SPECIAL FEATURES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 142, 8 February 1932, Page 4

SPECIAL FEATURES

1?AGE 3: SHOPPING PAGE. PAGE 8: TOURIST lNFORMATION New Classification. When motor vehicles are re-licen'sed for 1932, the new plates for all but motor cars will carry an initial letter as a classificatiori. For instance, a dealer's number plate will carry a D hs before j E will mean local body; P will designate omnibus, etc.; T, taxi; S, sei-yice cbi-s; L, light delivery Vans; and H, heavy trucks. Each letter suggests the classification of the vehicle. "Boys Will B'e Boys." "The boys of to-day are not as moral as they used to be,". said Mr. J. W. Preen, at a meeting of the Cariterbury Education Board, when complaining that a school garden had been robbed, ihvoiving riot oniy the loss of the vegetables which h'ad been growing in it, but also of tbe school records, on which the progress of the children had been based. He wanted the matter to he given the fullest publcity in order that the practice might be stopped. "We used io be punished for rohbing orchards in our time," added Mr. Preeii. "But you did it all the same," remarked another member. Unsuccessful Cause For some time the commUne of Sunft, 07i the Rivei* Marae, in Frahce, has been troubled with the oecufrenc'e of short circuits in its electric supply. As the cause could not be discovered, they set a watch and at length noticed some geese which waddled to the top of a pile of beetroots and. from there toolc wing. Ih their flight oceasionally a goose came in contact with the live wires and made a short circuit, thus cuttiug off the entire eommuhe from its sourc'e of light and power. "Say it with Flowers." . On a Wellington bowlihg green where members meet regularly at 5 p.ni. for a congenial chat, a single club championship was ih progress. One bowler seated on the hank remarked to "a lriedical oniooker: "These men look as serious as if if were a life and death struggie. Surely, doctor, you would not look so glum after eompleting a Serious operation." "No," replied the medico. "I always smile and say it with flowers." "So soon after," remarked another bowler. RemarkaBle Tomato Plaiits. • Some wonderful tomato plants have been grown on the Napier hills this year (states the Telegraph), one of the most outstandirig of which stands eight fe'et high a'g'aiiist the side bf a shed. The stem of the plant is over an inch in diameter, and elusters of tomatoes are situated about every foot from the ground to the top. On the hottom cluster there are i6 fine tomatoes, and the oth'er elusters promise to bear equally prolifically. "All Blacks." ' An amusing incident occurred at the -Blenheim saleyards. recently when some lambs were heing drafted in readiness for the afternoon's auction, says the Express. A number of black lambs had just been cut out of a line and with the completion of the job a well known auctioneer facetiously observed: "Well, there's an All Black team, anyway" And sure enbugh when th'e Black laiiiBs were coUnted, there were th'e regulation 15 in number. Turned irito the Roadway. Evicted from the house which had been h;s and his wife's home fofmany years, a poultry farmer in the Riccarton distriet, says a Christchurch exchange, has beeri guarding his furriiture in the roadway. Both night arid day he has remained near the hedge alongside which the furniture is stacked. His wife is , staying with friends. The m'ari is aborit 60 yeabs of age and has no family. The m'an's plight has engendered sympathy from residepts of the r distriet, and ; he has heen offered an old house ior the storage of the furniture,