Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 25, 26 November 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Application Refused An application by a picture exhibitor to screen a film at Edgecumbe on Christmas Day was refused by the Whakatane County Council on Tuesday. Sat In At 'UNO During his recent week at Paris, Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., told a friend here, he sat' in at UNO, where he heard the Greek case presented and also “heard Vyshinsky • rave and speak.” / School Gala Day Preparations are well ahead for the Whakatane District High School’s gala day on December 14. The School Committee and the Par-ent-Teacher Association will be cooperating with the school staff and pupils to raise funds for general purposes and to provide a vacuum cleaner for the school. Extra School Classrooms There is every reason to hope that the erection of the' prefabricated classrooms that have been promised to the Whakatane District High * School will, be in course of erection, in a fortnight’s time.'Two officials of the Auckland Education Board, Messrs Sanders and Armstrong, visited Whakatane yesterday and looked over the site Where .the two double classroom units are to go. Silver Lining The news of the cancellation of the Royal visit was received with regret by members of the Whakatane County Council on Tuesday. One . of the councillors, however, when hearing the announcement said with evident enjoyment, “I’ll have to cancel my wife’s new dress now.”’ Amid the laughter other council members made similar remarks. Modern Transport On November 13, winging his way over Northern Ireland headed for Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New York, thence Bermuda, Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., wrote a letter' to a friend at Whakatane. He posted it at New York on November 15, ’ and it got here on November 22. It often takes us longer than that to get advertisers’ “blocks” expressed from Wellington. Maori Not Simple To Learn “You can conquer a people but you cannot conquer their language in the same manner,” said the Very Rev J. G. Laughton, to the Whakatane Rotary Club, Tuesday night. “You must capture each word, each phrase and know it thoroughly. It is the same when learning Maori. It is ,not a simple language to learn and I have found that it can compare favourably in being difficult to acquire with many European languages.”