READERS CONSIDER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 16, 6 November 1950, Page 4

READERS CONSIDER

Annual Clean-Up The Whakatane Beautifying Society’s annual clean-up at the Heads will take place next Saturday. Will Appear Tomorrow 'On charges arising from alleged escape from custody and conversion of motor vehicles at Whakatane, Wiki Mokomoko, 18, and Alfred Thompson, 18, appeared in the Tauranga Court on Friday. They were remanded to appear at Whakatane tomorrow.

Cancelled Out By Costs Steadily rising costs were more than canceling out the benefits derived from the overall increase in the trade of the Port of Napier, said Mr E. J. Herick, in his annual report as chairman to the Napier Harbour Board. Revenue for the year ended September 30, 1950, totalled £173,967, and expenditure £156,978, leaving an excess of revenue of £16,989, he said.

Indoor Bowls The Board Mill Social Club scored 2/9, 4/10, 5/7 to gain a decisive win over the Legion of Frontiersmen indoor bowling team which challenged them for the St. John Indoor Bowling Shield on Thursday evening. The Board Mill team was S. Butcher, K. Hannah, W. Smith and W. Howat (s) and the Legion players H. Wyatt, A. G. Judd, W. Tyssen and E. R. Hunt.

N.Z. Research Workers Two New Zealand research workers will sail with the National Institute of Oceanography’s research ship Discovery II when she leaves Wellington for work on the ice edge. They are Lieutenant B. M. Barry, a member of the Defence Scientific Corps, and Mr W. H. Dawbin, lecturer in zoology at Victoria University College. The Discovery II will spend about five weeks on the cruise.

Extending Napier’s Breakwater Eight 12ft. sections of the extension of the Napier Breakwater were constructed in the past 12 months, bringing the total length of the structure to 3170 ft. For this work 532 concrete blocks, aggregating 14,748 tons, were used. Now able to get bigger shipments of cement from overseas, : the Napier Harbour Board has built a new storage shed in its blockyard and has increased the moulding plant. The July output was 1690 tons of blocks, the highest for any month since the extension was started.

Old Houses Must Give Way Sooner or later business organisations will have to be allowed to build new premises on sites now “cluttered up with small tenanted cottages which have outlived their economic life.” Indeed, a curious valuation problem has arisen in recent years in that a vacant commercial site is worth more to a buyer than one with several occupied houses on it. These views were expressed by the secretary of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers, Mr R. H. Rolle, when referirng to recent comment on the estimated rise in property prices since the removal of land sales controls.