Bay of Plenty Times WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27th, 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7679, 27 April 1921, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27th, 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tauranga Municipal Brass Band will assemble at the Town Hall at 7.30 this evening and will plav selections while the crowd is awaiting the election results. During the evening a collection will be taken up in aid of the uniform fund.

A meeting of the Otumoetai Branch of the Farmers’ Union will be held in the Otumoetai school at 7 30 to morrow evening. The steamer Ngapuhi is to arrive from Auckland to-morrow morning and sails at seven o'clock in the evening. She is due again on Saturday morning

A dance was held in the Oropi schoolroom on Thursday evening last, the music being supplied by Mr Kensington, songs were contributed by Miss Mason, Mrs Dunnage.andMessrsFleming.Burd and Seales. On excellent supper was provided by the ladies, and a very enjoyable evening was spent. Two sawmills are being established in the Oropi district, one in the Waoka by Messrs Marshall and Grimmer, and one at Mr Aldis’s l}v Messrs Poad and Carter.

An error crept into our report of the recepticn to ViscOunt Jellicoe- We stated that Mr C. W. Eyre was a Maori War veteran. Such is not the case Mr Eyre served in the Royal Navy for twenty-five years and rose to the rank of Sergeant Major. It is interesting to relate that he was 01 ■ the warshio Rosalia when that vessel visited Tauranga prior to the Maori War. There was then only a liquor shop and a couple of shanties in Tauranga Mr Eyre made up his mind that if ever he left England it would be to settle in Tauranga, and many years afterwards he 'tarried that resolution into effect.

The importance of the early construction of the proposed railway from Pokeno to Paeroa was urged by a deputation of Pokeno settlers that waited on Mon daymen the Hon G J. Anderson, Minister for Labour, It was stated that the district through which the proposed railway would run comprised some of the best dairying land in the Dominion. It was also stated that the new line was required to relieve the congestion on the railway between Auckland and Frankton, and that by the new route the the journey time between Auckland and Paeroa would be shortened by about four nours.

The whole of the settlers in the Welcome Bay district have joined the recently-formed branch of the Farmers’ Union there. The branch will meet at Mr F. W. Ream’s residence to-morrow evening, when a paper on top-dressing will be read.

Work on the culvert below Grassick’s cutting is progressing. The site of the former bridge has been abandoned, and the culvert is being put in to one side, and not in alignment with the road. On all sides in the Oropi district farmers are busy just now ploughing, and there is abundant evidence that the district is making good progress. Although slow there is a steady development going on of the vast area ot unproductive land within a few miles of the town.

The Judea natives have entered a senior football team for the Jordan Cup competition.

The annual- meeting of the Tauranga Harbour Board for the election of a chairman will be held on May 11. The Farmers Co-operative Auctioneering Company will hold a horse fair at Te Puke on Saturday next, when 300 horses of all classes will be offered. AFord car and a hooded buggy will also be submitted.

Messssr M. Walker and C. C. Norris presided at two brief sittings of the Court last week, when a young man was convicted and discharged ior drunkenness, and was also prohibited. For using obscene language he was fined £ land costs ss. Another offender was charged with theft from a local shop and was fined £5.

A total of 141.000 ft. of timber Was shipped irom this port last month 'by the Whakamarama Land and Timber Company and the Tauranga Rimu Company. A large quantity of material to be utilised in the construction of the new butter tactory at Tauranga is now on the ground. It is expected that building operations will be commenced' next week.

It is notified in the “Gazette” that the interest to be charged by the Government Life Insurance Department for loans on tpolicies is to be 7 per cent if the amount involved is under £iOO, and 6 per cent if the amount is £IOO or over.

All Junior footballers • who played in last Saturday’s match are requested to attend a meeting at the Northern Company’s office at 7.30 this evening.

The Hutt County Council considered the question oi the establishment of the toll gate system of collecting revenue for the maintenance of county roads. The council approved the principh.

Mr A. G. Fall well. J. P. presided at a brief 'sitting of the court on Monday, when a resident of Te Puke was fined £l and costs 3s on a charge of drunkenness

The Paroto is due here at the end of the week tu load timber for Whakatane.

Messrs J. A. Jordan, E. Chadban, and C. F. Oliver have been appointed selectors for the Tauranga Rugby Union. Mr R H. Phelan has been chosen as Tauranga selector on the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union. A meeting of all interested and willing to act as football referees ‘this season wilt he held in Mr L. j. Hall’s shop at 7.30 on Friday evening.

The municipal elections and the poll on the half-holiday question are exciting keen interest today. Motor cars are busy convey ing electors to and from the polling booths at the Town Hall and the new house next the Baptist Tabernacle. A record poll is anticipated. The poll closes at seven o’clock this evening. All the maize crops in the Ruatoki district have been destroyed by frosts. The greater part of the crops was owned by the natives, but a few Europeans are also heavy losers. Some growers had sown areas of from 20 to 75 acres, and in most instances they will not har.est the seed that was sown. The earlier crops have done well, but on the whole a large shortage is certain The May ar of Waihi, Mr D. Donaldson, rettffned to Waihi on Wednesday last from- Auckl tnd, where he attended the sitting of the Royal Commission set up to consider the question of hospital subsidies and hospital construction and administration generally. He attended as Mayor of the town, a delegate from the Waihi Hospital Board, and the representative of the Tauranga Hospital Board. By the kindness of the chairman and secretary of the commission he w'as enabled to give bis evidence when the Court re-opened on Tuesday morning. The giving of evidence and crossexamination kept Mr Donaldson for most of the forenoon. The annual meeting of subscribers of the Tauranga public library will beheld to-morrow evening.

His Lordship the Bishop of Waiapu will visit Tauranga next week, and induct the Rev. McCutcheon as Vicar of the Parish of' Tauranga on the evening of Ascension Day, Thursday next, May 51 h, at 7.30. On the following Sunday the Bishop will celebrate Holy Communion at 8 a.m., at Holy Trinity Church, and preach there again in the evening at 7. In the morning at II o’clock he will hold a service at Maungatapu. During the afternoon he will visit another of the outlying districts. The following week His Lordship will visit Te Puke, holding services there on Sunday, May 15th