OUR Daily Features

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13056, 26 January 1943, Page 2

OUR Daily Features

The following items of interest are reprinted from the Bay of Plenty Times of fifty years ago:

Te Puke is now in need of the permanent presence of a police constable, as the circulation of so much money as the flax-milling industry leads to has led to a disorderly spirit arising aming the natives and a few others, to the annoyance of the quiet and peaceable inhabitants. Te Puke is now the centre of a populous district and may reasonably expect to have a police station and 'a constable of its own, as Constable Hughes cannot possibly be in two places at once. It will be noticed that there are 10 acceptances for the cup race on Monday next, and four for the hurdles. The general entries are above the usual average and everything promises a capital meeting.

A correspondent writes asking us to draw the attention of "the police, the Borough Council or whoever it may concern," to the fact that the cowbell nuisance is beginning again in the township, and asking that steps be taken to stop it before the discordant clanging caused by the wandering cows becomes as prevalent as it did a few years ago. This is a nuisance which we think the police would be quite justified in suppressing, and we hope cow owners will take the hint.