Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 35, 30 May 1947, Page 4

Local & General

Plunket Society Grant The Whakatane County Councnl decided to make a grant of £2 2s to the Plunket Society as they had done in the past at the meeting of the Council on Tuesday. Whakatane Golf Club All golfers (ladies and men), are invited to take part in the Open Day Tournament to be held on the local links on King’s Birthday, June 2. Players must take their own lunches —tea will be provided at the clubhouse. No Publication Monday Owing to' Monday next, King’s Birthday being a statutory holiday there will be no publication of the Beacon on that date. Advertisers and subscribers are requested to please note.

League Reps. On Saturday next a Possibles v. Probables match will be played in the League Code. The purpose of the match is to select players of a standard good enough to take part in the trials for the New Zealand reps.

Producer Gets Nothing At least one Hawke’s Bay vegetable grower will favour local markets in future. He consigned to Wellington two sacks of pumpkins, for which he received 6/-, a sack of cabbages which fetched 2/-, two sacks of melons which brought 6/-. He was allowecf 1/8 for his sacks, making a total of 15/8. Freight/ however, cost 14/6, the commission was 1/2,'adding up to 15/8, which gave him nothing.

Coming Films Mr A. R. Chapman, manager of Whakatane Amusements Ltd., has recently returned from a visit to Auckland to arrange for a series of motion pictures for the theatres. He was fortunate in securing early screenings, of “Dark Corner,” “Seventh Veil,” “A-Stolen Life,” “Bells of St. Mary” and “Quiet Weekend.” The films will follow each other in the above order and will all be shown. “Quiet Weekend” has been showing in Auckland for a very long season and this is a very early release for a country district.

New Mouth Organs The new mouth organs are on the market. Details are advertised elsewhere in this issue. The new models are a distinct improvement on prewar types. They are made wholly of plastic and have no screws at all. They are in two tone colours. The cover plate is in colour and the rest of the instrument, including the reeds, is. transparent. With the mouth organ is a leaflet containing ful-l instructions for playing several well known songs, aimed at giving the beginner a thorough grounding in the art of harmonica playing.