Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 December 1939, Page 4

Local and General

Not Forgotten. All present at the annual meeting of the Whakatane Caledonian Society last Wednesday evening stood in silence to the memorj T of two members who during the year had joined the great majority. They were Messrs T. Arres and Ed. Law. Created a Nuisance. When John Donald Stewart, labourer, aged 13, appeared before Mr G. A. Brabant in the Police Court yesterday it was stated by Constable R. Prater that he had been ordered out of Opotiki on December 8 when he had been convicted there for drunkenness. Arrested by Constable E. Wigmore on Wednesday evening, accused pleaded guilty to being found drunk in a public place, and was fined £2, in default 14 days imprisonment. Iron Lung. The "Iron Lung" recently installed in the Whakatane Hospital was the gift of Lord Nuffield. The shipping company responsible for its transport to New Zealand had not charged for the freight. Nor had the company who shipped it to Wha katane. The Harbour Boards of Auckland and Whakatane had cancelled the wharfage on the respirator and the only debt to the Hospital Board was the Customs duty. There was some comment on this at the meeting of the Board yesterday. National Thanksgiving Day. ! At the County Council meeting lon Tuesday a letter was received from the Department of Internal Affairs advising that the Minister wishes to remind all Centennial Controlling Committees it is the wish of the National Centennial Council that Sunday, 7th January, 1940, be observed by all churches in the Dominion as a clay of National Thanksgiving, and that where possible United Services be held on the afternoon of that day. It is suggested that United Services could be organised by Centennial Committees in collaboration with representatives of the different churches. The matter was left in the hands of the Centennial Committee.

Shipping. Messrs Parry Bros' vessels Katie S and Vesper were in port on Wednesday discharging benzine and gen era! cargoes. The Katie S also carried a deck load ol' field tiles. Telephone at Hospital The Medical Superintendent of the Whakatane Hospital, Dr Tewsley Dawson, suggested to the board at the meeting yesterday that a girl be employed for certain hours to answer the telephone. "The nurses have a lot of work to do," he said, "and sometimes there is a delay before they answer the 'phone. Complaints are made but it is not the fault of the nurses." Not Dead Yet. "The work on numerous occasions hail fallen to the willing few, and on tlie night of the big dance the ladies had too much to do altogether. Some of them were fagged out." The chief of the Wliakatane Caledonian Society, Mr J. W. Symons had barely made this observation last Wednesday evening when a feminine voice Avith comforting Scot tisli 'burr'l, joined in "Don't believe it. Were alric'ht yet."