ROUND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 239, 18 November 1940, Page 5

ROUND ABOUT

Rather an interesting situation - ■ ■■ • • -ys has developed for the Opotiki Coun- * ty Council in. connection with the - Rural Housing Scheme. At a special , meeting' held prior- to its ordinary moiithly meeting the council decided to apply for a £10",000 loan, four councillors voting against the pro- - posal. The confirmation of this decision is scheduled for the Decern- - - her meeting and- also on, that month's agenda will be a motion to rescind the resolution, notice to this effect having' been tabled by. one of those! hostile to the scheme. Should the council find itself too' involved- i -as seems probable—a tele phone call to 34M Taneatua should help them out. That number identifies the residence of Mr H. C. McG ready. v- ••■ • ■ I A tally taken half-an-hour after the scheduled time for the com-, mencement of the meeting showed - nine present for the annual chinchin of the Whakatane Ladies' Golf Club. _ The meeting could not -be held even then becausc the ladies did not know the number necessary for a quorum; the difficulty had never arisen before. But the ladies did not waste their time. Two knitted—and they all talked, 1 « « • » Shakespeare has never been described as a visionary, but I might suggest that, on the lines oj>Dunne's "Experiment in Time," t?fie notedscribe did have a vision through the. centuries, a vision of a Bay of Plenty Hospital Board meeting,. when he wrote 'Much Ado About ; Nothing.' ■ - -' At the meeting on Thursday much time Was losft on the question of w T he ther the visiting committee should visit- ' After 22 minutes one member said, "We do not seem to be getting anywhere and it might be better to leave the position as it is." Which was just what happened.- . • • ■ ■ ». * And later in the meeting, when the board had tirelessly concentrat- - , ed on the question of a sub-contract for additions to the hospital for . 30 minutes a member observed im-» > patiently,. "Can we not" leave it to the Finance Committee; we are only r si ■ : wasting time." After 37 minutes it was decided to leave it to the Finance Committee . • * * ' .. At tlie Whakatane Golf Club's annual meeting on Thursday night 80 per cent of those present revealed themselves as eulogists of some ability; and 80 per cent ol the meeting was devoted to them. "A mutual admiration society," .in the / words of the president. But no doubt it was all justified and everyone was very happy. Said one, pointing to the Post Office on Friday: 'Why is the flag : half-magf?" " ' , Said the other: "I don't know. For the Italian Fleet probably.** m a * r" Last Sunday one of the local > - padres donned his coat; affixed his trouser clips and prepared to mount his cycle to ride to ——a few miles out of town. Enquired a yoUng innocent: ."Where are yongoing?" The padre supplied the In- • .■-.information, and the youngster, full, of knowledge, nodded his head: "Going out to the 'two-up' school, are you?" - • • . »- * And then there comes the story of one of the local milk roundsmen who appeared on a recent fine and sunny morning wearing a- heavy voilskin coat. It seems that at one of his points of call he lias to pass down a very narrow alley. It is sonarrow at one point that it is impossible to turn round and so he could not beat off the dog whicli flew at the seat of his trousers. Hence the oilskin and the oiled- 1 v skin. . - ... ••m m • m The suggestion made by Mr Allan - . Bridger, secretary to the Hospital ■ Board, that patients should pay a deposit for the use of the radio headphones, is quite a good one. The general idea is that if the sets, are found to be in working order when the patient .leaves, the deposit is refunded. But the idea might grow and it is possible that someone Avill claim a partial reversal of the thing; the Hospital Board to pay the patient a deposit, and if he is found to be in working order when he leaves* the deposit to be refunded. ■■■*. .«• • # News certainly travels fast. Recently we mentioned a Harirakl . . Plains schoolchilil's definition of aa oasis, as a hotel in the desert. A day or two ilater came a message frort^ Egypt about four soldiers , ,g.|| drowned in an oasis*