NEWS IN TOWN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13624, 23 April 1942, Page 4

NEWS IN TOWN.

.Mizac Day. There will be no issue of the Bay of Plenty Times on Anzac Day, Saturday, April 25.

Post Office. The post office will be closed on Anzac Day, April 25, and the telegraph office will also be closed. The telephone exchange will be open continuously.

Legion of Frontiersmen. The Legion of Frontiersmen will not parade on Anzac Day owing to so many of its personnel being on military service.

St. George's and St. David's Day. To-day is St. George's and St. David's Day. The day is normally a bank holiday, but these institutions remained open.

Tauranga "In the Money." In the "Buy and Try" art union which was drawn yesterday four prizes came to this district. They wer e— £10: 137353, Tauranga; £5: 45511, Te Puke; 30276, Tauranga; 159057, Te Puke.

Need for Young Blood. "We are badly in need of new and young blood in this game of athletics," stated Mr H. Sommers (Tauranga) on Monday evening, at the monthly meeting of the Auckland Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athleiic Association, when

expressing concern at the resigna-

tion of Mr F. Stanley as secretary of the centre. Mr Sommers went on to say: "I like to see young men in the game instead of a lot of old fellows sitting in meetings and pullit g each other to pieces." Mr Stanley agreed later to carry on for the balance of the season.

Big Auckland Fire. One of the most spectacular fires in Auckland for many years broke out about 1.30 p.m. yesterday in the timber yard of the Kauri Timber Company, Freeman's Bay, and in a little while had reduced to cinders and ashes a stock of millions of feet of valuable dry, timber. The Central Brigade was quickly on the scene, followed by other units from the metropolitan area. The fire started at the western end of the timber yard in Fanshawe Street and, fanned by a westerly breeze, swept through the whole vard with a rapidity that speedily "rendered hopeless any hope of saving the timber. .

lssue of Ration Books. Despite the fact that the early rationing of sugar is expected, there remains 2,5 00 ration books to be" issued in Tauranga. The special provision at the Social Security office will be closed after Friday and application with then have to be made at the Post Office. Tyres and Tubes. For the second time in four months the Government has issued instructions requiring motorists to submit a return of all tyres and tubes that are unused or have been run 1000 miles or less, which are not affixed to the wheel of a vehicle. The only exceptions are metal tyres for horse-drawn vehicles and tyres and tubes suitable only for pedal cycles or perambulators."