Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 68, 18 August 1947, Page 4

Local & General

In Committee

That certain matters which were discussed in committee had „ become common knowledge on some occasions was mentioned by the chairman (Mr J. Mullins) at the hospital board meeting on Thursday. Mr McCready: I know where that instance came from and I’m prepared to go the full distance if you are! The chairman then said that the secrecy pertaining to matters taken in committee should be adhered to by members.

Another Auckland Team

Rugby fans wil be pleased to see in this issue an advertisement to the effect that Grafton will be meeting a Whakatane rep. tearfi on Saturday next. The visiting team is of a particularly high standard and a really good game should result. Conditions At Bar When the Tuhoe entered the Whakatane Harbour on Wednesday she did so three hours before high water. This is the first occasion on which any vessel of her size has been able to do this for a very long time; possibly the first time one has ever been able to do it at all. This reflects that the groyne work which is nearing completion at the Heads, is fulfilling its purpose in a very satisfactory manner. The shallowest part of the entrance now has a depth of 11 feet at high tide, allowing ample room for the vessels which have often had to plough their way through sand to gain entry.

This Was The Army! j Everyone has seen and heard the Kiwi Concert Party. Their Australian counterparts known as the ‘Kangaroosters’ now on tour of the Dominion will give two special shows in Whakatane on September 4 and 5. The company is managed by George Wallace Jnr., son of the famous Australian comedian of a generation ago. The non-stop Comedy. Revue which is drawing record houses everywhere is titled “This was the Army.” Whakatane fans can be relied on to give the show the same enthusiastic support afforded other top-line shows which have visited the town. Hospital Gifts The following gifts to the hospital for the month of July were acknowledged by the Hospital Board at its meeting on Thursday: Books: Miss Janice Free, Crippled Children’s Society, Dawn Whiteside. Magazines: Awakeri Junior Red Cross, Mr Cannell, Mrs Pryor, Mrs Free, Miss Me- ■ Coy, Mr Good, Mrs Combes, Mr King. Trays: Mr C. Williams. Flowers: Awakeri Junior. Red Cross, Mrs )

Neilson, Mrs Sladden. Lemons: Mr W. Sullivan, Mrs Neilson, Mrs Ernest, Mr and Mrs Burr, Mr J. Bowditch, Mrs Sheat, Mrs Hawken. Tree Tomatoes: Mr P. Farnsworth. Children’s Games: Crippled Children’s Society. Garbo Still Wants To Be Alone Greta Garbo, who arrived at Southampton from New York, in the Queen Mary, still wants to be alone. She slammed her cabin door when reporters sought an interview, but eventually agreed to see one reporter, to whom she said: “I cannot understand why a genuine desire to be left alone cannot be observed. It was a great joy to cross the Atlantic without being pestered and I had •hoped I should be allowed to land in the same way.”

Registration Sought

A motion that the large number of motorised cycles and scooters should, be brought to the notice of the Transport Department with a request that these machines undergo some form of licensing; was passed at the recent meeting of the North Island Motor Union executive in Rotorua. The number of these machines appearing on roads in the Dominion was increasing rapidly, it was stated, and as they could in some instances reach a speed of up to 30 miles an hour, it was felt that they provided as great a potential danger on the road as any other vehicle.

False Impression “Listening to Parliament over the radio gives one a very false impression of what goes on,” said the member for Mount Victoria (Mr J. R. Marshall) to a- meeting of electors at Hataitai. “That is. perhaps as well. But the cause of the noise that goes on is that there are seven microphones placed about the House all of which are active. The speaker for the moment is. heard over one microphone and the others pick upand magnify the sound that go oil where 80 members are fathered together. It gives a false impression of the dignity-^—or lack of dignity —of proceedings in the House.”