Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 20, 3 August 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Hole In One 9 A hole in one at the sixteenth hole was recorded by Mrs G. Tippett on the Whakatane Golf Links recently. The hole is about 155 yards ' long. " Edgecumbe Card Evening * There was a fair attendance the card evening of the Edgecumbe Parent-Teacher Association held in the school on Monday: night.'Prize winners were Mrs L. McCorquindale. and Mr H. Magee. Mrs A. .Anderson won the box of chocolates.

New Radio Station The new radio station at Whangarei, IXN, is at present on the air and will continue testing work until all equipment is functioning satisfactorily. It is being heard with good clarity at Whakatane on its wave length of 970 kilocycles. ■>

Beekeepers to Meet The National Beekeepers’ Association of N.Z. will hold its annual conference in Rotorua on August 24 to 26 inclusive, and Mr Cullen, Minister of Agriculture, will officially open the proceedings. The president of the conference will be Mr A. E. Field, of Foxton.

Another Archery Club Vr Following on the formation of Whakatane Archery Club a fe\y months ago and the.Opotiki Archery Club previous to that another arch-- , . cry club has been formed in the Bay of Plenty, this time at Tauranga. • This new club has been called the “Ashby Arfehers, ' ' Taurenga.”

Births Increase Compared with July last year births at Whakatane last month A; showed a decided increase. In July . 1943 29 births were registered at A the Whakatane court house while this year there were 60. Deaths totalled six, an increase of two over the same period last year, while there was only one marriage. This is a decrease of eight over those registered the previous July: Rangitaiki Rainfall

.With the heaviest fall of .36 inches being recorded on July 27 the total rainfall recorded on the Rangitaiki Plains last month was only 1.37 inches. This brings the total amount recorded so far this year to 36.65 inches, which is heavier than that which has fallen over the corresponding seven months of the last ten years of 33.37 inches. Average fall recorded for July over the past ten years is 6.12 inches.

Film Of All Blacks

Screening at Whakatane on Saturday for a three day session is a film of the first game of the ' All Blacks tour in South Africa against Combined Univei'sities at Capetown. Reputed to be one of the best football films ever produced it is over 1200 feet in length and after showing a few initial shots of. the New Zealand team in training and social activities, runs straight into a little over ten minutes of the actual game. This is believed to' be the' longest football sequence ever screened in this country.

Rugby Seating Completed The new three tiered seating on either side of the No. 1 rugby , ground at Whakatane FielcT has been completed and will be usedThC for the first time on Saturday when k. the first games of the Bracken Cup competition for senior teams will commence. The seats are constructed entirely of wood and ample room has been provided for feet space. They will comprise the bulk of the seating accommodation-for the Australia v Bay of Plenty game to be played at Whakatane on August 20. 'A