Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 12, 31 March 1947, Page 5

Local & General

No Easter Publications Subscribers and advertisers are asked to note that there will be no publication of the BEACON on either Friday or Monday next, both days being statutory holidays. The office will close on Thursday evening and will reopen on Thursday morning. Red Cross Annual Meeting Members are asked to note date of Red Cross annual meeting is changed from Tuesday, April Bth to April 15th a week later. Farewell to Rev. and Mrs Attwood:'. A special farewell gathering will be extended Rev. and Mrs Attwood in the St. John Ambulance Hall on Wednesday evening, in view of their forthcoming departure from Whakatane for North Auckland. Both Rev. and Mrs Attwood have made many lasting friendships in Whakatane and a cordial. invitation is extended all who desire to participate in this formal gesture. White Island Active For the better part of the weekend observers have noted that White Island, some 40 miles offshore from Whakatane, has been* particularly active. Great clouds of steam have been thrown up from the crat-„ er and have overshadowed the island as they drifted northwards. Speculation is rife as to whether the increased activity has had anything in common with the marine disturbances off the coast of Poverty Bay. Water Spouts Off Ohope Residents at Ohope Beach were treated to the unusual spectacle of a well-defined water spout, about one mile offshore during the storm last week. The column was jet black in colour and reached from sea to sky, twisting and turning as it slowly progressed in a northerly direction. It was seen for nearly ten minutes before it weakened and finally dissolved into the sea.

Standard Making of Goods “The time has come when control of prices should be linked up with standard marking of goods,” stated Miss M. B. Howard, M.P., when she addressed the Christchurch Housewives’ Union. - “If this link-up between price control and standard quality is effected, there will be little to complain about in New Zealand manufacture,” she said. Miss Howard urged that housewives themselves make the effort to ensure the standard marking of goods. “Women can do this, because they are the buyers. It is the women who should ask the Government to make the standard mark compulsory. We, as women, can create another record by cleaning out the word shoddy from New Zealandmade goods.”