Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 14, 20 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Amateur Radio Operators

Amateur radio operators who hold special high-frequency telephony permits are being authorised by the: Post Office to operate radio-tele-phone transmitters controlled by„r" variable frequency oscillators. The V transmitters will be required to \ maintain a frequency tolerance of .02 per cent..

Bible Convention

On Saturday the annual Bay of Plenty Bible convention of Everyman’s Gospel Service was held in the Parish Hall at Whakatane, with an attendance of about 200. There were three sessions of the convention, which was addressed by five visiting speakers. Lunch wws provided.

Audience of Four An andience of four were present at a street meeting on conscription held by three Communists at Palmerston North. Two were detectives, the other two merely curious. The meeting was held outside a knitting mill, the employees of which had been forewarned by the management of an attempt,to hold an unauthorised meeting.

Radio-Telephone Operators Since the end of the war 1,300 “restricted” radio-telephone opera— ”■ tors’ certificates have been issued by the Post Office. The holders of these certificates are permitted to operate fixed and mobile low-power radio-telephone equipment used in safety and utility services to small ships, launches, yachts and Power . Board vehicles.

High Telephone Density New Zealand has virtually doubled its number of ’phones since 1935, and has reached a density of 16.39 ’phones per hundred of population. This is among the highest of telephone densities in the world. Today, New Zealand’s 300,000 telephone users may talk by radiotelephone to any one of 53,000,000 telephone users in the other countries which ‘operate services with New Zealand.

Country Girls’ Club The inaugural meeting of the Rangita'iki Country Girls’ Club was held in the. Awakeri Hall on Tuesday of last week. The following officers were elected: President, Miss Esther Ducker; vice-president. Miss Colleen Fabish; secretary,. Miss Gay Anderson; committee, Misses C. Fabish, L. Ducker, S. Macdonald, M. Black. Mrs C. L. Roberts accepted the position of Senior Advisory Member. After the disposal of business a pleasant social hour was enjoyed in company with members of the Y.F.C.

Forty New Houses Amazing though it might seem, there are about 40 new houses in course of construction in: the Borough of Whakatane. Mentioning that figure the ether day, the Borough’s building inspector, Mr F. W. Lysaght, said he considered nearly all would be completed within three to four months. With the new nurses’ home at the Hospital due for occupation fairly soon also, he anticipated a further lift in electricity demand, though of course the lengthening days will tend to reduce lighting load fairly soon now.