Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 82, 16 June 1944, Page 4

Local and General

Returned Soldier's Plots A requisition from the local branch of the R.S.A. requesting the Borough G«un-cil -to make all burial plots in the Whakatane cemetery free for the interrment of exservicemen, will be referred to the County Council with the recommendation that free plots should only be granted in necessitous cases. Hospital Dinner Waggons At the last meeting of the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board, reference was made, and thanks extended for the gift of two electrically heated dinner waggons to the Public Hospital. These were presented by the. Wha-katane-Rangitaiki, Mounted Squadron of the Honw Guard, and represented the surplus funds in hand when the Squadron' ceased to take an active part in the Home Guard organisation. Biblical Mustard 1 Plant The parable recorded in St. Matthew's Gospel of the grain of mustard seed, "the least of all seeds," which grew into a tree large enough for birds to lodge, in its branches, has been: found literally true by Lieutenant J. L. Rowe, of New Plymouth. When in Palestine a year or two ago he obtained mustard seed in the Golgotha district, near Jerusalem. On his return to New Zealand he planted the seed in a pot and for the first few weeks only 4 rather weakly seedling iesulted. It was transferred to a garden plot sheltered by the house and made little progress until the warm, dry weather began. The tree is now 15 feet high, and it is still growing and throwing out strong, branches.