Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 6, 3 May 1939, Page 4

Local and General

EARLY WATTLE BLOOM Wattle may be seen in bloom on the road up to Hillcrest. The trees are of a particularly early variety, and their bright yellow flowers were the cause of many remarks yesterdav by travellers through to the beach. RANGITAIIvI RESULTS * The Rangitaiki Rugby .Sub-Union opened its competitions on Saturday. The games resulted: Seniors, Edgeeumbe 18, Te Teko B>. Juniors, Matata 15, Otakiri 11; Thornton 3, Edgeeumbe 3; Awakeri A 9, Awakeri B 9. WEDDING RING FLIES The use of air mail facilities enabled Mr A. G. Allan, jeweller of Whakatane, to give really quick ser_ vice to a customer with matrimonial intentions. Mr Allan wired to Christchurch on Saturday for a particular type of wedding ring. It arrived in Whakatane on Monday morning. It had evidently been llown to Auckland on Saturday. RAINFALL Figures supplied by Mr H. Mus. cutt, Whakatane, show that there was a total fall of 2.88 inches of rain in eight days last month. For April, 1938, 7.70 ii\ches were recorded. Rain fall t 0 date this year has been 6.89 inches compared with 27, L 7 inches for the same period last year. The driest April recorded by Mr Mus. cutt was in 1925 when 1.35 inches | fell, and the wettest was 1935 with 10.18 inches. CENTENNIAL HOTEL BOOKINGS Applications made for accommoda. tion in Wellington alt hotels during the period of the Exhibition, and for the Centennial celebrations, hive been chieily l'or the better sort, it io stated. Quite a number of bookings have been made to dale, some being made las.it year, and it is evident that with the number of conferences ard gatherings that will take place in Wellington, there will be great d'lVicultv in providing first-class accommodation for those likely to need it. Bookings have already been made for various conference delegate.--. Inquiries have been made regarding less expensive accommodation, but the bookings are not as numerous as for the best.

PRIVATE PARKING SPACE The provision of parking space on the section adjoining their lubrication department is being made by Armstrong and Co, Commerce Street. A fair area ig being levelled and ; after surfacing it will be available for customers' cars. FIVE GUINEAS FOR A POPPY Much has been said for and against a definite charge of Is for the poppies sold on the streets on Poppy Day. One Christchurch businessman, however, cheerfully paid £5 for ' a poppy last year. He sent £5 os to the same collector th's year, and in return received one poppy. ALL HOME COMFORTS The new police station is taking crm on the Toroa Street section. A garage and office accommodation occupies the front of the section and behind the old station the residential quarters are being erected. The eel's will be built at the rear of the section 90 feet from the house. The new cells will make detention almost a pleasure. They will even be fitted with hot water. "FEMALE PERSONS'' Coupon books issued to women who have registered under the Social Security Act have roused some irate comment, because ol the caption, "Issued to All Female Persons" which appears on them. ''What is wrong with the word 'women?' " one ask;. "Female is an awful word. Ave the men's levy books stamped 'Issued to All Male Persons?' '» REFERENCE TO WHAKATANE An interesting reference to Wha. katane appears in the Wellington ''Dominion" in the Random Notes column. A correspondent referring to a paragraph which stated that New Zealand had no signposts pointing to London, said that on. the side of the stone direction table on the summit of Mt, Bledisloe, Waitangi, Bay of islands, there is an arrow engrave! with the head pointing almost perpendicularly downward entitled "Eon doir' and giving the mileage. The correspondent thought a similar arrow was engraved on the direction table on Mt. Eden, Auckland. He -aid that the late Dr. J. C. Wadmore, Whakatane, was anxious to have a comparable direction ti'bie erected on the hills above the town, but he did not know whether it was n ver completed.

STRAY STOCK The great danger of straying stocl on the new tarsealed roads has bed emphasised by several taximen an*, motorists. Up to 12 head have beei counted on the strdteh between th< Whakatane bridge and the store am a tour of other roads shows as ba. a position. EYE INJURIES Eye injuries were received by Mi J. Pyne, Valley Road, Whakatane, when he was struck in the face bv : splinter while chopping firewood, lit was given medical attention and lata returned to his home. Mr Pyne i> one of Whakatane's best.known residents and general sympathy will be felt l'or him. GAME WITH FIJIAN'S Mr W. S. Henderson, Secretar; oi the Bay of Plenty Lu:;oy Union, in • the course of a telephone conversation last night saicl that the Bay oi Plenty had been given a match against the touring Fijian side this season. The game Avill be played at Rotorua. NOISY MOTOR The roar of the exhaust of a light motor truck operated by the Bay of Plenty Powder Board drew sarcastic comment j'esterday afternoon as the vehicle sped through . Whaaktane. "There's plenty of "power" in that exhaust" said one man. Some of the motor cycles one hear s round town have a good healthy bark too. MAORI TERRITORIALS The Whakatane proposal to raise Territorial platoons among (the Ngaliawa and Tuhoe tribes is receiving sympathetic consideration by the authorities. It has been brought before the Minister of Defence, and the Defence Department in Auckland by the Auckland branch of the Territorial Association, and it is understood that the suggestion is at present viewed favourably. * INCOME EATEN UP Anomalies are bound to arise in the operation of the Social Security legislation. Perhaps the most unfair is the case of a man who, while having no set income, derives £1 a year from interest. Because of this '*income," and while a pensioner drawing the full age benefit, he has to register under the Act and pay 5s a quarter. This means his income is eaten up, and on top of that he has to pay Is in the £. That comes out ol hi s pension. Surely a -asc where it would not pay to v have an income. MAIL NOTICES Mails close at the Whakatane post office for the following places at the times specified below: Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, via Australia, Singapore, England AirMai 1, due London May 20th; parcel.-; and second class matter via Cape Horn, due London June sth, per Waiwera: Australia, India, Ceylon, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy Balkan States, Malaya, Hongkong, China and Japan also Norfolk Island; Argentine, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, L T ruguay, Falkland islands, all at 12.1") p.m. on Thursday, May 4th. Mails close for Fiji, Tonga, Samoa per Matua on Wednesday, May 3rd at 12.15 p.m. The next inward air mail from England and Ireland is due on May 6th. BARGAIN AT A JUMBLE SALE Public spiritcdnesg is inclined at times to have its drawbacks. That much one of the many willing helpers at a Plunket Society jumble sale in Napier discovered to her cost. At the height of the (low of business which the sale attracted throughout the day the helper in question dis. carded for a few 'minutes a bright woollen jumper—with a comb and green handkerchief in the pocket— which she had been wearing, the while she turned to the wants of a group of customers. Shortly afterwards, she returned to the table where she left her jumper, with the intention of again donning the garment. To her consternation it had disappeared. Inquiiies revealed that another stall holder, under the be. lief that the jumper was one of the articles arranged for sale, had sold it to a well.pleased customer for the sum of Is Gd. THE VALUE OF A SMILE The fellow who wrote "Keep your smile pinned on," wag a salesman. He knew the value of a smile. The fellow who thought out the beautifully profane catch-phrase, "Smile, damn you, smile!' was a salesman. He, too, knew the value of a smile. A smile will get you in--anywhere. A smile will win an order. A smile given for a "turndown"' will win a friend. Keep on smiling, and one dav you'll sell to the fellow who turns you down!