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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5077, 19 January 1927, Page 3

Swarms of bluebottles invaded the surfing beach at Bondi, Sydney, driving the bathers ashore. |over 1000 people were treated for painful stings in temporary hospitals established on the beach.

The threepenny-bit, scorned by so many of us, seems to find appreciation'in West Africa. A recent traveller in the hinerland found the coin the only acceptable currency. The natives are civilised enough to carry money, but they carry it on their backs, and resolutely refuse to carry a weight of pennies. A thoughtful Government therefore provides three-penny-bits, and everything isi priced in multiples of threepence. Running short of ready cash, the. traveller induced a European store in one of the villages to change a cheque, and received £2o' in threepenny bitsi.

A party of 12 men carried Catherine, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Cowan, of Okuru, a distance of 40 mile,s on 'foot in one. day owing to the serious illness of the child (reports the Hokitika correspondent of the Lyttelton Times). After a short carry next day the remainder of the journey was complete*! by vehicle. The ■feat is worthy of the traditions, of South Westland, where the settlers always rally to assist one another in cases oT distress. The. patient is now making xood progress.