Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 174, 31 October 1941, Page 4

Local and General

Cricket Competition.

The draw for week-end matches in the cricket competition is as follows: Taneatua v P. and T. at TaneatUia; Central v Paroa at Whakatane. The P. and T. team will he selected from the following: Chard, Bennett, Keepa, Rigden, Dixon, Hunt, Keen, Rivett, Cox, Hudson, Clark, Jeffarcs, Moore.

Win for Whakatane.

Members of the staff of Messrs Wallace Supplies Ltd., store, Whakatane, were jubilant yesterday when notification was received to the effect that the first prize for the recent window dressing competition (Golden Bloom products) was awarded to them. The competition was. a provincial one including as it did the 38 stores in the various towns. Congratulations to the Whakatane branch which no doubt won, this distinction by virtue of the originality of its selected design.

Young Maori in Court

Convicted and discharged on a charge of assault committed in the Strand, a young Maori Returned Soldier who appeared before Messrs Edwards and Mulholland was warned that only his record of service and the probability of his treatment in a sanatorium as a result, saved him from a fine. Mr Barry who defended put in a strong plea lor leniency stating that the young man had been celebrating his return with a fewfriends and was not entirely to blame.

Boy Injured,

While riding his bicycle in the Borough a boy, Dan Wong, failed to observe a stationary van and striking this received concussion and abrasions. He is an inmate of the Whakatane Public Hospital and his condition is reported as satisfactory. German Threat to Starvation. "If the war is continued to 1942, GO per cent of the population of Great Britain will be starving" is the message contained in a leaflet dropped over Southampton in a German bombing raid on July 8. The leaflet, printed on poor quality paper, was sent by post to Mrs M. A. Black, of Christchurch. It claims that the German U-boats, the German bombers, and the German fleet are sinking and seriously damaging every month more British and Allied shipping than could possibly be replaced, even witli the aid of the fcJnited States, and that so far there lias been absolutely no satisfactory means of defence against the German attacks, which are increasing in intensity every hour. "All this means," the leailet concludes, "thai, starvation in Britain is not to be staved off. At the most it can be postponed, but whether it comes this year or at the beginning of the next doesn't make a ha'-porth of difference. Britain must starve because she is being cut off from her supplies." Comments written by the sender of the leaflet say that if starvation is coming there is no sign as yet.