order to help meet the cost of licensing and running two accessible buses.

A BPHA spokesman said the events are a follow up to the successful fundraisers held in February where over $2,000 was raised.

A square dance and ceilidh night will be held on Friday at Spanish Point Boat Club at 8 p.m. and will feature music from Ireland, Scotland and the USA. The live band will have top musicians from New York, Ireland, London, Canada and Bermuda performing with fiddles, banjos, guitars, mandolins, whistles and more.

On Sunday at 8 p.m. a traditional Celtic music night will be held at Flanagan's Pub on Front Street with instrumental music interspersed with ten guest singers, followed by free for all sessions. Both venues are wheelchair accessible.

Tickets for the activities can be purchased at the Music Box and Opus 1.

STRONG FIELD FOR AG SHOW GVT Strong field for Ag Show This year's Agricultural Exhibition promises to be one of the best on record with more than 2,500 entries.

The Exhibition, which coincides with Earth Day on April 22, is now in its 58th year.

It has attracted 2,694 entries which surpassed last year's total by 394.

Among the events planned for the three day festival, will be an American acrobatics team whose members range in age from 6-26.

The show, which starts on April 20, will take place at the Botanical Gardens, Paget, each day.

FERRY USE UP FOR FEBRUARY TRA Ferry use up in February More than 1,000 more passengers used the Island's ferry system in February than a year earlier, recently released figures show.

In 1994 32,403 people used this form of transport compared to 33,419 last February, an increase of 1,016 passengers.

The Paget/Warwick route showed an increase of 1,194 passengers in 1995 with 19,393 travelers compared to 18,199 in 1994.

But fewer passengers used the Somerset ferry this past February with 14,026 commuters compared to 14,204 in 1994.

FINE FOR COCAINE CTS Fine for cocaine Possessing drug equipment cost a 40-year-old homeless man $150 in fines yesterday.

Dennis Harris pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to having a hand-made pipe used for smoking freebase cocaine.

Police on patrol near Victoria Park saw Harris with a bag behind his head, Police prosecutor Sgt. Donald Grant said.

When Police officers approached, Harris was seen to throw the bag in the trash and walk away.

The officers searched the bag, Sgt. Grant said, and noticed a pipe made from a liquor bottle among a few packages of cookies.

The officers detained Harris who later admitted that the pipe was used for smoking crack cocaine and that he was a cocaine addict.

The pipe was found to have traces of cocaine.

Harris had previous convictions for similar offences.

TENDER MEETING GVT Tender meeting The Ministry of Works and Engineering will be holding a seminar for all painting and general maintenance contractors next week so that they can have a better understanding of Government's tendering policy.

"We have taken great steps to make sure that every contractor, whether big or small has access to Ministry work,'' Minister of Works and Engineering the Hon. Leonard Gibbons said.

The seminar is scheduled for Wednesday April 12, at Government Personnel Services, Global House, Church Street.

It will begin at 1 p.m. All contractors are urged to send a representative.