Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 43, 31 July 1939, Page 4

Local and General

HOLE IN ONE Playing the fourteenth at Whaka w tane links yesterday, D. Morpeth holed out with a No. 5 iron. The hole is about 140 yards long. DRAG OF THE HEAIITH If there is anything likely to ie.. kindle the warmth of home and family life y or the spirit of kindly intercourse, engendered by the cosy hearth, it is the bitter weather conditions we are now experiencing. Whakatane residents are developing into great hearth lovers and it has to be something of vital importance before father can be pursuaded to go out at night after 'digging in' once he gets home. HERE BEFORE THE HOTEL A delapidated group of Maoris, including a comfortable of comfortable looking wahines, pulling steadily away at corncob pipes, squatted in the sun decorating the fi«ont of one of Whakatane's modern hotels. "What are you going to do about this sort of thing' 71 asked a visitor to the town who has been greatly struck by Whakatane's advancement during the past few years. <'Oh t " rejoined his companion, "tliey were here long before the hotel, so I expect they have the night of ownership." CAPITAL OF THE BAY When, members of the Bay of Plenty Centennial Celebrations committee were discussing the next meeting place, Father Eccleston (Tauranga,) smilingly said thaft he supposed it would have to be at Whakatane. though the trouble was that the town was becom-n't the polis of the Bay of Plenty! Mr B. S. Barry smilingly advanced Whakatane's claims as th- IV'v'v opt-mUiI and the gathering ag-eed with a Zaugh with Mr G. S. Moody fOpo_ tiki) when he said thMt "t wo-dd lie all the same to them in a hundred yeark. Banish fat quickly the healthful way with Bonkora. Safe reducing treatment. See F. ,G. Chemist, "Wlurka'fcane.