Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 7, 12 September 1944, Page 4

Local and General

Fall from Cliff As the result of a fall from a cliff at the rear of his home j on Station Road last a small boy, aged j years., Neil son of Mr and Mrs Win. I. Wallace, was admitted to the Whakatane Public Hospital. His injuries extended to a broken y leg a broken arm and abrasions. a He'is now reported to be progress- f ing satisfactorily. v 1 Domain Hedges Clipped t With the clipping of the barbary s ledges in the Domain bordering Val!t\y Road, a much neater appearance c has. beert given that area of the t town. The hedges have been cut to s approximately half their former height and trimmed back so that c pedestrians, can once again use the t footpath without having to continu- ( ally dodge pieces of overhanging ( foliage. < ( Debts and Men with Families < "It is always understood that i where family allowances are grant- i ed the minimum amount on which ' a family is expected to live in decency has, been fixed," said Mr W. < H. Freeman, S.M., in the Waihi Magistrate's Court when he refused to make an orde.r against a (judgment debtor who had six children, the eldest of them 13 years of age and who earned a wage of £6 a week. The debtor said that, with the family allowance his total receipts were more than £8 a week. Dinghy Adrift When the Port Whakatane was coming in over the bar on Sunday afternoon Avith a party of fishermen aboard the dinghy • which was being " towed behind the' tug broke loose and drifted to one side between the rocks. The bar was fairly choppy and attempts to make the dinghy fast to the tug again were unsuccessful owing to the inaccessible position between the rocks into which it had been washed. It was finally recovered a short time later from another dinghy. No appreciable damage was done. St John Hall A progress report on the St. John Ambulance Hall states, that last Saturday, the finishing touches were put to the concrete foundations thereby marking the completion of the first step towards the new hall. With all the spade work completed the time is ready for the rest of the structure to go up, and for this purpose the first lot of timber will be arriving from the mill next Saturday. The work is all being done by voluntary labour, and anyone wishing to lend their assistance should get in touch with either Mr Drube or Mr Ramson at the earliest possible moment.

Change of Name In the report of the annual meeting of the Rangitaiki Cricket Association which appeared in our last issue it was stated that a notice of motion was brought, forward that the name Whakatane United Club be changed to Whakatane Cricket Association. We have to make a correction in this statement.. Actually the notice was brought by the Whakatane United Club that the name Rangitaiki Cricket Association be changed to Whakatane Cricket. Association. The motion was carried with the result that the Rangitaiki Cricket Association is. now the Whakatane Cricket Association. Dear Shaving Brush. A Rangiora Private F. C. Cox t batman to Brigadier H. K. Kippenberger j also of was evidently mistaken: for an American serviceman with "money to burn" when he entered a London shop recently. Passing the shop, Private Cox noticed in a window an ordin-ary-looking shaving brush. As his own was somewhat the worse foi wear, he thought an opportunity had come to replace it. Inquiring the price of the brushy he was amazed to learn that the shopkeeper was asking £4 10s. Needless to say Private Cox's old brush is still doing duty. Securities After the War

Many prospective subscribers to the. £40000,000 Victory Lean ask whether securities should be kept until after the war. One of the two chief purposes of the loan Is to Withdraw the required amount from cir-> culation, thereby lessening the de-. mand for civil and although securities may be disposed of at any time to suit the needs of. the holders widespread sales would tend to defeat this purpose. Emergency needs for finance, should be met if possible by using other savings or by using the securities as collateral for a temporary loan to be paid back out of future income.