Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 15, 16 October 1942, Page 4

Local and General

Exemption Refused An application from a. resident of Eivers Road for exemption from the Borough Sanitary Service was refused by the Borough Council last Monday evening. j Auckland Sailors' Home "They are doing a great job of work," commented a Borough Councillor when speaking to a motion last Monday which authorised the donation of £1 per year to the Auckland Sailors' Home. Forthcoming Methodist Bazaar Readers attention is drawn to the forthcoming Methodist Bazeer which will be held, on Thursday, October 22 in the Sunday School Hall, King Street. A special effort, is being made this year to make the- event as attractive and entertaining as possible and the public is urged to afford it the utmost patronage. American Potatoes Seventy crates of newly imported American potatoes arrived in Whakatane yesterday, on account of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and. Co., The remarkable point about these vegetables is not onl3 r that they fire packed in wooden crates but also that they are cleaned and scrubbed. ready for the pot. A New Version The. parents of a four-year-old living not far from the Domain were amazed to hear their young hopeful suppiv a brand, new version to Mr Ernie Armstrong's latest song composition. The Caruso-in-the-mak-ing was heard to lustily announce to the world in general that it was "Up Guards and Adams Bruce." Soldier Interments We have been informed by Mr C. A. Head, Secretary of the Whakatane branch of the U.S.A., that an application to the Borough Council for reserving an area for soldier interments in the local cemetery was made some time ago by his; Association and that this point had evidently been lost sight of at the Borough Council meeting last Monday. Bicycles on Footpaths The Borough Council last Monday evening decided that the Clerk be instructed 1 to write to the Sergeant of Police requesting appropriate action and respecting the practice of riding of bicycles on footpaths by children and adults, especially in the Kopeopeo district; that the Borough Inspector be instructed to take steps to check the practice, that the Headmaster be asked to communicate a warning to school children, and that the Council advertise in the Beacon that action is being taken.