Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 53, 14 February 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Dead Mutton A dead sheep at the Domain, Whakatane, was the cause of many remarks of a not too complimentary nature during the R.S.A.’s cricket meeting recently. The lifeless beast lay near the pitch and the smell from it nearly stopped the game.

“Ripley” Nylons Nylon stockings provided the basis of a real “Ripley” incident in a Wairarapa town recently. Eitten in the leg by an excited dog, a woman there received a gash which was treated by a doctor and given four stitches, yet the nylon stockings she was wearing at the time were neither laddered nor holed.

Poor Fishing Catches Good catches of fish have been uncommon off the coast of the Eastern Bay of Plenty recently. Fishing launches from Whakatane have had many catches but none of any size. Yesterday launches caught some schnapper but most of these fish were very small. Trouble Afoot Students at an Jowa chiropractic school have written to Stalin suggesting that foot trouble is responsible for his political stubbornness. “We feel confident,” said their letter, “that normal transmission of nerve impulses will again be restored between yourself and the rest of the world if you take our advice.” Heavy Interest The All-Japan Pawnbrokers’ Association has asked the Government to increase the limit on, interest rates—now fixed at 10 per cent, a month or 120 per cent a year. Says the association: “That limit was fixed 50 years ago, and is, therefore, a harsh and barbaric survival of feudal times.” Hospital Refrigerator Thursday’s meeting of the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board decided to buy a new 12 cubic foot .refrigerator to replace a worn-out 6 cubic foot unit in the children’s ward kitchen. The price is £149 10s. A new bacon slicer and food cutter, at approximately £l6O, is also to be installed, the actual purchase being left in the hands of the .chairman and secretary. Impolite Aid. John Hay, of Brixton (England) Council has ordered the local bobbies to stop saluting him. “Policemen shouldn’t have to salute magistrates and councillors,” he said. “I served in the lower deck in the Navy and I know about these things. When a policeman salutes me with one hand he’s probably mentally making a less complimentary gesture with the other.” Copped Danny Ahearn, 45, w*rote a book called How to Commit Murder and Get Away With It, in which he told how to commit almost any crime from arson to murder. Danny, however, couldn’t get away with it himself. He beat up a young woman, stole 10,000 dollars worth of cash and gems from her, and collected a gaol sentence in New York of from 20 years to life. A Borrowed Takahe The only mounted specimen of the notornis, or takahe, in New Zealand has been borrowed from the Otago Museum by the director of the Canterbury Museum (Mr A. S. Duff) for the benefit of overseas scientists who will be attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress in Christchurch later 7 in the month. The specimen, which has been insured against all risks, will be on loan for six weeks.