Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 43, 22 April 1942, Page 4

Local and General

Drunk in the Strand Ernest Isaac Cartier, of Te Tcko, who was charged with being found drunk in The Strand, Whakatane, was convicted and bail 10/- estreated by C. H. Christensen, J.P. Fire at School Grounds The wail of the lire siren last Monday afternoon directed attention to a column of smoke arising from the Primary School grounds where rubbish lire had broken bounds and threatened adjacent hedges and shrubs. The llames were subdued without great effort. School Shelter Trenches A large number of volunteer diggers reported for work on the school grounds last Saturday when the remaining trenches were excavated and the sand parapets on others venetted to. prevent slips. The borough foreman, Mr W. Henderson, was once again in charge. Long Service on School Committee Mr J. Rutherford whose long period of service on school committees was the subject of a special article in Monday's issue, has stated that Ins actual term of service is not fifty years as stated by us but 43 years of which 17 years were served at Edgecumbe. When lie first joined a committee he Avas actually under age. Maize in Autumn Tints' Well grown maize crops in the Whakatane County are now showing autumn tints of brown about their leaves, as the bulging cobs develop towards maturity and the leaves begin to loose their summer time greenness. The district s maize harvest will be much less than last year's record crop —much of which is still in the cribs on the farms. The Awakeri Springs "Why isn't something done aboul the development of the Awaker Springs," asked a visitor who 1)3 chance had been led along the side road to make an inspection. In tin 'Beacon' office he declared that th< potentialities of such a natural as set were enormous, if only the: could be developed and proper!: publicised. Six Day Week Now Farmers on the main highway leading to Whakatane have beei cheered up on recent Saturdays t see the grader men and slirfaceme: employed by the Main Highway Board working again o<n Saturday after an interval of several years o a five-day week schedule. This, i due to the Government department now working a six-day week becaus of labour shortage through so man men being in the armed forces.