Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 44, 21 January 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Dad’s Boss “In Switzerland, administration begins with the family. There the father is the boss—He does just whatever his wife permits him to do.”—Mr Ernest Theiler, Swiss Consul, at Tuesday’s Whakatane Rotary Club meeting. Redrafting Centre Rules The rules of the centre are to be redrafted by a committee consisting of Messrs W. Harper and L. E. Manning, Te Puke, and the secretary, Mr W. O. Knight, it was decided at a recent meeting of the Bay of Plenty Bowling Centre. The new rules are to be ready for the next annual meeting. Easy To Remember One visitor to Whakatane this week should never forget his car’s number. It is 222.222. One imagines the driver of a car carrying such a distinctive number would need to be meticulous in his observation of ihe traffic laws. What a lovely number for a policeman or traffiic officer to memorise!

“England Calling” At 2 a.m. Boxing Day, Mrs Forde Mitchell, Waimana, was called + o *tf£jfc.Helephone, and was probably Reeling much the way one usually 'feels about 2 a.m. telephone calls until she found her parents at | Brighton, Sussex, England, were the callers. Over there it was early ' afternoon on Christmas Day. Mrs Mitchell heard every word clearly, and has since been told by air-mail letter that her parents heard her just as clearly. Land Rovers Here Discharged at Auckland from the Empire Star on Monday, the first Land Rovers —the English answer to the “Jeep”—to arrive in New Zealand will be on demonstration in this district next week. A demonstration has been arranged by the Settlers’ Association at Galatea on Tuesday, and Mac Lean Motors will be putting the new vehicle through its paces at Mr W. Emery’s property on the Awakeri Road on Wednesday. P.B.A. No Arguments, No Fights “If you can’t talk to a fellow, you can’t get into trouble with him,” remarked Mr Ernest Theiler, Swiss Consul, answering a question about the different racial groups in Switzerland and language difficulties at the Rotary gathering he addressed on Tuesday eevning. In fact, he said the three groups of Swiss, French, German and Italian, got along splendidly together. They all regarded themselves as Swiss before anything else, and most of them spoke their racial languages, a universal Swiss tongue, and English. Another Bottle Drive Encouraged by the response of the last effort. It is hoped to beat a large number of people to come round again early in the New Year, the Whakatane Rowing Club has decided to hold another bottle drive tomorrow, when the whole of the borough and adjoining areas will be covered. Including a dance in the evening the club made over £SO in their last effort. It is hoped to beat the figure tomorrow on the drive alone, although the dance tomorr iw night will probably bring it up considerably. All types of bottles will be collected, including full ones—if any are available.