The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, JULY 20, 1942 ALL EYES ON INDIA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 80, 20 July 1942, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, JULY 20, 1942 ALL EYES ON INDIA

THE CHEESE CHANGE-OVER THOUGH hard to understand the lack of foresight which to-day bids fair to completely retract last year's changeover to cheese thereby once more throwing a substantial section of the dairying industry out of gear, we can take some comfort from the fact that the Government is prepared to recognise the claims of the farmers affected and is making an increased subsidy available on next season's butterfat. The Rangitaiki Dairy Company has now the chargrin of watching- its modern and costly cheese manufacturing unit at Pupuaruhe,, almost certainly fall into disuse. The following figures will give some indication of the result of the change over: In 1940-41 season the butter manufactured reached 5100 tons. In 1941-42 season (transfer year) only 3700 tons were made. The new cheese factory however made 1069 t<6ns of cheese which is equivalent to approximately 500 tons of butter, while the_transferred suppliers to Opouriao also increased that factories output by approximately 1000 tons (equal to 500 tons of butter). Thus it will be seen that if the two butterfat figures which went to manufacture cheese last year were diverted back to butter something like normal output would have been maintained, despite labour shortage and impropitious weather conditions. THE PAPER SHORTAGE WE have to draw our readers attention to the article in to-day's issue regarding the latest stringent regulations covering paper wastage. The position which has now been taken in hand by the Government will serve to indicate the the seriousness of the paper market and the growing need for conservation. Newspaper offices are to-day labouring under the greatest difficulties as far as stocks are concerned and we again take the opportunity of reminding subscribers of the possibilities of having to cut down the size of the 'Beacon' in order-to maintain the serviced At the same time we hasten to once again give the fullest assurance that this will riot be done until absolutely unavoidable.

MUSICIAN says one bottle of Dr. Hair's made remarkable difference to breathing. F .G. Macklow, Central Pharmacy, Whakatane.

THE resolution of the All-India Congress Working Committee which demands the withdrawal of British rule in India, represents a loaded pistol pointed at an already severely worried; John Bull. Were it not perhaps that the Empire's hands were so full, it is doubtful whether such drastic demands would ever have been made. On the other hand, these are days of either enslavement or independence and from the ruck of the amazing- Indian reaction to threatened invasion, we can pride ourselves that the right of self-ex-pression has never been robbed of our the coloured peoples within the Empire. The threat behind the new Indian movement is self-evident on this point. But in spite of any reflections upon the point, it is impossible to avoid the fact that never before in the two hundred years British occupation of India has there been such a demand coming from a body so comprehensively representative. India the land of serried classes, sects and religious has depended for two long centuries upon British administration and protection in order to maintain the peace within her own ranks. Granted our record has not been without bleamish, but broadly speaking we feel that we can lay claim to the development of the vast Empire along the lines progress and toleration, in a manner which the masses would never have received from the oppressive rule of their own pincelings and Sultans. The north-west frontier and the Khyber have ever meant a drain upon British blood to safeguard the fertile plains from the wild hillmen of Afghanistan. Yet when English arms are being tested as never before we find the doctrines of Pacifism taking on a belligerent cloak and demanding the withdrawal of a rule which can only be interpreted by our enemies as enslaving and oppressive. The voice of Mahatma Ghandi is to be heard in the tumult of varied demands and possibly the blame for this great issue can be laid at his door more than at any other one person. Ghandi, the man who has an axe to grind, as far as British rule is concerned has become the Martyr of the great bulk of the Indian masses —particularly that most forlorn and forsaken section known, as "the untouchables." Pundat Nehru, is but the mouth-piece of the greater prophet and his rise to spokesman for the congress, gives added power to the doctrines of the man born before his time. The facts to-day are not pleasant in review. Piece by piece our Eastern Empire has been wrenched from us, and now vast India itself demands our withdrawal. Though we may feel "that India cannot forsee her own helplessness in the hands of a ruthless invader, we cannot at the same time disguise the deep sense of injustice that is our natural reaction to the cold demand to quit from a people from whom we were wont to expect the utmost fealty.

REDUCE the healthy way with quick action Bonka. No more discomfort. See F. G. Macklow, Chemist, Whakatane.