Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 15, 24 May 1939, Page 4

Local and General

o SMALL FIRE The Whakatane Fire Brigade an. swered a call to a small fire on the cliffsidc at the end of Wairere Street on Saturday afternoon. The fire was extinguished in a minute or two. THIRD CROP OF STRAWBERRIES An indication ol' the comparatively mild weather i n HawkeV Bay this autumn is given by the fact that a Hastings resident who has alreatly secured two crops from his strawberry patch lias a number of his plants in flower again. CATERING AT SHOW Convened by Mrs W. Sullivan a meeting of ladies will be held in the Borough Chambers on Friday at 2. oG p.m. to make arrangements for the tearooms at the coming show. All ladies willing to help are asked to attend. STREET COLLECTION Arrangements were made at a meet ing of ladies called by the Mayoress, Mrs B. S. Barry, on Monday for a street appeal in connection with the Auckland Provincial fund for cancer research. The appeal will be held this Friday, and it has been arranged in responsie to the request by the spon sor of the fund, Sir Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland.

THE VESPER The Vesper did not arrivefcast. night as expected. She may berth about 10 this morning. NOT MANY FISH A certain amount of fish has been, landed at Whakatane by the commercial fishermen in the past few days but the catches are not very plentiful. Parties went out on sev_ oral launches on Sunday but they did not get very big hauls. Mr W. R. Sloane. on the Harbour Board launch, was fortunate enough to land a grandfather hapuka. THREE ON A BIKE An exhibition of lunacy which takes some beating was seen in The Strand yesterday when three young fellows were seen wobbling along precariously on one battered bicycle. One rode, one sat on the bar and the thi;rd made flying leaps on to the first mans back and clung there grimly like the Old Man of the Sea to Sinbad. The trio pursued their erratic way along Commerce Street until the third member put too much vigour into another attempt to remount and capsized the party i n the middle of the roadway. After that there was noticeably less enthusiasm for circus tricks.