LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10017, 5 March 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A soeial-to wish Mrs Christian bon HaH g !T? hek ‘ in the Wesley nail on Friday next.

ty Beli , headmaster of the T e nke District High School who has >een transferred to the position of 'ZITSr i° f tllG Tauran e a District Iri 1 10 °, i " as entertained at the Club of which he is one of the original members, on Tuesday evening last. During an interval Mr W. E Hookey, vice-president, in the ’ab - sence of the president Mr T. E Palmer, presented Mr Bell with’ a handsome shaving outfit, alluding to the general regret that was felt at his departure. Messrs Cuff. Cooney Wilkie and night also spoke. Mr* Bell in responding, warmly thanked the donors for their gift, and spoke of the pleasant time he had spent during his residence in Te Puke.

The Prime Minister. Sir Joseph " ard. made a definite statement last 'reek, m reply to Mr W. B. Barnard -Vi .1 . for Napier, that tKe Government was opposed to the centralisation of shipping. U J can assure ho said ‘the policy of the Govenment is that it nil) net support any proposal fo centralise shipping in the main ports. That is going to be to fhe detriment of other ports.”

Fishermen are keeping up a steady supply of fish for the local works,. In spite of the rough weather ou Saturday fishermen returned to polf yesterday with about twelve cwt. of schuapper and some rock ood.

The Northern S.S. Company’s Ngapuhi is sharing in the general improvement of trade, judging from the fair amount of cargo landed this morning from Auckland. The scow Pareto. which is now in the regular White ' Island trade, is handling a good amount of White island products. Last week this vessel landed 140 tons of bogged manure here lor distribution by rail and to-day she will laud 50 tons to the local works, after berthing at the Railway Wharf to discharge 40 toffs for distribution by rail. A new aspect of tbe shipping of the i>ort is the possibilities of inland motor freight ex ship. The Xgapuhi landed this morning initial freights for Rotorua district, and it is anticipated that trade in this direction will develop.

The dates fixed for the holding of the Bay of Plenty Winter vShow at Whakatane are May 22. 23 24 and

A local resident has just received a package from England addressed Cameron Road, “Thuraga,” New Zealand. The postal authorities seem to have lost no time in deciding that it was intended for Tauranga, and sent it direct here. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

The yellow flower of ragwort is blooming luxuriously ou many of the hillsides in the Awakino Valley at present says a Taranaki papier. In some places the weed is growing 111 thick patches, while in others it may ■ip distinguished by dabs of colour 111 rough tiie grass.

‘‘All of us present have the ‘fish madness,’” declared Air J. G. Miller, of Wellington, at the hatcheries conference, in advocating the turning-out of more fish for the anglers.