OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14048, 1 May 1946, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Electricity Supply

Fifty-one applications for electricity supply were approved at the monthly meeting of the Tauranga Electric Power Board yesterday. Card Evening At the weekly five hundred tournament held at the Fire Brigade Station on Saturday evening, the winning players were: Ladies. —Mrs Holloway 1, Mrs Sherman 2; men — Mr Shepherd 1, Mr Thomas 2. A competition was won by Fireman G. Bex. Increased Load In his report to the monthly meeting of the Tauranga Electric Fewer Board yesterday the engineer (Mr J. R. Bcr.gavd) stated that two new distribution transformers had been erected to handle increased load, and 35 new service lines in various parts of the district. Sections of disused line were dismantled at Judea and-Te Puke. At Katikati, the depot had been established in the building on the board’s own site in Lemon Street. Power Faults Reporting to the monthly meeting of, the Tauranga Electric Power Board yesterday, the engineer (Mr J. R. Berngard) stated that on March 21 a fault developed in the Aongatctc-Athenrce feeder causing a partial failure in flic supply. The cause was very difficult to locate, being a corroded connection on an 11 K.V. jumper, which was not visable from the ground. On March 5 the power was off in the Otumoetai district, due to a tree being felled over the 3 K.V. lino.

Key allies" For G. B. Shaw

A South Island amateur drama society paid only 7s 6d royalty for performing cne of George Bernard Shaw’s plays, and a member of the New Zealand Drama Council remarked: “This will be a shock for Bernard Shavt.” The famous author was interviewed recently by a reporter from an English paper and replied: ,:“It wasn’t. I was sent 9d after one performance.” Mr Shaw that the London Theatre counted for nothing. The little drama societies were at the root of the whole matter and ought to be encouraged.

Teachers’ Hopes

“I thought that in saying goodbye all I could wish you would be tears and sweat, tears at your low salaries and sweat in carrying out the new course in physical education. But now that a committee has been set up to investigate, teachers’ salaries * the tears will perhaps not be necessary. Some of you may get into the £IOOO-a-year class,” said Mr G. F. Griffiths, when replying at the farewell ceremony tendered to him and other retiring headmasters at the annual meeting of the Southland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute.

Hitler Youth Game

The old proverb, “It’s''an ill wind that blows nobody any good,” applies, to the Hitler Youth Movement, which has yielded one thing suitable for inclusion in British welfare programmes. It is the exercise known as“sling ball,” introduced to New Zealand by Mr P. Shiithells, the Education Department’s superintendent of physical education. It is not comparable with well-known ball games, being more an exercise. A recent demonstration by women, physical welfare officers of the Department of Internal Affairs was filmed, by the Government Film Studies, i