LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10146, 8 August 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

For the presentation and trooping of Colours of the Hauraki Regiment in February at Paeroa, a flight of New Zealand Air Force aeroplanes will be present.

Housewives have various methods, both effective and otherwise, of dealing with hawkers and canvassers. One lady in Kelburn, Wellington, has hit on a novel idea, and outside her house is placed a small plate, which at first sight looks like a name plate, on closer inspection is found to bear the words, “Hawkers and canvassers not wanted.”

“In New Zealand's capital. Wellington, the vrindiest city in the world, occasionally the wash basins do a jazz for you before breakfast and the beds walk quite excitedly about the room —when an earthquake ’comes,” a Sydney journal informs its readers.

Two very fine samples of the Meyer 1 lemon were handed in at the Bay of Plenty Times Office yesterday. The lemons were grown by Mr W, T. Teascy on his property, Fourth Avenue,i and are from threc-year-old trees.

In connection with the Apanui Shield football match at Tauranga on Saturday next, the llailway Department is issuing cheap excursion tickets from Taneatiia and inermediate stations. Particulars are advertised in this issue.

The Opotiki branch of the Farmers’ Union has decided to write to the Prime Minister asking that an amount bo placed on the estimates for the construction of the East Coast railway from Taneatua to Opotiki.

No loss than lialf-a-dozcn petitions to the Minister of Health, Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, urging an alteration to the boundaries if the Waihi hospital district are in circulation (says the Waihi Telegraph). The ratepayers of the upper Thames district, the Ohincmuri C'ountyj and the adjacent areas now rated |)y the Thames hospital district arc,asking that stops be taken to extend the Waihi district to include, Katikati, Waihi Plains, Waikino, Waitawhcta, Waitekauri and Whangamata and the settlers have made splendid response, the campaign, instituted some weeks ago, being now just about complete. The jmtitions will in the course of the next week be forwarded to the Minister. The proposal was initiated by the farmers about Waihi and the canvass has been conducted by some of our leading settlers.

At a meeting of retailers at Te. Awamutu ■ on Tuesday morning to discuss the half-holiday question and the suggestion that the Government intended to, introduce legislation to make a ’ universal Saturday .. half holiday throughout the Dominion, a resolution wa s carried in favour of continuing the present system of local option. A copy of thc resolution is to be sent to Mr W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., so that he may know the feeling of To Awamutu retailers.

It is reported that a railway station is to be opened at Edgecumbe.

The “1 alkies’’ are likely to be installed at the Strand Theatre, Hamilton, within a month (says the Waikato Times).

Matters of interest to those engaged in the pig raising industry will be dealt with by Mr Judd (Chairman of the New Zealand Pig Marketing Association) at the annual meeting of the Tauranga Cooperative Dairy Association to be held in the Town Hall on Monday next.

’Don’t move my pillow, dear,” J she murmured drowsily'. “Why, I’m not touching your pillow!” said he, without bothering to open his eyes. When they' woke in the morning they discovered their eiderdown had been removed from their bed, and then they' began to wonder whether the thief had been interrupted in his search for watches beneath their pillows. A Taranaki News reporter was told recently that was a true account of an experience that befel two re-si dents of Fitzroy recently.

At a meeting of the Whakataue branch of the Political Reform League, Mr J. G. Cliff-McCulloch was appointed to attend the Dominion Conference of the League to be held at Wellington.

Mr J. E. Moore inserts a notice relative to an application made to the Auckland Land Board for a renewable lease of 257 acres in Te Puna Parish.

The Chairman of the Tauranga Electric Power Board will address the shareholders at the annual meeting of the Tauranga, Co-opera-tive Dairy Association on Monday next.

The Government Meteorologist wired to-day.—The indications are for southerly winds, moderate to strong. Weather probably cool and changeable, with scattered showers. Barometer rising slowly. Seas, rough; tides, good.

, We understand that Mr Tedder’s farm of 113 acres, adjoining Mt. St, John, has been .purchased by •Mr J. Merriman ; also that a farmlet at Gate Pa has been sold to a local resident.