Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 32, 23 May 1947, Page 4

Local & General

Emergency Power Plant The almost continuous use of the Gisborne diesel electricity stand-by plant over long periods in the past year to assist the North Island supply has resulted in a considerable credit to the Poverty Bay Power Board. The plant was run at the request of the State Hydro-Electric Department, and the revenue earned" was £19,915, compared with £BB2B in the previous financial' year. School Sick Bay The School Committee has been granted £l2 towards the cost of furnishing a sick bay for the use of pupils stated the chairman at Wednesday’s meeting. The furnishings had been augmented .by the folloing donations: Pillow, F. R. Canning; rug, Mrs Bridger; table, Paterson’s Home Furnishers. The cost of the bed, mattress and blankets would very nearly use the grant.

Cottages Sold Cheaply Extraordinary low prices were paid for five cottages in Wellington, which were sold for removal recently. The largest was auctioned for £3O. Another, with people living in it, brought £5. A third cottage, also inhabited, brought only £4 arid a fence had to be knocked down to gain entry. A house in Martin Square brought £5. The houses are occupied by Chinese;, who in some cases them with Europeans, and the inhabitants wanted to leave. V.C. As Curate

“I am expecting Mr Keith. Elliott, who is at present reading theology, to come on to the staff at the end of the year,” said the Rev, H, W, Monaghan vicar of Palmerston North' All Saints Church, when he presented his annual report to a mooting of parishioners. “The vestry might consider appointing him to specialise in "work amongst the young people,” he added. Mr H. G. Bagnail, churchwarden, said that the vicar’s success in obtaining the services of Mr Keith Elliott, V.C., as curate in November next would be heartily approved by all parishioners. , Forty-Hour Week How current shortages of supplies could be overcome while the 4jo-hour week continued in operation was a matter which gave concern to members of the Dominion Council of the Federated Farmers at a meeting in Wellington recently. Doubts of v the unqualified success of the short week, as recently claimed by certain political leaders in New South Wales, were expressed. The Action Committee, which is responsible for federation publicity, was finally instructed to issue a candid statement to the Australian press explaining how the short hours of work’ in New Zealand had caused production to fall at a time of serious shortages of consumer goods and an abundance of inflated currency.