Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 49, 15 February 1944, Page 4

Local and General

Accident in Playground

An accident occurred. in I lie school ground on Friday Jit dinnvr Lime when two boys collided on :i corner of the school. As Vi result oi' the collision, one of the boys, Robert Burt, sulVered a broken nose.

Gymkhana Afternoon Tea

A stall for the .sale ol' tea and light refreshments will be conducted by the. local branch of the Red Cross Society at the Forthcoming Gymkhana on Saturday next. Donalions of cakes, savouries and fruit will be warmly appreciated. Proceeds will be -devoted to the Red Cross All Fur poses Fund.

Boy's Band l

The afternoon was much enlivened for spectators watching the Attrill cup match at the Domain last Sunday by the presence of the Roy's Band which played a good, variety of tunes. The presence of the band at any event, never fails to add an atmosphere of gaiety to the occasion, and last Sunday was no exception. BHitter for Soldiers Parcels At the meeting of the Whakatane inter/one Patriotic Committee last Thursday the following motion was unanimously carried: "That National Patriotic Fund Board be requested to represent to the Minister uf Supply the urgent necessity to make butter available for (1) Patriotic functions, (2) cakes for .soldiers parcels.

Three Months' Imprisonment

At the Itotorua Police Court last week David Clarence Lyons, labourer, aged" 'J.'i, was charged with the Lhel't of £1 I.ks from an American serviceman at Roto ma and also with obtaining 11s credit l)y fraud at Whakatane on February 9. Messrs (). H. Coleman and J. J. Dillon, Justices of the Peace, sentenced accused, to three, months' imprisonment on the first count and convicted and discharged him on the second.

Campers

Whether the recent rain has brought the camping season to an untimely end or whether it was. due to end anyway is a point in question. but the number of ears in town laden with camping gear, tentpoles, bedding, etc. seems, to suggest that it. has finished. However, there are always a few hardy holiday makers who prefer to disregard the rain trickling through their tent in an attempt to enjoy their annual leave, so the camping ground will probably not be entirely devoid of oecujiants for a month or two yet.

Tragedy.?

Onlookers were concerned on Friday afternoon, when a baby's pram Avas noticed tipped over tlic curb outside Bridger's Ltd. There was no sign of a baby, but the clothes were spilled oil to the roadway, and tho scene had all the appearance of a small tragedy. Luckily, however,, it had the appearances and no more. AVhat really happened was that the mother picked the child up and the pram rolled forward over the curl) before she was able to stop it. She then crossed the road to obtain some help leaving passers-by to conjecture the worst. Courtesy on the Mushroom Field The point has been raised among local mushroom gatherers as. to whether or not an unwritten rule should exist whereby if a person is gathering mushrooms and another person wishes to collect in the same field,j he should start at the other end and not cut in directly ahead of the first person, and clean out the field for him. More arc of the opinion that common courtesy should prevent this l practice (which is becoming quite common) and use as their argument that a sportsman will not drop his line in a pool directly be-, side another fisherman, so why should a late-comer cut in directly ahead of the early bird, on the mushroom field.