OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14711, 1 July 1948, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Importance of Football “Football is an essential part of our life,” said Mr A. S. Andrews, when winter road restrictions were being discussed by the Hokianga County Council. The engineer-clerk reported that many cartage trucks were taking people to matches, while others carried Maoris to huis.

Royal Visit Plans for the Royal tour of Australia and New Zealand next spring are being made with the strict understanding that the King will bo free to fly back to Britain at short notice if developments in the European situation require his presence in London. Actor’ Realistic Fall During a performance by the Invercargill Repertory Society of “The Bat,” a member of the cast, Mr L. F. Moller, broke his left arm in a fall that was part of the action of the drama. With the arm in plaster, Mr Moller carried on for the remaining two performances, the action being slightly modified. Representative Rugby

An elimination match for the To Hurunui-Apanui Shield will bo provided by Rangitaiki and Rotorua at Malata on Saturday. According to advice received in Tauranga. the junior Rugby match for the Shalloon Shield will be ok’yod between Tauranga and Rangitaiki at Malata on July 17. The winners will play To Puke on July 24. Catchment Board “It is a great nleasuro to me that the Catchment Board proposal for the Bay of Plenty has gone through” ic-marked the acting-chairman of the Tauranga County Council (Mr W. Hudson Owen) at the mnnt'nlv meeting of the council, when the Local Government Commission’s report was received. The chairmen added that he would defy anybody to say to him that, there was any better land than that on the To Puke swamps.

Wasp Menace The co-operation of the Department of Agriculture in supplying information to the public about. German wasps, which had become a menace in the Waikato and which were infiltrating into Tauranga and Rotorua, is to be sought by the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce. At a meeting, it was suggested that special consideration be given to educating children about the danger of the insects.

Value Of Land Concern at the increased values of land, which, it was contended, did not have anv relationship to the price received for dairy products. was expressed at the monthly meeting of the branch of Federated Farmers. Farmers stated that prices of manures, freights and other commodities had increased genera 11 v and the new land valuations were too high in proportion to the return from the farms.

Unique Stamp Collection Rotorua stamp collectors had the opportunity at the last meeting of the Rotorua Philatelic Society to inspect a collection, probably unique in New Zealand. This was a series of Air Mail stamps of Europe lent to the Society by Mr A. M. Paterson, of Timaru, which he had compiled over 30 years. The value of the collection according to present-day catalogue prices, ran into several hundred pounds and the countries represented included most of those of pre-war Europe. Toxic Plants Facial eczema and other similar diseases affecting some grazing animals were dealt with by Dr J. F. Filmer. director, of the ' animal Research Division, Department of Agriculture, when he gave an address in Hamilton. There were quite a number of plants which had -a nhotosensitising property said Dr Filmer, in explaining the causes of a skin disease common among sheep. He said that in New Zealand rape, some of the clovers and errodium had been found to be toxic at certain seasons of the year.