Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 87, 5 August 1942, Page 4

Local and General

Ceased Publication The Ngaruawahia Advocate, which has been published regularly for 32 years, ceased publication last week. Canadians for Overseas The Canadian Senate is adopting a measure amending the Mobolisation AoL and striking out the clause by which conscripts are required to serve only in the Dominion. A. Housewife's Complaint "See 1 this," said a Whakatane housewife disgustedly to a 'Beacon' representative yesterday as she held I up a skein of khaki wool for inspection . "I bought this to repair soldiers socks -with and it cost me 1/9 per skein." Three Twin Calves A Kamo farmer had an interesting, is not unique, experience last week, when three of his cows each produced twin calvesi. A neighbouring farmer says that although he had been farming for 20 years twin calves have never appeared, in his herd-. Limit of 40 m.p.h Regulations have been passed fixing a maximum speed limit of 40 miles an hour for all motor trans* port throughout New Zealand. It will be necessary also for motorists still to comply with the lower speed limits already in force, namely, 30 miles an hour in eitiesi, boroughs, town districts, and special speeds' for heavy traffic. Protection Against Gas The intention of the authorities to issue civilian type respirators soon to personnel iin first-line sections of the civil defence organisations was announced on Saturday

by the Minister of Civil Defence, Mr Bodkin. Reserve supplies are also to be made available for bedridden patients in hospitals in vulnerable areas.

Manufacture Stopped A ehaese-making equipment control notice which has been gazetted prohibits the manufacture of cheese vats, presses and hoops or curd agitators aaid mulls. The Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, said the notice would release materials and labour for other essential work in view of the l altered situation in the dairy production of the Dominion. Fixed Milk Prices Confidence that later the; Govern- 1 ment would be able to establish some form of national authority which would sec that prices were! fixed for milk to give a just deal to producers, vendors and, consumers Avas -expressed by the Minister of Primary Production lor War Purposes (Mr Poison) in an interview in Chr-istchureh, on his policy on the milk supply question. Maori Battalion Canteen "The Maori Battalion is the only battalion among the Now Zealanders with its own special secretary and mobile canteen," states a report from the standing committee of the National Patriotic Fund Board. All organisations for the adequate servicing of units with gifts is now on a brigade basis. It was further reported that the New Zealanders while in Syria were accompanied by Y.M.C.A. units. Whiles there they were also serviced by other institutions. Judgment Entered ] 'Judgment was entered for plain- :

tiff in the following debt cases before Mr K. L. Walton, S.M., in the Whakatane Magistrate's Court yesterday: Max Hunt v A. McKay, £16 1.4s 3d' (costs £2 15s); Papuaruhe Cash Store v K. Watare, £1 2s !;<:]( (10s). Judgment summons C. T. Plank v A. McKay £3 16s: 2d:, payment ordered forthwith in default 3 days. Whakalane Hardware Company v John Rutledge ordered to pay at the rate of £1 per month default 27 days.