Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 61, 26 June 1950, Page 4

Local & General

Show Popular All day Friday and Saturday until the close Saturday night hundreds of people packed the Whakatane Winter Show. Side shows did thriving trade while the main hall housing the courts was a continual flow of interested sightseers. The competitions arranged for children were very popular.

King’s Cup Offer The King’s Cup, won by a New Zealand Army team in 1919 in competition with Rugby sides from Britain, the Dominions and other services, may soon be at stake in the annual inter-island Rugby game. During the Army team’s reunion at Christchurch it was decided to offer the cup to the New Zealand Rugby Union for that purpose.

Port Explained A large crowd heard the origina • tor of the deep sea port for Whakatane, the Whakatane County Engineer, Mr C. H. Brebner, outline plans and details of the scheme at the Whakatane Winter Show on Friday afternoon. Many were interested farmers and visitors to the district. Mr Brebner illustrated his address with a coloured plan for Whakatane and the coast.

Batteries to Cost More Increased prices for dry batteries, to compensate for higher costs of zinc and chemicals purchased overseas, are announced by "the New Zealand manufacturers of dry batteries, in a circular letter to distributors. The maximum increase is 33 1-3 per cent, on a li-volt dry cell of the type used for door bells. On the commonest line, the ordinary torch cell, the increase is from 9d to lOd in the retail price. TUjAtaras Filmed Unique natural colour movies of the tuatara at home and of the primitive Stephens Island frog, thought to have become extinct many years ago, were taken by the zoologist (Mr R. R. Foster) on a visit to Stephens Island, in Cook Strait earlier this year. The films obtained on this trip completed the series required for the educational film featuring the tuatara and native lizards and frogs. This film would now be edited, titled, and sent overseas for copying.

The Telephone Number It had been a wonderful celebraI tion, and a film would round off a | happy day, he decided. Referring to a newspaper for the telephone number, he rang a city theatre for I bookings. No answer. He tried anj other theatre. Funny—same number! In fact all the theatres had the same number—ll-258. If that was the -way they wanted it he wouldn’t go to their silly pictures. He’d rather go to bed anyhow. More clear in the head but still puzzled he looked at the - advertisement again next morning. He saw: Sessions daily—--11-2-5-8.