The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1946 Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 7, 5 August 1946, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1946

Local and General

St. John Ambulance Competition The winner of the recent competition for an electric light stand promoted by the Whakatane branch of the St. John Ambulance Association was Mr W. Whittaker. Donation to Beautifying Society The sum of £2 2s was donated by the Whakatane Harbour Board at its meeting last Friday to the local Beautifying Society. It was suggested that the sum be spent on trees for the waterfront. Snooker Following is the Whakatane Snooker team to play Opotiki on Tuesday evening, August 6: T. Morgan, J. Thompson, Hona, R. Keesing, F. Cameron, S. Davis, M. McGarvey. The tournament will take place in Mr J. Hanwright’s billiard saloon the Strand. Injury to Eye An accident which resulted in an injury to his eye was suffered by Eric Hislop, aged 19 years of Alexandria Avenue on Saturday when he was attending to the brakes on a car. He was admitted to the Whakatane Public Hospital.

Wives of Americans Of a total of 1375 New Zealand women who married American servicemen, 182 per cent., or 254, have been divorced or face the possibility of their marriages being dissolved, according to figures calculated by the American Consulate in Auckland in conjunction with the United States Joint Purchasing Board. In 1121 marriages there has been no suggestion of divorce. Of these, 1056 wives have already left to join their husbands in the United States, eight more are ready to depart, 14 are widows and 43 are remaining in New Zealand with their husbands.

Why Brazil Entered War “The sinking of a number of Brazilian ships by German submarines was the prime cause of the swing of public opinion in the Republic toward the Allied cause in the late war, and when the Government declared war upon the Nazi-Fascist partnership, most of the people of the country were solidly behind the decision,” said Mr R. Gillanders, a New Zealander who has spent 20 years in Brazil, during a visit to Gisborne. “Brazil was the only South American country represented on the battlefields of Europe, and in fact it had offered 1,000,000 men to aid the Allies,” he said.

New York’s Huge Cathedral The Cathedral Appeal Office in Wellington has received some details of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York. In a letter dated June 10, the Rev. Canon Thomas A. Sparks advises that the cathedral in all its stages—and it is now about two-thirds completed —has been entirely free from debt. The site was secured and a campaign started to raise the necessary funds. Building has only been done when the money was in hand. So far, 10,000,000 dollars have been spent, and it is likely that another 10,000,000 will be required. An interesting feature is that the material has cost about 10 per cent, only of the total, the other costs going into wages. The cathedral will be America’s great church edifice, with a seating caapcity of 15,000 and standing room for 40,000.