OUR Daily Features

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13014, 4 December 1942, Page 2

OUR Daily Features

The following items of interest are reprinted from the Bay of Plenty Times of fifty years ago:

During the month of November, rain fell in greater or less quantity at Tauranga on 20 days, which we suppose is a record beyond any previously experienced. "We have received by post two sample stalks of wheat and rye grown at Athenree, Katikati. The former is the pride of America variety and measures 6i feet high with an ear oh inches, the latter is child's American Challenge and is S feet high with an S inch ear, and these measurements we are assured are the average of the crops from which the samples are taken, which, should therefore prove very remunerative

ones. The residents of Peel Forest near the Scotsburn school in the South, had an exciting time of it one day last month, with an extraordinary heavy waterspout that broke in their midst. From what we can learn the spout had quite a thunderlike roar, and went, roaring like a cataract, down chimneys and out of the doors of the houses, Judging from the watermarks left on fences, the water must have been rushing down the roads at a depth of two or three feet, while paddocks and gardens for a time were perfect lakes. The roads over which the waterspout broke are badly defaced, and family gardens are in many cases all silted up or washed away.

A special meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union -is to be held this week, to decide on the course to be adopted in connection with the proposed tour of a representative team. It is probable that the suggested English tour will be undertaken in 1594, and that next season the New Zealand Union team will visit Australia. ' l 1 *!"'J