Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 52, 2 March 1943, Page 4

Local and General

Healthy Financial Position Reporting to the County Council the County Clerk last Tuesday stated that as at February 11th last outstanding European rates only amounted to £159 over the whole County. Picture Calendar on Page 8 Attention of readers is drawn to Hie picture calendar Avhich iioav appears on page 8 and which should be cut out and hung up in a handy place lor reference during the coming month. What Again We only liavo it on rumour of course, but. we understand from a fairly reliable source that the. last time the Engineers (H.G.) paraded their jovial O.C. on his amble of inspection down the line Avas greeted by all hands' with noises resembling very closely the bleating of goats in spA-ere. pain. Of Interest to Housewives On page six of this issue appears a special article on the making of syrup from rose hip berries. The syrup is recommended by the NeAV Zealand Plimkct Society as the richest in food properties for child-] ren and it-is suggested as an alternate to oranges which are noAv unprocurable. Fruit for Nothing! "Pick as many as you like Avas the invitation given by a NeAV Plymouth orchardist to a Daily News reporter. He added that he possessed 300 trees. When asked'why he did not sell the fruit the orch-

ardist replied: "Too much blessed paraphernalia. What with cases and forms to fill in there is too much taradiddle with apples these days." "But it would be worth it, surely," ventured the reporter with an acute consciousness of the price of apples at New Plymouth shops at 6d a lb. "•Not for what 'I would get out of it,"' replied the grower. "You see," he explained, "there is this business of sorting them out in. sizes. Then you have got to remember I would not. get anj'thing like the price you see in the shops—there are to many blokes: between the grower and the shops these days, and they all want their chop!"

Wild Pig and Trout

That the members of the. Headquarters Company can give a good account of themselves with the riile and rod, was shown last week-end during the recent camp at Ilotoma. Pte Eric Emery during a brief 'spell' disappeared over the brow of the hill and later returned. Avith a well grown wild pig which was duly photographed and will probably be stuffed and mounted and handed down to successive, generations. Pte Goron Kent also provoked a cheer when he stalked nonchalently into •camp with an attractive-looking trout, the result of a bet, the second for the day lie had made •with the o«c.