Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 88, 28 August 1950, Page 4

Local & General

House Destroyed 1 The house with contents of Mr J. Boynton, Waimana, were completely destroyed by fire last week. Mr j Boynton and his family managed | to escape without injury. Talk on Music A talk on ancient English music ! and folk song origins was given to the Rotary Club of Whakatane by Miss V. Rucroft on Tuesday evening. Miss Rucroft showed instruj ments of the period including vir- ■ ginals, spinet and wooden pipes. 1 Whakatane Less j For the first half-year of 1950, : the tonnage handled at the port of | Tauranga was 14,135, against 13,278 tons from Whakatane. At present the secretary of the Tauranga Harbour Board reports, more cargo is offering the ship Apanui than there

is space available. Wasps Again Wasps are making their appearance again in the Bay of Plenty in increasingly larger numbers than this same time last year. The Agricultural Department urges that every opportunity should be taken to destroy the insects, especially queens and nests. 77 Passed The full total of 77, who were re-examined, were successful in being passed at the annual re-exam-

ination of members of the St. John Ambulance at Whakatane on Thursday night. Members were present from the Whakatane, Edgecumbe and Board Mills Brigades. Put In Order A warning that suppliers should “put their houses in order” while dairy payouts were high because there must be a fall in prices, was issued by the chairman of the Sunny Park Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., Matamata, at the annual meeting of shareholders. The company’s payout at present was over 29d per lb., while in the years 1933 to 1935 it was little more than 9d per lb.