Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 15, 22 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Rotary Forum

A strong party of Whakatane Rotarians are to attend the forum of South Auckland Rotary Clubs to be held this week-end at Thames. The Whakatane party will be lead by the vice-president, Mr F. Appleby, and is expected to leave tomorrow.

Special Maori Programme A special programme from New Zealand Maoris is to be broadcast on Sunday through IYZ and the New Zealand shortwave station to the people of the Cook Islands. Presented by Rotorua Maoris the session will take the form of a goodwill programme of songs, fchants and hakas. The broadcast is timed for 7 pan.

Awakeri Novelty Quiz . Feature of the Awakeri Hall Committee’s dance tomorrow night is to be the novelty quiz, which ranks as an attraction second only to the home-made supper, already an established drawcarcL Inclusion of the quiz in the programme is in the nature of an experiment, but from the amount of anticipatory comment one hears, it is already assured of success.

Tremendous Ship Striking idea of the size _of a battleship is given by a British soldier in Egypt writing to a pen friend at Whakatane. H.M.S. Vanguard, now with the Mediterranean Fleet, docked at Port Said, and in return for entertaining some of her crew, some of the soldiers were invited to look over the ship. “Well,” the writer comments, “we spent two days on it and still didn’t see it all. It’s really a tremendous ship.” Basketball Increasing

Interest in basketball in Whakatane is showing definite signs of increasing and there is an obvious improvement in the standard of play. Larger crowds are watching the games each Saturday and more players are beginning to turn out. However, the Association has hopes of getting more teams in the competitions and placing the sport more before the public. Tomorrow the first representative game will be played against Opotiki on the high school hard courts.