Bay of Plenty Times. THURSDAY, APRIL 21st 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7675, 21 April 1921, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. THURSDAY, APRIL 21st 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Government Reamer Tutanekai (Captain Post) which arrived from Gisborne yesterday morning, berthed at the Town Wharf at four o’clock yesterday afternoon. Later she went out into the stream. His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Jellicoe, will make his headquarters aboard the steamer during his stay here. The Tutanekai is due to leave for Thames to-morrow, afterwards proce< ding with His Excellency to Whangarei and the north.

The official opening of the golf links at Gate Pa will take place on Saturday next. A meeting of the management committee of the Whakatane Rugby Union was held last Saturday, when a new system for playing matches for the coming sea on was discussed. A new club, Paroa, was affiliated, making eight clubs in the Union. The county was divided into two divisions, east and west. The east division includes Whakatane, Taneatua< Ruatoki and Waimana, and the west Poro Poro, Matata, Thornton and Pa roa •

Members of the Tauranga Municipal Brass Band are requested to meet at the Coronation Hall at seven o’clock sharp tonight for the purpose of partici pating in the reception to His Excellency the Governor-General Viscount Jellicoe. Mr L. Paynter, orchard instructor, arrived here yesterday on an official visit and leaves for Rotorua to-morrow. -

Owing to the 25th inst. being a holiday the steamer Ngapuhi will make only two trips next week between Tauranga and Auckland, leaving Tauranga n Thursday and Saturday A meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be held to-morrow.

The Northern Company’s vessel Paroto left for Opotiki yesterday with a load of 55iO°° ft. of timber.

The appointmentment is announced of Mr N. T. Lambourae as inspector of schools in Auckland.

Mr R. C. Pollock, Crown lands ranger at Te Aroha, has been appointed supervisor under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act for Auckland district, with headquarters at Hamilton. According to the Whakatane Press there is every likelihood of two more bakeries being in running order in Whakatane presently.

A general meeting of the Western Bay of Plenty Returned Soldiers Association will be held in the supper room of the Town Hall at eight o’clock to-morrow evening. The meeting is to deal with further remits for the Auckland Conference. A memberAs to be elected to the committee, and general business will also be transacted.

Two very fine pedigree Berkshire pigs—a boar and a sow — arrived here on Saturday to the order of MrJ[. S. Thompson, of Otumoetai. The boar, Kai Nui Chief, which is sixteen months old, was bred by Mr James McFarlane, of Feilding, and is a descendant of imported stock. Kai Nui Chief is a prize winner at Auckland and Hamilton shows The sow is named Dominion Refrain. She was bred at the Rilakura Farm, and boasts of very aristocratic lineage. She was awarded second prize at the last Auckland show for sow under six months. The two pigs were purchased at big prices. It is Mr Thompson’s intention to establish a purebred piggery, and he will have choice stock fcr sale in the near future.

Lady Jellicoe will leave Auckland towards the end of the week to meet Lord Jeilicoe at the Thames, and from there they will journey together to the North, leaving by the Tutanekai next Monday afternoon, to arrive in Whangarei on Tuesday morning. They will visit Whangarei, Russell and Whangaroa. The annual meeting of subscribers of the Tauranga public library will be held in the Borough Council Chambers at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday next. The annual report and balance sheet will be submitted, officers will be elected, and general business transacted.

A Masterton lady has just presented her husband with the third set of twins. Apropos of this comes a prediction from an American paper that, the country will be Hooded with twins, triplets, and quadruplets during the next six years. Professor Charles Kirschog, a Milwoukee astrologer, states that the conjunction

of certain stars with the new moon shows conclusively that the world will be startled by the fecundity of all human races, during the next four years especially. The premises on which these conclusions are founded, he said, were laid down by I lie ancients. Professor Kirschoff said he some time ago gave up his contracting business, and now devotes his entire time to the study of die stars in the attic of his home ar Milwaukee.

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The decision of the Telegraph Department to observe Sunday hours on Monday next means that offices will only be opened from 10 to 1030 in the morning, and from 5 to 5.30 ir\ the evening. Those offices not usually opened on Sunday will not be open at all.

Mr Robbins, a candidate for the mayoralty, will address the burgesses in the Town Hall tomorrow evening. Mr B. Dive, the sitting mayor, will speak from the balcony of the Star Hotel on Saturday evening. Owing to an amendment to the Education Act of 1920, which provides that for schools with an average of over 120, nominations fur the election of a school committee must close a week previous to the date of the election, nominations for committeemen for the Tauranga District high School Committee close next Monday. The householders’ meeting, at which the election for committeemen will take place, has been called for May 2, at the school.

The weekly meeting of. the Tauranga Rugby Union will be held in MrC. Norris’s office on Saturday evening at 8.30 All those who are interested in football and who are willing to act as referees, are invited to attend the meeting with a view to forming a Referees’ Association. One of the latest business departures in the town is that of Messrs Belton, Bartlett and Co., who have commenced as builders and house decorators. Mr Bartlett comes from Gisborne, where he has had considerable expedence as a builder. Mr Belton has only been a few months in the Dominion, having arrived from England in December last. He had previously been in business at Aldershot, and has had considerable experience in decorating, both in England and on the Con tinent, having served a portion of his apprenticeship in Paris. Mr Belton’s address is Cameron Road between Spring and Elizabeth Streets.

The firm of Coates, of Auckland notify to-day the prices which they are paying for baconersand porkers.

The Isabella de Fraine will loaa cargo at Auckland for Tauranga and Mount on Friday and Saturday.