Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 53, 19 October 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Used Obscene Language Charged with using obscene lan- • guage in the Strand, Whakatane, on . Saturday, Arama Pautahi Martin, also known as Jimmy Martin, waterside worker, was convicted and fined £3 by Messrs C. H. and R. Morpeth, J’s P. in fbe Wha- ! katane Police Court on Monday,

New Station Testing The new Wanganui broadcasting station 2XA, which will be officially opened on Saturday evening next at 8 p.m. is at present testing and for the last few nights has been received at Whakatane with excellent volume and clarity. The broadcasts are on 1200 k.c. Raffles Within Law The clause in the Gaming. Amendment Bill which propose to make it an offence to be in possession of lottery tickets is to be altered to bring raffles within the law. This change will be made when the bill comes before the House of Representatives again this week. It will merely reinstate the status quo. All Black to Retire Following the example of Phjl Nel, captain of the 1937 Springboks, who threw his boots into the Indian Ocean on the voyage home to mafKA his retirement from football, the All Blacks’ captain Fred Allen kicked his boots overboard in a special ceremony on the boax deck of the Dominion Monarch last week.

Hedgehogs on Golf Links Children of the caretaker, at the Whakatane Golf links, Mr B. Benson, have quite a few shillings jingling in their pockets as a result of a hedgehog hunt over the course the other night. In just 1 hour 20 minutes they bagged 67 hedgehogs which, with a bounty of 1/- a snout, represented quite fair earnings per hour. Wot, No Walter ?

The participation of the United States in World War II and its subsequent efforts to bring about world recovery and a durable peace have been major factors in bringing about a 586 per cent increase in U.S. Qov-> ernment tax collections in the last nine yearsl In contrast, State and local government taxes have increased only 66 per cent.