing the proposed new route to the coast. Mr Semple looked alona, I the Ohope foreshsore, and pointed across the Ohiwa entrance towards Opotiki. That's the way <ihe:foa.J should go,' he said and . there agreed, engineers and ail. "Well time is getting on, and we ire getting older. Nothing has been done and I think it time we should do' something about it." —Mr Sullivan at the Chamber of jGommercc.