Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 113, 4 June 1941, Page 4

Local and General

Ministerial Visit. The Hon. J. G. Barclay, Ministei of Agriculture and Marketing, who will officially open the Bay of Plenty Winter Show this afternoon, will be paying his first visit to this district since his recent elevation to Cabinet rank. In previous years Mr Barclay has visited the district in his capacity as M.P. for Marsden and an exponent of the policy of the Labour Party. Before he '#fci<!*ed Parliament Mr Barclay was a dairv farmer in the Whangarei district.

Willows in Winter. Weeping willows fringing rivera in this district are still carrying green leaves, but the straight willows are mostly bare and leafless. Crete and Concrete. ELxample of topical joke perpetrated by local wofild-be humorist looking in at the Beacon Office: "What is the difference between all eyes, all cows, being machine-milk-ed, and all 40-hour workers ?" We gave it up. Well, all eyes are on Crcfcifall the cows are on concrete, and the 40-hour workers are on velvet.

New Maize Cribs. Several new maize cribs have been erected on farms in the district recently in readiness for the harvesting of a record crop of maize cobs. Drunk and' Disorderly. | At the local Court yesterday morning Wano Rewiri was charged with being drunk and disorderly-. BaiJ of £1 was estreatecl by Mr J. GMulholland, J.P. Cream Collection on the Plain®. The Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co. has advised its suppliers that tjie customary mid-winter collection of cream on threei days a week, namely Mondays; Wednesdays and Fridays, will operate from Monday next. There will be no Sunday cream collection for Some weeks, and the resulting "long week-end" will be appreciated by workers at the company's butter factory, and also lo some degree by suppliers. For the past three weeks cream has been collected every other day. Wintering of Pigs. i The fat pig population of farms tn this district lias been reduced considerably during recent weeks most farmers finding it necessary to send to market all porkers and bac oners which have been in their fat tening pens. With the dairying sea son now approaching its slackest point there ;s only sufficient skim milk to feed breeding Sows and a certain number of store pigs. Ample supplies of kumi kumi, maize and grass will be available this season for wintering the pigs now left on the farms. Unregistered Cars. Motorists ,who left the last minute the registering of their Icars and then failed to get served in the "rush," and others who forgot „to attach their plates, and who ventured out on Sunday found to their re* gret that the Inspector was right on the job. In the early afternoon many cars were about and not half of them bore the new black and white number plates. The drivers as they proceeded along Gommerca Street found that the Inspector was handing out tickets by the dozen and it is likely that the Government's funds will benefit considerably at the next session of the local Court. New Road Wanted. A deputation waited on this week's meeting of the County Council, Messrs J|. Colebrook,, Gaulfield and Matchett, stating that they wished Finnigan's track, two miles from Matata connected with the MatataTe Puke road, They explained that a large saving in travelling would result and stated that they were willing to have the- road graded within a few chains of the bluff on the main. road. The task of working •on the Bluff could not be undertaken by the P.W.D'. bulldozer which they were engaging and they wished the coui/cil to undertake the task of forming the few chains of difficult work. The Councillors had every sympathy for the request and it was decided that the engineer inspect the job and estimate the costs. If the work could be done at a price within reason it would be undertaken.