NEWS IN BRIEF

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 45, 25 June 1947, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

The Maori Constitution A well-known Maori Rugby player was on the sideline at a Central Hawke’s Bay game on a recent Saturday, carrying out the line umpire’s duties. Asked why he was not playing, he said that he had had his appendix out 10 days before. “Then you shouldn’t be line umpiring today,” he was told. “Oh, I’m all right,” was the typical Maori reply. “I have been working during the past week.”

Four Swordfish a Day New fishing regulations applying to swordfish provide that no person shall take any fish of the sub-order Xiphiiformes except by means of a rod and line, and no person shall use to take such fish a line heavier than that known as “39 linen thread line.” No owner or master of any " boat, shall take or permit to be taken more than four fish of the sub-order Xiphiiformes from that boat in any one day. Ten Year Plan For Bay

Tauranga businessmen are keen to see the projects of the “Ten-year Plan” of the Minister of Works getting under way. The Tauranga Chamber of Commerce last week passed a motion that the chamber aproach the Mayor (Mr L. R. Wilkinson) and ask him to call a meeting of local bodies and other interested organisations to discuss the ten-year plan, as it pertained to this district.