TABLE TALK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 9, 18 October 1950, Page 4

TABLE TALK

No Publication Monday The Bay of Plenty Beacon will not be published next Monday, Labour Day.

Longest Highway in U.S. The longest highway across the United States extends 2653 miles from Provincetown in the State of Massachusetts to Long Beach in the State of California.

College Celebrations Christ College centennial celebrations, which are being attended by over 1000 old boys from all over New Zealand and some from Australia, opened in Christchurch recently. Presbytery’s Congratulations

Letters of thanks and congratulations will be sent by the Auckland Presbytery to the eight members ol the Government who voted against the Gaming Amendment Bill in- the House of Representatives. Canoe Cruise

Sponsored by the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association, a large party of New Zealand Scouts will make a trip down the Wanganui River from Taumarunui this summer. Last year several small parties of Scouts journeyed down the river in canoes. Investiture in Dunedin

The Mayor of Dunedin, Sir Donald Cameron, received the accolade of knighthood at a public investiture in Dunedin. Awards won by over 60 Otago and Southland residents were presented by the Gov-ernor-General, Sir Bernard Freyberg. Model Kitchen for Blind Women

Among the schemes which the New Zealand Institute for the Blind hopes to finance from its appeal next year is a model kitchen for blind housewives. A kitchen, specially designed for blind women, will be built and blind women trained in it. When they have completed their course of several weeks they will go back to their own kitchens—which will be altered, where possible, to provide exact replicas of the model.

Woman’s Fortunate Escape A woman was saved from serious injury by a Palmerston North police constable. The 5.50 Aucklandbound express was pulling out from the Palmerston North station and had already gained considerable momentum when Constable B. Arnold noticed a woman rush from the station building, throw her bag on to the carriage platform and attempt to board the moving train. She lost her footing' however, and was in the act of slipping underneath the carriage when Constable Arnold rushed forward and dragged her to safety.