Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 22, 27 February 1942, Page 4

Local and General

E.P.S. Flour Dump E.P.S. District Warden McCracken submitted a £20 estimate received from Mr Thomas Bell for ratproofing proposed Te Teko Hour store room at Tuesday's County Council meeting. It was resolved Unit the question of having the necessary work put in hand be referred to Councillor McCracken with power to act. Paying of Sharemilkers The day was coming when farmers' would .have to. pay sharemilkers above the Government rates, remarked Mr K. B. Young, chairman of the No. 3 Armed Forces Appeal Board at New Plymouth recently. He would soncr give a good sharemilker 40 per cent than a "dud" sharcmilkcr 30 per cent, remarked a coastal fanner who was in the wit-. ness box at the time. j i Businessman's Plea J "]s a small farm a more important matter from a national point of view than businesses that have been built up by years of self-denial?" asked Mr G. Fleming at a sitting of the Taranaki Man-power Committee, "it would seem that the policy of this committee is to send other men away to fight for some \ (arm owners, forgetting that the farms will most likely be there when the men return, while privately owned businesses may disappear,''; ridded Mr-Fleming. A Cook's Tour • There is at least one local recruit for camp who is wondering whether or not his army papers were delivered by mistake to the Cooks' Tourist Agency. He received notice to proceed to Rotorna and the method of transport nominated was the Tancatua Express. Tims he will have to do a tour of the Bay and, reaching Morrinsville, "change" for Rotorna. From there he will later be sent to another unit. So a whole day will be spent in reaching a destination less than two hours distant by bus. Another recruit received two notices, the first ordering him to report to Tauranga where he would be equipped, while the other instructed him to report to the same camp three days -later,' Born on February 29 Among the few persons in Auckland whose lives are marked by the oddity of having been born on February 29 and thus celebrating birthdays once every four years are Messrs E. W. Alison, W. Pavitt and L. T. Minogue. Ninety years old on Sunday, Mr Alison will have celebrated only 21 birthdays. If may appear that he should have had 22 birthdays, as leap years occurs once in four, but the full century makes an exception to the rule oi dividing the numbers of a year by four, in that order to be a leap yeai the full century must be divisible by 400. Thus there was no February 29 in 1900, and Mr Alison and his companions in misfortune went without birthdays for eight year? over the turn of the century. Stock Paddock At this week's meeting of the County Council a letter w r as received from Mr A. L. Luke regarding the paddock on the bank of the Rangitaiki River to be used as a stock paddock, and advising that his farmhand would assist the council's men in«erecting the necessary fence. It was suggested that 10/- per night be the fees for the paddock, irrespective of numbers and that Avriter or his agent pay the council 50 per cent of fees collected, the council to supply a proper receipt book ivhich would be submitted to< the office every half or 31st March, for checking over and settling of nny money due to the council. County Clerk reported that when Mr Luke delivered his letter he stated that there was a two-bunk wharf on his property adjacent to the work find that he would be happy for the council's workmen to use it. ft was resolved that conditions submitted by Mr Luke be accepted provided all fees were paid to the council,- of which 50 per cent would be refunded to Mr Luke and that the Acting Engineer have put in hand the erection of the fence with the assistance of Mr Luke's employee and that lease document be drawn for execution.