Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 54, 9 June 1950, Page 4

Local & General

Archery Tomorrow The June Olympic bowmen shoot of the Whakatane Archery Club is to be held on the Domain tomorrow. Shooting will commence at 1.45 p.m. and shooters are required to be ready at that time.

3 unitor Competitions “ Encouraged by the success of the junior competitions held last year the Knox Presbyterian Church plans to hold them at Whakatane again this year. They will probably be held in the first week of the August school holidays. P.B.A.

Badminton Visit

A strong team from Whakatane has been selected to. play Tauranga in the first representative match for the season at Tauranga tomorrow night. Players will travel up and return the same night after the tournament.

Progressive Table Tennis Progressive table tennis proved most hilarious and popular at the Whakatane Table Tennis Club’s weekly meeting. As it was the last night of open ladder challenges an unusually large number of challenges were issued and positions are now fairly well established.

Women’s Hockey Tour Efforts are to be made to send a New Zealand women’s hockey team to England in 1953 to coincide with the. international conference to be held that year :in Great Britain. This announcement was made at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Hockey Association. Successful Cadet Second place in the South Auckland Individual Cadet Ambuianee competitions at Hamilton was gained by Cadet Sergeant Trevor Windley, of the Whakatane Cadets Ambulance Division during the weekend. Cadet Windlev ' gained 163 points, only 3A points behind the winning cadet.

Hospital Admissions There were 176 admissions to the Whakatane District Hospital during May the medical superintendent, Dr .E. T. Dawson, reported to the* monthly meeting of the Bay of Flenty Hospital Board ■ yesterday. As against this figure there were t7l discharges. At the end'of the month 96 patients remained in the hospital. There were four deaths and 49 births. Successful Claim

A claim for damages amounting to £75 2s Id was granted Cadman’s Parking Station (Mr Barry) against W. S§ndham, drapery assistant, by Mr E:"L. Walton, S.M., in the Whakatane Magistrate’s Court. In addition Sandham was fined £3 3S; costs £7 16s. The claim arose from a rental car which was hired from the plaintiff garage and returned in a damaged condition. Over 65 Wanted

How many old people over the age of 65 live in the Whakatane district? This information is wanted by the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board as part of a Dominion-wide inquiry now being conducted with the possible future establishment of old people’s homes in various districts. The Board is to contact different organisations in an effort to obtaip the information. Team Announced

The combined Bay of PlentyPoverty Bay-East Coast team to play British Isles at Gisborne this month is to be announced at a dance in the winter show building, Whakatane, tomorrow night. Both the Bay of Plenty and Poverty Bay teams will be guests at the dance. Most of these people who attend the Rugby tomorrow are expected to end the day in the winter show building. Many Complaints

“Destructive criticism based on ignorance, usually a result of a poor day’s fishing or shooting,’' no recognition of the fact that the council is a representative body of sportsmen,” and “unwillingness to help, either by reporting poachers, supplying data for research, or liberating trout fry”—these were unanimous criticisms made against the average fishing and shooting sportsman at the annual meeting of an Acclimatisation Society. Mid-Air Collision

Perhaps a chance in a thousand but it-happened at the Te Teko golf course last week-end two golf balls colliding in mid-air. Mr R. Hendl drove a ball on what he thought was a straight course from the No. 7 tee. Over on the No. 8 tee Mr T. Macken thought the same and drove his ball in the direction, of the No. 8 green. Both balls were in flight at the same time and then somewhere up above they collided with the result that the flight of each was interrupted. Now the question is who was the one who sliced or hooked his tee-shot?