Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 24, 24 November 1948, Page 4

Local & General

County Committees Re-Elected The various committees of the Whakatane County Council were all re-elected without any change, at the annual meeting of the council yesterday. Wharf Tragedy A case of whisky from the United Kingdom, gently handled into a sling to be lowered to a Wellington wharf, slipped out of position and dropped into the harbour. Now it rests in 40ft of water embedded in silt. Salvage is said to be impracticable. More Work On County Roads An increase of £2OOO of expenditure on all roads, including highways, on that of the previous year is shown in the chairman’s report, presented to the annual meeting of the Whakatane County Council yesterday. More work was done on county roads during the last year, than ever before in the history of the county council, the total amount spent being £24,861. 5 * They Beat The Ref’ Cleanly Complimentary remarks about the clean playing by members of the United Rugby Club were made by several speakers at the annual dinner of the Club, held at Ohope on Saturday night. Replying to the toast to the referees, Mr H. Mahy, said the United boys were clean on the football field. They were so clean in fact, that they even tried cleanly to beat the referee. County Driving Licenses Twelve drivers licences were issued during October, stated the inspector, Mr A. Carling, in his report .to the monthly meeting of the Whakatane County Council yesterday. The registration of dogs was completed and 120 properties were inspected for noxious weeds. Ragwort appeared to be the chief weed nuisance, 63 settlers being directed to clear their property. Class Distinction “I have heard quite a lot about class distinction at home during my visit to New Zealand, but I believe that here there is more closely-de-fined class distinction between employer and employee than we have in Scotland,” said Mr J. W.Stewart, of Appin, in an interview at Timaru. He said that in Scotland owners and servants met as equals in the evenings for social functions. A spirit of community friendliness existed, and “it was not who you are, but what you are” that counted with the Scots, he said. The Plastic Age? Many of the new homes erected at Whakatane now have much of their interior fittings of plastics. According to a Whakatane retailer we are now in the age of plastics and. he considers that we are finding more and more uses for plastic.“Why”, Jie said. “I believe that within five years the kitchen of the average home will be equipped almost entirely with plastic fittings. Now that hard plastic has been patented that will stand up to hot water, there is nothing at present to beat it.”