Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 86, Issue 7, 30 June 1944, Page 4

Local and General

Fall From Horse An accident occurred on Monday when Mrs M. Ivare'kare of Onepu, suffered injuries as the result of a fall from a horse,. She was admitted to the Whakatane Hospital and is now progressing satisfactorily. No Lady Taxi Drivers The AVhakatane County Council has declined to license two female applicants as taxi drivers in the districts of Edgecumbe and Te Teko in view of the undesirable precedent which would thereby be established. Twenty-second Baliot A total of 7071 men, gazetted for service with the Armed Forces, appear in the 22nd ballot issued yesterday. A summary of those called up in the various military areas is as follows: Auckland 1328; Paeroa 370,; Whangarei 236; Hamilton 367; Wellington. 903; Wanganui 471; Napier 580; New Plymouth Nelson 362; Christchurch 1139; Dunedin 570; and Invercargill 457. Giant Pumpkin An outsize in pumpkins displayed in the window of JT farm implement shop at the top of the Strand has excited a small amount of comment among townspeople of Whakatane. This pumpkin is one of the Turk's Head variety and was groAvn by Mr E. Arnel of Haig Street (Cadness Estate). The giant, tips the scale 1 at 45 pounds and is 4ft. Sin. in circumference. A fact which makes its astonishing size all the more remarkable is that it was grown from a self-sown seed in light sandy soil. Damaged l G.P.O. The full extent of the earthquake damage to the Wellington Chief Post Office lias never been revealed All the. public knows is that, since mid 1942, or perhaps a little later, men have been at work on the block reducing the weight of the tophajnper and inserting strengthening piles and girders to give stability to the building. At the. present time a working platform traverses the width of the main public office, after the manner of an overhead bridge, This lias been there for some time to enable the men to insert strong steel trusses between the main jiiers, some 30 feet from the entrance.