A "WILL" AND SOME "WHEY"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 151, 5 September 1941, Page 4

A "WILL" AND SOME "WHEY"

drink up the WHEY and in due course go the WAY of all (pig) flesh, which would be one WAY of bringing home the bacon. Any VVAY, tenders have been called (see idvert in the Beacon) for the WHEY resulting from making 1600 tons of cheese. So what about our Harbour Board (which owns the river) starting an eel farm just off-shore from the cheese factory wharf. No doubt eels like WHEY, or can be taught, to lap it up. Then we could get up a fishing excursion on S.S. Port Whakatane and go up the river anr' catch the big fat tuna. That would be better than crossing the bar and getting seasick in pursuit of schnapoer and hapuka. Or perhaps our Borough Council (which has grown accustomed to getting into ill odour over lots of local matters, such as bands and rubbish dumps) migtit but in a successful tender and start t pig farm on its side of the river. One can sometimes detect a pig tarm some way off. I believe it is the milk or WHEY and not the pigs vhat gives a peculiar quality to the Atmosphere. Now we get a good deal of wind from the direction of the Paper Mills, so if there is any pig farm out that WAY the good folks of Koyjeopeo ar.e likely to be right in the line of fire. That is to «ay they will be hjjeathing in the scented air. All the same, I hope (and no doubt our dairy company chairman does too) that some te.nfler hearted person will tender tor the WHEY and take it away, away, away from the new cheese factory. Yours etc., WHICH WEIGH?

Sir, —In these stirring times where such depressing news comes over the radio about casualties, battles and taxes, it is cheering to read in the BEACON that things are looking better and brighter on the Whaka Front-. Reading the Beacon does cheer one up—provided one looks for th 3 silver linjjafc. For instance, a local dairy coir?f)any, hav(ng assisfed the war effort to the extent of establishing a big, new cheese factory on the outskirts of our town, advertises that it wants someone to take AWAY the WHEY. That bears out the v old saying "Where there's 'a 'WILL" (McC.) there's a WHEY." In the meantim? the dairy company chairman wHT be wondering how to find*a out of the problem of having so much WHEY to give AWAY (or sell, if possible). If* no one tenders for the WHEY (Heaven forbid) the Dairy Companj r might be obliged to tip all that WHEY into the river. That would give our local songsters a chance to sing "WHEY down uponr, the Whaka River."l can't think of any WAY of disposing of all that WHEY except starting a pig orphanage so that the little pigs could