Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 22, 17 February 1948, Page 4

Local & General

A Child’s Artistry People strolling on the beach at Ohope on Friday evening found their attention caught by a child’s sand-castle extraordinary. Built in tiers with turrets and moat it was studded all over with shells, selected for their uniformity and colour and all inlaid in beautiful geometric designs. Was It Austerity? The spare parts position for American cars must be getting desperate in or around Whakatane for a car to require the use of jam tins for hub caps. An elderly model with modernising air wheels was parked in the Strand yesterday with jam tins covering the hubs. At least it suggests an idea for the Dollar Saving Campaign. Calf Inoculation The suppl-y of vaccine for the inoculation of the calves in this district against contagious abortion has been delayed but supplies should be to hand this week and the vaccination programme will start immediately. The stock inspector, Mr Burgess, and the Veterinary Club at the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Factory will be carrying out the scheme. Flighty Figures Figures can tell some strangely misleading stories if they are not carefully controlled. Most dangerous of all is the little “O”, which means nothing on its own, but can give a drastically wrdng impression in the wrong place—like the one that slipped into the Hospital Board’s estimated figure for the new mortuary, published as £13,085 in Friday’s Beacon. Delete the “O” and one gets down to the correct figure of £1,385. The Beacon is indebted to Mr F. Prideaux for pointing out its error.