The Bay Of Plenty Beacon Published Tuesdays and Fridays. TUESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1944 Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 9, 19 September 1944, Page 4

The Bay Of Plenty Beacon Published Tuesdays and Fridays. TUESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1944

Local and General

Meeting Postponed The meeting of the Dairy Producers Association scheduled to take place at Edgecumbe to-night has been unavoidably postponed owing to the indisposition of the main speaker, Mr G. Walker. Land Tax Payable The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due. date of payment of Land-tax for the, current year is lon Friday the 29th day of September 194.4 and that the demands will 9 * be posted on or about the 22nd day of September. Once Bitten— Many Whakataneans who had tossed aside tlieir winter woollies with the advent of warmer weather were, forced to hastily rcdon them on Friday and Saturday when the usually mild wind turned out to possess quite a nip. They seem to be a little more chary about discarding them a second time. Difficult Time The staff at the Thames Hospital was; at present going through a difficult time and it seemed likely that there, would be a: shortage of, Trainees for the, next term said the chair- ' 9 man, Mr P. E. Brenan, at. the meeting of the Thames Hospital Board recently. However, every effort was being made to meet the requirements. Local Boy in Sailing Ship Recently returned from a nine months trip in the four-masted barque 'Pamir' is Neil Gardner of Matata who "will doubtless be well remembered in the younger circles. His arrival back in New Zealand from the States marks the complex tion of his first trip to sea which commenced some nine months ago. Since then he has been to San Francisco and back, although as he says, 80 days at. sea without any sight of land "sure makes one's tongue hang out for a port." (Rather ambiguous we think!)

Waterlogged To counteract the slippery nature of the floor } on Saturday at the Winter Show Buildings the boards were plentifully splashed with water in order that the basketballers would have some chance of stopping suddenly and still keep their feet. After several matches had been played a perfect, surface was but the first few when the water was in some places lying in puddles > were more after the nature of. water polo. At the conclusion, the majority of the players could only be described as "waterlogged." Model Camp Site "Although we were unsuccessful in our efforts to retain the recreation hall ot Hotoma as a permanent base for Scout camps f " stated Mr G. Kingsley-Smith in his report to the annual conference of the Boy Scouts Aso.ciation at. Wellington, which was held over the we&U-end, "we are now in. the process of endeavouring to secure the site from the Crown Lands Department and of setting up thereof a model camp site which I honestly believe, would be second to l none in New Zealand. Plans have been prepared by Mr W. G. C. Hurst and forwarded on to the Minister. In. the event of these being approved and the site made steps; will be taken to call the district committee together at once for the purpose of discussing any proposition which may be forthcoming." of Points "The question of going into a standardised method of allotting points and conducting the various competitions at future Rallys had been brought forward by the Wliakatane. troops- who have requested that this matter be gone thoroughly into with the idea of having a permanent ruling on all events in fustated Mr C. Kjngsley-Smith Scout Commissioner for the Bay in his report to the annual conference of the Bay Scouts Association which was held at Wellington on Friday and Saturday. "I understand " he said i? "that such rules have been drawn up in the Bay, but apparently they have gone astray, bringing us to*the, question of helping ourselves." This question was- one which came under d.fcussion at the conference .