NEWS IN TOWN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13241, 17 January 1941, Page 4

NEWS IN TOWN

Officers For Camp. Officers and non-commissioned officers of the Auckland, East Coast, Mounted Rifles, will leave for camp to-morrow for a ten days’ refresher course, before the main body goes into camp. The officers and noncommissioned officers from Tauranga who will go into camp to-morrow number 15.

Siren ait the Mount. When residents at the Mount hear the surf club’s siren at 7 o’clock on Friday evenings,, they are warned not to go rushing to the beach fearing that someone has got into difficulties as the sounding of the siren at this time every Friday evening is to become a regular practice for test purposes. The practice will start from this evening. The Ambulance. The Tauranga Hospital at its monthly meeting yesterday decided, after considerable discussion concerning the housing and cleaning of the ambulance, to offer to increase its grant to the St. John Ambulance Association by £ 13 in order to meet the.cost involved. A .Welcome Change. « It is stated that Tauranga people will welcome the alteration in the Railway Department’s bus service between here and Rotorua to come ino force on January 20. The bus will leave Tauranga daily at 9 a.m. instead of 10.40 a.m. and will depart from Rotorua on the return trip at 4 p.m. instead of 1.30 p.m. This will enable people from Tauranga to spend nearly five hours in Rotorua.