Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 35, 6 April 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Women’s Golf Draw Women golfers will play their first matches of the new season on the Whakatane links tomorrow and on Saturday. The fixtures are foursomes, and partners are to be arranged at the club house. A Welcome Gift In his presidential report to. the Rod and Gun Club’s annual meeting last week, Mr J. D. Rivett warmly thanked Mr Lloyd George for a gift to the club of a collection of attractively mounted native birds and game. Caledonians’ Ingleside Members of the Whakatane Caledonian Society turned out in force for the Ingleside on Saturday night and spent a pleasant evening dancing to the music of Harrison’s orchestra. Selections by the Society’s pipe band outside the hall made a truly Scottish preliminary. Women members served a delicious supper.

New Air Dept. Building The Air Department plans buying the section where the temporary A.T.C. building now stands and, at a later time when the building situation is easier, erecting a permanent building there. In reply to the Department’s query, the Borough Council has said it is not prepared to let the present temporary building remain there indefinitely.

Strong Membership Membership of the Rangitaiki Branch, Bay of Plenty Province, of Federated Farmers has been increasing steadily lately and there are now over 250 members eligible to attend the annual meeting on Monday night and to bring prospective members with them. Mr Friis, Provincial chairman, is to address the meeting. Diversional Therapy Training Miss Audsley Cullen, Red Cross Society diversional therapist, at present at Tauranga, is due to arrive at Whakatane on April 18 to train volunteers in the work, which aims at constructive diversion for hospital patients. Full particulars of the course are available from either Mrs L. D. Lovelock or Mrs J. Winstone. Rainfall For March Rainfall for the month of March over the Rangitaiki Plains area was 5.06 inches for the eleven rain days. Total inches of rain that have fallen for the three months of this year are 10.61, this compares with 10.60 for the corresponding three months of last year. The March fall last year was 7.85 and the average for this month over the last ten years has been 4.46. Little Encouragement

Commenting, in his annual report tq the Rod and Gun Club’s meeting on the lack of interest in dog trials; Mr J. D. Rivett said: It is most unfortunate that .each time the club has attempted to hold this interesting exhibition it has been met by very little encouragement or active support from members. Again it has proved impossible to hold it, and I can only trust that in the new season we will be more successful. Home Nursing Course The Matron of the Whakatane District Hospital, Miss K. Miller, started the local branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Nursing Division on a complete “home-nurs-ing” course last Thursday. The organisation has decided to take this course of instruction in order to be prepared to assist the hospital staff in the case of a national emergency should the need ever arise. To complete the course, the trainees will have to put in no less than 80 hours of practical instruction under hospital conditions. Facts About India

India is the second largest country in the world in population, and seventh in area. . It contains onefifth of the human race—3B9,ooo,ooo people. New Delhi has been the capital of India since 1926. The three largest cities are Calcutta, Bombay, Madras. The chief religions of India are Hinduism and Islam—about twothirds of the people ; are Hindus, about one-fourth Moslems. There are nearly 8,000,000 Christians in India.