Clown Entertains at Ohope

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 21, 6 September 1946, Page 5

Clown Entertains at Ohope

Rigged and gagged for the occasion a clown played a prominent part in the Children’s Fancy Dress dance at Ohope last Wednesday evening. The antics of this individual helped in no small way towards the success of the gathering.

Native Birds in City Garden

The planting of native trees in a city garden has resulted in many fine native birds appearing, writes a correspondent of the Forest and Bird Protection Society. Grey warblers and fantails are a common sight, while at night inquisitive moreporks came right up to the house.

Greatest Ocean

The world’s largest ocean—the Pacific —occupies more space than all the lands on the globe. It could hold two Atlantics and still have enough room for a few Mediterraneans. More than half the world’s water lies in the Pacific. Its greatest north to south dimension is 9,300 miles, an its greatest width is 10,300 miles, It takes the sun 10 hours to cross it. There are canyons in the bed of this ocean that drop farther below sea level than the world’s tallest mountain rises above it.