Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2 December 1947, Page 4

Local & General

County Payments Accounts amounting to £6,489 Is 5d were passed for payment at the Whakatane County Council’s meeting on Friday.

Twin Leper Sisters Among the patients at the Makogai Leper Settlement are twin sisters. It is hard to distinguish one from the other. Before addressing either of these girls by name, the nursing staff look “toe-wards” as one of the twins has lost a toe.

Deadly Hemlock Hemlock, deadly poison to stock and humans, is spreading in the Whakatane County, according to a statement by Cr R. C. Leslie, at the Council’s meeting on Friday. He urged that something be done to educate the public to check the danger before it became serious. The clerk is to check the noxious weeds schedule with a view to action. Weeds In Grass Seed? An allegation that noxious weeds were coming into this area in grass and other seeds from, outside districts was made by Cr L. W. Luxton at Friday’s meeting of the Whakatane County Council. He was referring in particular to winged thistle, which the chairman, Mr J. L. Burnett, had said seemed likely to become a worse pest than ragwort. Why Not?

“If the women want to smoke and be pregnant, let them as much as they like,” said Mr S. Bonnici, at the October meeting of the Thames Hospital, objecting to a request by Mr J. W. Neate to read a letter he had received on the subject of the effects of smoking on expectant mothers. The chairman, Mr J. W. Danby, stated that as the matter was not on the order paper for the meeting and was not of immediate interest to the board he could not allow the reading of the letter.

Liberty Or Death ? Apparently taking a dim view of being compelled, without being consulted, to change owners, a rooster, who found himself at a Tauranga auction mart, decided on direct action. Eluding the man who, for hard cash, had acquired the right to decide his future, the rooster ran along the street and around the nearest corner. With his new owner running a close second', he finally disappeared through the doorway of premises formerly—but no long&r—occupied by a well-known legal firm. Apart from a cluck of disgust at his failure to obtain legal advice, the bird had no comment to make. Bibles For Russia Patriarch Alexei has acknowledged a gift of 105,000 Gospels and New Testaments from the American Bible Society (500 Greek New Testaments, 5,000 Russian New Testaments and Psalms, 100,000 Russian Gospels). Expressing thanks, the Patriarch that they had been distributed to the Orthodox Theological Academy in Moscow and the monastery of Troitze-Lavra, the famous religious establishment outside the capital where relics of St. Sergius are preserved.