WAINS AN A ATTAINS QUOTA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 100, 4 September 1942, Page 4

WAINS AN A ATTAINS QUOTA

CONGRATULATIONS to the residents of Waimana on achieving their full quota in connection with this year's Patriotic Fund levy. In organising their effort, Waimana has succeeded in the same manner as did Taneatua some months ago, and has set a new example to those districts which have yet to find a substantial percentage. Waimana's traditional generosity and social propensities have once more stood it in good stead and we can only trust that its lead will give new impetus to the final achievement of the in-ter-zones quota objective.

Film Stars Join Navy The screen star, Henry Fonda, enlisted in the United States Navy as an apprentice seaman. He snid lie wanted combat, service, lyronc Power was sworn in as a private in the Marine Corps. What Is It ? Most noteworthy of New Zealand's animals, slays a contributer to "Forest and Bird,'" is tlie 1 uiitcirci com™ monly. thought of as a lizard but actually being j,ust as closely allied to crocodiles, birds and especially turtles and tortoises. A single species, with no living relatives, it forms one of the live groups into which living reptiles are divided.

Basis of Soil Fertility • "When a soil loses fertility we pour on fertiliser, or at best alter its lame ilora and fauna, without considering the fact, that its wild flora and fauna which built the soil to* begin with, may likewise be important to its maintenance," says Professor Aldo Leopold, in an article reprinted in "Forest, an'd Bird." "It was recently discovered, for exampk", that good iobaceo crops depend, for some unknown reason, on the re-conditioning of the soil by wilU ragweed. It does not occur to us that such unexpected chains of dependency may have wide prevalence in nature."