The Opotiki News Friday, October 4, 1940. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 319, 4 October 1940, Page 2

The Opotiki News Friday, October 4, 1940. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Worrying Dogs Destroyed. ' Many dogs have been destroyed by stock-owners at Kaiti, according to a statement made by Mr. F. Tolerton at the monthly meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council. He said that dogs had been worrying sheep, and the owners had taken effective measures, destroying many of the dogs, seven being .brought to' book in one afternoon. ■ Many of the dogs had no collars. Awful Liars. “The other day the Italians broadcast that they had killed 80 per cent, of the New Zealanders with bombs. They are awful- liars. Nobody was hurt.” So-writes Lieuten-ant-Colonel F. S'. Varnham, M7C., officer commanding the - 19th. (Wellington) Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt, under date August 31, in a letter to Mrs. Varnham, New Plymouth.

Bay Loses Foot. Through a mishap with gelignite on a Rua ltua farm, Neville Cowley, aged 14, received injuries which resulted in the loss of his right foot. A bag of gelignite was hanging in the cowshed, and it is understood that the boy removed a stick and lit it with a match. Taking fright, he dropped the st.ck on the floor and trod on it to extinguish the flame. The resulting explosion shattered his foot, which was later amputated in Dannevirke Hospital.

Freble-Yolked Egg, A double-yolked egg, though unusual, is not extraordinary. But a treblc-yolked egg is something deserving of note, specially when the hen responsible makes a practice of laying double-yolked eggs. The hen which made this meritorious answer to the call for .more production is a White Leghorn owned by a Master- - ton resident. Every other day she lays a double-yolked egg, with a single-yolked- egg on off days. Her recent effort however, was a trebleyolker, weighing Boz. and 4in. in length. The egg was flattened to such an extent that it would stand on either end. Dr. Spooner Outdone. The chairman of a war council which .meets every morning on the front seat of an inward-bound suburban tramcar in Dunedin was in particularly good form, and his hearty approval of the feats of the Royal Air Force was endorsed unanimously by his fellow councillors in a discussion, that lasted for nearly a section. Then, in an address not untinged by profanity, the chairman launched into a whole-hearted condemnation of the Nazis. “I consider,” he said, “that the bucking of Bombingham Palace was one of the most dastardly .” So far he got when his remarks were interrupted by a shout of laughter, and it was not until he conducted a hasty mental review of what he had said that he realised he had perpetrated a spoonerism of the first magnitude. Expert’s Services Sought. “It is remarkable that New Zealand leads the world in the invention of milking machines,” the principal of the King Edward Technical College, Mi'. W. G. Aldridge, said at a board meeting when a request was made by a firm for permission for Mr. T. Conly of the college staff, to be associated with it as an occasional adviser on patent law, states the Otago Daily Times. “Mr. Conly is a New Zealand authority on milking machines,” he added, “and ho has a wide knowledge of patent matters.” Mr. P. O. Smelie pointed out that New Zealand also led the world in seed-cleaning machines, and he added that the request should be granted. The desired permission was granted.