Visit to Mt Holdsworth.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 4

Visit to Mt Holdsworth.

A large number of the secondary scholars of the Carterton District High School left Carterton this morning in Mr B. Sewell’s school bus for an outing to Mt Holdsworth. Books for Soldiers.

Staff-Sergeant-Major C. E. Rogers, of the local Defence Office, informed a "Times-Age” reporter this morning that three large cases of books, which had been received from the Borough Council and citizens, had been sent to the troops in Trentham Camp. There were yet more books to be forwarded to camp.

Small Boy’s Enthusiasm. A small boy and his father stood for more than half an hour peering intently at lhe working models at the Railway Department’s exhibit injhe Government Court at the Exhibition the other day. The small boy did not speak a word, but stood with his hands clasped in front of him peering at the tiny locomotives bustling along their miniature tracks. Finally, his father wearied of the inspection a little and said he would go away and come back again. Three-quarters of an hour later he returned to find his son just as preoccupied as before. He tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Come on Frank, you have been here long enough.” and the small boy, with a look of disgust, said, "Gosh, can’t I just look at the trains for a minute?”

Trespass by Bees. “1 do not know whether we have control of the air or not. but there is something we have to decide." commented the chairman. Mr W. Lee. when the Waikouaiti County Council considered a complaint from a Karitane resident that a neighbour’s bees were a source of constant annoyance to her. The neighbour, it was alleged kept the bees in 12 hives, but omitted to grow anything to feed them, and. as a result, they swarmed in the complainant’s flowdr garden and smeared her washing with pollen. The council found that it had no jurisdiction in the matter and advised the complainant to refer the matter to the Department of Agriculture. "It is a difficult matter,” added Mr Lee. "You cannot charge a man for grazing his bees on your property, and you cannot prove that a certain bee belongs to any particular person"

New Assistant: "1 sent a sprig of mint with Mrs Flinter's lamb, sir." Butcher: "Well, you’d better send a sprig uf forg<?t-me not with her bill-'