Bay of Plenty Times. THURSDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9984, 24 January 1929, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. THURSDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Tauranga agricultural show, to be held on February 5 and G, is now engaging the attention of the executive. The bountiful season should mean a very appreciable increase in exhibits and if stock-owners do their part the show should be a record successThe annual general meeting of the Bay of Plenty Sports Club was held at 1\ hakatane on Thursday last. The officials were elected for the annual sports to be held' on Easter (Monday, when £IBO was allotted for the various events. „ Miss M. Broad, teacher of music, will resume teaching on February 7. The Kaituua River Board invites tenders for excavating outs on the Kaituna River and forming stopbank and spoil tip. The approximate quantity of spoil to be excavated is 4000 cubic yards. With a balance of exports over imports of over £11.000.000. the calendar year 1928 can be said to have closed on a sound position. The most satisfactory feature of the year's trading, however, is the increase in the value of the country's exports by the quite substantial total of £7.G00,000. With diminshed imports this has left the Dominion in a very strong financial position so far as its balance of trade is concerned. In the circumstances. it is not surprising that tb© banks are flush of money and that the amount available for advances is large.

‘‘You would have to shoot some of the motor cyclists that pass through Intone if you wanted to get their number (says an exchange). They travel at anything between 60 and GO miles an hour,” was the alarming statement made by a councillor at a meeting of the Petoue Borough Council. Beyond a suggestion that a ‘‘man with a gun” should be stationed in. the main sti-eet, no action was taken. At the lirst wool sale held in South Canterbury on December 17 last, the total catalogue was 11,984 bales, but of this number 485 bales were passed in under the hammer, leaving a clearance of 11,199 hales (says the Timaru Herald). The amount of money which was distributed in the district on prompt date was approximately £263,000, or an average of £22 per hale. Wars do not stop on account ol rain, and military aviators must be able to fly in all sorts of conditions (reports the Lyttelton Times). This was proved at the Wigram Aerodrome the other morning, when the cadet pilots who are doing the second portion of their six months’ course ol instruction, were sent up in heavy rain showers. Visibility was bad, but the training was good, and the cadets seemed to enjoy the experience. Four tenders were received by the Tauranga County Council for the haulage of Matata metal from the Tauranga railway station to Hairini Hill. The tender of Mr Watts, of Te Puke, was accepted for the work.

A meeting of the Bay of ..Plenty Development League will lie held tn the Borough Council Chambers. Tauranga, at 1 p.m. to-morrow. Representatives of tb© local bodies of Opotiki. Whakatane, Rotorua, and Tauranga will be present and it is hoped that other smaller centres will also be represented. The following members of the* Tauranga Defence Rifle Club will leave Tauranga on Monday next to compete at the Auckland Rifle Association’s meeting to be held on flic Penrose range on Tuesday, January 29: H. P. Ward, C. J. Kiddie. R. Poole. T. Floyd and B. Johnston. To accelerate improvements m the Auckland area, the (Main Highways Board has in many 7 cases authorised the working of double shifts, m the hope of overtaking delays due to wet weather. Reconstruction work is well advanced between Auckland and Maungatawhiri.

A meeting of natives will be held at Katana, West Coast, to-morrow at which a large attendance is expected. Sir Joseph Ward' and Sir Apirana Ngata will be present. The Xew Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company intend holding their' annual picnic at Tauranga on Saturday, February 2. Arrangements are in hand to run a special train from Hamilton. An endeavour is to be made to have this train run to the Mount. There will at least three hundred officials and employees m the party. The Railway Department is certainly doing its best in advertising Tauranga. A member of a party (Mr C. Hunt) on Mr G. Tonge’s yacht, while fishing off Kauri Point on Sunday hooked and eventually captured on an ordinary schnapper line a stingray, measuring from flap- to flap 8 feet 8 inches its barbed sting being 14 inches long (says the Waihi Telegraph). Through lack of experience of the stingray Mr Hunt indiscreetly stabbed it on the back and instantly its tail, at the root of which is situated the poisonous -sting, was swung up and liis wrist narrowly missed coming into contact with the barbed spear. The new County grader has completed grading the Otumoetai Road and is now engaged on the Kaimai Road. The machine then goes on to the Oropi Road and will afterwards I lie employed on the Tauranga-Waihi i Rood.

Plans have been approved by the Public Works Department for metalling four sections of the TaurangaWailii main highway between the Te Puna and Aongatete Bivers. The total length to he metalled will die a mile and a-half. Tenders for the work will be called immediately by the Tauranga County Council. The Opotiki Herald says: The Ministers of Land and Public Works are to inspect the rival routes ot the Gisborne-Wairoa railway. While on the job would it not be advisable to get the Ministers in question view of the proposed extension ot the East Coast railway from Tnneatua to Opotiki. 'Where’s the* Farmers’ Union ? A reminder is given of the meeting to bo held in the Borough Council Chambers this evening in connection with the proposed show and carnival. If the function is to be carried out it is imperative that there should be a large gathering.

Miss J. I. Grice, teacher of pianoforte, may be interviewed at Wliarapai Private Hotel daily, between 11.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m.

The first working bee for preparing the grounds for the agricultural show on February 5 and 6 was organised this morning and accomplished, a good deal. An addition has been made & the show building.