The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946 Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 4, 26 July 1946, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946

Local and General

Te Teko Golf A team of local Te. Teko golfers will visit Waimana over' the weekend. There will be no competitional draw for play on the local links. A New Record A French Aviatrix, Madelene Renaud, has beaten the women’s gliding record, formerly held by the Russians. She also holds the record for length of gliding time for all France, and on June 13 she and Mmlle Therese Buquet beat the.women’s record for gliding distance. Water Skier Towed by Plane Ernest Langlois, who holds the world championship for water skiing, is seeking even more thrills and dangers in his sport. He has arranged to be towed by an aeroplane which will be piloted by M. Fume of the Lognes aerial sports training base. Mentioned in Despatches In a recent list of awards to members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. for distinguished and valuable service overseas, appears the name of Sergeant Reginald Wm. Andrews, late of Opotiki, who has been mentioned in despatches. Sergt. Andrews left New Zealand with the 3rd Echelon finally returning to New Zealand this year. Congratulations of Chamber At the last meeting of the Whakatane Camber of Commerce, congratulations were conveyed by the Chairman, Mr H. G. Warren, to the Secretary, Mr C. W. Good, on his transfer of status to Fellow of the N.Z. Society of Accountants, the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of N.Z., the Australasian Institute of Secretaries, and Incorporated Association of Cost Accountants. Home From Japan “Most of the boys have ‘had’ Japan,” said'Pte. Keith Donaldson yesterday when talking to a Beacon representative. Keith is back home again after nearly two years absence. He states that climatic and social conditions in Nippon pall heavily upon the garrison ti’oops and all were glad to get home again. Conditions in Italy he described as better from the soldiers point of view but desperately hard for the civilians in the cities.

Aero Club Petition

At the last meeting of the Whakatane Chamber of Commerce, a petition was put forward by the Whakatane Aero and Gliding Club requesting that it be supported by the Chamber, and that members be invited to append their signatures. The petition was addressed to the N.Z. National Airways Corporation, and requested that an airport be established in the Whakatane district. The petition' was passed round thfe table, and without exception was signed by all present.

New Two-seater Aeroplane A small aeroplane, the S.E. 2.300, has completed the round trip Paris-Tunis-Algiers-Toulouse-Paris in record time. The aircraft totalled over 2800 miles in less than 30 hours—including halts. On board were M. Andre Deprez, Director General of the South-East Aeronautical Construction Society, and the famous pilot, Marcel Doret. In one of these small single-engined planes, which consume little more fuel than a big car (18 miles per gallon approx.), a French industrialist can visit his factories in Marignane, Boufarik, and Toulouse in just over a day.

Prosperous Fiji ‘I have been in Fiji since 1926 and I have never known the place to be so prosperous,” said Mr A. E. T. Corrie, director of Corrie and Company, Fiji, on his arival by the Tungsha recently from a business trip to Australia. Mr Corrie ascribed Fiji’s prosperity to the fact that so many Americans, who spent money freely, were stationed there, and the local storekeepers kept the money within the colony.