Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 55, 21 February 1949, Page 4

Local & General

“Statue” That Moved Two young women were startled one night last week when what they took to be a life-like statue of a man near the Parker fountain in Napier suddenly moved. The “statue” proved to be a nude man, and when two constables investigated, the man had gone. V engeance! Twenty-eight year old Lawreiee Marshall, of Beechwood Drive, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, gave u is fiancee a set of false teeth for a present. Then he caught her out with another man—seized her and grabbed the teeth. He was -fined £2 for assult—the teeth were in hijs pocket when he was arrested.

Rat Surprises Motorist When a one-armed Palmerston North motorist, Mr W. Franks, of Cuba Street, was driving around the Half-Crown Bend on the main Palmerston North-Foxton highway a rat ran up his back, over his shoulder and down his arm. The rat jumped from the driver’s hand on to the seat beside him and then disappeared. ,

Equality—For Whom? A statement that the Maori claimed equality with the European, but he thought it was about time the European claimed equality with the Maori, was made by Cr W. H. Owen, at a meeting of the Tauranga County Council when the treasurer (Mr E. M. Fox) reported that about £IO,OOO in Maori rates would be written off during the current financial year.

Chinese Newspaper When founts of Chinese type have been secured, a newspaper in that language will be started in New Zealand, either in Auckland or Wellington, with the intention of placing before the Chinese population the matter of chief interest to them. A similar effort 20 years ago failed through lack of finance. Many adult Chinese residents in New Zealand read English, but their national views and opinions lack a medium of expression. He Had Paid For “Her” Seat!

The man who had been drinking climbed aboard the tram to Island Bay; Wellington, carrying a crayfish. He sat in a- double seat and put the crayfish beside him. The conductor asked him to pick it up, but he insisted he would pay' for the crayfish to be carried. He did. A fellow-passenger next' asked him for the seat, but he refused; he had paid. But when a woman sought a seat everyone through he would this time pick the crayfish up. He grined at the crowd and said there was no need: His was a female crayfish.