Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 58, 19 June 1950, Page 4

Local & General

{itinerary Approved The central Hawke’s Bay SubUnion team is to play Whakatane at Whakatane on August 12 during its tour of the Bay of Plenty. It w:ll meet Rotorua at Rotorua on August 16 and Tauranga at Tauranga on August 19.

Lemon Prices

The following prices per loose bushel to be paid by the Marketing Department for lemons delivered to the department during the month of June have been gazetted. Preferred commercial grade, lls 8d; commercial grade, 9s 2d; first grade peel, 5s 6d; second grade peel, 4s; ]uice grade, 2s.

Stamp Licences More than 800 people in New Zealand, who have licences to sell or deal in stamps, are required to renew their licences before the end of this month. There is no charge for the licences, but a fine of £2O can be incurred by failing to obtain one. Those affected are persons who sell stamps solely for postage revenue purposes and those vho trade with philatelists in current or obsolete mint stamps.-. Conscientious Objectors

Of all the 18 year old youths in New Zealand who have registered under the comoulscry military training scheme, only about 50 have applied for exemption from military service on the grounds of conscientious objectors. Of that number rome have been rejected because they are unfit. Christchurch has the greatest number of objectors, 11 appeals being heard by the Conscientious Objections Committee last week. < Increase of 261,000

The population of New Zealand has increased by 260,821 during the 10 years from 1939 to 1949. This is disclosed in the Abstract of Statistics of May 31. The total population of the country is now 1,902,460, including 115,082 Maoris. Over this period, the Maori population has increased by almost 25,000. In 1949 the country received 11,387 immigrants, and 6679 New Zealanders left to reside permanently overseas. About half of those departing were between 20 and 40 years of age, New Zealand Third

A graph in the monthly Abstract of Statistics places New Zealand after the United States of America and the Hawaiian Islands as having the biggest number of cars for every 100 of population. The United States is shown as having between 20 and 25 cars for every IO'J persons, the Hawaiian Islands between 15 and 20, New Zealand between 10 and 15, Canada a fraction fewer than New Zealand, Australia slightly under 10, the United Kingdom fewer than five, and South Africa a -fraction fewer than the United Kingdom.