Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 64, 3 July 1950, Page 4

Local & General

Cheap Machine

Although selling for about £53 new a washing machine sold for £2O at an auction sale at Whakatane on Friday. Other articles at the same sale went very-.cheaply also.

Y.F.C. Show Court There is a correction in the final results of the young farmers’ club ' courts competition held at the Whakatane Winter Show. Awakeri (260 points) 1, Taneatua. (254) 2, .Thornton (246) 3, Otakiri (241)- 4

Drunk and Disorderly Found drunk and disorderly in the Strand, Whakatane, on June 28 Taihuka Rui Wiremu, porter, Taneatua, was convicted and fined £2 by Mr C. H. Brebner, J.P., in the Whakatane Police Court.

Otakiri Shoot

■Following are the results of two Olympic rounds held by the Otakiri Archery Club yesterday: First round—H. Foote 638, W. Campbell 632, A. Smith 598, R. Smith 289. Second—Campbell 660, Foote 648, A. Smith 604, D. A. Campbell 353.

First Talk Tomorrow The first of a series of talks recorded in the Whakatane district some weeks ago is to be broadcast by stations IYA Auckland and IYZ Rotorua at 12.30 p.m. tomorrow.. The talk will be given by Mr H Bridger, manager of the Lands and Survey block, Edgecumbe. , Select Volume Writings considered “indispensable to a liberal education of a free man in the twentieth century” are being assembled in a 54-volume set to be published in the United States. They were selected by a group of educators, philosophers, novelists, scientists,' and poets from the western world.

Y.F.C. Rugby Wainui had two wins over Opotiki and Thornton in young farmers’ club Rugby matches recently. These were two of the many activities of the Wainui Club, which also heard a lecture on noxious weeds by the Whakatane County inspector, Mr A. Carling. In a table tennis tournament B Tepou was the winner with J. Black second.

Who Fears Who ? “I heard of a teacher recently who resigned and gave as the reason for his resignation that teachers were afraid of the headmaster; the headmaster was afraid of the inspectors and the board, the board was afraid pf the department, the department foas afraid of the Minister; the Minister was afraid of the people; the people were afraid of the children, and the children weren’t afraid of anyone,” said a chairman of an Education Board.

Potential Dollar Earners

Advocating more publicity for the Jersey breed through a journal under direct control of the New Zealand Jersey .Breeders’ Association, Mr J. Smith, Cambridge, told the annual meeting of the asociation that New Zealand pedigree Jerseys were a potential source of dollars. Such a publication, together with films, codld be used for overseas publicity, he said. This would make American and other breeders aware of the high quality of the Jersey bred in New Zealand.

Preparing Pa Work of preparing the Wairaka Pa, Whakatane, for the centennary celebrations in September has been proceeding for some weeks past. The whole area has been levelled and is now being fenced. The cost for the celebrations is being borne equally by Ngatiawa sub-tribes, descendants of the crew of the Hatatua canoe. The celebrations will cover two days, ending on September 23 and will mark the 60Gth anniversary of the arrival of the Matatua canoe at Whakatane.

Cost of a Suit The total cost o'f the raw wool used to make a man’s suit costing £ls was only approximately 15/-, according to information given at a meeting of the meat and wool section of Federated Farmers. The raw wool cost 5.52 per cent of the total cost, the processing cost 17.18 per cent, and the profit margin on the cloth accounted for 3.94 per cent. The suit would cost 35.09 per cent to be made up, and the wholesale and retail mark-ups on the finished suit added together amounted to 37.27 per cent.

Feeding Cows Bay of Plenty farmers are advised that it is imperative that cows be well fed for six to eight weeks before calving. The Department of Agriculture urges that they should have access to hay at all times and that, if the is poor, they should also receive up to wenty pounds of silage each daily. Earlycalving cows should be given abo\it two hours’ grazing daily on autumn saved pasture and in addition should be fed as much silage as they will eat.