Bay of Plenty Time FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6302, 1 October 1915, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Time FRIDAY, OCTOBER Ist 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is expected that killing operations at the Horotiu freezing . works veil) commence in January next. Tho works will cost ovar £100,000. A. line of sixty-four fat cattle was shipped to the Whangar*i freezing works on the 23rd inst. from Whaka~ tane by Messrs Sisom and Sons, Mr Macey, Telegraph Engineer of , Auckland, is at present on an official I visit to Tauranga and i% staying at the Star hotel. The Native Land Purchase officer, Mr Bowler, returned to Whakatane last week for the purpose of completing the_ original purchases of Blocks ia the Urewera Country, and also to buy the Natives interests in the Te Whaiti and two small adjoining Mocks. A local .resident while fishing off the small etone jetty at Mount Maunganui on Wednesday last succeeded*iu catching a schnapper weighing l'Jlb. The Rev TN Griffin, who is on deputation work in respect to the annual Home Missions of the Methodist Church will speak on the question (his evening; in the Wesley Hall at 8 o'clock. Mr Grifiin will also preach in the Methodist Church next Sunday, morning and evening. The overdraft of the Borough's general account, after payment of accounts, passed at the last meeting, stands at £3,784. . Other accounts are *?o cre(^fc as under: Streets loan, £3,489; town hall loan, £3 V»92: drainage loan, £3011 Included in the visitors at the Star j hotel tfre Mr and Mrs Buddie and Mr ingram, of Auckland, ami Mr and Mrs i McCutchau of Mutata. i Accounts amounting to XIOG-3 Is were passed for payment at the last meeting of the Borough Counci I. These were distributed amongst the various I accounts as under: General account | £Ui*s 12s -Id, electricity account XM2 j l^s id, streets improvement account ! £«Jlv> 10s 7, town hall account £7. | Mr Hugh Wallace, oC Messrs LD, Nathan and Cv,, Ltd, who has been travelling for that lirun for %» years, and has just retired, was entertained by tho commercial travellers cf the North Auckland district recently, and presented with an illuminated address. The following alteration to the roll was authorised at the last meeting of tho Uoruugh Council:-~J Buckinghum to M J McCarti'Li. lot :.;ift f section 2. The application -?as ma-Jo by Messrs Shatp and Tudbope,