Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 55, 28 August 1939, Page 4

Local and General

LEAGUE OF MOTHERS The usual monthly meeting of the League of Mothers takes place in the Presbyterian Hall to-morrow. August 29 at 2.30 p.m. not 2 p.m. as previously announced. AJINISTE HS TRAVELS Reference to the travelling propensities of the Minister of Lands at the meeting of the Whakatane County Council on Tuesday. "The Minister of Lands is not interested in the Kopuriki Stream," said Cr I L. Burnett, chairman. ''He's not interested in any part of New Zealand, cracked another councillor. MAKING STEAK TENDER The toughest steak can quickly be changed to the tenderest of beef by a now tenderising process recently discovered by scientists of Melton Institute (U. S. A) . Instead of placing freshly slaughtered animals in coolers and keeping them near the freezing point for eight, weeks, as packers do, the scientists warm the carcasses up to 85deg. F., and ripen tlie meat in a few hours. At these high temperatures enzymes rapidly dissolve the tough connective tis_ sues and so make the meat tender. Decay is prevented by the use of a newly-invented sterilising lamp which kills bacteria and moulds. RANGITAIKI REPS The following players have, been chosen to train for the Rangitalki Sub-Union representative match against Opotiki, at the moment hold ers of the Te Hurinui Apanui Shield: Francis, A. Rota, E., M., and R. Howell M. and T Lees, Renata, ? Savage. Ratima Kaipara, Mocre, Gardner, Thompson, Kakalio, Park Tama, Rarino, White!j r Carter, and Schooner. oTOCK PADDOCK The superintendent of land develop ment, wrote to the Whakatane County Council advising it that there was no possibility of the department undertaking work on the Galate a Bluffs stock paddock. The department's attitude was the section is vested in the county in trust as a resting place for stock and it is tlie function of the council to maintain it. It would be appreciated, said the writer, if a special effort could be made to put the area in a suitable condition for the spring movement of stock. The council, when it considered the letter thought thai the department might do some, thing. HAND INJURIES W. J. Hogan, employed at the Whakatane Paper Mills received bad injuries on Thursday evening when he caught his right hand be. tween the rollers of the cardboard making machine as, it is stated, he was endeavouring to straighten out the felt. He was brought to f,ht J Whakatane Hospital where lie is now making satisfactory progress. The injuries were complete loss of the middle and ring fingers and part of the thumb and little finger.

BAY BEATEN Poverty Bay beat Bay of Plenty by 11 points to 8 at Opotiki on Saturday. Ba\- of Plenty scored first and led by eight points to nil for much of the game, but lost their grip towards the end. HOLED IX ONE Miss J. Baker entered golf's Hall of fame on Saturday when she took her brassy in her hand and tapped a ball at number five hole at Whakatane from the tec* to the cup. In other words - it Avas a hole in one l and distinguished from many holes in one by being the first ever recorded on that particular green. It is a carry of 185 yards for the ladies, so it was no mean blow.