Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY JULY 26, 1920 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7459, 26 July 1920, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY JULY 26, 1920 LOCAL AND GENERAL

The vessel Parolo arrived from | Opotiki on Friday night with a ! Load of posts. She is now taki ig in 55,000 ft of timber for Whakatane. Messrs H- H. McCarthy and Co w ill hold a clearing sale to-mor-row,, on account of Mr D. Elliot, on the premises near the show ground. A bus will leave the Strand at 12.30, and the sale commences at one o'clock.

Mr R. Malcolm, Oinnnawa Falls, disoosed of a choice line of

seventy three-year-old springing heifers, on behalf of Messrs G A Gamrnan and Co., to two Wrukato dairymen on Monday last. The same buyers purchased fifty-one ot MrGamman's heifers last year. Mr R. Burke, Messrs Dalgety and Co's agent, negotiated the sale.

The launch Aviator, formerly the Fleet wing, which was purchased in Auckland by Mr \V. F. Sinclair, owner of the Matakana Estate, arrived here on Saiurdav, and attracted considerable attention during her spins up and down the harbour. She is iitted with a 30 h.p. Cadillac engine, and has a speed of eighteen miles per hour.

The Grafton footballers, after their match at Te Puke on Saturday, came on to Tauranga to join the Ngapuhi and spent an hour here prior to the sailing of the steamer. They were met by officials of the Tauranga Rugby Union and local friends. The Tauranga hockey team which is to compete in the White Horse Cup also left by the Ngapuhi, a large crowd being present on the wharf to wish the boys a happy time and success in their efforts to capture the Cup.

The East Coast Shipping Com pany's vessel Isabella de Frame arrived here at 1 1 a.m. on Saturday from Auckland and Whangarei with general cargo and 140 tons of cement, the latter being shipped from the Dominion Works, Whangarei The Isabella de Frame is due to leave for Auckland to-morrow evening.

A general meeting of the Tauranga Ladies Hockey Club will be held at 7 o'clock this evening in Mr Poole's dental rooms. A full attendance is requested.

A special meeting of the Tauranga Acclimatization Society was held in Mr Baigent's office on Friday evening, Mr A- Brown presiding. It was decided to purchase from the Hawera Acclimatization Society five hundred yearling perch for liberation in suitable streams in this district. It is expected that the fish will reach here on Thursday next. Practically all the work in connection with the loading and unloading of the Northern Steamship Company's vessels at Tauranga is carried out by local natives, and some of these are making very good wages, the scale being 2s 3d per hour ordinary time, 3s lid per hour on Saturday afternoons, and 3s 4d per hour overtime. At ' eight o'clock on Saturday morning last about a dozen Maoris engaged to work the Ngapuhi. After three quarters of an hour, the acting secretary of the local Waterside Workers' Union raised certain objections as to the number of men employed in-the ship's after hold. Mr Andrews, agent for the Company, contended that there was no breach of agreement, whereupon the whole of the Maoris and two Europeans ceace f work. The unloading of the zhlv), ]. 7;ever, proceeded with volunteer labour- Eventually the acting secretary of the Union, | apparently satisfied himself that there was no breach by the Com- i pany. and the unionists resumed work'at I p.m. The Ngapuhi sail ed for Auckland at the scheduled time, seven o'clocki The dredge No 121, which has been chartered by the Tauranga Harbour Board for dredging the Stella Channel, made a start on Friday with the dredging work southward of Maketu Mound. About 100 tons of material was lifted in about twenty minutes, and everything worked satisfactorily. Owing to the* damp nature of the quarters set apart for the crew it has been decided to billet the men ashore, and arrangements in this direction were completed on Saturday. Dredging operations were resumed this morning.

The Grafton (Auckland) Football Club's representatives visited Te Puke on Saturday, travelling by the Ngapuhi to the iVlount and thence by train to Te Puke. On arrival at Te Puke the visitors were welcomed by the Chairman of the Town Board, and prior to the match were entertained to dinner by the Te Puke Rugby Union. The game was open, fast and vigorous, and resulted in a draw — three points each. E. Nixon, a notable Auckland threequarter, scored for the visitors, and the kick at goal failed. The

Ie Puke try, which was not converted, was registered by one ot the forwards. The Te Puke backs showed better combination than the visitors, but the Grafton forwards were superior to the opposing vanguard. Boucher. Torrance and Gardiner were conspicuous for Te Puke, whileNixon, Hughes, Moore, Nichols, and Dobson were 'the most prominent of the visiting team Mr R. H. Phelan, of Tauranna', •earned out the duties of referee in a strict and impartial manner.

—— t A special general meeting of the Tauranga Tradesmen's Asso ciation will he held m Mr B.iigcnt'<; office at 7.30 to-monovr jj night to consider the cjuestioaof $% a half-holiday on Saturday next -|! on the occasion of the Auckland- V Bay of Plenty football nntch at g Tauranga. . 1%. The Jordan ' Cup competition %& was continued on Saturday when $x Matakana defeated ;Tc Puna, £7 after a vigorous game, by three f=* points to nil. Howard kicked a penalty goal for the winners. Mr ; L Fall well was referee. Tauranga . triumphed over Welcome Bay By - 12 points to nil, scores being , /r registered by E. Munro,-]. Don, D. Mansel and B. Scyb. The :, Tauranga-Cadets beat Welcome S\ Bay Juniors by 33 points toB. fJ Mr Houghton was referee for the \p two last mentioned games. ,y Mr A. C. Owen, 8.E., A.M.I.E.E, || M.A.M.1.E.E., district electrical gj engineer, Canterbury, which in- pj eludes the Lake Coleridge power system is relinquishing that pos- j| ition to join Messrs Bl;iir Mason and Lee, marine and hydraulic g engineers, New Plymouth. The |? comprehensive practical experience of this expert should bea CJ great advantage to the firm,^ S well as to districts requiring tbeif p professional servirrs. It mayte*, mentioned that Messrs . BUir fj Mason and Lee are consulting f; engineers to the Tauranga Har f^ bour Board. fv. Attention is drawn to the X football coupon at the fa* ?Z of page one. The expense^ of such . a match as_ that of Saturday next, wheniftao-fc, ditior. to the f.-xpenscs of t»e |£ i Auckland team there is the cosl g !of bringiniTmembers »f the B3J of Plenty team from Rotoruaano other centres in the Bay, is coll"|| siderable, and quite beyond tn-g ordinary rcsoiuce-s of the Tajf gj anga Rugby Union, on whom)BJ |; I burden rests. That the UnWj |; has undertaken the ■ responsij ility for the match is very g^1 |T fying, and of distinct advantag to the game in Tauranga, an - the public should certauw g accord them very liberal m* g| cial simport. To help as much' 5 possible in this direction, anOj J give "sports'' a livelier interest the match, the competition ltT^ cated in the coupon is being ? J ? All the proceeds go to the H^g the prize money having beend j| ranged for. 'M