GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 4, 16 January 1942, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Spare Tyre Breaks Window

Bouncing from the top of a loaded lorry where it had been placed for convenience, a spare tyre, gathered impetus when it struck the road, ran off at a tangent "to the course of the lorry, leaped the kerbing of the footpath, and crashed into the windoAV of a shop at New Plymouth. The driver was completely unaware of the havoc his tyre had caused until the Transport Department inspector who was following the lorry, speeded up and shouted instructions. Fruit More Popular Consumption of apples and pears in New Zealand during the 1941 seaon was on a scale greater than in any other country, according to a circular issued to all: apple and pear growers by the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. J. G. Barclay. "There were many," he says, "who thought that it was not possible for the New Zealand public to consume the full crop of 2,640,000 cases,, but this quantity has been consumed an<l it represents 70.41b per head of the population, or an of 264 fruits per j)erson per year. The next best recorded average is by the United States with an annual consumption of or 178 fruits per person." The statement adds that during the height of the season the market was absorbing 11 fruits per head per week and this average was held for seven consecutive weeks. "I doubt," says the Minister, "if these figures have been exceeded in anj r

other country at any time."

To the Letter A native youth in the New Plymouth district has provided striking evidence of the fidelity of his race. He is in the employ of a farmer, who, on going to town on business, instructed him toi bury two drums of benzine, which had been stored in an outhouse. The youth obeyed the instructions. When the farmer returned home and asked about the benzine he was told: "Yes, I bury him, but what shall I do with the drums?" Seagulls' Nest on Launch Two seagulls are rearing a family on a launch moored not far from the foreshore of St. Mary's Bay, Auckland. The site chosen for the nest was in the middle of an old motorcar tyre on top of the cabin and in due course two birds were hatched. The young birds arc able to walk, but the parents keep close watch on all intruders and a launch which approached the nest was attacked by ,both. Circus Animals Shot As nobody in Sydney wants to buy lions, tigers and leopards, and as such animals are likely to become a danger in the event of an air raid, the Waterloo Suburban Council ordered the destruction of three trained lions, a tiger and a leopard, the property of a travelling circus, the proprietor of which valued them at £500. The unfortunate animals provided sitting shots within their cages. Their are e>x-< pected to bring £20.