Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 90, 5 February 1947, Page 5

Local & General

Show Entries Close on Friday

Attention is drawn to the advertisement in today’s issue notifying that entries for the forthcoming A. and P. Show close with the secretary, Mr Hamilton Morgan, on Friday next.

Caledonians Meeting Postponed Owing to unforseen circumstances the annual meeting of the Whakatane Young Caledonians Club has been postponed until Saturday, February 22, and will not be held on the Bth as previously advertised.

Famine Emergency Campaign The value of coupons for rationed commodities handed in for cancellation at the Post Office, Whakatane, for the period 27-31 January, 1947, were as under: Sugar nil; tea lib.; butter nil; meat £2 2s 2d; fats nil. Total to date: Sugar 171b5.; tea 12 lbs;; butter 2081b5.; meat £205 Is lid.

That Telephone Exchange ! “It’s far quicker and easier to go and visit a businessman in the town than to waste time trying to get exchange in order to ring them?” said a local businessman recently. He added that he had been compelled to leave his own office after making fruitless attempts to contact exchange for at' least ten minutes.

Paper Mills Union Picnic Members of'the Whakatane Paper Mills Union, held their annual picnic at Ohope Beach last Monday. There were an organised series of games, competitions and races on the sand, and the whole outing was thoroughly successful and enjoyable. (The union we understand was not successful in obtaining a ration of oranges for the occasion).

Rough Main Road The main road between Rotorua and Taupo is in a very rough condition from Waiotapu to the south. Apparently the grader has not been used on much of it for some time because several long stretches 'are deeply corrugated and plentifully pitted with pot holes. As always the fine pumice dust makes another nuisance for the motorist on this highway.

Nature Repairs Fire Damage' Nature has been busy repairing the damage done by 'the fires in the Taupo district a year ago. A visitor to Wairakei recently remarked that, although most of the pine§ in the geyser valley had been killed, hundreds of little seedlings are making their appearance among the dead tree trunks. The acacias in the valley were also sending up suckers from blackened stumps.

Debt. Cases

Judgment was entered for plaintiff in the following cases heard before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Whakatane Magistrate’s Court yesterday: Norman Edward Rigden v Austin M. Priestly £l7 Is 4d (costs 68s); Hamill Bros, v Daniel Claude Donovan £39 16s 3d (costs £5 15s 6d); Cutler Bros, v Daniel Claude Donovan £3 Is 6d (costs 36s 6d); McLean Motors Ltd v Daniel Claude Donovan £8 16s 3d (costs 43s 6d); Para Rubber Co. v Daniel Claude Donovan £3 10s (costs 36s 6d). Judgment Summons: Leo H. Bennett' v P. Thompson £7 6s 9d in default 7 days; Francis James Short v Pompey Thompson £9 10s. in default 9 days; Frank Reginald Young v Pompey Thompson £ls 17s 6d in default 15 days. , i