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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 233, 19 April 1928, Page 8

During the war period the imaginative “ Digger ” loved to tell his English cousins what a fine place New Zealand was, and the advantages of the different positions which could be found. Some were “ boundary riders on bee farms,” and others raised “ kiwis in Cathedral Square.” Little, however, did these imaginative diggers think that boundary riding in chase of stray bees could be an accomplished fact (says the Lyttelton Times). On Tuesday afternoon a swarm of bees settled in a shrub on the river bank near the Scott statue. They buzzed about to no purpose until an elderly man arrived with a sack and a box. A crowd gathered at a discreet distance, while the elderly man dived into the bush and swept handful after handful of bees into the box. With the inside of the box full, it was assumed that the collector would be satisfied—but no. He got down on his hands and knees and commenced collecting stray bees from the grass on the footpath boundary of the little green plot. When he had finished his work there was not a bee to be seen anywhere, hut there was an angry buzzing noise inside the wooden box.

When a builder was charged at Feltham, Middlesex, with being drunk in charge of a motor car, it was stated that he was asked to answer the following questions to test his sobriety: What is your occupation? Do you know the district well? How far "is it from Hounslow to Stanwell ? Draw plans of the Staines road from Hounslow to where it intersects the Great West road, giving the position of the turnings on each side the position where you are now. What did you do in the afternoon ? Any celebrations? Draw plans of the house you sold in the afternoon and draw a section of the roof. Draw a plot of ground with 55ft of frontage and four chains deep. Put a house in the middle and show what margin you have left. It was stated that the builder answered the questions very successfully, and the Bench dismissed the case.