Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 70, 22 August 1947, Page 4

Local & General

Shield Rugby Galatea will play the Te Puke senior Rugby representative team at Te Puke on August 30 for the Te Hurinui Apanui Shield not August 23 as previously reported.

Still Hunting The Whakatane Aero Club are still looking for a landing strip for temporary operations. Although several sites have been inspected none has been entirely suitable but members are stil hoping to hear of a suitable site in the near future. It is understood that the Public Works Department intends making a preliminary survey of the sandhills site at an early date.

Saturday’s Rugby Rugby fans are assured of a gopd day’s entertainment at the Domain on Saturday when the visiting Grafton Rugby team will play a Whakatane side. In the Auckland senior competitions Grafton were defeated in a play off by Marist. This serves to indicate the high standard of their play and the local players will have to be on their mettle to carry off the honours. The curtain raiser, a junior match for the Wilson Cup, should also result in a good game.

Boys’ Brigade Activity Members of the Whakatane Boys’ Brigade are hard at work preparing their newly acquired craft, “Miss Whakatane,” for the sea. A dinghy purchased within the last few weeks “Miss Whakatane” is being energetically scraped, puttied and painted by an enthusiastic team of workers. A local signwriter has been engaged to supply name plates for the gallant vessel and the boys are looking forward to the day of the launching and many pleasant trips in their boat.

Very Old Profession. The profession of the secretary was a very old one, said the secretary of the British Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Dr. A. M. Allen, when he addressed a meeting at Christchurch: During their journey out from England, he and the president of the institute, Mr H. F. Carpenter had stopped in Cairo, and while there they had been taken to see a tomb which was at least 5000 years old. There were some frescoes on the walls, and one of these depicted two secretaries of the Pharaoh'"of that time. ' Ships To Be Sold Three of the four 114 ft. powered lighters which were left on the hands of the New Zealand Government with the termination of the United States war contracts, the Avon, Melva, ad Aranui, will besold by tender this month by the Wax* Assets Realisation Board. The motor vessels, which have a cargo capacity of 250 tons, are all in. service under charter.