Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 8, 21 September 1943, Page 4

Local and General

High Praise ! "You could writi- their political oiography on a postage stamp with n carpenter's pencil."—Hon. 11. Kenvple at Xgatca on Thursday night when referring to the 300 politicians who are contesting the present election. Mr Jonasen's Campaign In the course of his campaign in the AYhakataue district, Mr \V. Jtmascn, the official Labour candidate for Bay of Plenty, addressed wellnt tended lfieetings at Edgecumbe and Thornton during the latter part of last week. At both places he was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence^ Seals at Ohope That. Ohope i.s still occasionally visited by seals is borne out by the skin of a young one which was taken by Mr Miller, storekeeper at the beacli recently when its owner was washed up dead, on the. sand.. A kitly visitor to Ohope claims further that she saw some 18 or 20 grown seals swimming along the beach just beyond the breakers. She claims that | she watched their progress for some time. No Election Board The management of the BEACON has been approached from several quarters with regard to the erection and conduct of a progress board on the night of the election (Saturday 25th). For several reasons it has been found impossible to accede in this con- j nection mainly owing to staff shortage and to paper conservation. 14 i's felt moreover that most electors will study the figures at home after tuning in their radio to the Y.A. stations* which will be covering all results. Special arrangements have also been made by the management of the Regent Theatre for the screening of results up till midnight, for the benefit of patrons who desire to take advantage of both a full screen programme and also watch progress of the election. Women's' Franchise Jubilee About thirty years ago., Olive Schreincr said, of the AVomen's Movement, "I should like to say to the generations which will come after us —You will look bajk with astonishment! You will at passionate struggles that accomplished so little: at the, to you, obvious paths to attain our ends which we tliil. not take: at the intolerable evils before which it will seem to you, we sat down passive: at the

great truths staring us in the lace, which we failed to see: at the truths wc grasped at, but couid never quite get our lingers round. You will marvel at the labour that ended in so little. But what you will never know, is how it was thinking of you and for you, that we struggled as we did and accomplished the little which Ave have done; that it was in the thought of your larger realisation and fuller life, that we found consolation for the futilities of our own." .