Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947 Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 36, 4 June 1947, Page 4

Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947

Local & General

Cost of Pheasants • That the cost of rearing pheasants to the point of liberation had risen from 7s 6d per bird in pre-war days to 30s a bird, was a statement made at a meeting of the Te Awamutu Acclimatisation Society, recently.

Dispersal Sale Attention of buyers is drawn to a dispersal sale bn account of S. E. Sinclair advertised on the back page. We regret that owing to lack of space this advertisement was not published in our last issue of May 30.

Boys’ Unusual Catch Two schoolboys were fishing in the boat harbour, Wellington, when they caught a penguin. It had swallowed a fish which the boys had hooked, and a double catch resulted. The boys took the bird to the'Zoo, where they were photographed with their catch.

Young Woman’s Death . A finding that Sylvia Traipine Signall, a land girl, aged 19 years, died on May 21 from injuries to the brain caused by being dragged by a horse on a farm property at Upper Papainoa, was returned by the Coroner (Mr H. Cuff) at the conclusion of the inquest.

Measuring a Frost People interested.in meteorological details may be interested to learn that a ground frost is measured from the minimum grass temperature of 30.3 degrees. That is, the grass minimum must be less than 30.3 degrees before a frost is recorded. An air frost, however, is from 32 degrees.

Berlin Maori Collection One of the finest collections of Maori art.in the world was known to be housed in Berlin prior,, to the war. The director of the Otago Museum, Dr. H. D. Skinner, told the Science Congress at Wellington that he had been informed on reliable authority that there was e'very reason to believe that the collection has been destroyed. “It was one of the finest in existence outside New Zealand collections,” said Dr. Skinner;

Successful Marriages Marriages between United States servicemen and New Zealand girls had been remarkable for the number which had been successful, said Dr. D. E. McHenry, professor of political science at the University of California, speaking to the Wellington Rotory Club recently. There was a much higher percentage of broken marriages among those contracted in the United States over the same period, he said. Rats’ Feast Somewhere deep down under a big club building in Christchurch there was high feasting upon a recent night; but not by the 20 retiring office-holders for whom one of the stewards had prepared a farewell supper of cold roast chicken with pickled onions and celery, and several different sorts of savouries. He, put it all away in a cupboard. Folrty minutes later, he went to add a few finishing touches—and found the cupboard bare. A few sticks of celery and the lettuce leaves on which his savouries had reposed were all that remained of supper for 20, and scores of tiny footmarks on the plates showed that there had been a great coming and going of rats.