OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 26, 19 June 1939, Page 4

OUT AND ABOUT

j „ „ - In confirmation of the report that a fish with a head like a dog was seen in Cook's Strait, it is now reported V that a similar apparition was seen V oft The Mount, Tauranga, two years 1 ago. I can well believe it. I spent * the New Year there once and agree that anything can happen at Mount. , * * * * I still chuckle when I think of i Joe's session, with the gypsy fortune. L teller at the Show. How accurate her predictions were may be judged from : the fact that she told him he was . devoted to farming and a great hater of games of chance and horse racing. ; Joe's re.actions have not been re- . corded. A' * # « * The New Zealand Rugby heads have ' instructed Unions to encourage players to volunteer for the territorials. i 1 The importance of defence, in their considered opinion, is only second to the 3-4.1 scrum. * * # ♦ Tales of tiny tots usually give me f a but there is the story * of the little girl who had to stayhome from school because of a cold.. "I can't stay home, Mother,'* she? begged. "We are making a plastieiue ! model of a cow for the Show, and I'm chairman of the udder commit, tee.'' * * sJ: ® * 4b O lovely wooden showcase dummy, - O dainty nymph with slicked down hair, So elegant so young and yummy, That hurried shoppers halt and stare, s/ Would tha't your too, too solid 9esh, O Galatea cold >and alien. Might sprin'g to life,' awake and To glad the soul of some Pygmalion: Of perhaps, who sculpe'd that grace Of your exquisite form and face. And thought of all the girls he knew Whn. were-worse dummies, far, than. y°u. \ is <Jp sp Whakatane has quit e a percentages of fishermen, in its- make-itp. Isaac Walton, revered patron of the ''sport; w of fishinV' wrote the "Gomplcat Angler'' some few years ago. It's just as well Whakatane hadn't discovered in them thar days for iie would have been tempted to alter ili« title to the "Compleat Ajngliar," which, in spite of its authenticity, would have been howled down by h's outraged contemporaries. Let us study, however, the angliar in his natural habitat. * * * * I met one at the close of the sea_ f son on the Waimana. I was throwing bacli. every five pounds in weight when he came along. We chatted and I thought I'd sound knowledge of his own hobby. r r ''Heard of Isaac Walton?" I veii^ turcd. "You bet!" was the prompt reply. "He used, to work for me once, but in weather like this we didn't do muc'i about the place. Too keen on fishing. But what an awful liand he was at it till. I got hold of him. Incidentally I taught him all he knew." Ha moved off with a modest air of unconscious greatness which even I could scarcely doubt. # * # * * Then there was the gent who told me that old boots were the best baitfor eels. ''What sort of eels could you catch ; with old boots? ' j said doubtfully. "Rubber of course," quoth he. breaking into a smart run and di«C appearing into Alf's. _ * * * V 3^] Strike the Lyre Department. % There once was a lad from Galat.\a.f - Who did nothing at all but djfttlc , * beer, And when a 'friend said "I think You do nothing but drink." Said, ''So would you if you had to live here."' * * * » A young fellow of Little Awanui Remarked when he first heard a tui "The assertion I've heard, -\£ That the note of that bird, * t Is is undoubtedly hpoejp." ? RUGBY'S FERN LEAF. Maori teams representing New Zealand will in future be supplied with jerseys bearing the fern leaf (as is done in the c,ase of New Zetland , t RUgby 'teams) ' and the JkUI: ' ' t '. N.Z.M.T. A decision to t'lrwHrfeet ..*]£ was made, tin the motion -af Mr S. S. Dean, at r. meeting of tfic New 7|;-|| Zealand Rugby Football Council. ' " i ' *' £»