Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 17, 23 October 1945, Page 4

Local and General

Inter-club Match Postponed The Wliakatane Ladies' Golf Club Committee wishes, to advise mem. hers and helpers that the Rotorua inter-club match which was to take place on Thursday the 25th inst. has been postponed indefinitely. Poultry Farms Secured All four ex-servicemen taking the poultry farming course at Masscy Agricultural College have now secured properties which appear to be suitable and two others of the total of seven students have positions to go to as soon as they complete their courses. New Releases for Whakatane Mr R. Chapman, Manager of the Regent Theatre Wbakatane has ® 3 9 jiust returned after a visit to Auckland where he has been successful in booking a number of well-known films all of which will be screened J in this town before March next. Among them are the following: 'Dessert Song'; 'White Cliffs of Dover'; 'I'll Walk Beside You'; 'Western Approaches'; 'Seventh Cross'; 'Long to Remember'; 'Gaslight'; '30 Seconds Over Tokyo'; and 'Thunderhead.*

To the Races by Taxi For the first time in over two years taxis were available on Saturday for the transport of Auckland racegoers - to Ellerslie. This happy state of affairs—from the point of view of those enthusiasts forced to rely on strap-hanging in t]ie trams —was the outcome of the. restoration of the race traffic service sus« pended early in 194.3 as a petrol conservation measure. Taxis for Saturday's service were drawn from tki 50 per ccnt of vehicles not operating under the daily roster system. Litter of 20 Pigs' A three 3'ear old sow at the Mas_ sey Agricultural College piggery lias produced a litter of 20 pigs, which is a record in numbers for this department. The first 14 were born alive. The mother is the daughter of a sow which three years ago produced a litter of 19 17 of which were alive after eight weeks 5 five of them having been "boarded out" with foster mothers. At the present stage of it is assumed that the maximum number of piglets which could lie produced in one litter is 28*, but any number in tlic twenties is exceedingly rare. A Narrow Shave Boy Scouts' at Lake Rotoma were enabled to do their good turn with a vengeance yesterday evening. When preparing to leave the camp site they were horrified to see a large car leave the road collide witb an ad. jacent bank bounce off and crash high up into the bushes on the opposite side of the road. They rescued a very fuddled Maori fron: the driver's seat who said that lie had been dazzled by the westerning sun. One Scout a motor mechanic by trade supervised thel owering of the vehicle from its precarious position to the road, and then governed the accelerator down so that a bare 15 m.p.h. was possible. The Maori driver after pi'ofuse thanks crawled off with a humble wave of his hand.