Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 70, 8 January 1947, Page 5

Local & General

Cricket Season Recommences Cricket competitnons under theWhakatane Association will recommence on Sunday next, January 12. All players are reminded of this fact.

“Original Tunes” “Every tune produced these days is more or less a ‘pinch’ on something else,” said Mr Jay Wilbur, the British dance band leader, who is visiting Christchurch. “It is really amazing how many tunes have been turned out just from these notes on the scale, but the source of' supply must be exhausted some time, and I believe that we have reached the stage now when every tune is more or less allied to some previous composition,” he said.

Thanks, Reminder, Plea In a Christmas letter to all groups and individuals, interested in overseas relief, the retiring Dominion appeals organiser for Corso, Mr James Bertram, expresses the thanks and greetings of the Dominion secretariat of the organisation - to all friends and helpers, and, at the same time, issues a reminder - and a plea. The reminder is that New Zealand’s, existence depends on a new basis of friendship with the peoples of Asia; the plea that we cultivate that friendship by helping these peoples.

The World’s Biggest Britain’s longest river is not big enough for the world’s biggest fishing competition. So the 5400 entrants for the All-England angling-contest will line 60 miles of canal banks in North Staffs. For 47 years—up to 1939, when it was abandoned owing to ’ the war—the contest was fished in the Severn, but the Birmingham Anglers’ Association, who organise the event, found this year that there was room on the ri.ver banks for only 3QOO anglers, dnd canals con-„ trolled by FisYTSfy^ Board were chosen. Six special trains and 60 motor coaches have been arranged for competitors who cannot provide their ov/n transport. Twenty referees and 40 umpires will control the contest, in which there are special classes for women and men over 70. More Than Possible More people have enrolled as voters in the general election than the statisticians thought possible. The number on the rolls of European constituencies is reported by the chief electoral officer, Mr Hamper, to be 1,082,005, but this figure is 12,856 above the total population aged 21 years and over which the Government statistician submitted to the Representation Committee as the basis of electoral boundary adjustment. The census was taken just a over a year ago, therefore some thousands may have reached voting age since that time, but the great disparity between the census figures and the electoral rolls, may be partly due to enthusiastic young people anticipating their twenty-first birthday in order to vote, instead of waiting another three years.