GENERAL PARS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 129, 14 July 1941, Page 2

GENERAL PARS

What Would You? "What would you do if a divebomber was diving at you and you had only a rifle?" was, a question asked of an instructor during a lecture at the school of instruction in Napier which was; attended by about 240 members of the Home Guard units; in the Napier and Hastings districts. The instructor, a sergeantmajor in the National Military Reserve, replied; "Shoot at it till it got low enough and then use the bayonet." Radio Dance Programmes. A suggestion that radio stations should close down after the news at 11 p.m. to save clectric current was made by Mr J. W. Andrews at ft recent meeting of the Hutt Valley Power Board. He said that they could close witli an announcement about the conservation of electricity. Mr Andrews said that the time after the news was filled' in with threequarters of an hour of jazz which he personally would in no way miss.

An Irrigation Menace. General alarm is expressed in the Seadown* district of South Canterbury at what appears likely to be the ruinous effects of a scheme of Irrigation which hasi been in operation there for three years, in that 500 acres of what had been rich wheat growing and sitoclc grazing land has. become the irrigation channels. A gathering of over 160 farmers made an examination of the 40 farms affected, in view of a proposed larger scheme of irrigation, and were impressed with the necessity for some provision to protect the/ norm ajly well watered country from being made marshy by this seepage. Canada's Part. Reciting something of the tremendous: war work Canada was doing at present, the High Commissioner for Canada in NeAV Zealand, Dr. W. A. Riddell, in an address 1 to the Wellington Rotary Club, said that there were 50,000 trainees for the Royal Air Force undergoing instruction in that Dominion under the Empire scheme. There were GO schools of training scattered throughout thei country. The scheme was costing a billion dollarsi Canada was finding 65 per cent of the money and 85 per cent of the students, 10 per cent of these being Americans from over the border. Destruction of Deer Preparations ahve been completed by the fields branch of the Department of Internal Affairs for the winter campaign for the destruction of deer. Men forming the official parties will shortly be leaving for the bush and mountain ranges assigned to them. The Minister of Internal, Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, said that the areas in which officers would operate at the outset of the campaign were Waikaremoana, Tararuas, Fiordland, National Park (Southland) and Stewart Island. The campaign would also n«; extended to the Makerora, Hunter, South Westland and O-hau districts, find in the headwaters of the Waimakariri. I Business Courtesy in Blitz. An example of unexpected consideration in circumstances which might well have excused a laps? from the accustomed courtesies of business came the way of a Whakatane business firm recently. A letter from a London firm stated : "At the moment of writing w 7 e are searching London for a New Zealand stamp to put on the. envelope. Should Ave be unsuccessful before the mail leaA r es England, perhaps you would not mind stamping it for us." The accompanying envelope! had, however, been stamped, and the AA T riter had added beneath the typescript the one word "found" followed by an exclamation mark. The date of the letter showed that it had been AATitten at a time AA 7 hen London Avas being, raided nightly, and an, alteration to the letter-head suggested that the firm had been forced to seek new premises.