Bay of Plenty Times. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1918. ANZAC BAY PICNIC.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6970, 1 February 1918, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IST, 1918. ANZAC BAY PICNIC.

O,• reader* will no ffce in the iep^rt of?!. Anzac Kay picuic that Mr Geo Ve.'t;* Stewart waxes very iudi^jumt that :•.part from himself to member of ih») L; m t our Board, or of the Bo.ough ('•iiKif . saw fit to attend the annual ! utin^ )£ the Katikati .U-iad Board on Mi.niiav last. Tha* infiicnatiun might ii iv.) :,. vie j .lstificb'i '•; were the cir cumsoances as stated by Sir Stewart, biiw sinfcrhirif ~fA? for him they are not.

In ,fi ticst i-l-i.-o uv cjut-^tiviu very itjuc liie propriety of the Harbour J3o.ii i sanctioßing ;he <'Xj)OT<«y of a niou- launch to rvuvay m.-uibpn if the iioard to this aunuui picnic under the guise of inspecting the harbour. What there is to inspect iv a direct run from Tauranga to the Bowentown i cads we must leave Mr Stewart to xj.'Jajn. To us, aud we feel sure to . tactically all the members of the iJosrcJ, its necessity and utility are not .iipp&rent. Fo far as wo can ascertain tho ouly mouiber of the Board who turned up on Monday morning to make the trip was Colonel Weird, and ho no doubt did so out of courtesy to the chairman, for his familiarity with the harbour is quite Hilliciont to enable him to deal intelligently with any mßtter concerning the upper rescues of the harbour that may oriae without any inspection of the kind that Monday's trip would have afforded. But with this aspect of the matter we are not much concerned What does concern us is Mr Stewart's statement that the Tauranga Borough waa not represented, officißlly or otherwise; The fact is, as Mr Stewart well knows, that the Borough was represented in the person of Or Whiting, a gentleman the electors saw fit to placo at the top of the poll tit the last election, and whom his fellow '-■ouiiciilors have seen fit to appoint as Deputy Mayor. We have Or Whiting's word for it that Mr Stewart was well awaro cf his presence, but for once apparently failed to extend to the Borough's representative that courtesy which is uut foreign to his nature. As i--> the weather conditions, and the fact tint tho hnujtih did not make the trip, th« few goiulemou who gathered on the wharf early on Monday morning, decided not to venture, and we oan only regard ilia decision as a wise one, Mr Stewart's reading of the weather , indications notwithstanding. Had they K«nie the party would most certainly, iv vi*s\v of t.';e log which settled over the harbour shortly after 5 pm, have spent an unpleasant nigut somewhere botweon Bowentowu heads aud Tauranga. This is all somewhat of a storm in a teacup, but wo fdl to see why Mr Stewart's eothu&iasm for his picoic and the absence of a large party from Tauranga, should b.ind him to the fact that Tauraogti's Deputy-Mayor was present, and was distinctly snubbed for his trouble.