Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 6, 14 September 1943, Page 4

Local and General

Roads in the Bay "I want to tell you that there hav been more Government money spent in the Bay of Plenty in Gordon Hultquist's time than in the past hundred years," said Mr W. Jonasen last Thursday when speaking of road services. Potential Rest Homes Speaking of the vast new hospitals erected by the Government for the use of wounded. American soldiers, the Labour candidate for Bay of Plenty, Mr W. W. Jona.sen., said that these huge buildings were intended bj' Labour for use after the war as holiday centres for the mothers of large families. Patriotic Donations The Auckland Automobile Association has intimated to the Zone 'K J executive that it has voted the sum of £1000 towards the 1043 Patriotic levy of which £21 has been allocated this zone on the basis of A.A. memberships. In the same way Dominion Breweries have allocated £11300 of which this district's share is £50. Model Planes Those who strolled through the Whakalane Domain last Sunday would have been arrested by the sight of two large scale model aeroplanes being tried out by their owners. The planes were engined but the testing which was carried out on Sunday did not require the use of the propel lors. The Ilight. of the planes even "in a glide was mo.st realistic.