"FIAT LUX"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 May 1939, Page 4

"FIAT LUX"

* * » The BAY OF PLENTY BEACON, Like the: famous Eddy stone, Has risen from a tempest-ridden past. May our local Lumination Stand as firmly on its own As the Lighthouse does against the stormy blast. And may the lighthousekeeper Have the courage to say "No" When local Adolf Hitlers Try to dominate the show. Here's a toast to Whaka's BEACON May it ever brightly gleam, As a light for honest boatmen Pulling hard against the stream. H. Sergant, Whakatane, April, 1939. Acknowledged with thanks and appreciation. Ed)

MATERIAL FqR SOLDIERS The line display of muscle an< brawii at the opening of the footbi?! .season last Saturday,; brought the 10 .aaik ircm a bystander that as fa as New Zealand was concerned J .:ad plenty of the '.tup' that mad< sokLci.s.' The Maori players are i partie-ularly well built lot, and ii the event of a local Maori \unit ol tile territorial foioes b.iny; formed, * hoakl mala a splendid lot men.

REAL VETERANS ,j Mr Cur ran, a Victorian war vet h eian, must surely hold a record ag_. He had hi.s olth birtijdajr 011 the u other side, ana now at the age of 78, ' l is in tne Cauifieid .MiLtary Hospita! le n :is the result of war wounds. Two n of his sons wore at the war, and one ;i jt them, now a veteran of 40, had his ' iGth birthday in Eiypt and finished up with the of se'geant.major.