LOCAL & GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2670, 15 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

“Three Smart Girls.”The Regent Theatre management announces that “Three Smart Girls,” the film which recently completed a continuous six weeks’ run in Auckland, will commence the Paeroa season on Monday. The featured player is Deanna Durbin, the sensational new singing starlet. Another Freak. For the second time this year the birth of a two-headed calf is reported from Hikutaia. Mr W. G. Flavell stated to a Gazette representative yesterday that last week one of his cows produced this freak which was dead when born. A month or so ago a similar calf was born on the property of his next door neighbour, Mr R. Sykes. Two Evils. “There are two things in this country which have got to be put down,” declared one of the justices on the Te Aroha Bench on Thursday, in answer to counsel’s plea for leniency, in the case of a car driver charged with drunkenness. “One is drinking at dances and the other is intoxicated motor car drivers.”

Rescue From Drowning. Commendation of the action of the girl, Alice Campbell, who effected a rescue of a playmate from drowning in the Ohinemuri river recently was passed by members of the Paeroa District High School Committee on Monday evening. Her presence of mind was praised and it was agreed to send her a letter of congratulation.

A City of Flowers. “Portland, Oregon, is known as the city of flowers,” said Miss N. Noble, of Thames, when interviewed after her trip to Vancouver. She described a most thoughtful and pleasing act which impressed the New Zealand delegates upon arrival at their hotel in that city. Arranged about their rooms were masses of roses. The cards attached bore the inscription: “From the daughters of the British Empire.”

Film Made at Te Awamutu. A film is to be made at Te Awamutu on the subject of the Battle of Orakau. Mr. R. C. Hayward, who has been responsible for several Dominion-made films, has signed a contract with the newly-formed Frontier Films, Limited, for the production of the picture with the Te Awamutu Historical Society and with the support of the Government. The battle scene will be enacted at a Maori pa about 20 miles from Te Awamutu.

“Quad” Lambs. Three sets of quadruplet lambs were born on the station of Mr L. T. Daniel, in the Wairarapa, last week. The whole 12 lambs are surprisingly big and have no peculiarities. They are all reported to be thriving. The first set arrived on Sunday, the second on Tuesday, and the third on Friday. The three mothers are a five-year, a six-tooth and a two-tooth. A remarkable feature is that the six-tooth had a lamb as a hogget in 1934, twins in 1935 and again in 1936 and quadruplets this year.

Fallen By Wayside. How many people, hopefully resurrecting ancient motor cars, started out from towns in the south to see the recent rugby test at Christchurch, but fell by the wayside? One motorist who went through from Gore on the Friday night counted eight broken down cars on the road between Dunedin and Christchurch. Some of them seemed complete derelicts, “and,” he added, “I don’t think I would have given a warrant of fitness to any of them.”

Vaudeville Returning. A generation ago the era of vaudeville commenced to decline in New Zealand, though it was not till some years after the cessation of the World War that the motion picture, and later, the talking screen, appeared to deal a death blow to the stage. In recent months, however, a definite swing to “life-and-blood” shows has been evident, and in Wanganui fairly extensive alterations are being made to the stages of the Majestic and Regent Theatres so that travelling companies of the “variety” order may be accommodated.