FOUR FLAGS FLEW

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 65, 15 June 1942, Page 4

FOUR FLAGS FLEW

| E.P.S. Jn order to .save confusion avill? members of the llome Guard, the E.P.S. committee decided last Thurs day evening to order the E.P.S. personnel in future to wear their armbands on- the right arm. This will also assist the traffic control as the band will then show on t>e drivers side af vehicles which will be plying the roads during future tests.

WHAKATANE'S observance of the all-nations Flag Day, requested by the leaders of Great Britain and America and endorsed by our own Prime Minister was marked by three Union Jacks, a blue ensign and a string of smaller flags arranged across the second storey of one of the local banking institutions. The effort could certainly not be classed as an exhausting one, neither is it calculated to advertise our enterprise and war-mindedness. A bomb or two might even be good medicine.

Freak Hen Ail Australorp lien, the property of Mrs E. Ilinc, Carrington Road, New Plymouth, has .signalised its recovery from an ailment asociated with moulting by changing the colour of its feathers. Originally jet black, a few white leathers around the eyes were noticed as recovery began. In less than two months the bird had become almost white feathered, although in other aspects it is notarial.