LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7765, 6 August 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The next conference of the New Zealand Counties Association will be held on September 28. Remits must be forwarded before August 15. The social event next week is the Bowling Club’s ball —one of the most popular events of the winter season. All the details have been delegated to efficient workers and it is predicted that the bowlers will have the pleasure of welcoming a record gathering in the Town Hall on Mo nda evening.

At the meeting of the Rotorua County Council on Mondaa.y last a letter was read from the Bay of Plenty Development League regarding the question of the Council rejoining the League.— The Council resolved to further defer consideration.

I here is no remedy for Throat ami Chest (roubles that has been tested so thoroughly and searchingly as Nazol, If gets more friends rim more it is tried. If your throat troubles you use'“Nazol.’’*

A general meeting of members of the Western Bay of Plenty Returned Soldiers’ Association will be Held in the Coronation Hall at 7.30 pm. on Saturday August 20. A social and smoke concert will follow. In order to remove from the Argentine to New Zealand a South American rancher and his family have crossed the South Atlantic to Liverpool, and will recross the same ocean and reach their new home by way of the Panama Canal. For trespassing with a gun on a bird sanctuary, one defendant in the Magistrate’s Court at Timaru was fined £2. Another was fined £6, as he had been warned tne day before.

The very wintry weather last night had a decided, effect on the attendance at the meeting called by the Mayor to consider the question of the location of the new wharf. It was resolved, therefore, by the few present to adjourn the meeting till Tuesday evening at 7-30-

The Eketahuna Borough Council has received the amount of the drainage loan (£2250) from the Advances Department. It is just fifty-three weeks (says the Eketahuna Express) since the Minister's consent to raise the loan was given, and since then the council has been busy complying with formality after formality, and answering all sorts of inquiries and objections- This loan probably goes near to constituting a record in length of time required to raise it,

A violet and spring flower afternoon wilj be held in Trinity Church Parish Hall on Thursday, August 18.

The Rotorua County Council has decided to forward the following remits to the New Zealand Counties’ Conference; more workable regulations re Native rates; amendment to Public Works Act re by laws dealing with motor traffic ; simplification of legalising of roads through Native lands; a flat rate for travelling expenses-

The Upetiki Herald says : In opposing the granting of an honorarium to the Chairman of the' Hospital Board, Mr C. Gordon, one of the Opotiki representatives, evinced a fine appreciation of public spirit. He believed, he said, that it was the duty of every citizen to help his fellow-men, and considering the Board’s work was essentially a benefit to all citizens he was against any honorarium being paid.

At the Magistrate’s Court yes terday. before Mr W. G. Kenrick, S.M., E.MLG. Maurice, a resident of Otumoetai, was charged with making a false statement on February 1 last to the Registrar of Births at Tauranga in connection with the certificate relating to the burial of accused’s deceased wife, in which accused stated there were two other householders present besides himself, whereas such was not the case. Senior-SergeantO’Grady of Waihi prosecuted. Mr Tudhope, for accused entered a plea of guilty, and Maurice was committed to the Supreme Court, Auckland, for sentence.

The AARD motor service have been notified that they are the successful tenderers for the mail service between Whakatane and Rotorua. The service will be in full swing within a few days. By this route mails from Whakatane will daily go through Rotorua to Frankton Junction, and from there will be distributed north and south. It is quite likely that the whole of the mails will be -concentrated on this route and the Tauranga route will be abandoned. Whakatane Press.

The Rev. E. A. McCutcheon will speak at the prayer meeting at the Baptist Tabernacle tonight. The Illustrations in this week’s issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Review cover a variety of subjects that should attract popular attention. Included in the list are the Auckland ladies’ golf championship at the Middlemore links, the Springboks’ match against Wellington, the Royal naval and military tournament in London, the Stadium where Dempsey defeated Carpentier, and a miscellaneous series of photographs representing different phases of sport and the stage.

Advices received here this morning stated that the Whakatane representative footballers are on their way to Tauranga and will be in a position to place a very strong fifteen in the field against the Tauranga representatives this afternoon. The game will be played on the High School reserve and commences at two o’clock.

Persons who are concerned with the butter trade think that, as the London market is firming, there is a greater likelihood of the New Zealand Government control being continued. Whether that is a good thing is a subject on which there is a division of opinion, says the Dunedin‘‘Star.”

People subject to Bronchitis will find this method of using Nazol - - lo give them wonderful relief. Mix 15 to 20 drops of Nazol with small teaspoonful of Pure Olive Oil—and nth it freely and gently all over the chest and between the shouldersand round the throat and neck and then cover with flannel or silk handkerchief. Do this night and morning tor 2 or 3 days. Its effect- will be wonderful. For very young children use only 10 to 12 drops of Nazol.*

Although the meeting tn k held on Tuesday afternoon nJS in connection with the road t Matamata is in the nature of l ° conference of delegates from th! local bodies, ye, .he queS' of such importance to the town and district that the general public will be welcomed at thl meeting. There will be preset delegates appointed by th Borough and County dls. Kaimai Branch 0 f 1 Farmers’ Union, Chamber Jf Commerce, and Businessm-* Association. s

Senisi-.bcrgeam O'Grady Waihi, who attended the Jn; 1 of the Magistrate's Coer,™" 8 day, left on his return this ZZ

The Tauranga Musical <? n cietys orchestra was tr. j, played at the hospital to- mor „ yc afternoon, but owing presence of two cases of m , at the institution are unafe 00 so. 10

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An interesting wedding wa . solemnized on Thursday at the Maor, Chttrch. Ohinentutu, wheS iln?r E,Royal ’ ofthe Native Land Court staff, and a wellknown footballer, was united in marriage with Miss Puhi Taiaroa grand-daughter of the late Hons. H. K. Taiaroa and T. H- Parata. Ihe ceremony was performed bv the Rev, Paroa Temuera.

MrT W AtlwQQd. President of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation, is visiting X au . ranga and is staying at the Commercial Hotel. He will be pleased to meet all who are interested in fruitgrowing on Tuesday afternoon in the Borough Council Chambers, when the committee of the Citrus and Fruitgrowers’ Association will hold a meeting.

The advantages of cheap electricity. At Vargo, in Sweden, there is a paper mill operated entirely by electricity. Not a bit of coal or other fuel is used, whereas under old conditions 20,000 tons annually were required. The boiler house contains seven electric boilers each of 300 h.p, and the current enters the boilers at a pressure of 10,000 volts. Full steam pressure can be raised in from five to ten minutes after switching on the current, and considerable economy in attendance is obtained, as compared with coal firing.