LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6968, 28 January 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ihe steamer Ngatiawa is due to call in here at midnight on Wednesday on her way from Auckland to Ohiwa and Opotiki. Accordiog to the Whakatano Press 900 sheep wera shipped from that district last week to tho order of Messrs W and R Ketcher (N.Z-) Ltd. Mr B P ADdrewa, local agent for the Northern Steamship Company, j left on Friday on a brief visit to Auckland, and returns on Wednesday. The Wellington Education Board decided on Wednesday morning to appeal for the exemptiou of all Second Division teachers who are drawn iv the ballot. ■ Three sharks were observed iv the ./harbour in the vicinity of the Victoria 1 Wharf ou Friday, one of the i -.vaders I. —about Bft Gia long—being event ualty captured io tbe vicinity of Mr Bruiu's slip. Another shark, about 'nine feet long, was harpooned off the Railway Wharf at Maunganui a few days ago. Bathers would do well to take warning. The vessel Kohi <'ouveyod a load of store cattle and sheep from Tauranga to Motiti Island on Friday afternoon. A residential property in Dcvonport Road (with over half-an-aere of gruuud) and another residence in Fraser Street (with over ten acres of land) are to be submitted to auction by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co, Ltd, on Thursday next. Mrs P N Christian is io receipt of the following letter from Aiuss li Norton, General isecretaiy of the Youn^' Helpers' League in connection with Dr Barnardo's Homes, Loadon: "We were very pleased to receive your kind letter aud most welcome cheque by this week's mail. It is with very great pleasure that I am sending an official receipt for £21 10.?. I need scarcely say now very much pleased we are with the very welcome amount whicb has been collected, and I shall be glad if you will kindly thank *our dear friends most warmly on our behalf. I think your members have done very weil indeed and we are irost grateful to thfrn. 1 note that you will kindly scud the receipts with the second copy of tbe draft. With kind regards, again thanking you and all our dear friends most warmly for your kind interest and help, also for your good wishes which I very sincerely recipro cate."' ■

A meeting of the committee of the Bay of Pleiity Jockey Club was held at the Bell Tea Rooms on Friday eveniag, Mr J. G. Green presiding. The Secretary (Mr J A Guinness) presented tbb balance Bheet in connection with the recent race meeting, which ah >wed a credit balance of aoout £80, with about £30 to come in yet ia members' subscriptions. A number of accounts were presented and passed for payment. Field-Marfelmll Viscount French says: "Of ail the organisations that have come into existence during the past fifty years none has done finer work, or achieved better results in all parts of the Empire, than the Salvation Army. la particular, its activities have baan of the very greatest benefit to the soldiers iv this war. " —The Salvation Army's appeal for funds in aid of their war work will open here on February 1. • Mr H Crump, who has been spending a holiday in Wellington, returned to Tauranga on Friday. The steamer Ngapuhi arrives from Auckland on Wednesday morning and sails again in the evening. While most of our readers \ull know Dr Bedford by repute, few perhaps have ever had the opportunity of hearing him lecture. His reputation as a speaker has spread far beyond New Zealand, and the announcement that, in company with the Rev. J Dawson, Secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, he will speak in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening next at 8 pm, will no doubt bo welcome news, Dr Bedford now occupies the position of Professor of Economics and History at the Otago University, and has been spending his vacation touring New Zealand to lecture on subjects of which he is a master. War, Liquor, Labour aud Revenue suggest a wide field of study and knowledge, and dealt with by two such able speakers should prove of absorbing interest to all who are able to avail themselves of the opportunity of attending the lecture on Wednesday night. - 3 The prevailing high prices for maize have encouraged many farmers and natives in this district to plant a fairly large area this season. Tho crops are looking well and there is erery indication of a good yield. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Couucil will be held to-morrow evening instead of to-night. fhe first shipment of timber cut by the Tauranga Rimu Compauy, Ltd, was sent away from this port last week, when 383,000 ft of rimu was shipped Mr C E Maomillan presided at a meeting of the show committee of the Tauranga Agricultural and Pastoral Association, which was held in th e Foresters' Hall on Friday afternoon A uotion was carried to tho effect that it be a recommendation to a general meeting of members to b 9 held on February 2, that owing to the number of members who have left the district and are at the front, the previous deoision to hold an autumn show be rescinded. The motion was carried unanimously.—The general meeting wII be held ia the Foresters' Hall at |2 20 p vi on Saturday next, fAn old resident,'with considerable [yachting experience, informs us that jhe has never seen so many sharks as now infest the harbour. Messrs H H McCarthy and Co. will hold an auction sale of household f urn iture and effects, in the estate of the late Mrs A L Faulkner to-morrow. A hack and a pony will also be submitted. The sale, which commences at 1.30 p m will ba held on the premises at the corner of First Avenue and Devonport Road. r The final results of the recent public examinations attended by the pupils of the Tauranga District High School are to hand. At the Intermediate Exam ination Arthur Roche and Joyce JJudson passed wi(h credit, while Senior Free Places have been wou by Frank Bedggoud, Hector Clarke, Edu* (xifford, Veronica Lemon, Winifred Mather, and Nita Nichols. All thesß pupils are thus entitled to another two years frco tuition at the Secondary

