Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 99, 15 July 1946, Page 4

Local and General

Card Evening Winners The prize Winners at the weekly card evening held by the ParentTeacher Association on July 10 were: Ladies, Mrs Rivett; men, Mr Jeff ares (Junior). Borough Hospital Rate. Giving an indication of the increasing burden of the Hospital Rate in Whakatane, His Worship the Mayor at last week’s meeting of the Borough Council said that in 1935 it amounted to only £382. Ten years later it had grown in 1945 to £2767. Over 800 per cent.

Rep. Rugby Next Saturday A strong Opotiki B team will play the Whakatane reps, on Saturday next in the Domain. There is every indication of this match being close on a par with a straight out interunion game and as a tryout in this respect, Whakatane is fielding its finest senior fifteen.

Bottles in Playing Areas.

Remarking that when he had'rer cently visited the Children’s playing area off the Strand, he had discovered nine beer bottles there, Cr. Warren at last week’s meeting of the Whakatane Borough Council declared that in his opinion it was a very bad advertisement for the town.

A Child’sc Choice

“I know what the average child would do when his parents gave him 6d to go for a swimming bath —he’d go and buy an ice cream and jump into the river,” said Cr Canning at the meeting of the Borough Council last week when speaking against the suggestion of constructing'a swimming bath. Football Accident

As the result of an accident during the RuatokirPoroporo Senior match played at the Whakatane Domain on Saturday, John Rogers, aged 24, of Ruatoki was admitted to the Whakatane Public Hospital suffering from a badly sprained shoulder. His condition this morning is reported to be satisfactory.

Hospital Entrance Road. The fact that the narrow right-of-way leading from Stewart Street to the’ Hospital was not a dedicated road and therefore did not come under the jurisdiction of the Borough Council for maintenance, was discussed at the last meeting of the Whakatane Hospital Board. It was decided to request the council to accept responsibility for the approach to the roadway and in the meantime that the Board supply the metal to form a reasonable access. Mr F. Burt dissented from this course, declaring that the responsibility for maintaining the roadway was more for the Council than for the Board.