LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8597, 21 May 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The question of by-law's is to be considered at the meeting of the Tauranga County Council to be held on May 28. Members and intending members are reminded of the annual meeting of the Savage Club to* be held tomorrow evening in the Foresters’ Hall at 8 o’clock. The future carrying on the club in a great measure depends upon tlie manner in which the members show 7l their interest in it. by being present. “Accoiding to the Government returns,” said Mr T. M. Wilford at Waipnkurau, "during the past twelve months net me company was formed in New 7 Zealand creating.industries for the country. The remedv is the reduction on the taxation of companies.” SANDER AND SON’S PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

Tenders are invited by the Hospital Beard for clearing and draining land adjoining the 1 anranga Hospital.

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton, has received the following cable from its London office; Butter, 168 sto 170 s; cheese, 84s; crossbreds, 5 per cent down; mutton, tone good, outlook favourable; price unchanged.

Music lovers are promised a treat to-morrow afternoon at the "At Home'' to be held by Holy Trinity Ladies' Guild. The following singers have promised to assist : Afesdantes Robertson, Torrance, Churchill, Christian, Castles, Fester, Henning ; Misses Torrance ami Jordan Duets will be contributed by Mesclames Christian and Castles. At a recent meeting of sportsmen, a shooting man, who has been in the AVaiarapa district for 32 years, stated his opinion was that ducks were getting less every year, and suggested there should be a close! season. Another delegate said swans were getting less, to which a reply was forthcoming: “No wonder, when one party bragged about shooting 100 or more that they could not carry away.” The Committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, appointed for the purpose, haw decided to fix a permanent date for the 1 anranga Show, viz., the fourth Thursday in February each year. The next show will therefore* be held on February 26th., 192 b. The various Agricultural and Pa>tnral Associations throughout the Bay of Plenty have been notified of ' the committee’s decision, and it is hoped thereby to avoid any clashing of dates for future show's. The considerable doss sustained throughout Marlborough in pinus fnsignis plantations was brought up at a meetbfg of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association by Mr C. G. Teschcmaker, who expressed the view that it was due to some form of blight. The matter evoked a great deal of discussion, some members believing that the death of the trees was due to the droughty conditions experienced this year. It was decided to ask the Forestry Department to ntake an investigation.

‘‘Why is it that I cannot get a decent piece of bacon in New Zealand V‘ asked a visitor from England the ether day, states the Manawatu Times. He continued that .whereas at Heme he was accustomed to the most tasty rashers, he 1 had not partaken of any such delicacy during his six weeks’ stay in the Dominion. In England it was the practice, he added, to discriminate carefully as to which pans of the pig were cured for bacon, and lie wondered if the same care were exercised here. The Kusabs Shield team to represent Tauranga at Whakatane on June 3rd will be chosen from the following players: T Carter, Bellve., O. Simmonds, L. Simmonds, P. Simmonds, Lorigan, Smith, Cameron, Mirrielees, P, Simmonds, Stewart, Burnett, Breen, Ferguson, B. Meikle, Nicholls, Hynds, McDonald, Merryweather, Allely, Turner, Lowry, Deriniston, Randle, O. Cuthbert, and A. McGhashan. All players are requested to be on the domain at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow' when a practice match will be played . Notwithstanding that no less a sum than <£227,600 is at present unreprcductive owing to the non-ocm-pletion of the extensions to the hydro works at Mangorei, and that on this sum a total of £18,400 12/6 was paid last', year in interest, sinking fund, depreciations, etc., the accounts cf the New Pymonlh Borough electrical department show that, the loss on the past year’s operations was only £1674 2/6. Had the department not been burdened with the interest payments on this at present non-productive capital, ir would have shown a net prefiti of £14,786 10/ sa} r s the Taranaki Daily New r s. We need only stress the price of the city’s milk, which is obtained and distributed by a system much approved by the experience cf hygienic authority, but has } T et ic obtain the hall-mark of a financial investigation. The importance of such overhaul is great, for it touches not only the ordinary work of the city, but includes large business operations, which must be conducted on self-supporting lines, in avoidance of the temptation, irresistible to unreflecting minds, to fall back on the rates tc make up deficienccs, temptations which, if yielded tc, must carry the city’s affairs to eventual disaster. Therefore, with satisfaction inspired by the 1 good annual balance, w r e congratulate the city on the continuance of the salutary work of a successful overhaul.—New Zealand Times. SANDER AND SON’S PDRE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT,

IcndoiS aie invited by _ -j, Clem son for alterations to on the Strand and Spring Hl i» A dance is to be held Oinauawa Falls schoolroom ° 11 rday next in aid of the ?* 1 ‘ piano fund. Several visitor. 1 anranga are expected, airf. tOSi joy able evening is promised. 311 '** “There were more bankrimf • m Now Zealand last 1 rear th.ml'f tlte time of Sir Harry Atkinson ? the 80s. Fanners were, dsufferers,” said Mr T. AT W at Waipukurau. ‘

It lias been decided bv tN \v • County Council that the c v,: attend the local Indies’ confjjj? V b.k 1 ’" 1 <v ” siller 'Vbt aclj should be taken regarding T v, . ! ~. Ul & l -*e UOrs. payment ot snldiers’ rates, also X nucMion of rating native