Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 7538, 15 November 1920, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A special meeting of ratepayers of the Judea Drainage Board district will be held in the Coronation Hall at 2 p.m. on Saturday Novembi r 27. The business is to consider the nominations of new Trustees. Those who intend entering for the cottage garden competition that is being promoted by the Beautifying Society should bear in mind that entries close to-day with the Secretary, P.O. Box 22. There are three prizes, and the aw*ards will be made after three inspections by the judges. Ihe Northern Steam Ship Com pany notifies a slight increase in freight rates consequent on the extraordinary rise in wages, coal, ship's stores, etc. Messrs F. Burt, A. Peebles and J. W. Simmer have been elected to represent the Whakatane County on the Bay of Plenty Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The Ngatiawa is due to reach the Mount at seven o'clock tomorrow morning. She works cargo at the Mount in the morning and is expected at the Town Wharf at 2 p.m., sailing for Auckland at 5 p.m.

At the last meeting of the Rotorua County Council a letter was read from Mr E. Murray, on behalf of himself and others, asking the Council to grant them permission to erect a new line of telephone poles on the Matai Road.—Permission was granted subject to the usual conditions, with the proviso that should any further party require a line, the first party shall give permission on the payment of reasonable compensation.

The Farmers' Auctioneering Company will hold a stock sale in their Te Puke yards to morro-v. The firm holds a sale at Awaka ponga on Wednesday and at Mangaroa on Friday.

A memorandum has been addressed by the Treasury to heads of departments on the subject of the bonus to be paid to persons in receipt of pensions and superannuation allowances under £100 a year. The maximum bonus payable is £40. but in no case is the amount of the pension or allowance, with the bonus added, to be sufficient to make the total more than £100. Widows are to get £26 in addition to their present pension, with £20 for each child. The payments will commence from April r, 1920, and must not be continued after March 31, 1921. *

A garden fete in connection with the Baptist Tabernacle will be held in the grounds of Mrs Tutchen, Eleventh Avenue, on" December 2. A special meeting of the Tauranga Borough Council will be held this evening to consider matters in connection with a proposal to raise a loan for metalling. The Paroto left for Whnkatane on Friday night, with 53,000 ft of timber shipped by the Tauranga Rimu'Company. The Torea leaves to-night for the Rangitaiki with a full load of general cargo. Auckland advices state' that heavier supplies of maize from the coast and abroad, combined with a decreased demand, keep the market weak at 8s o,d on the wharf in wholesale lines.

The Minister of Public Works has advised the Rotorua County Council that he does not approve of amending the Public Works Act to introduce toll gates, for Rotorua.

The Public Works Department has written to the Rotorua County Council offering tc contribute the sum of £260 (£ for £) out of the flood damage vote towards the restoration of the damage on Maniatutu, Mangatoi, Puwhenua, Pikowai,- Valley and Clayton Roads.

j The work of making a revaluation of the Borough has been commenced by Mr H. H. Clemson. '

A Parliamentary tour is being organisedbv Mr K. S. Williams to_ visit the East Coast. The party will leave Napier early in the New Year for Wairoa and Waikaremoana and then on to Poverty Bay and the Coast. The object of the visit is to give members a demonstration of the need for development in the district.

The Whalcalde Rowing Club has commenced operations for the current season. The Club has purchased a new racing boat in Wellington.

The East Coast Shipping Com-

pany's vessel Isabella de Fraine is expected to load cargo in Auckland for Tauranga and the Mount to-morrow and Wednesday.

The electric current was cut off last night from. 10.30 until 4a.m. so as to allaw repairs being effected to the main transmission line five miles from Omanawa, the severe gale having chafed one of the main wires off an insulator. Sander and Son's Eucalypti Extract