Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 16, 19 October 1945, Page 4

Local and General

Prolific Waratah Blooms Waratah blooms with five aiul three heads on each stem grace the garden of Mr H. N. McDonald on Hillerest. These beautiful Australian natives are becoming more 'ieclimatised to New Zealand as time goes on and garden lovers everywhere are successfully rearing 'hem. Whakaitane Public Library At the monthly meeting of the Public Library Committee the following books were selected: H. V. Morton; Sea Watch, Captain Shaw; The Shipbuilders, Geo.-Blake; Out of' the Shadows, Anne DufTield; Murder on Bag Hill, C. Ryland; Three Little Pigs, Agatha Christie; Wreckers Must H. 1 lines; Leaping Flame, B. Cortland; Listen Beloved, Stella' Morton; Blackbirds on the Lawn, Jane Morton; The Understudy, D. IT. Land els,. Hallo'een Nic'ht Whakatane Caledonians will be staging their first Hallo'een Nic'ht on Saturday November 3. This traditional evening is linked with Scotland's, earliest history, and represents a legacy of the superstition which was once rife throughout the Highlands. On it, for once in the year the ghosties and bogles of the glens and hills were supposed to walk and no guid Hei'lan'mon would risk going abroad until the hour of midnight bad struck. The Hallo'een gathering will be the traditional burlesque of the supernatural and a happy evening of competitions for young and old. The usual warm Caledonian welcome is extended.