Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 74, 6 April 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Archery Club? Considerable interest has been shown in the town at the possible formation of an archery club at Whakatane. With this in view a meeting is being held in the King Street Hall tonight when members of the Opotiki Archery Club will give exhibition shoots. Imports of Crockery

The decision of the Minister of Customs, Mr Nash, under the 1949 import schedule to cut import licences for crockery and glassware to 50 per cent of last year’s licences has now been amended. The Customs Department anounces that imports of these items for 1949 will be permitted up to 100 per cent of the licences issued in 1948.

Long-Tailed Cuckoo Rarely seen in the Eastern Bay of Plenty a long-tailed cuckoo landed in a fruit tree by a house in Haig Street, Whakatane, on Sunday. Tt had a ‘tail almost 12 inches long and was comparatively easy to identify because of its’ unusual colouring. Before the bird finally flew away the resident, on whose property it strayed, was able to obtain agood photograph of the unexpected visitor. Wot! No Flounders Have flounders stopped running in the Whakatane River? According to three would-be fishermen, who went out armed with spears and all the other necessities, early this week they have. The hunters tramped up and down a “perfect bottom” for about two hours under “perfect condition” and all they managed to sight were about a dozen eels and fish of an unknown variety. Never a glance at a flounder. However, they did spear two eels. Loss On Railways An operating loss of £803,514 is shown in the accounts of the New Zealand Railways for the period of the current financial year from April 1, 1948, to February 5, 1949. The revenue from the railway service amounted to £12,713,858 and expenditure to £13,825,007 —a loss of £1,111,149. This was reduced to

£803,514 by a profit of £307,635 on the department’s miscellaneous and subsidiary services. For the fourweekly period ended February 5, there was a net revenue of £32,902 from all services.