Bay of Plenty Times. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9986, 26 January 1929, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that tire due date of payment of the Income-tax is on Friday, the Bth day of February, 1929. Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before Ist March, 1929. The demands will be posted from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes on or about 31st January, 1929. Demands must be presented with all payments, an if a demand Eas not been received the Commissioner should be communicated with. The coloured supplement which is given away with each week’s issue of the New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review is admittedly -one of the most attractive features of'the paper, and this week’s dainty supplement of June Collyer, the Fox Film star, maintains the high standard that has been attained in colour printing. The centre double pages contain bright pictured incidents from abroad, pheasant shooting in England, notable society wedding,* and happenings in Paris and London. The Wellington Caledonian Society’s annual ..sports at the Basin Reserve make up a page of typical scenes of the Highland dancing and athletic events, while the I Auckland Harbour race is shown in I groups of the competitors and the starting out. Cricketers will be interested in the Plunket Shield teams and a panoramic view of the crowds in Sydney viewing the scores for the Third Test. The photographs In the stage and screen sections are gay with scenes from current attractions and the frontispiece is of a graceful member of the famous Ziegfeld follies. A page of the very latest in bathing suit fashions will catch the eye of the women. Covering many pages the miscellaneous division is exceptionally good, including daredevil cannon stunt, scenes in the British film industry, Foxtou R acing Club’s annual meeting, scenes of the Paraguay and Bolivian trouble, surfboard racing in California, and a page of humour. The Review is on sale at all Iwokscllers and stationers

The Tauranga and Tauranga South bowling clubs will hold a combined all-day tournament on Tuesday next on the Tauranga South Club’s greens. Players are requested to Ho' on the green at 8.45 a.m. A very attractive booklet for motorists has been prepared by the hlieb Company of N.Z., Ltd. and copies are available free on application to P.O. box 1663, Wellington. The booklet lias been specially prepared with a view to imparting to motorists a working knowledge of the principles and practice of lubrication, and is submitted in the hope that it may prove of interest and service. It deals very comprehensively with the subject, and the booklet should certauly be in the hands of every motorist. The borough road staff is now engaged on the much needed improvement of Devonport Road. Judging by the very fine job made of Turret Road and Roberts Street, there is every prospect of the town being able to claim some excellent roads id* the near future. - Tuesday next being Anniversary Day holiday:, there will fte no issue of the Bay of Plenty Times. The Baptist Sunday school annual picnic will to held on the eastern beach at the end of Ninth Avenue on i Tuesday next. Mr S. Geo. Willcock has for sale an improved farmlet of 21 acres, handy to town. Plants that perch on tree tops have been discovered in British Guiana. They are air plants of the pineapple family, a flat-joined cactus, and a yellow orchid, and they were found on the top of a fig tree growing in a mass that apparently existed as a parasite until its long roots were able to find the ground. Ocrald Grimsdell, a nine-year-old boy living in the north of London has a patch of garden in what was once the old Forest of. Middlesex. Digging there the other day, he found COO silver Roman coins about the size of a sixpence.