Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 66, 25 September 1939, Page 4

Local and General

iTEN ARRESTED One man wis arrested in Taneatua one in Whakatane over the weekend on charges of disoiderly conduct nd drunkenness. LIKE TO KILL J! 13,1" Discussing a compatriot who_ like limself. i.s now a registered alien, usually mild-mannered German, iO\v living in Auckland, surprised his leavers the other day by stating !iat "X" was a "10'!) per cent Nazi,"' nd adding with considerable emhasisj "J would like to kill h!m! : ' :UT PRICE? At present the jokes current durig the last war have been pol'shed p, given a Hitler angle and put into I ii dilation once more for the be ne'e of a new generation. lie re is one, owever that has some measure of t'iginalicy about it. W lien the Nazis nposed a fine upon the Jewish regents j'or their alleged responsibility )r the murder of the German Minis:i\ von Rath, a German-Jewish firm 1 England addressed the following tter to the Nazi Government: "Dear irs, We note that you have charg--1 us £8(> 5 0'00j000 for Herr von Rath, lease quote lis collectively and s'ngfor Herren Hitler, GoebbeJs ..and oering." 3 SCHOOL BY PLANE According to an Aucklander who turned recently from the Tittleiovvn but rugged and beautiful uth Westland district, this is the only part of New Zealand, and possib- ; !y the wo rid ? where the children travel regularly to school by aeroplane. The only access to South Westland is by pack horse, he said, and the children were as much at homej in »a'plane as other children were in the" more prosaic school bus. He added that each property had a landing ground ? many o,f these being constructed or subsidised by the Govern-

merit. FURTHER MILL BUILDINGS The contractor for the State Forestry Mill at Whakarewarewa, Mr N. Cole, of Auckland has commenced work on the erection of the box-mak-ing factory, which is approximately twice the size of the mill itself., though it will contain littjfe machinery. A steam drying kiln is also to be constructed, timber used in both buildings being taken from the Waiotapu forest. Another item included ! in the contract, which will expire in tour months' time, is that of the construction of a weighbridge at the entrance to the mill, where both empty and loaded trucks mviy tested. The box factory will be 300" feet in length and 70 feet in width when completed, ?nd ths drying kiln 68 feet by 36 feet.

OFF THE AIR All radio commentators on foreign anair.s' ? ir.clu.lini; even such a well-' known and judicial authority as 3lr L. K. Munro, ar e noYv "olf the air" by Government wartime edict. ACCIDENT TO BUSHMAN Injuries were suiTeied last week by Frederick Taylor, aged 28, a timber worker of Te Whaili, when a timber jack reco'led and tore a ]arp;e gash in his left; arm. He was admitted to the Rolorua public Hospital and is now in a satisfactory condition,. ECLIPSES IN 19JO Only two eclipses will occur during U) 10, as compared with four in the present year. The dates will bo April 7, an annular eclipse of the sun, visible as a very small partial eclipse in the extreme north of Auck land; and October 1, a total eclipse of the sun ( invisible in New Zealand. Ihci'e will be no ecTpse of the moon next year. UNFAMILIAR SHIP

Tnese whose business takes them down by tile waterfront paused and rubbed their eyes for a moment on Friday at something unfam liar in the lines of "i vessel lying at tlr:> wharf. A second glance showed that it was the m.v. Waiotahi, usually on the Opotiki run but diverte'l to Whit ka'fca.Oe on tins occasion to load butter. A beamier craft than the other Northern, Company's ships, the Waiotahi is distinctive in carrying a white funnel well aft. The other boats

[cad their exhausts out at the trucks. SHE HAD NO GAS MASK A unique demonstration enabled a Whangarei radio dealer to effect a sale last week. Previously a Maori woman had been very anxious to change her broadcast wireless set for a short-wave receiver. Arriving at the outlying settlement with the new machine a couple of days later; the client revealed to the salesman that she had lost interest. She wanted a short-wave set no longer, apparently having" taken too literally the criticism of German methods of propaganda dissemination. "The people round here say Berlin, he putting poison, gas over the short-wave " she said. For a moment the salesman was nonplussed. Then., taking his courage in both hands, he offered to make a demonstration to allay her fears. With some trepidation she agreed to these exneriments keeping a saf-c distance from the machine. The salesman fiddled until the dial was set to a Berlin station, and then, with his face pressed closely to the loud speaker, inhaled deeply. Although his ear may have been subject to contamination, his respiratory organs were not, and the exhibition proved sufficiently conclusive to secure the signature on the dotted line.

OPOTJKI FOLLOWS The majority of Opotiki shopkeepers have decided to change to Saturday I'or the weekly halE-holiday.. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS As a precaution against air raids, steps have been taken to protect the office of the New Zealand High Cora r missioner in London.. To meet the cost of strengthening the ground floor of the building and of making the basement proof against gas and a sum of £500 has been voted in the Suppelmentary Estimates. INCOME OF A WIFE Is a wiife with a greater income than her husband entitled to receive maintenance? When that question was considered in a reserved judgment by Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, the magistrate stated that there was a moral obligation on the part of a man to maintain his wife, irrespective of her income but he had discretionary power in the matter of making an order. In the case before the court the parlies were not separated and he would not make an 9 order. FRENCH ANTHEM "Allons en rants de la patrie''—the stirring French national Anthem —is now being played with 'God Save the King" in several Auckland picture theatres, but many people fail to recognise the tune, and are slow in standing while it is played. However, this omission will be rectified, no doubt, before the war comes to a close. The "Marseillaise'' was composed in 1792 by Rouget de l'lsle, an officer then stationed at Strasburg. Tn Paris it was sung for the first time bv a band of men who came from Marseilles to aid in the revolution of August 10 1792, hence the ? 1 name. j TEUTONIC HUMOUR German rad'o propaganda at the : oresent time is directing the main . force of its invective against Eng- ! land. Most of this is oji a typically ' clumsy kind, such as the attempt to i ascribe the torncdoeing of the Ath- ; cnia to a British submarine, but occasional flashes of humour, a quality < not usually associated with the Teu- 1 tonic mind, relieve the usual tedium i of studied misrepresentation. On sev- ? era) occasions lately the "voice of Ber I lin," speaking in sardonic vein, has r announced that "England will fight 1 to the last Frenchman" and again c that "England expects every French- s man to do his duty!'' It only needs ] to be added that in the Great War ] which was largely fought in France, 1 the French casualties were 1,393.388' c killed < n nd 1,-190,000 wounded, and c the British casualties 1,089,91.9 killed i and 2 400,988 wounded., I