Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 75, 25 May 1943, Page 4

Local and General

Borough Patriotic List The list of promised donations towards the Whakatane Borough Patriotic quota for the 1943 appeal appears on page 6 of this issue. Different Conditions "He was man-powered into the canning department at AVestfield •and is earning £10 15s a week, so lie is not anxious to come back to tho (arm for £3 a week and a l(i-«houtr day," said the father of a reservist giving evidence to the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board in Te Awamutu. Rates on State Houses "You have in Whakatane some 96 Slate houses," said Mr C. 11. M>cCready in the course of his address to Borough residents last Thursday evening. "While these houses are occupied the Government pay a certain amount in rates. But when they arc empty the rates cease. Is that fair! Can a private individual do' the same. Well, just you try it on and see how far you get J" Business Change-over Attention is drawn to the fact that Mr Max Hunt who for the past eight years has conducted a well known butchery business in the Strand, has disposed of his interests to Mr A. G. Judd. Mr Hunt intends retaining his Edgccumbe business. The purchaser has been in Whakatane for some time and is also well known to the general pub. lie. We wish him ali success. The Tripoli Times We have been handed a copy of the celebrated Tripoli Times a paper turned out by the Allied Military Headquarters soon after the occupation of Tripoli in February last. Printed on both sides the single sheet gives a measure of the war on all fronts in both English and Italian. Not the least point of interest is a brief report of the R.A.F.'s Football. Knock-out Cup iinal in which it Avas stated the barracking reached frenzied heights. The game was won by a Communications Unit against a Fighter Wing. Many Italian and Arab spectators witnessed the game and one local team has issued a challenge to the winners. The Longest Name New Zealand, thougli few people here know it, can make a stfrong claim to having the longest placename in the world. Almost as familiar here as in Britain is the cJaim to that distinction made for'a manysyllabled. railway station of Wales. But. it was learned that a new map which is being prepared in Wellington for civil use. contains the name: Taumatawhakat-angihangftkaauwuotr' anenuiarangikitanatahu (there is no hyphen). It is an 890 ft hill near Porangahau, in Hawke's Bay. Some maps in the past have recorded approximately the first half, of the name—for convenience sake. Apparently a somewhat obscure Old Maori joke, the name has been given the following alternative translations: "The hill union upon which the wind made a flutc.like sound, in a tree," and "The hill upon which Rangi sat. and played the flute to his lady love." Maori readers may be able to give the correct translation. Dangerous Play Doctors and parents believe that the influence of war on children's games is the cause of a number of recent casualties, states the Sydney correspondent of the Post,, Wellington. A 12 year old boy playing a parachute game at Wailenbeen accidentally hanged himself from a trellis. A six year old girl is in hospital with a chest wound caused by her having been stabbed with a hacksaw by a boy of the same. age. H. J. Foley, of Glebe, said that a number of children had been hurt j playing at Commandos, which had superseded, the pre-war game called i "Cowboys and Indians." One boy ( had broken an arm. Another had been wounded in the leg by an old [ knife attached to a broomstick, to represent rifle and bayonet.. A third | boy„ when a kerosene tin bomb exploded, lost his eyebrows, half his i hair and, his nerve. Many girls had been cut and bruised in a game called "Japanese Roundup." A mother at North Strathfleld said that her son had been injured, by a of -boys representing Homeguardsmen capturing Rudolf Hess.