Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 28, 26 June 1939, Page 4

Local and General

KICKED BY lIORSii Stanley Wade, aged 16, youngest son of Mr Harry Wade, was seriously injured on Thursday at Lower Kaimai when he was thrown, from a young horse he was riding and received a severe kick on the left side of the head. He was immediately brought to the Tauranga hospital, but his condition is serious. LAMENT ''It will take me at least three months' steady work to pay the debts incurred in building the bridge, so I cannot spare the time to attend the opening ceremony.." This laconic apo. logy from the contractor, read at the opening of the new bridge over the Wairoa Stream at caused much amusement. MOTOR-CAR SPARROWS Even for those sturdy little foragers, the sparrow.®, winter brings hard times. Scraps from horses' nose-bags used to be a grmt stand-by for sparrows, but this source of food i,s now raxte since ihe advent of the motoi ear. However, with his natural alertness. the sparrow has found that even ihe motor car offers an occasional mouthful for two were seen clinging to the radiator of a motor car ; and pecking into the interstices. They wci'fi found to be seeking the dried and shrivelled remains- of moths and other insects that had been caught in the meshwork during the summe" —pretty poor fr.re, even for the notso.fussy 1 sparrow, but these are Jean times. MILK KEPT FOR SEVEN YEARS "Milk which has been drawn n.sep. ticallv with every precaution taken against contamination and kept iu sterile vessels and sealed has been recorded at least twice to have kept for periods of five and seven years/" said Mr L. W. Ruddle in, an address t<>' the Canterbury branch of the Nov Zealand Institute of Chemistry. ''When it was opened it proceeded to sour as if it was that day's milk.' Mr Ruddle added that milk as provided the first milkings were discarded to avoid micro-organisms, was sterile, unless the cow was not sound. Raw milk held at 10 degrees centigrade and collected in the usual manner was good for up to 48' hours, and sealed pasteurised milk was supposed to remain good for up to 9t> hours.

iMPORT PERMITTED . The import bans against American cigarettes have been relaxed to permit the importation of the incnthoicooled variety. EXHIBITION LODGINGS The Wellington City Council has abandoned its project to use the Winter Show building, one of the clraughtiest in a draughty city, as a giant boardinghouse or block of flats during the Exhibition. XOT QUITE THE SAME "English spoken; Australian understood, was the rather intriguing notice observed by Mr L. Ward, of New Plymouth, on his recent visit to Noumea in the French Island of New Caledonia. "NEWS' ZEALAND New Zealand is becoming news, worthy. An Australian syndicate ot newspapers has recently installed an Australian, journalist in the. country, with headquarters at Wellington. Tie will cover the next session of Parliament . TRIBUTE TO MR TAI MITCHELL Mr 11. Tai was given a. warm reception at the gathering last Saturday, which attended the opening of the new Ruatoki meeting house. Referring to his services :u glowing terms, Sir Apirana Ngata, said; "He is a man Avho on behalf of the Maori racc, has often welcomed visitors from England ami and has impressed them with his court'sy and character. It is in recognition of these services that he has been recently lfiadc the recipient of the C.M.G. by Hi.s Majesty the King.

CHURCH AND STATE "In Italy there is not the clash between the Church and State that there is in Germany," said the Rev. Dr. N. Gascoigne, who has returned from the (> Continent, speaking in Hani ilton last week. '"It seems that Mussolini has a greater understanding of the fundamentals of life than has Hitler, and one feels that the Italian Dictator is by far the greater man." THE EARLY BIRD Earlier in the year it was noted in. quite a few places that pohutukawas and fruit trees had bloomed twice and yet another unseasonable mani. festition is reported from Mercury Bay where a pair of thrushes ar e nest ing. The nest wa s started about three weeks ago and it i.s expected that the live eggs should hatch out any time now. Certain, local enthusiasts humorously contend that it is just another proof of the mildness of the Bay's climate. * THE SHORTEST DAY Although the worst winter weather invariably comes after rather than before it ( the occurrence of the short, est day is hailed in many quarters almost as a red-letter day and as indicating that spring is not very far ahead. Considered from the point of view and the length of time be. 'tween sunrise and sunset, a number of days on cither side of June 22 ?rc of approximately equal length. But. astronomically speaking, the winter solstice occurred about 8 a.m on Friday which is • officially the shortest day. Thereafter the sun be. gins to move southward and to favour this hemisphere more and more. HUNTING INCIDENT In the course of his talk to the assembled huntsmen ?>t the close of the runs at Waihi on Saturday afternoon the whip, Mr Cecil Sj'mes, said he felt he should remind followers of the evil of over_riding the pack and by way of giving emphasis to this, he told an interesting incident. In the Old Country over-riding was called ''thrusting," said the speaker. A lady rider who had a reputation for "thrusting." 1 galloped up beside the master. woman," he said, ''this is not d bargain sale/' Thi lady retorted, "Well if it was I wouldn't be bidding for voti.' 1 *