Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947 Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 11, 28 March 1947, Page 4

Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947

Local & General

St. John Paddy’s Market Everybody is invited to the St. John Ambulance Association Hall, King Street, tomorrow, Saturday. All sorts of vegetables and fruit for sale. Ladies get your stock in while the going is good. Afternoon tea. Whakatane Citizens Band will play selections during the aftrenoon. P.B.A.

Surf Club Donations Three farther donations to the Whakatane Surf Club which have been held pending the finalisation of the appeal launched six weeks ago are hereby acknowledged: H. G. Warren £2 2s; lan Gow £1 Is; Willie Wah £1 Is. All monies sent to this office have now been handed to the secretary of the Surf Club.

Once Bitten !

Outlining the activities of the Ohope Progress League in obtaining signatures to the petition for the roading of sections 1 to 58, Mr R. Cobbe, president, caused a gust of laughter at the County Council meeting last Tuesday when he said, that one man refused to sign absolutely. He gave as his reason that the last document he had signed was his marriage certificate, and since then he had set his face against signing any more.

Visitors Praise It is always gratifying to meet visitors who speak in terms of admiration for our town. Mrs and Miss Proud, of Remuera, Auckland, who are spending a short holiday in the district declare that there is a definite atmosphere of brightness and life in Whakatane. They arrived. via Lake Waikaremoana and Opotiki, and have decided in view of their agreeable surprise at Whakatane’s progressiveness to spend a greater time here than at first anticipated. We sincerely hope many other visitors gain the same impressions.

Chair of Gynaecology Recently a Committee of Businessmen was set up from the Whakatane Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of collecting funds in order to assist in the establishment of a Chair of Obstetrics in one of the Universities in New Zealand. This committee is as follows: Mr B. S. Barry (chairman), H. Warren, R. Morpeth, R. Chapman, J. W. Wilson, C. L. Jordan, H. D. Paterson, P. J. Green, N. McG. Bremner. Representatives of the above committee will call on businessmen in the near future, and all donations will be gratefully received and faithfully applied.

Equals Of Men “In Russia there are many women engaged in the professions and industries and it is quite common for a woman to have charge of men. We make no distinction against women in the matter of salaries and wages. If a woman does the work she receives the same remuneration as a man,” said Mr Ivan K. Kiabkin, Soviet Minister to New Zealand, at given him in Southland. ||pomen have proved not only in Prussia but throughout the world tJiaPif they get the opportunity they are the equals of men.”