Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 180, 14 November 1941, Page 4

Local and General

Fire Prevention ' Borough workmen are this month to cut a fire break around the plantation at the Waterworks Reserve on Hillcrest and are to maintain this. Week-end Cricket The draw for the week-end cricket is as follows: Paroa v Taneatua at Taneatua; P. and T. v Central at Central. Street Signs At this week's meeting of the Borough Council it was reported that suitable signs had been erected at the intersection of Crete Street and Goulstone Road, and it was stated that future confusion to road users would not arise. Factory Hand Hurt An employee of the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company, Mr McConachie received a chipped Avristbone yesterday, and is an inmate of the local hospital. A 44 gallon drum fell and struck the worker's arm. We Wonder ! "I reckon on having all the tomatoes I want by Christmas time," said an Ohope optimist, to a pressman yesterday. The gardener went on to explain that his plants had already formed Small fruit and that the warm sunshine experienced lately had made them double their size in less than a week. Sunday's Memorial Service Information has been received by the secretary of the Whakatanc Labour Branch (Mr Clarke) that the Government will be officially represented at Sunday's Memorial Service to the late Lieut. A. G. Hultquist by the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Industries and Commerce., The Hon. Sullivan Will speak at the service dealing with the political Avork of the late Lieut. Hultquist and his services as an M.P. Rainfall in Ceylon "One day's maximum rainfall in Ceylon is 35in," said Mr P. G. Evans an irrigation engineer from Ceylon, in an address to the Ghristchurch Businessmen's Club. The central areas of the country had an annual rainfall of 210 in. The 80 or 90in of rain a year required for rubber plantations in Ceylon was not as much as it seemed, as the great heat of the sun caused very rapid evaporation. Soldiers Graves At Monday's meeting of the Borough Council a request was received from the local branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association that a portion of the proposed new cemetery be set aside for the burial of returned soldiers. In this section uniform headstones would be erected. It was decided that the request would be placed before the combined committee of the Borough and County Councils, when the matter of tli* 1 cemetery was fully investigated. Work at Dairy Factory The Borough Council at this week's meeting received a letter from the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company which sought the services of the foreman-engineer to undertake drilling and blasting of concrete blocks on the cheese factory site. It was decided to authorise the foreman-engi-neer to do the work on condition that no responsibility whatsoever attached to the council or its staff and that the staff be adequately insured against accident. Modern Warfare "In 1870 every man in the fighting ranks w r as supported by one at home. In 1918 the ratio was one to five. To-day the ratio is estimated at one in the fighting line to 18 at home," said the president of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association, Mr G. H. Jackson, in his address to. the an, nual meeting of the association. Jn Napoleon's day the weight of an army was figured at 3001b a man. To-day the estimate was one ton a man. Carthorses and Racehorses A good deal of amusement was occasioned at a meeting between the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. G. Webb, and Auckland milk industry interests when a speaker, in commenting on the work of milk roundsmen, observed that one could not make a carthorse go as fast as a racehorse. He suggested that the Minister should know something of the racehorse angle. The Minister was quick to reply: "I know that a lot of racehorses run like carthorses," Mr I. J. Goldstine, chairman of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, observed that unfortunately he had backed the type of racehorse mentioned by the Minister.