Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 96, 7 November 1947, Page 4

Local & General

Coupons Saved Total values of coupons saved for Britain and received at the Whakatane Post Office up to November 1 are: Butter, 27511b5; meat £286/1/6; sugar 251bs; tea 2711b5. Breach Of Order Admitting a breach of his prohibition order at Te Teko, Awamoto Karekare was fined £1 and costs 15/- by Mr E. L. Walton S.M. in the Magistrate’s Court at Whakatane on Tuesday. Cleaning Of Hospital At its monthly meeting yesterday the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board decided to seek full information concerning the -possibilities of vacuum cleaners for use in the hospital at Whakatane. Opinions will also be sought from the medical superintendent and the matron.

Turned Bulls On Road Samuel James Campbell, farmer, who admitted a charge brought by the County inspector, Mr A. Carling, before Mr E. L. Walton S.M. in the Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, was fined £3, with costs £2/1/- for permitting stock to wander on Arawa Road in the County area. It was explained that the two bulls in question had wandered on to Campbell’s property, and he had turned them out on to the road.

Hospital Statistics At the beginning of October there were 110 patients in the Whakatane hospital and at the end of the month, the number was 92, according to the monthly report of the Medical Superintendent, Dr. E. T. Dawson. There were 33 births and 2 deaths, 7 major operations and 41 minor ones.

“Timber-r-r!”

An amusing incident occurred in one of the bouts held by the Wha- - katane Boxing Association on Saturday night; when an exceptionally tall boxer was, toppled over by a blow to the jaw by his opponent.X. < As the one on the reeciving end of the punch sank gracefully and slowly to the mat a loud voice in the back row of the audience was heard to cry out “Timber-er-er.”

Poor Marksmanship Pleading guilty to having committed mischief by damaging a cream can at Manawahe, Cecil Denis Dennehy was convicted and discharged when he’ faced Mr E. L. Walton S.M. in the Magistrate’s Court at Whakatane on Tuesday. He admitted he had fired a shot at a post ai d hit the cream can by mistake. Jie had paid £3/7/- for damage to the can.

Deceptive Entrance Possible danger to visitors from the barbed wire which blocks the old entrance to the hospital between white gate posts was pointed out to the Hospital Board yesterday by Mr C. A. Suckling on behalf of the visiting committee. He said the blockade was not obvious unless one kpew it was there and suggested something be done to make it so. The Board agreed to a post and rail fence.

Tough Luck! When Clement Alexander Ilelr, Manawahe, decided to take a chance and use an unregistered truck to get some urgently-needed timber for his cowshed he had the bad luck to meet the Transport Department’s traffic inspector, Mr K. R. McD. Sharpe, who took just the dim sort of view anyone would have expected. Mr E. L. Walton S.M. fined Relf £l, with 12/- costs when the defendant pleaded guilty to the charge brought against him by the inspector on Tuesday.