LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8570, 16 April 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr and Mrs Mellish returned on Saturday from a visit to the Did Country. Mr W. Dent announces that ho is transferring* his music teaching* connection to Mr Merewether Meadows. A notice is inserted to-day relative to the sale of a farm property of ( JIH acres at Katikati, which is being* sold under instructions from the mortgagee. Members of the Golf Club are reminded that the links are now open for play. The official opening will take place on the 26th. inst. Tenders are invited by the Public Works Department for the purchse of a punt ->sft by 16ft by 4ft. Mr M. D. Munro has disposed of a beach section in the Du ret a Estate, Otumoetai, to a resident of Mount Mr J. Harrison has sold his property on the Otumoetai Road, to an outside buyer, who takes possession at an early date. Mr and Mrs F. W. Brabant, of Auckland, are spending a short holiday in Tauranga and giro staying at the Commercial Hotel. It is twenty-six year's since Mr Brabant left Tanranga, where he spent his boyhood d>ys. Mr Brabant is the Auckland manager of the 'Westport Coal Company, Ltd., and has hopes of extending the Company’s business in the Bay of Plenty. Advices from Auckland jin Monday stated that the demand for lemons has been keen -and the supply scarce. Good prices are being realised for well eiircd lines The Waihi Telegraph says gardeners will be interested to learn, that a solution of carbolic sheep dip about one part to three parts of water, will ho found effective in countering the evils of brown rot and woolly aphis in fruit trees. The process of : applying the mixture is quite simple. A hole about a quarter of an inch in diameter should be bored at a reasonable angle into the trim It of the tree, the diluted, sheep dip poured in. and the hole plnggcdnip. (tare must bo takenito use on.lv carbolic shoe]) dips, not arsenical dips,-as the use of the latter in this way would kill I lie trees. The application should be made during the winter months. Tito mental gear of an inebriate. in the Palmerston North Court slipped a cog in its* effortsto avoid a holiday from the cares of the world at His Majesty’s pleasure (’says the Manawatu T*mos). In answer to the bench he stated that lie had had a permanent job in Apiti to go to. Ho had boon in Palmerston North for the past live months. The presiding Justice: "Do yon mean t ) say you can go back to the job after all that time.’ 1 Accused. clutched at the straw. "Oh, yes!" he said hastily, "I often leave it to come into town for a few days.’’ What boxing referees have to put up with. In a contest at Oran, Algeria, Battling Perrand, former champion of Spain, was getting the worst of a fistic argument with Kid Francis of Marseilles. In the seventh round the referee warned. Perrand for repeated holding. The Spaniard lost, his temper and landed a crushing haymaker on the referee’s chin, sending the official down for the count of twentyseven. The referee staggered io his feet and butted the Spaniard twice oh the jaw with his bead, knocking the battler cold. Then the referee wobbled over to Kid Francis, raised his glove in token of victory, and then collapsed. By this time all the cash customers were howling and fig]Ming each other. A man named Edward Calvert, with many aliases, escaped from the lock-up at Te Puke at six o’clock last night. Calvert was on remand on charges of being a rogue and a vagabond and of collecting money without authority for an orphanage. He is also wanted on warrant for similar offences at Cambridge. The man has a bad record and is a clerk by occupation. The police supply the following particulars of Calvert: Height, sft 6Jin;' fair complexion; brown hair; blue, eyes; pointed nose; clean shaven; forty-font- years of age; dressed in navy bine suit, with fawn heaver hat, A Maori named P. Tawhaio, wanted on warrant in connection with an offence at Te Toko. was arrested by Constable Skinner and conveyed to Rotorua yesterday where the native was handed over hy Constable Skinner to the rs “iol'T to servo a sentence of three As * 1