Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 70, 26 June 1942, Page 4

Local and General

British "Like to Fight" "Officers and men of British warships are swell,'"' said Commander Henry Eeeles, who, commanded an American destroyer in the battle of the Java Sea. "They not only know how to fight, but they like to light." Vegetables in Army Diet The opinion that men in the Army were receiving on an average more vegetables than they had had in their diet in civil life was expressed by witnesses before the Christchurch ( City Council vegetable committee, j ''The Army has set itself out to, treat the men well in the supply of healthgiving vegetables," said Mr D. M. Park, a witness on behalf of produce brokers. Education of the Future Dealing with the future of education as expoused by the People's Plan of world Reconstruction, Mr Brian Dunningham, at the Whakatane meeting last Tuesday evening said that children would be taught, primarily to think and then shown the way to a happy co-operative way of living—not of heartless competition. Every person had within themselves that spark of Divinity which was capable of potential perfection and that Avould be the aim of the new order of education. The "Homing" Mallard The homing instinct of the mallard duck was exemplified lately when a Tauranga resident who had two ducks and a drake in his fowli"ard for some years, thinking to place the birds in their natural habitat tobik them to a stream at( Ka#i mai where he liberated them in a pool. The next day he noticed in the sky two black specks which eventually landed in his yard. The two ducks had returned home. The following morning the drake had joined the family gathering.