Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 9, 14 September 1945, Page 4

Local and General

Competition Results Competitions in aid of Thornton Patriotic Funds resulted as follows: Ham (8) F. Johnson; Saucepan (50) N. Theobald; £10 note (100) L JAdams. Hospital Figures The following report on hospital figures for August was submitted by the Superintendent Dr. F. Tewsly Dawson, to the Hospital Board meeting last Thursday: Remaining in hospital at beginning of month 100 (52 males and 54 females); admissions 133 (53 and 80); discharges 133 (51 an,d 82); deaths 0 (3 and 3); remaining in hospital at end ol August 100 (50 and 50); births 27 (12 and 15); operations, major 10, minor 40; daily average 104.00.

Welcome Home Dance A dance to welcome home Returned Servicemen, is being held in the Caledonian Hall on September 20. All men from the ough and County are being invited to attend together with their parents and 'partners and it is hoped that as many as possible will be present. Invitations have already been sent to all who are known to have returned but if any have been missed they are requested to conta t the secretary, Mr R* Morpeth.

Telegraph Censorship Telegraph Censorship in New Zealand has now ceased and censorship restrictions are accordingly cancelled. Translations of code messages and the special fee of 1/- for such messages are no longer required. As telegraph communicati f 1 has not yet been restored to Austria, Germany ? Danzig (free city) ? Hungary Latvia Japan ? and except as already notified, those places over-run by tbc cablegrams for those countries and places cannot be accepted meantime. Hole in One The following item of interest comes from an Invercargill paper and concerns a former local Miss Bousfield ; who was employed as a nursing sister at the \Yhaka_ tane Public and is now at Invercargill: Playing in a foursome in the Ferns trophy competition at Queen's. Park yesterday... Miss 3ousfield a member of the Queens Park Ladies' Club ? holed in one at the 17th hole Westward Ho ! which is 114 yards in length. This shot decided the Miss Bousficld and her partner winning '■> and 1.

Monday's Fire A peculiar feature of Monday's fire, when the sample rooms attached to the Commercial Hotel burst into flames was the fact that the building gave off dense black smoke. Tbis was attributable to the fact that it was built of solid kauri. The actual cause of the lire is still a mystery as. there were no electrical appliances installed or hay m the vicinity which could have caused spontaneous combustion. On the face of it it would appear that we must once, be content with throwing the blame on to some unostentatious rodent of th-e rat species.

103-Bed Hospital Discussing the prospects of the increased accommodation in the local hospital on the conclusion of the new women's wing, the secretary of the Whakatane Hospital Board at Thursday's meeting said that there would lie accommodation lor 103 beds. In view of August figures it would appear that this 'figure was already in the hospital, but it had. to be remembered that August was always a big montl\ there were more tonsil and adenoid operations during the school holidays than at any other time.

Fowl Tactics ! When the fire siren lirst wailed on Monday announcing the fact that the Commercial Hotel sample rooms were last disappearing in smoke, a group of fowls who were pecking by the wall which had already burst into llames. took not the slightest notice. Whether they • treated it merely as an insignificant conflagration, or whether they were petrified with fear is not. clear, but sufficient it is to say that they had to be actively chased from the vicinity of the building. For several hours after the blaze the smell of kauri smoke hung over the business area of the town.