WENT TO MORGUE ON BOTTLE DRIVE: WAS DISAPPOINTED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 46, 26 January 1949, Page 5

WENT TO MORGUE ON BOTTLE DRIVE: WAS DISAPPOINTED

• The young man walked up the | short path to the house. He swung an empty coal sack in one hand and | a half empty sack of what sounded like bottles in the other. Suddenly he stopped and turned round. “What did you say?” he asked of a woman who was glaring at him from over a nearby hedge. “I said you can’t go in there,” came the reply. “Why not?” he demanded. “That’s the morgue.” The young man looked from the woman to the house. It did not look like a morgue. It had curtains at the windows and had the appearance of being - occupied. He walked out to the waiting truck on the road. “Nothing here. They are all flat out. Try the next house.” With a clinking of bottles the loaded -vehicle moved on and another party of bottle collectors in the Whakatane Rowing Club’s bottle drive, held last Saturday, continued their canvassing of houses in Whakatane: Their second bottle drive in the last three months the rowing club has been successful on both occasions, making over £3O each time. Last Saturday was more in the nature of a clean up after the Christmas and New Year holiday break. In many cases collectors found most I people knew of the drive and had i piles of bottles ready for them when ' they arrived. . Profitable Dance? & Following the collection the club I finished off the day with a dance , that night. There was a good crowd ; and the photographer present was fully engaged photographing perspiring people for most of the evening. The Melody Boys supplied the music and, departing from the usual custom of having a supper dance, a community sing was held instead, ' which proved immensely popular. The collection and thte dance combined is expected to profit the club funds by a considerable sum. , While the dance could not be said to have been a loss it was not particularly profitable from the financial angle. The nett profit was 6d.