LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume L, Issue 7954, 5 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Bay of Plenty Development League has convened a confer- , ence of delegates from local bodies in the Bay of Plenty, to be held at Tauranga on April 29, ' to consider the question of a comprehensive reading scheme for the Bjy of Plenty. After the conference an executive meeting of the League will be held to transact general business. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie will visit Whakatane to-morrow, ar- , riving from Rotorua during the | afternoon. On Friday he leaves j for Thornton, Matata, and the Waihi Sv amp, returning to Rotorua that evening. Mr F. F. ' Hocklv, M.P., will accompany the Minister. 1 Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, President of the New . Zealand Returned Soldiers’ As : scciation, will arrive in Tauranga ; this week. He will attend the annual meeting of the Western ■ Bay of Plenty Returned boldiers’ Association on Saturday night and will address a public meeting , on Monday next. 1 Tenders for no less than ten contracts in various parts of Tau- ; ranga County will close with the ; County Council at noon on ■ Friday next. The steamer Ngatiawa is due to call in here at eleven o’clock 1 to-night on her way from Auckland to Opotiki. On the Brink : Bi iartown at the present moment is experiencing another little crisis. According to the local organ of light, it is just on the brink of stagnation, and only a forward harbour policy can save it from toppling over. We do hope for Briartown’s sake it does not contemplate sinking any more thousands in the vain hope of making itself the port for the Bay of Plenty. Briartown needs to go slow for a bit and not increase the huge burden under which it is now groaning.— Opotiki Herald It was intended to have played a match to-morrow between the Welcome Bay and Kiwi Hockey Clubs, but owing to the boating races and other circumstances the game has been abandoned, A consignment of seventy-five *at pigs, purchased in the eastern portion of the county, was shipped to Auckland by the Ngapuhi last night. ( The auxiliary vessel Torco arrived from the Rangitaiki yesterday morning with a load of one hundred bales of fibre and 170 sacks of maize, which were transhipped to the Ngapuhi for Auckland. The forea went on the hard yesterday afternoon to have a new propeller fitted and leaves for the Rangitaiki to night, , A sitting of the court was held on Monday before Messrs B. C. Robbins and W. T. Teasey, J.P’s., when a man named Alexander Hearne was charged with vagrancy and was sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment. A ! prohibition order was issued | against a local resident. A message from Te Puke says local farmers are concerned over the regulations recently gazetted in respect to cattle tick. These are regarded as altogether too drastic, and are viewed with alarm. The chief objection is in regard to dipping cattle every 21 days, which undoubtedly would inflict great hardship on both graziers and dairymen. The Tairanga Yacht and Power Boat Club will hold their final set ies of races for the season to-morrow afternoon. There will be races for first, second and third-class sailing ve.-sels and two launch races—one for vessels over seven knots and the other for launches seven knots and un der. The first race starts at 2.30 , p.rn. i .'i liij'.'i.tij/ca, til.. Wcoig’ C-jvut l*c{»|:w,uiut.Cttre, 1

Town Hall last night *5 Cein th ( *j 1 a r audience was*tSfSji evening’s fun and merr ; to< Mu(s# the parts were well n SU!i$ and the company awin U| *d ed the fact brightest travelling sh n . e^ f ft e |{; visit Tauranga. SSho * s llia t i Mr Stackpoolc, of i|, e m,.. I Electric and I pany, Ltd., of day made a valuation fi stocks of the Borough el? t °t ■ t!ii department. ThST* c »t| earned out in conformity 1.n 5 pievtous resolution of the‘ c JJ| Mr C. He?, of T auran • roce.pt of a letter froS'x? Rukutai, of Auckland, j™ .? r Ito League football matted the course of l,l s rtm £ It kukutai says: “It would k‘ ! grand thing if the i were taken up in TauraN'T also says he has heanlalVai ( I Barrell, Gardiner and t^ ! | three other local player . 0 * I concludes: “ Ever since I back Iron, Australia last S( {: 1 have been organ sin«- a, £ Maori footballers to t ■ traha some time this Ve ar i have already received an tion from New South \y£ ' take a team over there.’ With select four or five players *"£ six and submit Of course find out it they be prepared to go if selected t l ' itinerary has not yet beendJ . up. Will do so after I have n*.! the New South Waits dele™?- ; - in Auckland on April n." w Our attention has been ca’y to the fact that some thoughts I children have been scribblb I with coloured crayons on the I scii bed marble slabs of the! Memorial Gates at the entrance! to the Domain. To guard again J a repetition of such unseemly di I figurement, it would be well all school teachers and parents lo I point out to the children' under I their care that they should protect I and cherish rather than disfigure \ and mutilate this sacred memorial | of those to whom they owe so | much, I Amending regulations under I the Discharged Soldiers’Settle* I ment Act have been gazetted, | providing that in any case where the board is of opinion tint ih c | / estimated probable life of. a dwelling, by reason of its being s constructed of brick or concrete, I is sufficient to justify the.repay* ■ ment of the moneys advanced i therefor over a longer period than | 1 that already provided, the Minis* I ter may, on a special recommen* | 1 dation made by. the board, I authorise the repayment over a | period of thirty-six years and a I half of the moneys so advanced, I In such a case, every half-yearly I instalment shall consist partly of \ interest. A similar proviso is I made for the extension of i period in the case of other build* ings whose estimated life is held | 1 to justify it., I Word was received by MrW. E. Parnham yesterday that the Rev. J J. Lewis, a, time-honoured and able preacher' of the Methodist Church, had consent* , ed to temporarily fill the Tan* I ranga pulpit. We understand | that there is great rejoicing b Methodist circles, A Press Association teleg'aa from Wellington says that tit Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes slated yesterday that it has _ beet decided to suspend the sittings of the War Pensions Medical Appeal Board as from May jl next. It has been found that the number of appeals to k dealt with does not justify & permanency of the Board, At the last meeting of tit Rotorua County Council a letter | was read from the Manawahe | branch of the Farmers’ Unto, I asking to have scrub cut on IM | Pikowai South Road, It resolved that the matter be Ictt in the hands of the county gineer to deal with, The Opotiki Herald states tint a local settler who has bees compelled to quit his faring said to have left £30,000 hd® I him. I The East Coast pany’s auxiliary schooner Homo arrived at Tauranga at noon today and will sail for A uc f a 3 ; to-niorrow afternoon. Mr James Jordan, clerk ofjJ« Magistrate’s Court at New J mouth, who was associated the Warden’s Court at the days of the goldish* % retired after thirty-seven y service. Rev. V. S. Mercer returned to . Tauranga on Monday e v' | and left tor Auckland by \ Ngapuhi last night--Hejg | to leave Auckland on SaftßW * next on his way to the Btun, | The adjourned special meeting | of the Borough Council «• , held at 7-30 this eW D ‘ D * fmther consider the loan P posals. 1 he county clerk l Lf an additional charge * *([ j centum will be added •- * couitv rates unpaid on 1 1922.' The Rotorua 'Jh/oDicle In conversation with Mr ’’jg Bould, district stock » o ®P ec t “ ihs stated that with rega r are 1 cattle tick regulations, . very stringent, the 1 between the A and “_ j.-emet affecting this part of the _ are at the Awahou str ® am « 0 j of u* northern shore of Lake and the Whakatane Te Ngae. This W dips will have to be. erect the farmers at the tVatho Ngae, respectively- A ■ .* th« erect, costs sorne^ rC neighbourhood of ioOO.* | For ChiWma’a Hr.rkiuK I W'ooJs’ Great FcpP .... J ■ I