Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 3, 4 October 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Definite Boundary Needed Purchase by the Borough Council of a piece of land immediately South of the Harbour Board’s endowment has prompted the Harbour Board to advise the Borough that it is prepared to negotiate for a more definite boundary. At the moment the division line is the mean high water mark. Waimana River Cut The construction of 18 chains of deviation cut above the Waimana Truss Bridge has been completed. It has taken longer than was anticipated but the machine employed was the only type that could have carried out the work efficiently. Four or five chains below the Waimana River Bridge is also being opened, and the river bank above the bridge willowed. Old Stamps Sold Some early New Zealand .issues in mint and used condition, as well as British and foreign stamps, were sold at a recent stamp auction at Petone. An unused full-faced Queen Victoria realised £2 10s and a blue 2d' full-faced Queen Victoria, £9. A complete set of Auckland Exhibition stamps sold at £7 17s 6d and another set of the Christchudch Exhibitoin sold for £5 10s. Mint and used Blue Boys were also offered, one pair bringing £8 15s. “Good Neighbours”’ The Lepers’ Trust Board is endeavouring to provide assistance for 8,500 gufferers from leprosy and other tropical diseases in the Islands of the South West Pacific. During the past 20 years it has given help to many Island people, and on one station alone where the Board operates no less than 834 leper patients have been discharged as cured. New Zealanders have built up a really great reputation as “friends of, the Lepers” and nobody would deny our Dominion its right to this title.