Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 67, 29 April 1946, Page 4

Local and General

Good Fishing at Rotoma Lodge Fishing at Lake Rotoma on Sunday Mr McAlpine of Auckland, took the limit average of 51bs. Mr Rex Massey also of Auckland, caught a 6£lb trout. Worth £IO,OOO to Town

“I suppose,” said Mr I. Hubbard to the Chamber of Commerce meeting recently, l4 that the school, with its teaching staff, its maintenance and its subsidies, must be worth £IO,OOO to the town of Whakatane over the year.”

Building Permits Issued Dux-ing the past month, the Whakatane Borough Council has issued building permits for six new residences, one addition to a residence, two sheds, and one addition to a workshop, the total value of the buildings being £5275.

Referees Annual Meeting Members and others interested are reminded that the annual meeting of the Whakatane Referees Association takes place in the Borough Council Chambers at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. Cordial invitation to all interested.

New Books At the monthly meeting of the Library Committee the following books were selected: The Vigil of a Nation, L. Yutang; The Noble Savage, D. Wallace Tambourine, Trumpet and Drum, S. Kaye-Smith; Othello’s Occupation, L. A. G. Strong; All the Days of Minnie Sue, S. Bell; Wild Orchard, Isabel Dick. Transport Waimana Clearing Sales Farmers and others interested in the clearing sales at Waimana, of Messrs.' F. J. Savage and Son and Looney (Tuesday and Wdenesday, 30th April and May Ist) are advised that on both days the auctioneers, Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. Ltd. have arranged for a bus to leave their premises, the Strand, Whakatane, at 9 a.m. each day.

Gifts Acknowledged The following gifts received during March were acknowledged at the last meeting of the Hospital Board: Magazines, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Conn, Miss Armstrong, Miss Rightqn, Mrs J. W. Wilson and Mrs Langenberger; lemons, Mrs Nicol and Mrs W. J. Sullivan; mushrooms, Mrs C. Williams, Mr Swann, Mr D. Palmer, Mr Carter, Mr W. Evans; flowers, Mrs Smith (Matata) and Mrs Fraser; pears, Mr Prideaux; grapes, Mr Ashworth; water melon, Mrs Dawson; children’s books and toys, Mrs Howard; .comics, Sam Goodall.

Town Clerk Appointment A note in a recent issue of the Pahiatua Herald records the resignation tendered to the Pahiatua Borough Council by Mr L. D. Lovelock, town clerk, after 16 years in that capacity. Mr Lovelock, who has been appointed to the position of town clerk at Whakatane following the resignation of Mr D. V. Saunders, is to take up his new position on June 15. Appreciation of valuable services rendered was voiced by His Worship the Mayor of Pahiatua, Mr S| J. Judd and a number of Councillors, all of whom extended their congratulations to Mr Lovelock on his promotion.

Theft of Bicycles It is disconcerting to note that after a period of almost total absence of theft as far as bicycles were concerned, this type of offence is once again on the up grade. The police report that during the past month upwards of 12 or 15 cases of cycle thefts have been reported, and although the majority of the missing machines have been recovered, the owners were invariably put to a great amount of inconvenience. Apparently the motive for the greatest number of these thefts is that the person concerned, usually one who lives in the country, finds himself with no method of getting home, and consequently ‘borrows’ a machine from one of the cycle racks, leaving it in a ditch, or in the long grass on the side of the road when he has finished with it. In their efforts to trace missing cycles, the police have, in the past, been fairly successful.