Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

New Whakatane Pie Cart A new pie cart has commenced op-i erating at Whakatane. Open in the evenings the cart is situated on. an empty section at the end of the Strand and opposite the Rock. The-p cart is also operating at the Whaka-L tane football field every Saturdajft; afternoon.

Paint Prices Reduced The Price Tribunal has announced that the prices of locally-manu-factured paints have been reduced from last Friday. The reduction in the ex-factory prices were at an average rate of six and a-quarter per cent for paints subject to price orders and 3 1-3 per cent for others. The reduction is in addition to those made voluntarily by local companies on the return of exchange ‘ to parity with sterling.

Nht Superstitious Although most people will deny they are superstitious many will hestiate before walking under a ladder and that’s just what a number of wary individuals did at Whakatane on Friday. Workmen were repairing the roof of a verandah in the Strand, and had a ladder leaning from the gutter across the footpath to the roof. Several people walked around rather than under it. grOne man laughingly walked under g it from the street but unfortunately stubber his toe on the edge of the. footpath and sprawled forward to the amusement of passersby.