Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 5, 29 June 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Death Due To Injuries Death due to lacerations and an injury to the brain following an accident was the finding of the coroner, Mr C. S. Armstrong, anent the death of Henry Wallace Ward at an inquest at Whakatane yesterday. The deceased was knocked down by a motor cycle at Edgecumbe on April 5. Dinner-Table Railway

The Maharaja of Gwalior, India, owns one of the costliest miniature railroad trains in existence. Made of silver and operated by electricity, it travels slowly around the great dinner table in the royal palace during meals with its dozen trucks loaded with fruit, nuts, condiments, and wines, automatically stopping momentarily before each plate. Aftermath Though the Winter Show finished on Saturday, work in connection with it was by no means over then. Workers have been on the job restoring the building to its pre-show emptiness. But that state is not to last long. Already the Hunt Club is looking for volunteers to make ready at the week-end for Monday night’s ball. So far the team’s weakness is a shortage of men workers to handle the heavier angles of the job.

Trade Union of Four The smallest trade union in the world must be the Silver Hand Forged Spoon and Fork Makers’ Society. It has a membership of four. It had a membership of 23 in January, 1912, and was founded, in 1864., Spoons and forks, etc., are entirely made by hand;, only hammers and files are used. “Our speciality is matching antiques,” they say. “We can match any spoon or fork, etc., even if it was made in the year 1600. The only difference is the hall mark.”