Bay Of Plenty Times SATURDAY, JAN. 22nd. 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6593, 22 January 1916, Page 2

Bay Of Plenty Times SATURDAY, JAN. 22nd. 1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr H Southey Ins handed to \lr F T Davis, Secretary of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, £1 Is'on behalf of Mr A Heaton.

Hon. 77 H Herriea" and his private secretaries (Messrs Leod Johnston an^ Balneavis) will arrive from Rotorua on Thursday morning to attend the unveiling of the Ganon Jordan memorial in the domain that day.

Messrs Close Brothers, of Te Puna, shipped twenty-three light artillery and remount horses to Auckland by the Ngapuhi yesterday. The horses, which were ail bred in the Bay of Plenty, were a particularly good lot and well fitted in all respects fur the purposes for which th«y wore purchased by the Defence Departmont. j - By the Ngapuhi last night 150 'fat g sheep and lambs were shipped from ] the Mount to Auckland on behalf of Mr T Tanner.

Mr T B England, son of Mr W L England, who enlisted with the 6th. Hauraki'a (Main Body), is returning to New Zealand by the "Rotorua," due in Auckland about February 6th. He was invalided to England from the Dardanelles, and has now been sent home to New Zealand.

In our issue of Monday last appeared a list of articles made up in lauranga and despatched for the Hospital Ship Mahcno. Included in the list were 000 calico bandages made up by Mrs Poolc, from material supplied by herself and friends. Mrs Pole will he pleased to make up further supplies of these hospital r necessaries from material that those who feel so inclined may donate,

The following visitors to T. ft ''" are at present sUyiii» hf a^» Hotel :-Mi«Bww».-f:pJ*}«S Mrs Krentn, Messri F V I N d >chrdue, F^iero .; Messrs II \v ,?^ Kainni: Worth, Waih,; "*S Auckland. "1 %

The Stcrotary of \h* y p ,, and T. Association has be» n d« *' interview thn h'osident EqpmK!l^l* ask that spnrial trains bo ru /^ R.nj/dkawu and tho Mount on I > of the Show, and also that tho 1) '» mem carry stock exhibits the devious to the show at the usual 11^*' rates. reQacf(l

I»conw,ueii(v of serious and-J B : "•n^imcultiea in connection ;>"■ supply ut hessian the Colonial ? Kehniug Company has decided & continue the practice of packing ,fr rehaed smjar 8 iv .*«6ib ba»* lr substitute 701b bags in their^pujj^ The East Coas^ Guan] iln " . several cases of diphtheria 3 £* occurred in Opotiki durhj.-r ihe week or so, though forniaat^ disease does not appear to h Q n in a very severe form. Still nT^ 1 tiooary moasures are beiog taL tot.l number of eight casJa have U repoiiedto date.

According to advice from Auckl. j ihe market for maize, which had *i vanced sharply sixpence per b-, 9 h 1 is now not (juite so sirum* Sun "• have been ample, and°t| le fif price tended to check the demandlT ooLsequence of thus, businoss in'mi* has been sorj iew j u t dvl1, juhl tT maiketh as a decidedly weak ni i( w ~* dorjcj-, especially as tho wh^t mVw has ea<e i a little this weok. If plies of maize continue to cnniea'S' same rate as the Use week or t prices must certainly decline, W°;

A meeting of the General Oonj m if, P J of the Wounded Soldiers' F u , d .^| held m the Oorormim Hail lustni^ht I Present: Colonel Waid, Messrs h« Knhhioß, H A Sharp, W J B,w \ :»• .in, F A Stevens, and theSecrSar* Mr FT Davis. It was decided! apply tor an extension of two month* (to March 29th) for il.e raffle. AIS Sharp and E T Baler,- were app^L to canvass the town to pu^h the s^uf tickets, and Meesrs Baieent »^ JLJaker were deputed to confer as'tj distributing books of tickets in outsit districts. It was also decided to B^l •he assistance of the ladies in sellb. the tickets, and with that object it view a meeting of ladies will be heU on Wednesday next at •') pm. fatfe Coronation ll'ill.

"I hope that we wiil liavei'Vw soon," said th<v Prime Minister when in Christchurch on' Tuesday, " hecti the stock need it, and fcho conditionoi the stock is a 9 seiibus a problejn.n the condition of the crops. As a mat tor of fact, 1 don't know what will be coma of tke stock unless we get rain and get it soo i. It is very imported! that Canterbury should have nic within a fortnight, ■ certainly withit three weeks."

A spochl meeting of the TduraDg District High School committee ws be held at the school on Tueidt evening next at 7 ."JO. ' ■

The scow Seagull arrived- froafi Auckland yesterday afternoon witj 124 tons of coal conei^ned to thelaeaij Gas Works, and started discliargiJ! this morning. '■' M

Private Leslie Richard SiahnoJ whose funeral took place at Duuedis recently, was 30 years of'age. -H-mi aniember of the Second Reinforcement; joining at Tauranga, Bay of Pientj lie was a son of Denis and Mir? Shannon, of Westbury, Tasmaoh; '■s took part in the operitions at Qallipf until August 8, when he was invaliS back to New Zealand on the hoepfe &hip Willochra. His death occuri at the Dunedin Hospital on Janiii| 9th. Owing to Private relatives all residing in Taeaianiil was impossible for them to attend! funeral. The only relative,prestf was his sister, who arrived at Duneft a week before her brother died.

Tenders for the tease of the Ton Hall close with the Town Clerk* noon on Monday.

"The Forged Parchment,", 'tfc eleventh series of "Adventures ol Kathyln," will be screened at *

Opera House to night. A railw: drama "Man at the Key," in tw parts, shows some daring train wort The War Topical is moHt interests and shows a French armoured car fitte with aircraft guns bringing down ' German machine. Also scenes affe the bombardment, and children pill ing about their ruined homes in tt' French fighting zone. A fine conclfr sion "Kidding the Boss" by the Vifr graph, will be screened.