Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 71, 10 January 1947, Page 5

Local & General

Ardour Dampened

“Boys will be boys otherwise they will never be men,” is an old adage. The other morning the scene was all set for a flirtatious flutter. A fine looking youth, with a nice automobile, a perfect day, and a vivacious blonde in the offing. The sequel: a bang, blondie hurled through a window to hit mother earth with a thud and consequential bruises. It is rumoured that the lady in question is not altogether unattached.

Present From Judge

It is the custom in the Supreme Court when there are no criminal cases at a session to present the presiding judge with a pair of w T hite gloves. With modifications, the order was reversed in the Arbitration Court by Mr Justice Tyndall, in Christchurch, when he presented Mr A. W. Croskery, an advocate, with a tin of cocoa. Mr Croskery had stated that he did not know of a confectioner’s shop where cocoa was sold. In calling Mr Croskery to the bench to receive the cocoa his Honor remarked that he had purchased it from a confectionery shop across the road.

Animal Hospital Patients

A penguin, a starling, cats and dogs were patients at the animal treatment clinic of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Wellington last week. One of the first visitors was a dog with a broken leg and an eye missing as the result of an accident with a car. He is now doing as well as can be expected. Then the strangest visitor of the day arrived—an exhausted young penguin rolled up on Oriental Bay beach by the tide. After a few minutes at the clinic he began to .get better, and.Avas soon having the time of his —tasty— meals of fish. t

Gift of the Gab

An ordinary man will simply say: “Two and two make four”—and let it go at that. But not your doctor. He will clear his throat, lift up his hands and say: “My countrymen, when in the course of human events' it becomes necessary to take a number of the 2nd denomination and add it to the little figure, I make bold to assert—and I do assert without fear of successful contradiction. —that as long as there is a good and just God in Heaven, visiting His many blessings on the beautiful women, the stalwart men and lovely little children now assembled before me, the result will invariably be 41”