Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 49, 13 November 1946, Page 5

Local and General

Further Memorial Suggestion

An anonymous writer has for-, warded the Borough Council an interesting and appropriate suggestion as a War Memorial effort. This covers the construction of well-laid out Highway running from King Street to the Strand (possibly across the mudflats) lined with suitable trees each of which could be planted as a memorial to one of the skiers from town and district, who had made the supreme sacrifice. Tke suggestion will be held for the next public meeting. Metric System Favoured Distances and measurements in the New Zealand Friends School annual athletic sports held at the school, St. John’s Hill, Wanganui,were calculated in metres. “We make no apology for having run the school sports for over 10 years on. the international metric system,” the principal, Mr Arthur Douglas, told parents and visitors during the presentation of trophies. “It is hign time the British peoples adopted a decimal system of money and measures.”

An American Nightmare Apropos of American advice gratuitously given the British on how to run India, the Rev. W. M. Ryburn, missionary from that country, told the Wanganui Rotary Club members the story of an American colonel’s nightmare. The colonel came to breakfast in his New Delhi hotel looking pale and haggard, and. in answer to inquiries said he had. • had a terrible nightmare. He had. dreamed that the British had suddenly departed from India .and left the Americans to run the country. Cameraman Present An added novelty for the kiddies at the opening of the Young New,/ Zealanders’ Club in the Grand>Theatre last Saturday afternoon was the presence of a Candid cameraman who photographed highlights of the proceedings. A large number of photographs were taken at different stages of the programme, many of them without the precise knowledge of the ‘subjects’ who in any case were too much engrossed otherwise to worry about having their photos taken. The results should prove very interesting. _

Much For Little One of the few bottles of perfume to be imported to New Zealand since the war has been on view in the window of a chemist’s shop in Napier. The price is 25 guineas. The perfume, came from America. Although one of the luxury lines on which a heavy import duty is always payable, the chemist said that he had never stocked such an expensive perfume previously, his highest price being £ls. The bottle and its case, which is the only article displayed in the window, is only about two and a half inches long.

Street Collection Permits Instancing a recent incident when a junior section of one of the town’s organisations had made a last-minute application for the right to make', a street collection in the Borough, thb Mayor (Mr B. S. Barry) at last Monday’s meeting of the Council said he wished it to be plain-' ly understood that wherever it was desired to make a public street collection, proper application should be filed in time for the matter to come before the Council. This application should come from the full parent organisation and not a part , . of it.

Businessmen’s Car Parking A suggestion put forward by Cr H. G. Warren at last Monday’s meeting of the Borough Council should, meet with considerable support from all far-sighted businessmen of this town. Cr Warren ,suggested' that on Fridays and any other late shopping nights when many country residents come into the town for the purpose of doing their week’s shopping, that businessmen should agree to park their cars on the newly laid out parking area opposite the Rock. He pointed out that 75 per cent, of the cars parked on the Strand belonged to shop-owner's or their employees, forcing country residents and their families to park, well away from the shopping area, which was often very inconvenient.

He thought such a gesture would be warmly appreciated by the country shoppers and added that perhaps it would be more a move for the Chamber of Commerce to initiate.“I only hope that the Chamber can. educate the businessmen to carry out'such a scheme,” commented the Mayor (Mr B. S. Barry) who went on to say that the Gouncil had been trying to educate them for. years to get into that habit, but without success. . • . • •. •.