Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 27, 28 April 1950, Page 4

Local & General

Drama Circle Training _ The drama circle of the Edgecumbe Women’s Institute is now steadily rehearsing for two plays to be presented at the forthcoming drama festival.

Cup Rules Changed In future the John Pile Memorial Tropny Swill be played for by only one team from each subunion in the Bay of Plenty. After consideration of a remit, forwarded by Tauranga, to this effect xhe Bay of Plenty Rugby Union agreed to the proposal at the annual meeting at Matata. ,

Unusual Shaped Egg An unusual pullet egg found or* a Thornton farm' was brought into the Beacon office yesterday. Measuring about 1£ inches in length and \ of an inch wide the egg was coloured a light brown and was a long oval shape. It is understood that the same bird produced a similar egg on a previous occasion.

Many Tributes Tributes to the work of Mr R. F. Morgan, assistant clerk, who has resigned from the Whakatane County Council staff to take up a position as clerk to the Waiapu County, were paid by councillors to the monthly meeting of the Whakatane County Council. Mr Morgan replied thanking councillors for their remarks.

Millinery Starting ' * A millinery business, one of the few businesses that have not yet been established at Whakatane, will open in the town on Monday. It ' will specialise in hats for women. While this will no doubt meet with the peasure of most women a few husbands have expressed their disfavour. Possibly they see another opening in their pockets.

Value of Bands The value of the Whakatane Citizens’ Band and the St Andrew’s Pipe Band to Whakatane and the surrounding district was emphasised by Councillor A. F. McGougan to the monthly meeting of the Whakatane County Council. This had been emphasised he said at the Anzac Day services, which would have been very flat without the bands. “We should assist them as much as possible,” he added. Whakatane Weather March was not a particularly wet month at Whakatane according to figures supplied for that period by the New Zealand Meteorological Service. There were nine wet days and a total fall of 2.75 inches was recorded. The heaviest fall on one day 'toas .71 of an inch on March '24. The temperature generally was fairly mild the highest reading being 81.2 degrees farenheit on March 2 and the lowest 40 degrees on March 14.