No April Fooling On Large Scale

Northern Advocate, 1 April 1937, Page 5

No April Fooling On Large Scale

• :No ,incidents of April fooling otia • large scale have-beep reported in | Whangarei to-day, though there | ;liave been many minor instances ! of juveniles being caught. Since ' I the days of the late Mr. A. R, • Crane, Whangarei has suffered j little at the hands of practical { jokers, and some of the older Sresidents think that ‘ the town is S the poorer for not having a • bright spirit who is possessed of | the courage and ingenuity to j fopl the town'at - | J A few years ago Whanigarei J people rose on April 1 and walk-* S cd very warily until noon,- when ! the joking period ended. People. J - can still remember an advertiseJ jment which appeared in the J ?*‘Northern Advocate,” drawing I attention to a new store which S »was opening and which offered | -goods a>t unheard of prices. The j •• opening was set for April 1, and, ; heedless to say, |the. big crowd 5 which gathered was completely I taken in. 5.’ 5 A telegram to say that the j Governor was passing through J Whangarei also proved to be a S hoax .although the council did ! not realise it at the time. - • In Maunu Road this morning a j; parrot seemed to be affected by J the spirit of foolery, and pedesJ trlans noticedr it, free from its I cage, sitting on top "of a tefe- • graph pole screeching loudly. ; Possibly the bird escaped from its' • cage by April fooling its owner. • i i • ; ;