Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WED., AUGUST 27, 1947. Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 72, 27 August 1947, Page 4

Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WED., AUGUST 27, 1947.

Local & General

Two Earthquakes Yesterday two earthquakes were felt in Whakatane. At about 3.40 p.m. a severe shock was felt and later a lesser shake. Taneatua Jubilee Photos Photographs taken at the recent Taneatua-Opouriao Jubilee celebrations are available from Mrs Wylde, Waimana, or from Mr Fitchett, Taneatua. Food For Britain Rationing coupons surrendered at the Post Office, Whakatane, for the period 18th-23rd August, 19'47, were as follows: Meat, £1 3s 4d; tea, nil; butter, nil; sugar, nil; fats, nil. Total collections to' date are: Sugar, 23 lbs; tea, 182-lbs; butter, 2672-lbs; meat £254 Is. Taneatua School Roll An interesting feature associated with the Taneatua School Jubilee last Monday was shown by the fact that the first school roll in 1897 numbered 27 pupils against 143 to’day under the headmaster Mr C. R. Oliver. The intervening years however have produced nearly 2000 names of boys and girls who have been handled at the school over the fifty-three years between the dates. Football Dance The attention of dancers is‘.drawn to the advertisement in this issue regarding the Rugby dance on September 6th. The dance is being put on by the United'Club who are out to make the function an outstanding success. The dance will be in the Winter Show Buildings and Freddie Burt has been engaged to supply the music.

Broken Beer Bottles “Cannot something be done about the number of broken beer bottles on the road way?” asked Cr Leslie at the County Council meeting yesterday. He added that he had travelled extensively recently and the number of bottles on the roadway was astounding. Cr Wardlaw opined that the only way was to charge a shilling per bottle from the hotel refundable when returned. Guides Stall On Friday Support is solicited for the stall to be held next the Grand Theatre on Fr-iday in the interests of the Whakatane Girl Guide Company and Brownie Pack. Donations of all kinds of saleable ' articles will be warmly appreciated, and may be either left at the stall or ..collected from the Borough. Vegetables, fruit, preserves, fancy work, cooking—in fact anything will be welcomed. Those who desire parcels to be picked up should ring Miss M. Righton, phone Tl 3.

Boxing Notes October 13 has been fixed as the date of the next boxing tournament for Whakatane. It is understood that attempts are being made to arrange a bout between Vic. Gummer (Auckland) and C. Woods (Hamilton). These boys met in the Auckland championships in a contest described by critics as being worthy of a New Zealand final. It was one of the best bouts seen for a long time and earned unstinted praise. The idea of this is that the local Association imports talent and with this in view efforts are being made to obtain A. Whittle who won the junior Welter-weight championship and Neville Hastings to fight at the next Whakatane tournament.