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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 136, 1 August 1941, Page 5

"Attacks" on Hay Stacks. Hay stacks looking "all cut up about it" arc a noticeable feature of farms in this district now tlie job of feeding out loads of bay is going on steadily. On most farms there are plenty of stacks still to cut into, So that dairy herds can expect their daily ration of hay for another couple of months so until the growth of grass makes hay superfluous. Prisoner in Italy. One of the first New Zealand soldiers to be captured by the Italians in this Avar, Lancc-Corporal W. R. Adams, a member of the Long Range Desert Patrol, has, now written to his 1 parents, Mr and Mir-s' L. Adams, of Whangarci, from a prison camp in Italy. Lance-Corporal Adams was taken by the Italians on February 1 during a thrust by the patrol into the heart of Libya. Two letters have been received, one dated Feb-i ruary 11 and the other February 17. both from Italy, indicating that Lance-Corporal Adams was quick! -1 / transferred from Libya to Italy, lie states that he is being well treated and is in good heaith. He is in a -"amp at Sulmona, in the mountains on the same latitude as Rome. When Lancc-Corporal Adams wrote th« ground was covered with snow.