Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. TUESDAY, SEPT, 30, 1947 Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 86, 30 September 1947, Page 4

Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. TUESDAY, SEPT, 30, 1947

Local & General

County Dog Registrations A total of 2,556 dogs have been registered in the County over the current year, including 124 during the past month. Fees received amounted to £5Ol 6s. One dog was Mclntosh Shield In a hard game at Te Teko on Saturday Te Teko drew with the challengers (United Juniors) for the Mclntosh Shield. The score was three all. Te Teko will therefore retain the shield. “Learn To Row” Week A novel method of obtaining members has been devised by the local Rowing Club. Any person desiring to try his hand at the art is invited to enrol for a week’s free tuition without obligation. It affords all those who “don’t- know whether they’d like it” an opportunity to find out. The club has an ambitious programme mapped out, officially commencing with the Opening Day Regatta on October 18. All new members will be welcome. Details are advertised in this issue. Rural Handicrafts The quality and durability of rural handicrafts which are still being practised in the British countryside is splendidly illustrated in an interesting and informative exhibition from Great Britain which was opened by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) at the temporary National Art Gallery, Wellington. The exhibition was organised and sent to New Zealand by the British Council. N.Z. National Economy “I must again emphasise the serious position of our national economy if a vast improvement does not take place in the amount of goods produced in this country,” said the chairman of directors of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturers Company, Ltd. (Mr A. E. Allison), addressing shareholders recently. “Until there are goods to purchase in quantity to satisfy all, the consumer cannot measure his relative cost of living.”

Voyage Around Cape A hundred years or more ago it was quite common for the master of a sailing ship to take his wife and family to sea on voyages which often lasted for several months; and on these journeys the womenfolk shaped very well and were the equal of their men in courage and determination. When the Pamir leaves Wellington this month for London, via the Horn, she will have On board the wife of the master, Captain H. S. Collier. - Tribute To New Zealand

“Although we have travelled in many countries, we have never before met such thoughtful co-opera-tion and courtesy as we have experienced in New Zealand,” stated Mr S. Kendrick Guernsey, president of Rotary International, at a gathering of Rotarians in Rotorua on Saturday. “The people of New Zealand are even greater than we had considered them when we first landed on the shores of Auckland. “I have been amazed at the progress of Rotary in your area. It is outstanding. You have more Rotarians in New Zealand in proportion to your population than in all the world. “For years I have looked on-your coun : try as being way down under. From now on I am going to look at it as being way on top.”