Bay Of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949 Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 75, 8 April 1949, Page 4

Bay Of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949

Local & General

Noxious Weeds Failure to. clear noxious weeds cost John Francis Wilson a fine of £3, costs £1 19s before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Whakatane Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Mark Alfred Lickfold, similarly charged, was fined £3, costs £1 15s. Mr A. Carling, County inspector, was the informant in both cases. 4 Chose Higher Court Brought before 1 Mr E. L. Walton, S.M.,by the Police yesterday, Hauraki Akuhata Brown elected trial by jury, on a charge concerning the alleged theft of a stove, tank and copper, Government property worth £l7. The preliminary hearing of evidence was adjourned until April 11. Mr G. Otley appeared for the accused. The Active Principle “The active principle in Rotary is that man needs friends,” declared Dr F. Appleby, one of the Rotary Club speakers who gave short addresses at the Parent-Teacher Association’s annual meeting on Monday night. He traced briefly the development of the Rotary movement based on that principle, and outlined some of its remarkable achievements in community and international service.

Police Arms Practice

First Police small arms practice in this district for some 10 years was conducted this week when Sen-ior-Sergeant G. Kelly, Arms Advisory officer to the Commissioner of Police, lectured police officers from Whakatane and adjacent districts on ballistics and put them through a brief refresher course in pistol shooting. The standard of accuracy was generally good. Traffic Offenders

Prosecuted by the County traffic inspector, Mr A. Carling, Hector James Mail, Auckland, was fined 10s, costs £1 Os 6d, by Mr E. L. Walton in the Magistrate’s Court at Whakatane yesterday for towing a. trailer without a warrant of fitness. Eric Duncan Jamieson, Tauranga, pleaded guilty by letter to driving a Government-owned light truck without a driver’s license. He was fined ss, costs £1 Os 6d.

10,000 Whakatanians? “I think we will see a day when Whakatane’s population will be something like 10,000 people,” Mr E. R. Dillicar told the Parent-Teacher Association’s annual meeting on Monday night. Discussing the need for civic pride, he gave an assurance that the Borough Council’s policy was a progressive one, and said that in a few years every street will be tar-sealed, and there will be a concrete footpath wherever one is needed.

“Land Liner’s” Visit

Whakatane citizens showed a good deal of interest in a new type bus which passed through here last week. Carrying a tourist party on a sight-seeing trip down the coast the “land liner,” as its driver called it, was a long, rakish-looking vehicle on much the same lines as an airplane fuselage, with full forward controls and the engine mounted aft. Though long, the bus was good to handle, its driver claimed, and he had no misgivings about the tricky roads ahead.