Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 54, 21 October 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Bay Presbytery Meeting % ~V^ Whakatane, Taneatua and EdgeJr cumbe delegates were at the bi- : monthly meeting of the Bay of Plenty Presbytery at Te Puke last week. - Whakatane was represented by the Rev R. T. Dodds.

Bay Rifle Championships The Bay of Plenty Rifle Championships are to be held this year at Rotorua. The main event will foe for the Moore Belt and this will be held on the King's Birthday. The Bay of Plenty Shield teams' shoot is to be held on. March 18 of next year at Tauranga.

Rapid Spread of Golf Golf, once a game played by few Americans, now is one of the most popular of pastimes in the United States. The National Golf Foundation reports that 3,000,000 persons now play the game on some 4,900 golf courses in the country. That is an increase of nearly 1,000,000 golfers since 1930.

Useless Notes Destroyed New Zealand paper currency to the amount of £29,631,000 was destroyed by the Reserve Bank duiing 1948. This sum represented the face value of soiled and mutilated notes that had come to the end of their useful service, and had been withdrawn from circulation and incinerated.

No Beacon Monday There will be no Beacon published on Monday. News items.and advertisements intended for Wednesday's publication may be put through the letter slot in the factorydoor during the week-end; or delivered to the office on Tuesday morning. News items for Wednesday publication relating to weekend activities will need to be in the office not later than noon Tuesday. Australian Coins Still Some Australian coins are still being passed in New Zealand as ordinary currency and in many cases are not being detected. At a Whakatane office this week an Australian shilling was apparently passed as change and was not discovered until later in the day. That office will lose on the shilling as it is only worth 9d in New Zealand currency. Swimming Conference Rotorua will be the venue of the annual conference of the New Zealand Swimming Association tomorrow and Monday. Thirty delegates, representing 13 centres, will attend, each centre being entitled to two direct representatives. Centre secretaries will meet on the intervening day. The association's honorary secretary and life member, Mr Baxter O'Neill, has been nominated as president.