Whakatane Golf Club Notice

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 95, 5 July 1946, Page 5

Whakatane Golf Club Notice

Players are reminded that on Sunday, July 7, a mixed Picnic Tourna‘ment will be held on the local links. All those participating are. asked to make a point of bringing their own lunch.

Nationality of Language Claiming a decree nisi in divorce on the grounds of constructive desertion, a husband told Mr Justice Finlay at New Plymouth that his wife had nagged and sworn at him, and used physical violence towards him over a long period. On one occasion she attacked him with an axe and on another drove a knife into his hand. He had left the home. A married daughter confirmed the unprovoked- ill-treatment of her father. “She had an ungovernable temper,” Mr L. A. Taylor, counsel, suggested to the witness. “An ungovernable temper and an Australian vocabulary,” His Honour interposed. Who Pays the Rates? The Minister of Works (Mr Semple) is to be requested by the Makara County Council to bring before Cabinet the effect of the incidence of county rates resulting from the Crown compulsorily taking a large area of rateable land in the PoriruaTitahi Bay area. It is pointed out that in the normal course years will elapse before the acquisition of this area and the occupation of State houses by tenants, and that unless special provision is made by the Government the general, county and hospital board rates carried by this land will be unloaded on the rest of the county ratepayers meanwhile. This, it is stated, is contrary to the ethics of stabilisation and does not appear to be adequately covered by ihe present provision of the Rating and Public Works Act.

Boys in Men’s Jobs “Although requests have been made to the New Plymouth Boys’ High School for boys to help us out when we have been in a pinch, their employment is not encouraged,” said the manager of the Taranaki 'Producers’ Freezing Company (Mr G. Fluker), when commenting on the keenness of school boys to work on the wharves and in the cool stores at New Plymouth during the school holidays. “At times during the war we have been very pleased to have them, but it stands to reason that some are not up to the heavy work,” he added. “Undoubtedly the main attraction is the wage that can be ■earned because boys are paid the same wages as men. . Considering that most of the boys are not- able to do as much as men, they should not be paid men’s wages. If workers were paid according to their age it would not matter if a few more boys were employed.”