DOGS are not the only pets of the 50th Division (the ‘Fearless Fiftieth’) in which there are most Yorkshire regiments, stationed in the Mediterranean.

On the Catania Plain, a big black sheep complete with tinkling neck bell, wandered through the shell-fire and attached itself to a company of Green Howards.

It was a tame, persistent sheep and the possessor of an insatiable appetite.

On the morning the Howards took to their trucks, it took off after them, but in vain.

 

• IF any evidence was needed of the arrival of oranges in the district last weekend, it was to be found in the large quantity of orange peel strewn on the footpaths and roadways.

At first, the spectacle was strange, but throughout Saturday, people were seen with the golden fruits in their shopping baskets and hands.

Any hope of surpluses being available for adults was soon dispelled, for it was not long before notices appeared in some of the shops stating ‘no oranges’.

Hopes were also held of lemons being available but so far these have not materialised, though it has been heard of individual cases where parents have received small boxes from their sons serving in Africa and elsewhere.

 

• A DISPLAY in Pickering of knitted woollen goods, which included 36lbs of yellow, 36lbs black, 6lbs red, proved very attractive when on show in Mr W Scales’ window in the Market-place.

It was a work of voluntary helpers in the Pickering Urban and Rural Districts under the auspices of Central Hospitals Supply Scheme and for the benefit of Mrs Churchill’s Aid for Russia fund.

 

At the cinema this week:

Castle, Pickering
A Haunting We Will Go with Laurel and Hardy

Majestic Theatre, Malton
We’ll Meet Again with Vera Lynn