Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 47, 5 October 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Crippled Children Benefit

A donation of £l7/11/- from the Te Teko Branch of the South Auckland Timbers Workers’ Union has been acknowledged by the treasurer of the Whakatane Branch of the Crippled Children’s Society, Mr J. B. Slipper.

Galatea School Baths Word has now been received by the Galatea School Committee from the Building Controller at Hamilton that approval will be given to their application for a permit to foulid the school baths if they v.-.il resubmit the plans. This news has come somewhat too late for the baths to be built in time for this summer, but it is hoped that they will be started as soon as materials and labour can be arranged.

Good News Travels Fast One of the new State house tenants at Whakatane, Mr T. Henderson, got the good news that he had been granted a tenancy in an unusual way. A Power Board troubleman, Mr Henderson can always be reached by a radio call, no matter how deeply into the backblocks his work might have led him, and it must have been with delighted surprise that he received the summons *■ over the air to come back to Wha- M katane to collect the key of his new home. This is possibly the first time in New Zealand, and certainyly the first time in this district, that a State house has been let by radio.

Quality of Milk To ensure that the quality of milk distributed to the public is maintained, the ' annual report of the' Health Department suggests that at every collection depot and at every treatment house arrangements should be made for the taking of a sample from each producer’s milk every day. For purposes of determining butterfat, etc., and detecting added water, each suppliers’ daily samples could be bulked in a composite sample and tested weekly or fortnightly. Payment of the producer should be raised in accordance with the quality of the milk.