Local and General
Liquor in Bags A question asked the chairman ol No. 1 Transport Licensing Authority, when in Whakatane iast Wednesday was "II a ta.\i driver should pick up a Pakeha passenger who may have liquor either in a puree! or a hag. would lie be committing an offence by not asking what was in tlie bag or -demanding an examination." Mr Phelan said that no man could demand that, the complaint that day concerned the providing of liquor to Maoris and what they desired to overcome was the continuation of this open traffic.
Edgecumbe Rainfall Mr Andrew ."McLean reports that rain full lor April totalled 2.77 inches which i'e!l on 11 days. This makes 8.37 inches i'or the year to date against 2.48. inches for the. saiiK period last year. Last year's April registered 1.42 inches. Week-end Army Leave Bay of Plenty men who proceeded to Papakura .Military Camp for training on April 15 have advised their relatives that they were hoping to have sufficient leave this week end to enable them to revisit their homes. A good proportion rc married men. The men from this d}V triet are carrying out training with a view to manning anti-aircraft guns in the near future.
Price of Candles An order fixing the maximum price at Avhich household candles may be sold has been issued by the Price Tribunal. The retail price at any place where there is a wholesale merchant will be Is 3d a packet of six candles. Elsewhere it will be is a packet, and where sold in less Than lib packet lots it will be 2V2CI a candle.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 47, 1 May 1942, Page 4
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