Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 75, 3 September 1947, Page 4

Local & General

Debt Case In the Whakatane -Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Messrs. McLean Motors Ltd. proceeded against G. E. Murray for £45. Judgment was entered for the sum claimed and costs (£4 4s). Young Caledonian Choir . The Young Caledonians have' formed a choir which will be under the direction of Mr F. Watson. Practices are commencing in the Methodist Hall on Thursday night at 7 o’clock. Offensive Behaviour Charged with casting offensive matter on the Strand on the evening of August 16, Ronga Hona pleaded guilty before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Whakatane Court yesterday. He was fined £3 and costs 235. Food For Britain Rationing coupons surrendered at the Post Office, Whakatane, for the period 25th-30th August, 1947, were as follows: Butter 21bs.; meat £1 14s; sugar nil; tea lib.; fats nil. The total value of ration coupons received to date is as follows: Butter 269|1b5.; meat £255 15s; sugar 23 lbs.; tea 192-lbs.

Transport Offence The Transport Department proceeded against Gilbert Edwards in the Whakatane Court yesterday for exceeding the speed limit at Te Teko on May 23 last. Inspector Sharp stated that he had checked the speed of the vehicle (a heavy one) at 40 m.p.h. Fined £2 and costs (275).

Refreshment Booth Closed The refreshment booth at the football ground has closed. Those in charge of the booth provided a much needed amenity when they opened® at the beginning of the season to supply pies, coffee etc. to players and spectators. It is to be hoped that the booth will appear again next season.'

To Spread On Bread “From what I understand from the letters I receive from England,” said Mrs Dykstra, at the meeting of the Whakatane Chamber of Commerce last week, “the people l would appreciate something to, spread on their bread, which often as not has to be eaten dry. I always put in paste or honey. Soap, jelly crystals and fats of all kinds are also greatly appreciated.” Unfair Imposition “I think at least our own Government should co-operate with us in one thing,” said Mr E. R. Dillicar when speaking at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on the subject .of food parcels to Britain. “They might at least let us send this food overseas without stinging us in the process. They have appealed to the individual to send food and yet a heavy postage is demanded. Surely this could be lifted.” Public. Wants “Thrillers” During a brief .discussion on library affairs at a- recent meeting of the Te Awamutu Borough Cpuncil, it was shown by a statement of finances submitted by the honorary secretary that the pay section of the library returned the sum of £2O 17s 2d for two months. The Mayor said that the section contained “thrillers” and light fiction and- was highly remunerative despite a suggestion by a Country Library Service official who said that the books should be sold.

South Africa Disappointed A cable has been received by the New Zealand Rugby Union from the South African Rugby Union expressing regret at New Zealand’s decision to postpone the proposed tour of the Union. At a meeting of the management committee the chairman (Mr S. S? Dean) read a letter to the committee from a South African travel agency, which pointed out that it would be possible to provide air transport for the All Blacks to South Africa. This letter is to be referred to the N.Z.R.F.U.’s travel agents in New Zealand. Scale Tolerances Proposals made by a recent conference of inspectors of weights and measures are not viewed with favour by a number of scale dealers and repairers. The suggestion that the present permissable tolerances under the present regulations be halved would mean that a large number of scales at present in use, particularly those more than ten years old, would have to be replaced, as they could not conform to a lesser tolerance than that allowed at present. Replacement would be difficult, as the British manufacturers who supply 95 per cent, of the scales used in New Zealand could not supply them all at once.