OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14638, 6 April 1948, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Mushroom Season Over Weather conditions at Whakamarama prolonged, the mushroom season there longer than usual, although the growth is now almost over. While the season was at its height, mushrooms were plentiful and eagerly sought after. Sea Cadet Corps "The Sea Cadet Corps, encouraged as it is by the Navy League, is considered a valuable contribution to naval recruitment and seamanlike qualities," states the report issued today on New Zealand's defence policy by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones. Suitcase Removed A suitcase, which was removed from a room in a private boarding house on the evening of Monday March 29, was recovered abandoned on a property in Cameron Road on Friday. The contents valued at nearly £3O were intact. The occupants of the room at the time were two visitors from Taihape. Nurses' Salaries Disapproval that the new scale of salaries approved for nurses had not yet been made public, was expressed at a meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board. Mr H. F. Toogocd said that the delay in publication of the scale hampered the recruitment of nurses. The new rates would be found an added inducement to girls to join the nursing professsion. Tauranga Club Planes The Waco and a Tiß'er. Moth owned by the Tauranga Aero Club were flown to Thames on Saturday to attend an air pageant there. Although no competitions were held, various aerobatic displays and demonstrations were staged. Planes from the Auckland. Waikato, Thames and Rotorua clubs also took part. The two Tauranga aircraft returned late en Saturday afternoon. Lord Rutherford's Voice A gramophone record of the voice •if Lord Rutherford was played at Christchurch after a lecture to the Workers' Educational Association by Dr G. T. P. Tarrant, who worked under Lord Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. The record was one of eight owned bv Dr Tarrant. It was made, he said, during a lecture given by Lord Rutherford in Germany. Dr Tarrant claimed that it was probably the only one of its kind in New Zealand. Once a Scout The comments of a Customs official when marking the baggage of Lady Baden-Powell (World Chief Guide) on her arrival in New Zealand were recounted at a reception tendered to her by the Dominion executive of the Boy Scout Association, in Wellington. "'I was a Scout once,' said the official. 'What I learned there has helped me in every step of life.' Those were the best words of welcome I have ever had," said Lady Baden-Powell. Brass Band Concert The Tauranga Municipal Band, under the conductorship of Mr G. Mockler, gave a concert at the Tauranga Public Hospital on Sunday. The programme included: National Anthem, Old Earth (hymn), Indepedentia (march), Windermere (overture), Goeze (march), Queen of Emeralds (wait?), Bless 'This House (cornet solo, N. Jones), Postman's Parade (march), With Sword and Lance (march), God Defend New Zealand. Tribute To Scouting "The past two decades have seen evil men set up as gods by. sheer force, but the name which our guest today bears is enshrined in millions of hearts through a simple trusting affection, and admiration for the ideals for which the late Lord Baden-Powell was responsible," said the Mayor of Wellington (Mr W. Appleton) at a civic reception to Lady Baden-Powell. Great Britain had made many outstanding contributions, to the world in general, and among those there could have been none greater where the interests of youth were concerned than the Scouting and Guiding movements, he said.