ROUND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 192, 29 July 1940, Page 5

ROUND ABOUT

Having u glance through Friday's BKAGOjS 7 I camc across something, the like of which we may nevter see again. Possibly many of you noted it. The riddle is: Who was mentioned twelve times oh the one page? and the answer is: Councillor H. G. McCready. Yet the amazing part of it was that in a column and a half devoted to that constantly recurring, evergreen topic, the Ohope Swimming Pool., lie came into it only three times into the that is, not the pool. Of course, as you will so often see, the pool so far is only a drealmi, and, continuing the rambling,, it' a dream only for those who do not find it a nightmare. «»« ■ m Antb-purely-txr avoid -Ilie unlucky? thirteen Councillor McCready will excuse the further use of his nameAs was noted in the report on the* Rural Housing Act, which with t{he Council is assuming almost the pro portions of an Ohope Swimming Pool problem, the gentleman stoutly defended that he considered to be the rights of the ratepayers. This vigorous ratepayers' representative knows what he wants to say and produces few 'er-ers' in'-tfhe saying. He has quite a lot on his side, too, in the subject under view. m • m m At the time of writing the Wl4a-* katane Caledonian Society's Pipe Band lias not inadc the trip to Opo-* tiki, but I understand that the yiisit is scheduled. It has also been statject that it will be the first time the pipes have skirled in our neighbour ing town, although some times I- . have been of the opinion that din created could be heard further than Opotiki. Just another instance! of how biased we can be. We will probably have reports oft Opotiki youngsters doubting that the pipers are really men and of some of the younger youngsters dashing for the nearest bush, while Local Boy Scouts hurriedly rehearse Air Raid Precaution drill. «»- * * There, are husband who are pretty . There are husbands who are witty, There are, husbands who in publije are as smiling as the mornThere are husband who are healthy, There are farnous ones and wealtlhy Yet the real angelic husband, lie's never yet been born. Some for strength of love are* noted, Who are really, so devoted That whene'er their wives are ab-» sent they are lonesome and forlorn; And while now and then you'll find one Wlio's a really good and kind one, Yet the real angelic husband; oh, he's never yet been. born. So the woman who is mated To a man who may be rated As "pretty fair" should cherish hint forever and a day, For the real angelic creature, Perfect quite in every feature, He has never been discovered, and he won't be, so they say. * * » » And that is to give the lie, to the allegation that I am a misogynist. m. m '* ' ■ . Our Volunteer Fire Brigade has being having a fairly busy time just lately after a period described as all quiet. One member, in particular, had a frightfully busy tiime. On a recent night, when asleep, one' of the town's rats (and there are one or two about) had the nerve to bite a chunk out :of his lip and another fair sized mouthful out of a linger. The Brigadesman was awake and in action in less than the four minutes taken by the crew of the Achilles when they came across a rat, and for some hours afterwards he conducted a solo reconnaissance patrol, leaving nothing to chance. Apparently Comrade Rodent de-* cided that other fields would prove fairer than trespassing in a room always under the threat' of sudden; activity when tires abound, and he has since established a colony in a building towards one end of the Strand. He's doing very well for himself, too, and on his accession of territory as much as anything else he is entitled to. call) himself , Der Fuehrer, although, in putting it that way, I realise that I leave myself open- to some of those ropri-» sals of Hitler's mentioned last weelc. The employees in the building now dominated by Herr Raatt list a bull-dog among other things thev would like to have, but in its absence have been promised a loan of Ajax. You probably have no acquaintance with Ajax, and Der Fuehrer -will wish he hadn't either if the two ever get'"together. t All I can say at the present, pending results, is that Ajax. is a cat*, is black, and is.a goer.