OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14297, 21 February 1947, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Two Thousand .Students The number of students wishing to enter Victoria University College, Wellington, this year is likely to be larger than last year’s total of 2200. More than 2000 applications have already been received and these do net include some important subjects.

Very Good Reasons

A woman at the War Assets Realisation sale found the former Air Force single-bed sheets a good buy. She bought several pairs. Thinking to equip the whole home, she asked the auctioneer about double-bed sheets. The auctioneer softly explained the various reasons why the Air Force had none.

Taurauga Hospital

A total of 120 patients was admitted to the Tauranga Hospital during the month of January, according to the report of the Medical Superintendent (Dr. Sligo) to the monthly meeting of the board yesterday. Discharges during last month totalled 131, deaths numbered five, while the daily average of inmates was 03.09.

Tauranga Airman’s Return s

Included in a draft of Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel and dependents en route to New Zealand fijpm the United Kingdom in the vessel, Rimutaka, are Pilot Officer W, J. Shaw and Mrs Shaw. Pilot Officer Shaw’s mother, Mrs R....M. Shaw, resides in Tauranga. The expected date of arrival of the vessel is March 2, at Wellington.

N.Z. Guest Conductor

Members of the National Symphony Orchestra, which has been assembled by Mr Anderson Tyrer and has had 10 or 12 weeks of rehearsals under his baton, and members of the recently-formed Tauranga Orchestra, will be interested to know that Mr Warwick Braithwaite, the first guest conductor, is to leave England by air on March I*;' and should be in New Zealand about March (1.

B.S.A. Clubrooms

A statement that he thought the association was in a worse priority scale than it was 12 months ago was made by the president of the Western Bay of Plenty branch of the Returned Services Association (Mr D. V. Ensor) at a special meeting of the association on Wednesday evening. Mr Ensor was speaking of the association’s proposal to erect club room's, on its site in Grey Street.

Dutch Plants For N.Z

Marking the gradual return of the nursery trade to normal, the first consignment of imported plants from Holland since before the war has reached a. firm of Taranaki nurserymen. The plants are all ornamentals and include rhododendrons, azalea mollis, clematis, conifers and copper beech.. Last week six wooden crates, containing about 4000 trees in all, were unpacked by the nursery staff, and when the task was completed it was found that not one had been damaged.

Otago’s Centenary

Preparations are now in hand for the centennial celebrations of Otago, which will be held next year from February 21 to February 28. It will be 100 years ago next year since the first settlers landed at Dunedin from the first of the emigrant ships, the John Wickliffe, headed by Captain Cargill, who was to be the first Superintendent of Otago. The ship sailed from Gravesend on November 24, 18'47, and after a dangerous and almost disastrous voyage, which involved turning, back to Portsmouth once, she dropped anchor outside ~Taiaroa Head on March 22, 1848, The pilgrims landed the following day. It was not a deserted shore that they came to, for whalers, sealers and casual sailors had been responsible for a settlement at Fort Chalmers, •

Truck For - Hospital! A suggestion that the Tauranga Hospital Board consider the advisability of purchasing a light truck for doing odd jobs at the hospital was made by the Medical Superintendent (Dr. Sligo) at the monthly meeting of the board- yesterday. He pointed out that carriers did a number of jobs for the hospital and it might be a saving financially if the board purchased a truck for the hospital.

Trains At Easter

It - is too early -yet to decide whether coal will be available for extra trains at Easter, says a message from Wellington. Coal is admittedly scarce at present but, with six weeks to go, there is still plenty of time for production to overtake consumption. Further, goods services are curtailed during holiday periods, making more coal available for passenger services.

Mr Nash For Geneva

The Minister pf Finance, Mr Nash, hopes to leave Auckland by air during the week-end on his way to the World Trade Conference at Geneva. It is Mr Nash’s present intention to go first to New York, where he will spend a fortnight at the conference of the Economic and Security Council of United Nations. From Auckland he will go either to Fiji or Sydney to connect with an air service to America. Maori-Owned Dairy Factory

Maori farmers in Te Kaha (East Cape) for 21 years have been operating a dairy factory, and all the 95 suppliers to it are -Maori settlers. Te Kaha is 44 miles east of Opotiki, and most of the farms are no larger than 50 acres. Road improvements m recent years have considerably improved the co-operative company’s prospects, for in the early years it was necessary in many cases to convey the 'produce by launch, dinghy, packhorse or sledge The factory produces about 300 tons of butter for export annually. The company built its factory and bought Us plant from an, £II,OOO loan from the Native Affairs Department, it has not only given its suppliers a steady income but has also repaid £6OOO of the loan