Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 17, 27 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Seating At Rugby Ground

A start has been made on the seating at Whakatane Rugby Field and is expected to be completed in the next fortnight. The materials for the job have arrived and the contractor is now well into the work. Land Committee A committee to inspect Cro/. T n and Maori land on the hill country about the Rangitaiki Plans has been set up by the Whakatane County Council. It is hoped that somethin „ may be done to bring all the waste land into production. Dogs in the County In the past month 26 dogs were registered in the Whakatane Counk”, the inspector, Mr A. Carling, reported to this month’s meeting of the Whakatane County Council. The number registered to date now total 2061, valued at £564 10s, Farmers Visit Whakatane

A party of about 60 Westland farmers and their wives passed through Whakatane last week and spent a night in the town. In the course of a brief tour of the North Island the party came from Gisborne via Opotiki and then proceeded to Rotorua, where they spent the week-end.

More Heavy Traffic Licences Twenty-three heavy traffic licences to the value of £9B 15s 6d were collected last month by the Whakatane County inspector, Mr A. Carling. This makes a total of 283 for the year, which is 15 over the number collected during the corresponding period last year. Speed At Murupara

Because Murupara cannot he classed as a built up area no fix i speed restriction can be fixed through the town, it was stated i the Whakatane County Council yesterday. However, because of the distance between the school and the post office special signs are to be erected.

State Lottery Rejected Parliament has rejected the suggestion of Mr W. S. Wilson that a State lottery should be initiated. This week the petitions committee reported on his prayer, and the House of Representatives agreed with the recommendation that the petition “do lie upon the table”— which' means that they will not do anything about it.