THE EMPIRE'S WAR ACTIVITIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 222, 7 October 1940, Page 2

THE EMPIRE'S WAR ACTIVITIES

.FARM-IMPLEMENTS '

GIFT OF RINGS

BRITISH MANUFACTURE FOR WORLD S FARMERS Britain's edg2 tool indsutry has organised its own ELxport Group t*_send overseas this year more than 7.000, 000 "pieces/"" nearly all of them agricultural implements. These are, for the most part, plantation hoes, forks, picks, spades, shovels, scythes and hatchets used in the production of sugar, tea, coffee, rice, maize, CGCoa, cotton, rubber, palm oil, soya beans, oranges and bananas. About two thirds of them will l go to the Empire including Australia, New Zealand, India, Ceylon, Burma, Cyprus, Malaya, North Borneo and the Mandate of Palestine. The others will be exported to Greece, China, Indo-China, the Netherlands East Indies'and the Philippine Islands. The plant is now at work, for the greater part in the England Midlands, on this considerable output. It has an important bearing on Britain's food supply which might suffer from lack of tools for agriculture; indeed, after 30 months of the last war the dearth of tools in NyasaXand became so acute that the Government made an order that their manufacture should take precedence over war work already in hand.

WOMEN MAKE SACRIFICES TO ASSIST PATRIOTIC FUNDS Among the shifts to the Auckland fund for the relief of London airraid victims were two rings sent by different people in Northland, with . the request that they be sold and the proceeds placed to the fund. One was a wide gold band, sent by an old age pensioner, from Dargaville, and the other a heavy gold wedding ring from a woman at Kaitaia, who explained that it was bought in Auckland nearly 21 years ago, and had had little wear because it was too large. She states that possibly the gift will show other married women who wish to help, but have not the money, that they have the means of assisting in this way. ' »