Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 213, 16 September 1940, Page 4

Local and General

Extract. Extract from a letter received in Whakatane from overseas reads; "Have you any dope for quietening a man like Lindbergh for the rest of the war? If so send it along. Many people in the U.S.A. would like to keep him flying 20,000 feet in the air." Seed Maize. It was stated at Friday's meeting of the Eastern Bay of Plenty District Council of Primary Production's meeting that an order from the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company for 40 bushels of seed maize had been fulfilled. There would be no difficulty as regards seed maize, said Mr C. R. Taylor, Dejaartment of Agriculture. Retort Courteous. "There is an old proverb that the small acorn gives birth to the large oak. Applications like this have been made before on numerous occasions, and the applicants have later come to the authority with the plea that the oak is needed," stated Mr R. A. Potter, at a sitting of the No. 1 Transporting Licensing Authority when opposing an application on behalf of the Rotorua Carriers' Association. "You're not, bad at that sort of thing yourself," responded the authority, Mr E. JrPhelan. In the general laugh which greeted this salSjy Mr Potter asked that the applicant should be accorded .the same justice as he himself had when one , :of his applications, had been declined.^

JDates to Note. The dancing public is reminded of two dates to keep in view. The Awakeri Red Cross Society will stage a dance in the Awakeri Hall toimorrow evening, September 17. Popular prices will rule. There will be a dance the following niglit, Wednesday, September 18, in the New Edgecumbe Hall and this' will', be for the benefit of patriotic funds. Mrs Armstrong's orchestra Avill be in attendance at botlf fixtures. Children's Efforts. Efforts worthy of special commendation are those of two 'children who raised 5s 2d by building a sand castle at Ohope Beach and the concert, staged during the school holidays, and arranged by Gay Burt and Colleen Miles, pupils of the Whaltatane School. £2-3s 6d was the amount raised by means of the concert and this sum, as with the 5s 2d from the 'Sand Castle Appeal' has been handed to the honorary secretary of the Red Cross Society. $■

Frosts and Soms Damage. Sharp frosts \Vere * experiencedin the district un Thursday find "Friday mornings., causing some damage to gardens. Early potatoes and other vegetables in many cases Avere 'nipped in the bud.' First Case. One of the recently gazetted' Justices of the Peace, Mr J. G. Mulholland, popular Automobile Association representative in Whakatane, had his first experience on the Police Court Bench on Thursday. The proceedings? TOvol'ved the committal to the Supreme Court for sentence of a man charged with escaping from lawful custody. Luck. What is the "luck of the toss?" Button, a French scientist tossed a coin 2048* times, the result was heads 1061, tails 987. The lowest, group in the State Lottery (500110,000) won 5607 prizes in twelve months, the second highest 5243 prizes. It is 153 thousand million to one you won't draw 13 cards in any one suit, and the odds against you in the Irish Sweep are 390,000 to one. A Different Fifth Column. "Fifty years ago there was one baby to every four women in New Zealand; now there is one to very 11 women,"'said Dr. D. McK. Dickson in Christchurch, in an address on New Zealand's falling birthrate, which, he said, was a greater , menace than the menace of Hitierism. "One-llfth of this generation is producing half the next; but you couldn't say that that one-fifth jfe the Fifth Column Avorking against the increase of the .birthrate in this country. It is the other four-fifths that must be regarded as the Fifth Column that is endangering our national life." Few Fry Liberations. Only small quantities of fry we're liberated from ""the Ngongotaha hatchery last weelt; but some tAvo million ova are now in the hafioltery and it is expected that the peak of liberations will come at the end of this.month* Up to date 3,200*000 fry haA r e been liberated from the hatchery. An inspection Avas made a Aveek ago of the lakes and streams on the Wairoa district when Mr A. Kean, Conservator of Fish and game, visited Waikaremoana. The number of fry liberated in the district was 400,000, while a similar number of ova were taken to the hatchery there.