BAY OF PLENTY HOUSEWIVES FACE LONG WEEK-END

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 54, 21 October 1949, Page 5

BAY OF PLENTY HOUSEWIVES FACE LONG WEEK-END

Housewives throughout the Bay of Plenty will face a long week-end from tomorrow because of Labour Day, which is to be observed on Monday. Most businesses will be closed from Friday night and will not reopen until Tuesday morning. Too early yet for much organised summer sport there are nevertheless some sporting fixtures available. At Whakatane and Taneatua all businesses will observe the normal Friday and Saturday; Whakatane grocers, bakers and butchers and all other food shops will be closed from the late shopping- hour tonight, 8.30, until Tuesday morning. All other businesses will close, Including banks and insurances until Tuesday.

Tomorrow one or two fruit shops and milk bars will be open and the usual Saturday hours will be observed by restaurants. At Taneatua shops will observe the usual late shopping night and, housewives there will only be required to lay in stocks for two days. At Whakatane it will mean three.

Tomorrow from 7 p.m. until, 8 p.m. one chemist will be open for those who require attention while on Monday the same hour will be observed by another chemist. On Monday the only shops to be open will be some fruit shops, milk bars and sweet shops. " The Railway Road Services will be run as usual during the weekend, with the exception of the Te Whaiti service, which will not run at all on Monday. Apart from the telephone exchange all departments of the post office will be closed from midday tomorrow.

There are some sporting fixtures planned for the week-end, the main one at Whakatane being the Labour Day golf tournament, and club games on the bowling green. Farther afield there is the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty Hunt Club's race meeting at Rotorua tomorrow, while on Monday the Waikato Hunt Club will hold it's meeting at Cambridge.

The Whakatane Lawn Tennis Club opens its season tomorrow.