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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 267, 4 December 1939, Page 3

Fortunate Child. A blue-eyed childi had a stroke ot .rood fortune recently, .when she at-u-aeted the interest of a number of Special Force recruits who were travelling on a Tin.aru-Cliristcliurdi excursion train. The men decided to make a collection for tho child’s moneybox. Each contributed a penny which way gravely handed to the little gillDissatisfied with the result of their efforts, the men extended the scope of the collection to. other carriages, soliciting pennies “on behalf of blue-eyes. Their final money-raising effort was to station a guard at each door of, their carriage and! levy toll on all civilians leaving or entering. The child reached Christchurch with a miniature mom it tain of bronze. Saw No Stock. “SVe wenif right across France and half-way across Switzerland without soeum anv sign of stock,” stated Fetation A. B. Hurst- in an address to the Napier Rotary Club on his recent tour of some of the European countries. “There were green pastures Imt ■nut a cow of any description.” continued the speaker, and this peculiarity had caused him to ask the reason. He bad been told that all the stock was at that time in the Alps. The j U»j,eared to he the higher grasslands, ami not the mountains as we in New Zealand understood them. In the Alps the grass was shorter and the stock was moved to these areas for grazing during the summer months.