RECENT FOOD SEIZURES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8474, 20 December 1923, Page 2

RECENT FOOD SEIZURES

Among recent food scum by the Department of Health were SH tons of fish, 24 shoulders of bacon, 150 rabbits, and over 6cwf of tinned sausages in Auckland; 19 casesof apples in Wellington, 268 in Otago, 118 bushels of apples in Southland, and I4olhof bacon at Hawke’s Bay.

The County Council office will be closed for the holidays from December 25 to January 3. _ There will be no issue ,of we Bay of Plenty Times on Tuesday or Wednesday next, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. . Nominations for the. Raoga* taua races —to be held at Matv kana Island on December 29close at 5 p.m. on Saturday wf with Messrs C. F. Oliver orS.tr. Willcock. Acceptances close at 5 p m. on December 27*

The rainfall in the Borough for 24 hours coded at ami* w. l * morning, is reported by tol. Ward to be .25 of an Tncb. malting a total of only .28 for the month, so far, v/bich is much below the average for the period* Coupled with the unu-ually n sn temperatures which have rule during the month there has been a very noticeable burning up lawns and gardens, <lurin? . m last few days. The ma m ffl temperature on fifteen days of the twenty so tar has rang* o between 80 and 87 degrees*

Steady soaking rain commf^ ed to fall at 315 ,it noon and continued well N night. It ceased for somel 1 and started again at n. • : p{ j day. Pastures and maizturnip crops will benefit U; > moisture. Several sharks have beenl » served in the harbour Bathers should bewar. At the annual conference the Plunket Society, Dr King congratulated Daae^ fled the unique record it h»d 1 in the world of stamping * j v one serious scourge °‘ ear k t a fancy, infant diarrhoea, single child under tw ii had died .from that c Dunedin during the J j, lC |i years. It was an example would do great good to to dren of the whole world. “Any advances on 6s id Rotomahana ?” as^c ikion tioneer at a sale at in Company’s works » oedio Chalmers (says the Ltbef “Star”). As there was no w. advances forthcoming greyhound of the Re »modest fleet changed hands at the it figure mentioned. Of cou was not the ship J l61 * j-i or. the builders’ scalp m . Qni rather, half model, mou aS big polished board - aDS liip-, a natty piece of w ®f ß S (efliri apart from the element ment attaching nn . a jjana'*; memories of the Ro . youthful prowess in spray and snapping P cords.