Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 62, 6 April 1943, Page 4

Local and General

First Hint of Frost Since the rain the nights have become noticeably cooler and on Sunday and Monday nights Whakatane experienced its lirst hint of frosty weather. Those Strand Bicycle-racks Scene the Strand, on Friday after-* noon last. Little three year old plac-| ing front Avhcel of tricycle in otic of kerb-Side racks. Mother's protests and threats completely unavailing. Borough Patriotic Collectors The following amendments to lists of collectors in the. Borough have been made: List No. -13, .Mrs R. Marsh replaces Dowling; List No. 36, Part James Street, Mir E. R. Hunt replaces A. Purden; List No. 33, Part Stewart Street, Mr J. W Bishop replaces M. Penny. View Matrimony? New Zealand, motorists are not the only ones experiencing difficulties as a result of the tyre shortage, if the following "matrimonial" taken from the Ogden (Utah) "StandardExaminer - ' is to be believed: "Owner of 1940 Ford Avould like to correspond with widow who. owns two tyres. Object, matrimony. Send photograph of tyres." Te Teko Plantation At "the last meeting of the Whakatane County Council the County Clerk reported that since cutting operations were started in October 1941. 2341 cords of timber valued at £1287 1 fis. had be?n extracted to the 24th February -last. The council decided (1) Firebreak be cleared and (2) Insignis at end of oregon block be pulped but where insignis and. Oregon are interspersed insignis be left. Hitler's 800-Mile March "I'll give you an imitation of Hitler addressing the German people, wftich I did in one of my films," said Joe E. Brown, the film comedian, who recently entertained servicemen in New Zealand. Plastering down a lock of hair, he raised his arm and in a guttcral, explosive voice shouted: "I want peace. I will have peace—piece of Norway, piece of Poland, piecc of Czechoslovakia. I' promised you German troops would march 800: miles through Russia. Veil, they did—loo in. 4.OGf outi'* Leper Patients Cured Mr P. J. Twomey, secretary of the Lepers' Trust Board Incorporated, has returned from a ten days.' vis.it to the Makogai Leper Station, Fiji, where he made a detailed inspection of the various departments and hospitals on the island. He also mixed among the patients and interviewed them. This leprosarium is considered by some authorities to be one of the best., if not the best, leper station in the world. The number of cures is increasing. In 1942, 41 patientsi were discharged as cured and sent back to their homes. I!n February last, another 45 cases were released. In addi* tion. to the above, 14, more cures have been passed, by a medical board composed of three medical practitioners, and. these arc now awaiting transport from the island. Mr Twomey had the pleasure of meeting some of these ex-patients during his stay there. He also visited Tonga and Samoa in the interests of. leper work.