Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 82, 16 August 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Telegrams to Palestine Commencing yesterday letter telegrams may again be admitted for Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jewish quarter cl Jerusalem subject as with other traffic to censorship and senders risk. Friday the 13th Friday the 13th, regarded by superstitious people as being particularly unlucky, fell last week for the second and last time this year. The last occasion on which Friday and the 13th occurred together was in February, and the next will be May of next year. Parent-Teacher Card Evening Mr A. Atkinson was M.C. for another popular Parent-Teacher Association Card Evening at the High School on Wednesday night. A draw for the women’s prize resulted in Mrs M. Barrowman being the winner. Mr C. G. Lovell was the winner of the men’s prize and the Booby prizes went to Mrs G. A. Wiggins and Ml- Melville. Patient’s Gratitude A letter was received by the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board from an ex-patient thanking the Board and the staff of the hospital for the kind treatment and sympathy extended to him during his 'period as a patient. He thanked, the staff because he had heard so much said against the hospital in the past regarding the administration but as far as he was concerned it was running very satisfactorily. Chivalry. Chivalry is not quite dead —but, as one New Plymouth girl found recently, it can be embarrassing. It was a Friday afternoon and, heavily laden with the entire paj£ of her firm in a email suitcase, she had just left a Devon Street bank. The ■'sum whs large and the girl was obviously finding the weight troublesome as she .made her way along the crowded street. Then came a sudden tap on her shoulder. “Excuse me miss,” asked the voice of a. complete stranger, “but could 1 carry' your bag for you?” .

Money for Taxes. New’ Zealanders paid £67 9s 2d a head in taxation in the year ended March last, against £63 16s Id a head in 1946, the last year in which war taxation was leyied. The total amount collected was £122,275,911, an increase of £9,156,865 over that of the .previous year and over: three times the total for 1938-39. Of the total revenue from taxes £63,581,244, or £35 Is 7d a head, was obtained from direct taxes on income, including social .security charge. This was equal to 52 per cent, of the total apiount collected, compared with 56.5 per .bent, in the previous year.