SHIPPING OF MUTTON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 272, 17 February 1941, Page 3

SHIPPING OF MUTTON

WEIGHT OF EWES AND WETHERS The New Zealand Meat Producers Board desires to draw the attention of fanners to the position regarding the shipment, of wethers and ewes weighing 731bs and over. In compliance with a request of the British Ministry of Food, the shipment of wether and ewe mutton weighing over 721bs is limited to the 1938-S9 proportions of thesei grades to the total mutton carcases shipped. All freezing companies will be expected to confine their shipments of carcases weighing 731bs and over to these proportions. Having regard to the favourable season, a greater number of heavyweight wethers and ewes are at present being'treated at some works and it is therefore advisable that farmers should keep in touch with the freezing companies in respect to the position.

NAZI AIR ACE GOERING APPLIES TO BRITAIN FOR WHEREABOUTS Berlin radio announced that Goering, after the death of Major Wick, Germany's No. 1 air ace of this war, radioed to the Royal Air Force, who replied that Wick was not a prisoner and Avas not listed among the casualties. Wick's machine, according to the announcer, crashed, in the English Channel after a dog fight with a lone Spitfire. Another pilot of Wick's squadron who claimed that he shot down the Spitfire, reported that Wick baled out, but rescue launches failed io trace Wick or the plane. It was reported on January 12, from American sources, that Wick was believed to have arrived in Canada with a batch of prisoners. Major Helmulh Wick, 25, commander of the Richthofen Squadron of fighters, was, according to the December issue of 'Time,' credited with shooting down 56 Polish, French and British planes in |15 months. He was one of four Nazi flyers who have been given the Oak Leaves on the King's Cross of fehe Iron Gross. On his last foray, he and his flight of Messerschmitts 110 met a force of Hurricanes and Spitfires near the Isle of Wight. While Major Wick got one Briton, another swooped, on his tail and got him, only to be shot down in turn by an other German. According to the British story, 20 of the Germans perished and all 10 of the British, leaving none to say who killed Major Wick.

HITLER'S LOST CHANCE SIR NEVILLE HENDERSON'S DISCLOSURE Speaking at Ipswich, reports the London Times of November 19, Sir Neville Henderson, former Ambassador in Berlin, said: "I think the person who regretted Munich more than anyone else was Hitler. He thought he had missed an opportunity, and I think he did." Mr Neville Chamberlain, Sir Ncv-' ile said, tried to do his utmost regardless of himself to bring Europe back to recognition and rectification of past errors. It was a single-hand-ed effort on the part of a man who was over 70. "I do not know whether the critics of Mr Chamberlain realise that on September 28, 1938, we did not possess anv Spitfires, we had only one or two experimental Hurricanes, and only seven modern A.A. guns for the defence of London, out of 4ioo estimated as the minimum necessary. Germany could have dropped 21]00 bombs a day on London, and we could have given no reply. I would like to ask Mr Chamberlain's critics, realising what cards he held in his hands, what they could have done either to avert or delay war. Mr Chamberlain failed in his iraobjective, but to the end of his life he did not have one twinge •:f conscience." ,