Bay of Plenty Times FRIDAY, August 5th, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7764, 5 August 1921, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times FRIDAY, August sth, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Springboks will play the Southland team at Invercargill to morrow.

A reminder is given of the public meeting to be held in the Town Hall at eight o’clock this evening to consider the question of the location of the new wharf. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will hold their spring I; ci m; I'd.s at the various Bay of Plenty centres on the following dates : Opotiki, August 19 ; Whakatanc, August 22 ; Te Pul-e, August 25 and 26.

Several Opotiki residents visited Briartown the other day, and got into touch with some of tfie local crowd. The subject of the‘freezing works was broached. *'A bad job for the shareholders” said one of the Opotiki men. “Yes,” said a Briartownite, “espet rally you Opotiki fellows,; you see you’ve Ids': your money ansi have nothing, but we still have the freezing works.” "Let us hope they will not develop a v. Kite elephant,” said the Opo tiki spokesman, “or perhaps an old man of the sea.” Opotiki Herald.

The weather has been very variable this week, showers, sunshine. and wind alternating. Yesterday and to-day the wind has been blowing with the strength of a gale. An* exceptionally heavy hailstorm took place shortly after eleven o’clock this morning. The ground was covered with a thick white mantle, the hail falling for five minutes.

A half-caste and a European were arraigned at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of procuring liquor while prohibited and were each fined £3 and costs, in default fourteen days. Two Maoris were charged with entering licensed premises while prohibited, Mr Kenrick imposing a Tine of £3 and costs on each delinquent.

The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s stock sale, advertised to be held at Katikali on August 10, has been cancelled

The Auckland Education Board, at its meeting on Tuesday evening, decided to consult the committee in regard to the appointment of Mr W. Walker as teacher of (he Paengaroa school. The football match to be played on the high school reserve tomorrow afternoon, 'between the Whakatane and Tauranga representatives, promises to attract a large attendance. Each Union will be represented by a strong side, and quite-a number of those who will play against the Springboks at Rotorua on August 24, will be seen in action. It is generally conceded that there is very little between the two fifteens, and given favourable weather conditions a fast and spectacular game is looked for. Mr R. H. Phelan will control the match, which starts at two o’clock. The visitors will leave here on their return journey at 4.15 pm., catching the outward train from the Mount at five o’clock. Mr W. G. K. Kenrick, S, M., presided at a sitting of the Warden’s Court at the courthouse, Tauranga, yesterday afternoon, when Niel_W. Munro, applied for a prospecting license in respect of an area of one hundred acres of land, being part of Whakamaram No 2 Block. Tauranga Survey .District. After hearing ihe evidence of applicant the warden granted the application.

At the annual meeting of the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce, held last week, a petition organised by the Rotorua-Taupo Railway League to Parliament, was read and it was unanimously agreed that the Chamber approve of the petition, and that the executive be authorised to sign and affix the seal of the Chamber upon it.

At the meeting of thfc Rotorua Rugby Union, held on Tuesday evening. Mr W. T. Parata. president of the Bay of Plenty Union, assured the meeting that the match against the Springboks

would managed by the Bay of I Plenty Union, and that they and | the New Zealand Union would i take all responsibility. | The strong north-westerly gale | yes'erday brought down, two I telegraph poles- one near the I intersection of Edgcumbe Road I and Eleventh Avenue, and the | other in the Gate Pa district. Auckland , advices state that better supplies of maize are now available and value is about 6s to 6s 3d on the wharf in wholesale lines Australian is regularly arriving and all descriptions are selling well.

The Pacific Cable Board notifies the reinstatement "via Pacific’’of deferred rate traffic to and from America on and after August 8. The annual meeting of the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce was held at "The Australia” last week The Rotorua Chronicle in referring to the fact says . “The members attending the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night had much cause to be thankful that they were' well housed and warm, for the night was bitterly cold The action of the president in providing a warm comfortable room and refreshments is an undoubted stimulus to civic interests. Many whose agerendeis semi-midnight seances in cold, ill-lighted draughty barns a well-remember-ed terror, can discuss important matters unbiassed by cold feet and the ever-haunting fear that the morrovV will find them in bed with the doctor and trained nurse in attendance.”—The new departure in Rotorua is one that might well be followed here. Quite an army of children, under the direction of Mrs Meikle, are busily engaged preparing for the Operetta “Sleeping Beauty” which is to be staged in the Town Hall on the 25th. inst. The entertainment has been some lime in preparation but owing to other functions has had to be postpon ed. The proceeds being in aid of the fund for erecting and equipp ing a nurses’ home at the local hospital—a most necessary and deserving object there will no doubt be a full house.

Master Turner, son of Mr and Mrs F. A. Turner, while playing football yesterday had the misfortune to have one of his arm’s broken-

A Press Association message from Wellington says it was announced last evening that G. Aitken of Victoria College, would captain the All Blacks in the first test match against the Springboks.

In accordance with th a provisions of the Cemeteries Act, a meeting of owners of allotments in the Tauranga cemetery will be held on August ij, at 3,30 p.m. at the office of the Harbour Board for the purpose of electing five Trustees for the period ended September 15, 1928. A special meeting of the Trustees will be held at .the same time and place. ,

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr W, G K. Kenrick, S. M., judgment for plaintiffs was given in the following civil cases: Carmichael and Nell v C Pearson, claim for £ls 5s 4d and costs £1 13s; Tauranga County Council v C, Smith, £lO 14s' 8d and costs £1 8s; Bay of Plenty Motor Company v H. Bennett, £l9B I2s 6d and costs £8 19s 3d—By judgment summons Beale Bros, proceeded against Tatanui, who was ordered to pay £lO 103 and costs £1 is forthwith, in default fourteen days in Rotorua prison, D, Waitara was ordered to pay the same firm £8 2s and costs 15s 6d forthwith, in elefault fourteen days in Rotorua prison. Tony Barbara was also ordered to pay Beale Bros. £l4 18s 3d at the rate of £l per month. One of the fe w survivors of the battle of Waireka, Mr Robert B. Hart, died at the New Plymouth hospital last week at the advanced age ot ninety years. The trials of the early pioneering days were familiar to the,late Mr Hart, who came to New Zealand with his parents from Plymouth, England, at the age of ten years. The Post and Telegraph Department advises: Mails for Raratonga, Tahiti, and Niue Island, per the Flora, close at Auckland on Friday, August 12, at 8 a.m. Mails for Fiji, -Honolulu, Japan, Fanning Island, Canada, United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Continent of Europe, per the Niagara, close at Auckland on Tuesday, August 16, at 8 a.m.

The Tauranga Rowing Club’s two new boats have had their trial spin. The boats are easy to sit and in every way are regarded as very suitable craft for the promotion of rowing. The Club has just received two sets of Dawson oars.