Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 55, 20 May 1942, Page 4

Local and General

Unusual Discovery Two boys playing in the rear of business premises oil the Strand last Sunday discovered in the long grass a rusted 303 rifle which was handed in to the police who are now making enquiries. Mushrooms, Nine Inches Across While travelling from Ohope to Whakatane a local business man who was; curious enough to investigate, discovered that the white objects which had attracted his attention on the roadside were monster mushrooms one of which measured 9% j inches across. i

Boys Oversieas Listeners to the Radio Magazine in the session "With the Boys Overseas" were pleased to hear 6m Sunday morning and Tuesday night, the familiar voice of Jock Arrol who is serving with the New Zealand force 5 In the Divisional Cavalry in tlv Middle East. Jock sent his regards to relatives and friends in Opotiki. Whakatane and Gisiborne.

Chocolate Craved For "Don't take the trouble to; get a whole lot of clothes and things fcjr the next parcel; just send me 91b of chocolate and a couple of pairsof socks," wrote a Wellington pris»oner of war recently fnom a German camp, rt is said that this, isi not the only request of the kind which next-of-kin have been receiving, and that relatives and friends of soldiers! serving in the Middle East and the Western Desert have had similar requests.

Court Incident | A remarkable coincident occurred in the Supreme' Court at Dunedin recently when the new jury was being empanelled in the case in which a young man was on trial on a charge of indecent assault and which was terminated suddenly because of evidence being produced that the father of accused had been conversing with one of the jurymen hearing the evidence. The first name called by the registrar was that of the man concerned. He was stood down, on the challenge of the Crown.