OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14049, 2 May 1946, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Civic Welcome A civic welcome to all recently returned ex-service personnel will bo bold in the Town Hall on Monday next and it is to be hoped that everyone will attend. “April 31” Dependents of R.N.Z.A.F. personnel who have received allotment forms within the last few days have been surprised to discover that they are dated April 31 instead of April 30. The date is stamped, on the form over the signature of the Director of Accounts. R.A.N.A.F. An official of the Bank of New Zealand said that the forms are not invalid and that the allotments will be payable immediately. “Balm On A Wound” “Like a balm on a wound after the wickedness and suffering” is the dcscriptio« given to gifts made by New Zealanders to Britain by- a resident of Cheshire in a letter received by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Allum. . “Like all the older, serious people here I have been deeply touched and grateful for the wonderful kindness and generosity of all the New Zealand people to us,” writes the correspondent. “Each time we pick up a newspaper we reach of some wondrous gift to our country.” Level Of The Lakes “Where does the wafer go?” was a question asked, by Mr C. J. Lovegrove at a recent meeting of the Auckland Electric Power Board, after the chairman, Mr S. J. Harbutt, had reported that according to his information the level of Lakes Taupo and Waikarcmoana had risen only an almost imperceptible fraction after the recent rains. The manager, Mr R. 11. Bartley, said he had received an unofficial report That there was an additional inch of water in Taupe and nothing extra in Waikaremoana. It was explained that it would take some time before the effects of the recent rains would be felt. Tauranga College Work has begun on the clearing up of the area directly in front of the main Tauranga College building. This area is to be grassed and, although the time for sowing is rather late, it is hoped to have it completed early this •month. The • football ground is almost ready for play. • Some lofty goal posts, kindly donated by Mr J. Mowat, of Gate Pa have been erected. This ground, when it settles down, wil 1 undoubtedly be a good one and will be the scene of many exciting interschool matches for many years' to come. Basketball courts are also being marked out and the college will soon have thr.ee full size courts for its teams to use. Teachers’ Errors “A little humour in the letters which teachers write to the Education Board may be all right, but I think that teachers should try at least to write correctly,” said Mr A. Thomson, when replying, at the farewell ceremony tendered to him and other recently retired headmasters at the -annual meeting of the Southland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Mr Thomson, Who is now a member of the Southland Education Board, said that one teacher had written, to (ho hoard asking for “ a new front wheel for a wheelbarrow.” Another teacher Informed the board that a motion had been carried i unanimously by nine votes to two.

Kapiti Arrives The Northern Steamship Company’s vessel Kapiti arrived at Tauranga this morning after being held up by heavy seas at Great ißiarrier Island and later at Mercury Bay. The vessel was due in Tauranga last Sunday. It is stated that this, is the longest hold-up due to heavy seas ex-* perienced for some years. ' " ; 1 ■■ National Savings Although the holidays intervened last Aveek, encouraging results were received at National Savings quota offices throughout the Dominion. No fewer than 25 S places, including all the principal centres, obtained their quotas. The number of towns consistently ' obtaining their weekly quotas of investments since April 1 is, appreciably more than in the corresponding period of last year. An interesting feature of the results to date is that while the North Auckland area provided the first annual quota success in the new National Savings year, Southland, at the other extremity of the Dominion, followed closely with Balfour recorded as the second locality to achieve its full annual objective. 'Gas Producers Discarded Gas producers, once installed in thousands of cars in New Zealand, and-in many cases worth about £9O each, have uoav practically disappeared. Recently, a firm in Wellington dumped more than 50. A feAv years ago they Avould have been Avbrth £SOOO. Increased petrol allowances, and the expectation of even more, have been the main reason for motorists getting rid of their producers, which Avere never expected to compete Avith petrol, in spite of good service. The production of gas producers began in 1939 and reached a peak after Japan entered the Avar. Producers Avere used considerably by the Public Works Department, as Avell as other Government departments. Aviation Routes Comment on Canada’s future in international commercial aviation was made by Mr A. W. Essex, Auckland manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, speaking at the Rotary Club luncheon in Auckland recently. Winnipeg, he said, Avas considered the likely outlet for traffic from Chicago and the Middle West of the United States, Avhether such traffic Avas for Europe or Asia. Planes flying from the Pacific Coast to the Orient and Russia Avould probably go via , the eastern , side of the Rockies where the Aveather Avas favourable all the year round. Difficult as it Avas to believe, the northern route from San Francisco to-Shang-hai, overland all the Avay except for 50 or 00 miles across Bering Strait, AA T as 2500 mileh less than the shortest established sea route.