The Cow Country Chronicle Ad Butterfat Beaconette

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 281, 10 March 1941, Page 6

The Cow Country Chronicle Ad Butterfat Beaconette

Edited by Esop Junr.

AS OTHERS SEE US READERS WRITE IN It appear? Iha': "The Cow CounLry Chronicle" lias not escaped the notice of all the readers, of the BEACON. Attention, Mr Kumera Mo Hori Te Waino (presumably a Native farmer "whose whare is illuminated by the BEACON writes as follows: Dear Mr E!sop r Py korry you write the good news in the Cow Country Gronic. Pv korry the wa~ hine and me we read the Gronic every lime. We read what you say you hear Mr Cow, Mrs Bull, Mr Piggy and Mr Pa sp alum all say. Hoav you get to hear all that, eh ? You wise guy, cli ? Tell me, you know Maori fella called Mr Kumera, eh ? Why I ask because 1 got the big kumera patch on my place. Wahine and I hope to get the big crop kumera for feed us and picanninis. Py korry the Pakelia food too dear. Kapai the pipi and the kumera, eh. What about you ask Mr Kumera to be good sport, eh ? Tell liim to increase the production on Hori's place. You tell him grow the big kumera, big as my boot, see. Tell him be patriotic, produce more.. That all I want, Mr Esop. If you round my place I glad to see you and give you kumera." So now, Mr Kumera, its up to you to get behind the Bay of Plenty's war cllort. We want big* ger and better kumeras. Don't let the pakeha fella, Mr Potato beat you!

pound or two of maize, grains all nicely wrapped in a. kind of cellophane. All this has happened since November, when the yellow grams were trickling out of the maize planters into the finely-tilled Bay of Plenty soil. Quick growing! Its a-maizing !

SUPPORT FROM STRIPPERS Mr Dick Denim, honorary secretary of the Society of Cow-strippers and Gum Boot Wearers, writes: Dear Mr Esop: On behalf of the above Soeietj" which represents the cream of the landed aristocracy of the Bay of Plenty, I congratulate you on telling the world what is happening down in the Gow Country. The motto of my Society is: '■Bail up, strip out, and out she goes." No finer lot of patriots ever trod on concrete or leg roped a cow than our members, so you can take it from me that we do count! in this community. Especially do we count the days before the next 20th of the month, and we are also count ing on a bonus in the spring. We are glad to see that the; BEIA.GON is recording what is happening in unknown land outside the limits of Whakatane Borough. We like people to take notice of lis. So if there is room in the BEACON for a bit besides arguments of over Police Control and Ohope Roads you can give us more Gow Country Cronic Ale." Thank you Mr IJemm. The earnest endeavour of this paper is to give its country readers all- the news, all the time, before cow time. ITS A—MAIZING ! SOME HUSTLE IN THE CORN FIELDS It really is amazing To see how the maize if growing, I mean. ,All over the Plains therei are paddocks of maize—twice as tall as a human being and waving its flower heads in the breezes that blow from the Bay. At the business part of the stalk there are big cobs with a

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