APPLES RUN AMOK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 67, 24 April 1945, Page 7

APPLES RUN AMOK

A FRUITY FIVE MINUTES

A rather fruity accident took place Lu the St rami on Monday morning when a case of apples, bounced off the hack of a truck on which it was being carried and fell with a rending crash in tlie middle of'the road. The scene was immediately dominated by apples. Big small red ones, green ones and badly bent ones rolled every holding up the traffic causing the mouths of business people to water, and creating pangs of woe in the heart of the truck driver. Some, who arrived on the scene several minutes later took it to be a new form of fruit distribution invented by the Internal Marketing Division. Others regarded it in the light of a gift from the Archangel Gabriel. But we must pay tribute to the presence of mind which caused members of a well known milk shake dispensary to leap into the breach with packing cases and by-standers to also leap and start gathering up the erring descendants of the forbidden fruit. In a matter of minutes the apples were once more concealed from the hungry eye of the public and en route to their destination. A Beacon sleuth carrying out his allotted task several hours later was attracted by a number of apple, cores reposing dejectedly in the gutter near the scene of the accident. H-mm ! Very suspicious indeed'but proving entirely nothing; at the same time casting not (we trust) any slur upon the characters, of those who joined in the melee of collectors.