Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 59, 28 July 1947, Page 5

Local & General

Taneatua War Memorial Ball All preparations are now well in hand for the Taneatua War Memorial Ball to be held iris the Taneatua Hall on Monday, August 4th. In view of the intense public interest in the appeal the committee responsible has set itself out to make the. event an outstanding success. No effort will be spared to make the setting as attractive as possible, while supper and other arrangements are definitely going to be on a lavish scale. Nurses’ Examinations

Apparently the article regarding’ the above which appeared in the Beacon on Friday has been misunderstood by several nurses mentioned. They have been very emphatic in their statement that not one of those mentioned secured partial passes. All secured whole passes. We very much regret that a misunderstanding should have arisen. “Very Fine Chaps” “I well remember the Maori Battalion in the desert,” said Lord Montgomery at Wellington amidst applause by ex-servicemen. “Thejr are first-class chaps. If you wanted somebody to go out at night to kill Germans, they were the chaps—very fine chaps.” Discharged With Broken Jaw Discharged from Taumarunui Hospital after his injured jaw had been X-rayed and stated to be unbroken, a Hamilton boy was later found to have a broken jaw. This was stated by Mr J. Jorgenson at a meeting of the hospital board. In view of the circumstances, added Mr Jorgenson, something should be done to prevent similar incidents in future. Grassland Conference The New Zealand Grassland Association is to hold a conference at Palmerston North in October. The association brings * together those interested in grass-farming and makes possible the exchange of views with successful graziers, research workers, staff/members of various advisory organisations, seed growers and fertiliser and produce merchants.

Double Plum Crop For the last seven years, a 50-year-old cherry plum tree in Wanganui East has yielded two crops a year, one at Christmas and another in July. In spite of the cold weather and the early morning frosts, the tree is following its custom this year, and its branches are at present bearing -a medium-sized crop of plums. The mid-winter crop seems to haye little effect on the tree’s productivity, for, although it is small, the summer crop usually averages between 60 and 80 pounds of fruit.