ITEMS OF INTEREST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 152, 8 September 1941, Page 5

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Soldiers Parcels. Committees throughout the county are advised that Soldiers Parcels are due in the central office by September 26, and at Saturday's meeting the secretary stated that he would appreciate receiving earlier if convenient. Cattle on the Road. On the long, long trail from Gisborne to Morrinsville, a mob of 500 store cattle passed through Whakatane County last week. They had been on the road for 18 days when they crossed the Rangitaiki Plains, and it will probably be another three weeks before they arrive ai Morrinsville. The drovers carried their camping gear on three pack horses. Slow Maize Market. Farmers of the Bay are being circularised by the Internal Marketing Department with a request that they use as much maize as possible on the farms for the feeding of stock. At present there is little movement in the maize market and tt is understood that the Department is still holding stock recently imported from South Africa. In a few isolated cases farmers in the Whakatane area have shelled out and found the market, but generally shelling out will be considerably later this year.

The Change to Cheese. The intimation in the Beacon lasf week that the new cheese, factory would v not be completed for some I time yet was welcome news to most of the prospective suppliers on the ! Rangitaiki Plains. If, as now seems likely, the change-ovei to cheese supply does not start till October then the suppliers will have finished the feeding out of hay to cows— a routine task that now takes up much of each day. By the end of this month many more cows will have got over the calving period., and farmers will be in ' a more trajiquil state of mind to alter their daily timetables to suit the supplying of milk instead of cream. i The British Spirit. The "carry on at any cost" spirit of British business people is exemplified by the attitude of a large London company which deals in typewriters. After a recent raid the company sent the folloAving letter card to its clients : "Dashed if they haven't got us again! Burnt out of 97 Queen Victoria Street, busted windows at 91, and now blasted out of Balmoral Buildings, with everything gone but our bodies and souls! With these and a couple of typewriters we got in at 15 New Bridge Street, Lfoid'on, E.G.4., with a firm determination to stick to the old city to the end—and Victory! Telephone number will be advised —when we get one!" Band; Instruments Loaned. At a recent meeting the Opotiki Borough Council decided to lent its band instruments to the Royal | Air Force ("amp at Whenuapai. The loan was made for the duration of the war for the nominal fee of 2/6 per annum, the insurance premium to be paid by the Royal A:r Force. The Royal Air Force has also undertaken to mend some of the old I '"stvuments in its workshop. In a i l otter of appreciation acknowledging receipt of the instruments, the Royal Air Force agrees to the council's conditions.