Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 37, 8 January 1946, Page 4

Local and General.

They’ve Said 14 ! “E upaupa tumu ore ia.” This may not mean much to one who does not know the language but translated it shows the standard ol‘ oratory used in preverb by the Tahitians in criticising bigwigs and others incurring their displeasure. Applied to the individual the proverb means: “He is like the orchid a splendid and a beautiful thing but with no fou.♦.ation—no roots in the ground.”

New Year’s Honours List

Due to an error probably in the compilation of the lists handed to Ihe press the name of Mrs J. L. Burnett ol' Whakatane was included in the New Year Honours instead of that of her husband who is well known as County Chairman, and for his activities in Patriotic and other war-time measures. We have been informed of the mistake which was apparently country-wide, and in tendering our apologies to Mrs Burnett, have to extend our congratulations afresh to her husband.

Orient Today Glamorous talcs of the East arc very often misleading. Lieutenant J. S, Rumbold, R.N.Z.V.R., was disappointed when he met the Bey of Tunis he told members of the Christchurch Rotary Club. He imag,ined he would meet an obese Oriental swathed in a burnous with mem,- * bers of the harem grouped round his feet. Instead lie met an ascetic looking man, dressed in natty suiting, accompanied by his Prime Minister. The Bey had a. vefy large army, composed chiefly of generals,

Shock to New Zealanders

“It would shock most people back home to see how the average teensters dress and behave,” writes a New Zealand girl from San Francisco. “The high schools do not have uniforms- e iind the students wear just what they please and come out in the most extraordinary outfits. They smoke and have dates, they wear make-up to school, and to sec a crowd of high school children having sodas and ‘cokes’ in a drug store and. lighting their cigarettes in such a blase manner just makes me disgusted.”

Unwelcome Christmas Presents

Displaying grim,, if perhaps unconscious, humour the Income Tax Department continued to send out tax assessments right up to Christmas Day, with the result that some householders, happily opening their holiday mail have been confronted with the unwelcome document among an assortment of more orthodox Christinas greetings. The department has reached names in their alphabetical list beginning with M and N, and taxpayers in these sections are among those whose Christmas high spirits have been dampened by demands which always prove higher than were pessimistically expected.