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Temporary Unemployment. About thirty employees of tlics Paper Mills are at present unemployed. The majority are members of the packing department and thentemporary suspension is due to. a change from packing to reels. Though a definite date was not given it is understood that the men will resume shortly. Married Just Too Late. ";You should have made it a week earlier," remarked a member of the Hamilton District "Manpower Committee when a married man appealing against being called up in the first ballot stated that he as, married on May 4 last. Men married after May 1 are being ballotted as single men. Fat is ugly, unfashionable. Banish it with Bonlcora—the safe treatment. F. G, Macklow, Chemist, Whakatane.
£5000 for Spitfire. The fact that the combined Wotmcn's Organisations of New Zealand were able to raise £3000 for the purpose of providing a 'Spitfire' for the Imperial Forces and no objection was recorded by the Government, raises the query as to why a similar scheme was not allowed to be introduced in this district during September.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 235, 8 November 1940, Page 4
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178Local and General Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 235, 8 November 1940, Page 4
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