Bay of Plenty Times. TUESDAY, June 28th, 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7731, 28 June 1921, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. TUESDAY, June 28th, 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

There is nowon \iSvv a- Major Mirrielees’ pharmacy the Tauranga Deience Rifle Club’s Memorial Cup. The trophy is of silver, about twelve inches high, standing on an ebony plinth, surrounded at the base with miniature shields. It is neatly engraved, and bears the names of the five members of the Club who made the supreme sacrifice in the great war; also, the names of all the members who served at tne front. The trophy is to be fired for annually, but no member is allowed to hold it for more than one year, as it is to remain the property of the Club for all time. The first winner is Rifleman Harold Oliver, whose name is also inscribed on a shield. The final for the Kusabs’ Cup is to be ' played between Tauranga and Rotorua on Saturday, July 9. = A corrective ; Briartown’s liter ary organ characterises our article on the Harbour Board as “a spiteful slap.” Quite wrong: we have a huge amount of regard for Briartown, but we perceive that it is just like the “bold bac hoy” who requires to be laic across someone’s knees anc whacked into a sense of decen behaviour. Briartown is all right generally, but it some time age acquired several conscienceless brigands who must be exterrain ated before it can hold up it: head and “look the whole work in the face!”—Opotiki Herald. Mails for Samoa and PagoPago per Waikawa,. now close a Auckland on Friday, July 1, at 10.45 a. m. The Opotiki Herald says thi Acclimatization Society has 01 order 108,000 rainbow fry fron the Tourist Department at Rotorua. They are expected to arrivt about the beginning of August and will be liberated in the loca streams. / - A. meeting of the cxccutivi comnrtlee of the Tauranga Baw ling Club will be held at tin office of the Secretary, Mr B. C Robbins, on Thursday evenin' next at 7.30. A Bay of Plenty Times reporte was informed at Te Puke 0 ... Saturday that a boxing school i to be started there within a fev .a weeks, with Messrs W. A- Voic* ;m and B. Trevveek as tutors. Th former has had considerable cx l(j perience as a boxing instructo ~ at Palmerston North, Waverley h ’ Levin, and Southland, while M freweek is a boxing exponent o r> more than average ability. It i: anticipated that about thirty pupils will join the school, in eluding the well-known athlete Mr George Gardiner, who i: iQ already being coached by Messr: }i 4 Voice and Trewcek. When thi Tauranga Boxing Associ >tion is established there should be som< keen sporting contests with tin Tc Puke boxers. A telegram was received by Messrs Guinness Bros, last night 1 from the Gane Milking Machine Proprietary intimating that theii L , stocks were not affected by the A fire in their building in Auckland n on Sunday last and the Company is carrying on as usual. The suitability of the soil of Otumoetai for the production of root crops is exemplified by an exhibit of “Matchless White” carrots in Messrs Mountfort and Baker’s store. The carrots were grown on Mr H. Monro’s property from Cooper’s seeds supplied by Messrs Mountfort ana Baker, Ltd. One of the largest roots weighed 61bs. when pulled and has a crown c.rcumference of eighteen inches. It is estimated that Mr Monro will secure a yield equal to fifty tons to the acre, and the crop goes to prove the great stock-feeding value of the “Matchless While.” An Australian mail is on board the Marama, which left Sydney on Saturday and should arrive at Wellington to night or to marrow morning. The heaviest frost of the season wasregistered last night and was followed to-day by beautifully fine weather. Mr C. P. Agar, in challenging Dr Thacker to resign the Christchurch Mayoralty and re-contest it, offers to pay the cost of the election if defeated. " 0 JT’ ON ITS OWN ” That’s what everybody says about McCallum’s “Perfection Whiskey. It’s the old Scotch Whiskey with the rich, mellow flavour which is the result ot years of maturing “in the wood”. This superb flavour is not found in any othebrand upon the market. People -who have used “Perfection” Whiskey for year'--know, just as the man who tastes it: for the first time knows, that it has no equal Wholesale Agents, Oooke k Co., Albe. t St:, Auckland.