OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14074, 31 May 1946, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Five Alarm

people in Wharf Street shortly before 4 p.m. yesterday wore attracted by smoke billowing from a truck, operated by the Auckland Glass Company. The five siren was sounded, but, fortunately, the services of the brigade wove not required.

King’s Birthday Holiday

On Monday, June 3, the Post Office will observe a close holiday. Only mails fer principal offices will be despatched. All street receivers will be cleared at 7 a.in. and mails will close at the Tauranga Post Office at 8 a.m. Inward mails will not be sorted. The telephone exchange will observe continuous attendance on Juno 3.

Tiffin liaises lake bevel

Rainfall fna! raised Hie level of bake WaikavemcaiKi by two feet on Saturday morning added a potential 1 20,(M'0.i>0fl units to the North Island electric power supply. This is equivalent to only two-thirds of a week’s consumption. Six inches of rain was recorded at Tuai, which is close to bake Waikaremcana, between 0 a.m. on Wednesday and 9 a.m. on Saturday. During the same period only 18 points fell at Lake Taupe, whore-the position has not altered-

I'ttilc Snppi.V Charges

In Him report of the emergency com 111 ill presented (o (lie annual nice! ing of the Tanranga Elect lie Power Board on Wednesday, rel’cri nre was made to a. claim lor a rehale from I lie Work:: Department. 'Hie repent staled that it was agreed (o make application to Ike department for a. rebate of the board’s bnllc supply charges to apply to the restricted periods and that the application be left in the hands of chairman and executive officers to draft. This was adopted.

Toberoa Digging

A company bus again been granted permission by the Government to dig tolleioas at Muriwai Beach for commercial purposes during the 101(5 season. The 'company has

operated on this beach for two years. Certain restrictions have been placed on the company’s digging activities, and the Marine Department has asked it to co-opei’ate in a transplanting experiment in which it is proposed that 100,000 toheroas loss than three and aquarter inches long will be shifted from one part of the beach to another.

Borough Council's Request

A letter concerning the electricity reticulation in the area at Gate Pa recently included in the , Tanranga borough was received at the annual meeting cf the Tanranga Electric Power Board on Wednesday from the Tanranga Borough Council. The council wrote asking the hoard to meet the council's finance committee, adding that the Mayor (Mr L. R. Wilkinson) would arrange a suitable date with the chairman of the board. The chairman (Mr S. C. Baron) said it would he remembered that the board wrote- to the council stating that it never contemplated transferring any of its services and that the request came as a surprise. The letter was received.

Sanctuary Menneed

Described as “the Karioi muddle,” an extraordinary position regarding an area of native bush at Karicri, in the Raglan district, is commented on by a writer in Forest and Bird. In 1917 a license, which expires in 1947, for cutting and removing timber from the area was granted. In 1922 the area was proclaimed a State forest, and in 1920 it was proclaimed a bird and game sanctuary. Recently the Waimarino Acclimatisation Society, within whose district the sanctuary lies, found that timber was being extracted from it for milling purposes and protested vigorously to the State Forest Service, and the Commissioner is understood to be investigating the matter. The Karioi sanctuary is probably the last mainland habitat cf the North Island robin (toutouwai) whose numbers would be quickly reduced by cats and rata with the extension of milling activities.

Ambition

What he described as “the tools in trade of Bill Sykes” were exhibited by Senior-Sergeant S. King in the Children’s Court at Timaru. The exhibit comprised a felt holder containing,l7 small instruments —each with a different shaped hook at the end —made from wire by a schoolboy, aged 14 years, evidently for the ■purpose of picking locks. In Wellington there was a museum where things of interest from all over the Dominion were displayed, and he had thought of making an application to have the exhibit placed there, said Senior-Sergeant King. “I have not seen anything like it. There are .not two alike,” he added. The boy’s father said his son had made the tools out of his own head, and that he had warned his son that it was.only a burglar’s kit. During the hearing of the case, in which the boy was charged with theft, a notebook was produced in which the boy said ne intended embarking on a criminal career overseas.