Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 18, 30 August 1946, Page 4

Local and General

Good Navigation An extremely tricky piece of navigation with a bulldozer, was responsible for drawing quite a number of casual spectators to the eastern end of the Strand oh Wednesday morning. The driver was endeavouring to take his machine through the alleyway between the County Council Chambers and Wright, Stephenson’s building, and the long derek and swinging bucket did not make the task an easy one. After squirming the dozer round on a threepenny bit, he finally managed to get the derek under the telephone wires, and down the alley with inches only to spare on either side.

Penalty of 40-hour Week Indicating how the recently-im-posed forty-hour week in dairy factories, had influenced the cost of butter manufacture, Mr W. A. McCracken at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company’s meeting of Suppliers said that for factory workers alone the new award meant a manufacturing cost increase of from £1 19s to £2 3s per ton. The same thing applied with regard to the cream cartage which boosted the price from £2 15s lOd per ton to £3 4s lOd. Suppliers had to bear in mind that new awards applied right through the establishment—the store, the blacksmith’s and the mechanic’s shops as well as in the factory.

Chairman’s Handicap Mr W. A. McCracken, Chairman of Directors to the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company, who usually holds the platform very capably -at the annual meeting of suppliers, was at something of a loss last Wednesday when a bout of the ‘flu’ had practically deprived him of the use of his voice. He found an excellent substitute however in Mr R. E. Blair, the Secretary-Manager, who handled all reports efficiently and spared the chairman’s • inflamed vocal chords.

Cyclists Take Note Under the Road Safety Campaign which is now being instigated throughout the province the A.A. is making arrangements for the painting of the rear mudguards of bicycles in accordance with the regulations. The Whakatane branch of the A.A. will carry out this duty during the whole of next week, when the white painting of the mudguards will be carried out free of charge for all cyclists who care to bring, their machines to the Strand, depot. Cyclists are warned that after this period prosecution will follow for all who have neglected to make this compulsory safeguard.