Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 20, 23 April 1947, Page 5

Local & General

Oversight Only two flags flew in Whakatane last Monday to mark the Empirewide recognition of the birthday of Princess Elizabeth. They were those over the Post Office and the Commercial Hotel.

Otakiri Public Meeting Attention is drawn to a special meeting in the Otakiri Hall on Saturday evening for the purpose of discussing a district War Memorial and to consider the disposal of surplus Patriotic funds.

Noted Scottish Speaker At the invitation of the Whakatane Caledonian Society, Mr A. J. Sinclair, the well-known authority on Scottish subjects and noted speaker over the air, will visit this centre on May 14 next when he will give a special address on the "Life works of Robert Burns" at the Ingleside to be held on that date.

Famine Emergency Campaign

Rationing coupons surrendered at the Post Office, Whakatane, for the period from April 14 to April 19, were as follows: Meat, £4 8s 6d; tea, l£lbs.; butter, 4|lbs; sugar, nil; fats, nil. Total collections to date now are: Sugar, 191b5.; tea, 161b5.; butter, 2371b5.; meat, £224 Os 7d.

No Publication on Friday

Owing to Friday next being Anzac Day there will be no publication of the Beacon. Advertisers are asked to please note. The Beacon Office will close on Thursday evening and open again on Monday morning at 8.30 a.m. Enquiries and adver-; tisements ring 366. Rifle Shoot Members of the Whakatane Rod and Gun Club were guests of the Legion of Frontiersmen at a rifle shoot on the latter's range last Saturday. Considering that the Rod and Gun Club members are used to, handling shot guns their performance with rifles was very good'. .At snap shooting they excelled, but shooting at targets proved to be a much harder task for them than firing at clay birds. All had a very enjoyable day and the final score was very close, the Frontiersmen winning by the narrow margin of four points. Shipping News Two vessels are expected in the port of Whakatane. One is due Wednesday (today) and the second on Thursday. Another ship is somewhere on the way. The entrance at the Heads has not been inspected since the recent storm but conditions there are not causing much anxiety as the tides are getting higher at present. A fact of interest mentioned by Mr Hall is that all vessels are loaded down slightly at the stern so that they can be "tipped" over the bar if the depth of water is not quite deep enough to allow them a comfortable passage in.

Whakatane-Gisborne Highway Writing the Whakatane CountyCouncil at its meeting last Tuesday the P.W.D. attached a plan covering the legal position regarding Merrie's '

corner. It was stated that it could be seen that the area hatched in red was actually private property though it was now used as a road and footpath. If the footpath was replaced on the correct alignment it would certainly make the corner a very bad one for vehicular traffic. It would appear that the ; 'best solution would be for the County to legalise the footpath now in use and shift the petrol pumps to the back of the service station and give the owner a roadway through the back. The Council resolved that the matter be refered to the chairman to confer in Wellington with the chairman of the Main Highways Boards

Baby Locked In Car

An .unusual case was heard by Mr G. F. Chisholm, S.M., in the Tim'aru

Magistrate's Court recently when the father of a child aged four-months was fined £2 and costs for leaving the child in a locked car while he and his wife-attended a cinema. Senior-Sergeant S. King said that about 10 p.m. the attention* of the police was drawn to a number ofpeople standing around a threeseater car near a theatre. A baby, lying in a basket Qiuthe shelf at the back of the seat, was uncovered and crying lustily. "Surely it is possible to make more reasonable provision for your child," said the Magistrate to the defendant. "I hope'you appreciate that it was a foolish thing," •. to do. If I have another case of this, sort before me I will treat it as a. serious matter."