OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14571, 15 January 1948, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Wool Sent In Kapiti With a general cargo of 127 tons, including three large girders for the County Council, the coastal vessel Kapiti arrived at Tauranga at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. She returned to Auckland at 9 p.m. with 70 bales of wool in her hold.

Wellington Revaluation The Government Valuation Department has been revaluing Wellington for some two years, in accordance with its customary periodical revaluations of all cities. It is hoped to finish the big job by March 31 next. There has been a big increase in values in some' parts of the city, and very little increase in others. The city rates will be based on the revaluation.

Plant Research Bureau < The Plant Research Bureau of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research ceased to function on New Year's Day. The five divisions of the bureau—grasslands, botany, plant diseases, agronomy, and entomology, are now responsible to departmental head office. Mr R. Callaghan is now secretary of the Department, and the head office staff of the bureau have been transferred to appropriate positions in the departmental head office.

Building Permits Building permits issued by the Wellington City Council in 1947 totalled 918, to a value of just under £1,000,000. There were 234 permits for dwellings, 10 for flats, 39 for conversions, 475 for alterations to dwellings. 99 for alterations to business premises, 29 for alterations to other buildings, 10 for new business premises, and 22 for other buildings (churches. public institutions, schools, and so on).

Rotorua Borough Provisional approval of the Rotorua Borough Council's plan to extend the Borough boundaries to include the whole of the aerodrome and .ether land to the Puarenga Stream, has been granted by the Local Government Commission. If no objections are lodged with the Commission within one month, the scheme will be approved as final. The scheme was'. proposed by the Rotorua Borough Council some time ago and embodied in two petitions. Tutu Poisoning Found by a passer-by as he lay unconscious on a road near Rotorua, Robert Hughes, aged 15, was rushed to the Rotorua Hospital, where suspicions that he was suffering from tutu-berry poisoning were confirmed. . Hughes and his companion, James Mcintosh, of Gisborne, were on a cycling tour to Rotorua. A small bush of black berries, on the outskirts 'of the town, attracted their attention, and both boys sampled the fruit. Hughes' condition is now satisfactory.