Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 40, 19 September 1949, Page 4

Local & General

State Houses

The 30,000 th State house built in New Zealand was handed over by the Minister of Works, Mr Semple, at an official ceremony in Christchurch on Saturday.

Golf Tournament

The Bay of Plenty women’s chainpionship golf tournament is to com-:

mence at the Whakatane Golf Links on Wednesday. Good entries have been received from all over the North Island with the Bay cf Plenty Clubs especially well represented.

Vehicles Collide

When a motor car driven by Mr D. Scragg, Whakatane, and a motor cycle ridden by two men collided on the corner of Hawera Street and Victoria Avenue, Whakatane, at about 12.30 p.m. on Saturday both vehicles were slightly damaged. No one was seriously injured although one of the cyclists suffered slight abrasions.

Work Among Island Lepers During a recent visit to leper hospitals and dispensaries in the southwest Pacific, the secretary cf the Lepers’ Trust Board, Mr P. J. Twomey, saw striking evidence of the uplift among the lepers and sufferers from tropical diseases, following / ' assistance from New Zealand. \ “Since the work commenced over 20 years ago 886 lepers have been discharged as cured,” he said.

Frequent Labour Changes Methods of preventing high labour turnover are discussed in a recent survey made by the Department of ‘ Labour and Employment. Because there were more vacancies than people to fill them, employers today tended to accept frequent changes of staff as inevitable, often without realising how much such changes cost them, comments the survey. Tree Fellers Wanted

Some difficulty in obtaining a tree feller to cut down the gum trees in the Whakatane Domain has been experienced by the Whakatane Domain Board. For some months now the- Board has been trying to get some one to cut and remove the 40 blue gum trees" of an approximate measurement of 70,000 super feet. At present tenders are being invited for the work. Teachers Want Board

If private board cannot be found soon for a woman school teacher the Whakatane Primary School may be without that teacher’s services within the next few days. Board is-wanted urgently, in the town for this and other teachers and an appeal is being made . to Whakatane residents to assist m keeping the school’s teaching staff up to full strength by providing board for them.

Films For Farmers

Sound films depicting the recent work done at the Ruakura Research Station on artificial insemination and machine milking are •to be shown to Rangitaiki, Waimana and - Galatea farmers this week by the New Zealand Dairy Board. The first screening will be at Edgecumbe on Thursday night and the second at Te Whaiti on Saturday night. Waimana farmers will have a chance , to see the films on Monday night A next..

In England Now A shop in a large Lancashire town recently advertised its intention to sell nylon stockings. The day duly arrived and a queue started to form —at 6 o’clock in the morning! By the time the shop epened at nine there was a queue of 500. Customers were allowed one pair each and by 10.30 a.fn. the supply had been sold out. Only about 300 of the customers were lucky; the rest of them were offered pure silk and rayon stockings. Even men were in the queue whilst their wives were at- home with the children or getting the housework done. It seems a.long wait for a pair of stockings . but the lucky ones all seemed to think it was Worth it to get the nylons.