The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1946 Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 3, 24 July 1946, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1946

Local and General

Red Cross Sewing The local branch of the Red Cross organisation announces that the Whakatane rooms will be open for sewing every Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m. Manawahe Roads Writing the Whakatane County Council yesterday the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company stated that its lorry drivers advised that the Manawahe road was in an extremely bad condition and -that the grader had not been over it since before Christmas. It would be appreciated if steps would be taken as soon as possible to put the road in good order. The County Engineer reported that the horse grader was now grading this road and it was resolved that the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co. be advised accordingly. Not So Lovable Robins are usually described as “tame and loveable,” states a writer in Forest and Bird; but this is wrong. They are most quarrelsome and will attack one another as well as other small birds. When he and other explorers were cutting tracks through the South Westland bush some years ago, robins followed them, fighting among themselves but appearing to be very tame. But close observation revealed that it was not human company that these birds were wanting but the grubs and insects exposed during the track making. The robins would dive down close to one’s heels, pick up a grub, and take it to the moss on the trunk of a tree. This they would do for hours, and the puzzle is how they afterwards located their hiding places.

Cost of Road Signing

“The contents of this letter will show councillors that the erection of signs by the A.A. is not carried out at the sole cost of that organisation. It has been met by the Main Highways Council each year on a liberal subsidy.” The above statement was made by Mr J. L. Burnett at the meeting of the Whakatane County Council yesterday when the following letter was received from the Automobile Association: The Association is prepared to erect warning notices on Eagle’s Hill, but permission must be obtained firstly from the Resident Engineer of No. 3 Highways District. Upon this being obtained the local patrol will inspect the locality for appropriate signs to be erected. The signposting of the Te Teko-Galatea route is in hand, and the signs will be erected as soon as they are ready. In regard to the Association’s general policy, the position is that if a county desires certain side roads signposted, the. Association will erect the signs on payment by the Council of the same subsidy as is paid by the Main Highways Board viz. £3 for £l. This is the basis upon which side roads and no-exit roads have been signposted in other counties.