Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 295, 18 April 1941, Page 4

Local and General

Borough Council Meeting. The monthly meeting of the Whakatane Borough Council is to be helcl on Monday next. Train Timetable. The Railways Department advertises in this issue particulars of train arrangements on Anzac Day, 25th April. Dance at Edgecumbe. Tuesday night will find the Edgecumbe Hall once more a ccntre of attraction for dancing fans, when another of that centre's popular functions is to be held. Air Force Recruits. Three local recruits for the R.N.Z.A.F. left for the Levin Training School on Saturday last. They were Messrs A. E. Coutts, R. Tliom and E. Morey. Mr F. G. Cock, oi To Tcko, also left for the same camp. Not Popular. "My last experience in that direction does not leave pleasant memories." was the reply by a farmer asked whether or not he had sought labour through the Placement Officer by the Manpower Committee which sat at Whakatane on Wednesday. Why Is It ? When travelling from Rotorua one comes to the boundary of the Whakatane and Rotorua Counties. Notice to this fact is only just drawn by an old and faded signpost, barely decipherable. Why is it that amidst all the well-kept signs erected by Automobile Associations it is practically inevitable that the one or two lonely signs for which counties are responsible are an eyesore. Surely if people must be notified of county boundaries, the sign could bo readable and less offensive to the eye.

Thoughtful Moments, Owing to the lateness of arri\'al of "copy" our Aveekly feature contributed by the Ministers' Association, "Thoughtful Moments," has unavoidably been held over. Women in Local Body Elections. The feminine invasion of the local body election fields is particularly noticeable this year in the list of Labour Party candidates for the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Of the candidates selected to contest the 10 city seats on the board, six are Avomen and four arc men. Ohope Social. The closing day of the Ohope Tennis Club will be held on Saturday next Avhen a tournament will be played in the afternoon. This will be followed in the evening by a social, the Table Tennis Club combining with the Tennis Club. Members of local clubs and friends are invited to attend The King's Poetess. You remember hoAv last Christmas Miss Louise HaAA'kins stepped into fame overnight when the King quoted one of her poems in his broadcast ? Miss Hawkins retired 15 months ago, but is noAV back at her old post as tutor with the London School of Economics, says an English paper. She Avas in Canada, evacuating a nepheAV and other children, when she Avas asked to take up her old AA r orlc.

Home Guard,

Home Guard training will be resumed on Sunday, 20th. at ODOOhrs on Domain parade ground. Ohope Interesis. The annual general meeting of the Ohopc Ratepayers' and Progress League is to be held on Wednesday next at 8 p.m. Both Surprised. At least one Napier night worker received a surprise bordering on embarrassment early one morning recently. On his way home past a telephone cubicle which he had come to regard as a milestone, this uninvited witness was suddenly confronted by a girl changing her frock Car in the Tide. A local man made the error of getting stuck in the sand along the beach during the holidays and was forced to let his car spend a night in the tide. Fortunately not a great deal of damage was done although the tide reached the bottom of the doors and entered the car.

Maori Girl's Success. A Maori girl, Temple Te Whare, of Rangitoto, has been successful in winning a scholarship which will entitle her to two years at the Turakina Maori Girls' College. The girl is being heartily congratulated on her achievement. All her school clays have been spent at the Rangitoto school under one teacher. Mosquitoes Prolific. Few localities irt the Borough have escaped the visitation of hordes of mosquitoes during the past week, and many hours of sleep have been lost owing to the "blitz." In the home the Avails have iiterally been black with the objectionable insects and residents complain that usual remedies for driving away the pests have failed. Pension Payments.

On Tuesday next, April 22, Age. Benefits will be paid by the Post Office, while on Wednesday miscellaneous pensions will be dealt with. The payment of Family Benefits was set down for Friday, but owing the day being observed as a holiday on account of the Anzac Commemoration, the date has been advanced and payment will be made on Thursday. Sans Nearly Everything. Mr Semple was motoring along one of his highways when he met a drover. The latter was in charge of a large mob of cattle. Said the Honourable gentleman, "What are those?" "These are the Home Guard," quoth the weary drover. "The what . .?" queried the Minister. "The Home Guard I said," vigorously remarked the lad on. the horse, "You know —no uniforms no arms and no brains !" Amazing Sheep. After first-hand study of New Zealand's highly developed breeds of sheep, New Zealanders who have formed themselves into a Young Farmers' Club \vith the forces in Egypt have been amazed at the scrubby nature of the native herds. "The sheep," writes Trooper B. A. C. Tennant, club secretary, "are a queer assortment of colours from black and white, through the various stages of browns and reds to white wools. They are probably the nearest or only examples of the sheep from which our own longwools have been developed." The camel, he> adds, is a most mournful animal, which seems to have a perpetual grouch and definitely does not want sympathy. Hardly Cricket ! Perhaps readers have heard of -a place called Rotorua —It is in the North Island. In case some haven't it Avould be as Ave 11 to attract their attention to the pirating instincts of that place. At least one resident of this toAvn is wrath. Recently he had an experience with some pennies and the incident "hit the headlines," but imagine his ill content when he afterAvards read in another paper that the happening had occurred in Rotorua, Well„ that was not the worst. The same lad recently went fishing and distinguished himself, and annoyed everyone else, by catching a shark. Lo and behold, apparently short of a good trout story the Rotorua paper appears giving credit to a resident of that toAvn whom it w«s claimed was aboard the same launch. It's not cricket —that's what its not! Beauty expert loses 261bs taking Bonkora. You try it too. From F. G. Macklow, Chemist, Whakatane.