OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 23, 12 June 1939, Page 4

OUT AND ABOUT

(By the Outsider)

Well, the Show has come and What an education it was. Of course 1 heard a few of the moaners with their "Once you've seen one show you've sefen then! all, ' but I hold a contrary opinion. I saw and heard things at that -show that had never swum into my ken before, including the first specimen of a Whakatane-> female liar I have encountered. * • * •' * * I was admiring the potatoes when this lady came along with her husband, an old Mt Eden acquaintance? of mine. I had scarcely been introduced when she started. ''They're our you know*' she said. "I think they're a great sample considering the difTicult country we farm.*' I made the usual vague murmurs and she continued that they lived at _ the foot of Mt Edgecumbe., in fact they were close to the foot that it booted them out of bed in tks mornings. '• I regarded her through half .closed eyes. Here was something really good ''Oh, yes" she continued, "we live at the foot of a perpendicular bluff y close to the mountain. In the spring Bill sits on the front porch of ant evening, aind with a shang he shoots seed potatoes into the side of the bluff in rows—running from top to bottom. Then in order vo be surf® the}' have enough moisture he shoots an onion in above each potato. The onions make the potatoes' eyes wat_ er, and so we invariably have a splendid crop, for they never go short of water." Here was something which even I could hardly believe, and the lady must have observed some trace of iloubt on my strongly-modelled features, for she went on: '"Of course, to harvest them all V,ve have to do is dig a hole at cjhe loot of each row, set a basket in it and bore upward. Down come the potatoes without any trouble at all." • ; • * * . * * I must confess I felt a little faint, so I excused, myself and walked a_ cross the aisle to the dairy exhibit. It was a rash move for an acquainta nee, who was lurking there under the pretext of working there, went j into his dance, and-the result is that a dashed big separator is now cluttering up my office. W T hat I'll use it for I don't know, unless Mo and I gouito partnership in a goat herd. 1 hear he does graze a nice bevy o£ nannies. * * * * WTiat with goats and processions h e lives a full life these days. He* veckons he doesn t know which are. the worst to deal with,. ♦■* * * Prize story of the week is not co«_ nected with the Show. It appears that one of our follow burgesses has jusfcV bought a refrigerator in which be >,akes great pride. He also has aquired a new set of some sporting utensils of some kind or the other. It fell upon a recent day that this .affluent gent was golfing or cricketing or bowling or playing using his old equipment, when an acquaintance came to the links, ground green or hall, as the case may and expressed a desire to join in the. merry sport. Unfortunately he had no* clubs, bat, bowls or racquet, but the first sportsman very generously his friend to run down to the house and get the new gear. So the man wended his way to liis friend's* house, and spoke politely to the go«d lady of the maison (I know German; too!) explaining his erramlv thalady 1 was not keen t6 ftahd the* gear over. It W"is ne\v% she ' Sftid, 1 an! cost a lot of money, and she didn't* see why hlibby should lend same.. t However, eventually she handed it; and the borrower returned the scene of the battle. He was greet, ed by his fr ; end who, filled with one idea, said: "Did you see my freezer?" "Too right I did," yelled the borrower, ''and I had a something or other of a job persuading her to hand them over."' * . ' j * * * * Everybody was very British about and carried on just though noth_ ing had happened. * * * * Club Notes. It was moved and seflu onded at a recent meeting that our leading referee be elected a life member of the Bad Deeds Club. The motion was carred unanimously. Step forward Fred and take a bowt : '.i» LARGE assortment ,of coloyre>d- | ins. S. S. .and