LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Puke Times, Volume 26, Issue 44, 4 June 1937, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Trespassing, The attention of sportsmen is drawn to the trespassing notices appearing on Page 1 of this issue,. Basketball. Play was fast and keen in the match which took place in Te Puke between Waitangi and Te Puke on Wednesday afternoon, and at the call of time the scores stood at 1 all. The referee was Miss E. Tanner. Loan Default. Alberta is to default on a 000-dollar bond maturity* states a cable, according to the State Treasurer, Mr Solon Low. This is the third major default within three months. The Bank of Canada and the Otta'wa Government had earlier refused loans. A Mile of Children. Years ago Thames boasted a police constable by the name of Furlong. On one occasion in Coui't, the presiding magistrate had occasion to ask him if he had a family. His j reply was prompt. “I have a mile of them, sir !” he said. Actually he did have eight children, and eight furlongs do make a mile. Crash into Pole. A party of motorists travelling from Te Puke to Whakatane on Sunday morning had a narrow escape from serious disaster, The car, a Chevrolet, was driven by a young man named Russell Baker, of Te Puke, and there were two other occupants. When about one and ahalf miles on the other side of Matata the car left the road and ploughed through the road until it struck a telegraph pole. This was broken off near the ground and nearly all the wires snapped necessitating a hurried visit by the linesmen’s gang from Whakatane to effect repairs. The front part of the car was badly damaged ,by the im* pact, biit, strange to say, not a pane of glass in the car was broken nor one of the occupants injured.