Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 100, 27 September 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Getting Ready Recently the Whakatane Rowing Club’s gear has been getting its annual pre-season check over, and is expected to be in first-class order for the opening of the season, the . date of which will probably be decided at the annual meeting on Wednesday night. There are prospects of increased membership this year. A Real Wallop! A publican was awakened in the early hours of the morning by someone knocking on his front door. Putting his head out the front window, he shouted, “Go away! You can’t have anything to drink at this hour.” “Who wants anything to drink?” was the response. “I left here at * closing time without my crutches.” Surprise. A Queensland fisherman hooked a big ’un at Byron Bay, but it got away at the water’s edge alter a long fight. Though a dark night, he dashed into the sea and wrapped, his arms around the fish before it \ could get going properly. When he got it to the beach he found it was a sft. 6in. grey nurse shark. Cross-Breeding? “Soundings out of pumice by boringcs out of peat,” remarked one settler at a recent drainage conference on the Plains, when he likened Public Works engineers’ scheme of land levels and projected drain levels to breeding a merit sire with a merit cow in an endeavour to get a merit calf. From War To £eace Army mine detectors are being used to X-ray cows in Norfolk. They trace metal objects which the cows may have swallowed with their food. One vet. made a diagnosis with the help of the mine detector, and then operated successfully on a cow that had swallowed a .piece of wire.