The fallowing Taraoalu vhiiorwar 9 spending a holiday in Tiuraag^ Messrs W JJow© (Hawera), R Luabia' (Piham-i), J Best and J Thomson (New Piymouth), a W Rcvl CStrat. ' ford) and G- Inkster (Norraauby). fij' members of the party aro enthmj a^[ bowlers and were victorious in a mat i on the local green o» Friday, xyl cay they are willing to -neet any teas' that comes al-jug. Messrs E Crow ley, J A <iuinnc>x J Torranco aud H ll Cl m.-iou j>fj by car yesterday uiormuy r> > a Y j.'j. to Napier. A brief sitting if tha CVtirt Wog held on Saturday morning, v;\\^\ native youth, eighteen ye .rs ~f a * was ehirge.J with eouinutrii^ v gi- Og^' indecent r-ct on the c'lMn;.!,"" snc ] v , convicted and ordered to <,-.-;vae unV sentence) when called on. 'u-^sr.3 J p Adams and KG iW/m, s were U,q presiding Justices. The uecessity for staking th^y^ River channel WRS very forcibly emphasised last v*ek. w h-n tho 500,000 fo.,t uf ti,.W u> £ onlysu«'o<>i'le.i in j, wnv 3^;} Qm feet, som, 200,000 foet J, e i D \ i Oi l dc(l in the two l.:st driys. Quite ; - u ., et { .{ scows and punts wore ou^a-.]," Lufc work w*" hamp'Tf.i at tip. u:,j sos j (y cue of in punts grou'iflin-.;. iho ' work of staking !h« rlnniv-] a ve-y small 0110 ami tii.> harbour hoard ) n view of the importance of tho industry will no doubt arra^o for it to U done. A quiet wedding was celebrated at ' Gisbornc on Jd^n^y last, wben Mr Sidney Oswald Guinness, thi'd *on of the late Mr F H Guimiess., of Danedin, andjAirs J G Green, of faurau-a wug married to Miss May Warren, VOUUfr . «si daughter of Mr W Warren tf Duncdin. Subsequently a nception was held at the residence of Mr and Mrs Stinsou, Salisbury Road. Mr and Mrs S O Gunmen'are spjiuiiog their honeymoon at R-.torua. * ' ' At the uieetiDir <f the skwconi. uiitieo ou Friday 1 xsi feeling refereoce was made by tlio Chairman (Mr C E Macmillan) to the deaih of Miss L M iurner, who had often assisted in the capacity of stewardess at the various shows held under the auspice of tho Taurangi Agricultural uad Pastoral Association. fihe Chairman also expressed sympathy with Mr W X Turner (one of the .issueintiou's most energetic- members) and Mrs Turner iv their sad loss. On iho inoiiou uf *lr Mactnillan, seconded by Mr Lochhead, the meeting p^sed a vote of sympathy with Mr aud Mrs Turner, the motion being adopted in iilonep, all present standing. A joiinj? tnau w(io tak^a aniutarest in boating had an unimial experience" yesterday aftornoou. Ila was engaged in bai:ing nut an lift skiff a littla below the Kedoubt iv about three feet of water, the skiff being practically submerged. Ho was proceeding with the work of bailing, uheu a sudden commotion beside the tkiff, attracted his attention. Lcokiog u> er the sido :he observed a shark turning over '' :alongside in the attitude as.-ociated'• ■hvith attack, the lengrh uf tho monster J being ajot much less than that of tho I boat. As may bo imagined tho young jmao lost no time in poling hid dinghy Ho shallow water. Most, of the sharks ?80tm in local waters iately appear to belong to tbe dangerous species known>-' 'as the blue shark. The Harbour Boards inspection of the harbour, which was to have been made to-day, fell through. At the appoiuted hour of sailing Captain A Turner (harb jurmaster) was iv attendance with his launch aud proviaioin for the VO3 ege were duly shipped, but the only members of the Board present wore Culoijul Ward aud Mr J G'Grfien. Mr Lowe (Secretary) and Hss Worship the Mayor, Mr J C Adam?, were >ko in attendance. Doubtless tbo threatening weather conditions, to some extent, accounted for the absence of other members. Those present, therefore, decided to cancel the trip. The Secretary was instructed to telephono to Kalikati informing tho Chairman (Mr G Yesey Stewart) that the trip had fallen through. The Commissioner ef Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing iv to-day's issue chat the due date of payment of the Incometax and Special War-tax is on Monday, the 28th day of January, 1918, Additional tax will accrue if the tax is cot paid oa or before 18th February, 1918. Six hundred sheep from the Te Puke district arrived at thi Whakatane freezing works on Mouday afternoon by the scow Wanderer and eight hundred came overland from Opotiki, arriving at the works on Tuesday. Mr W Brady, of Tapainoi, has notified the To Puko A. and P. Association that ho will donate a prize valued at £2 2a for the beßt fcal. sired by his v.'r.'J-known horse Formative, eutered at the autumn show, to be held next month. Sir J H Roberts was the only candidate nominated to da)' for the vacant seat 011 the Borough Council and was declared duly elected. The nominatois were Messrs CT Daidy and G Crosley. It.seems pretty certain that cocksfoot seed will rule high in.price this season once again, and that is no doubt the ■ reason why the Taranaki Farmers' Union has protested to the Kail way Department against surfacemen being allowed to bum the ripe cocksfoot growing aloug the enclosures for the lines. It wa? described as a deliberate waste of valuable bgoJ, but, nn tho other hand, if the grass were allowed to dry and ripen, there might be danger of sparks from the engines setting tire fcj the whole lot, and tho flames might spread £0 adjacent land, aud do damage for which the Department would bo held responsible. 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