Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 84, 11 January 1950, Page 4

Local & General

Poor Response Up to late yesterday only two > applications from 18 year old youths for military service had been received by the Whakatane Post Office. Altogether only four applications for forms were made. Turkey Adopts Duckling . Running on one ot the farms at Pikowai, is a mother hen turkey with one turkey chick and one tiny wild duck. But whether the duck got into the turkey’s nest, or the turkey got into the duck’s nest, is not known. “Daring - Dolittles” • Score Under the nom-de-plume of “The Daring Dolittles,” Mesdames J. G. Carr, Onepu and V. Peck, Otakiri, were successful competitors in the “Give It A Go” talent quest at Rotorua last Saturday. They scored a second place with their humorous duet “The Parsons of Puddle.” Rain On Plains December rainfall on the Rangitaiki Plains was only 2.50 inches, heaviest fall being .59 inches on December 6. Total rainfall for 1949 was 52.24 inches, the average December fall for the last 10 years 3.12, and the average annual fall for the last 10 years 56.70. Meat Schedules \ The New Zealand Meat Producers Board announces that maximum schedule’prices for the higher grades in each class in the North Island are: Lamb Wethers 7 7-Bd, Ewes 5 5-Bd, Ox Beef 57/per lOOlbs., Cow Beef 47/6, Eoner Beef 34/-. A New Caruso? / Mario Lanza, sensational young tenor, hailed as a “New Caruso” is making his film debut in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “That Midnight Kiss.” Playing opposite Kathryn Grayson in the new Technicolour musical, Lanza’s songs include “Oh, Mama, Mia Che Vo Sape” and “I Know, I know, I Know.” With Miss Grayson he sings “They Didn’t Believe Me” the Jerome Kern hit. Where Our Wool Goes In the first six months of the present export season, New Zealand shipped abroad 408,699 bales of wool, of which 232,172 bales went to the United Kingdom, according to figures supplied by the New Zealand Wool Board. France took 65,229 bales, the United States 33,972 bales, Holland 18,313 bales, and Canada 17,868 bales. The period does not cover that in which the Russians were heavy buyers of New Zealand wool. Distribution was widespread, however, the wool going to twenty-six different countries, including Greece, Egypt, Finland, Japan, and China.