ITEMS OF INTEREST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 1, 24 August 1943, Page 2

ITEMS OF INTEREST

% Less Butter A suggestion thnt New Zealanders should reduce their weekly consumption of butter from the present 13oz to 7oz, and send the extra Boz to Britain as a gift, is made by Mr J. T. Martin, chairman of directors of Wright, Stephenson and Company, Ltd. s Anti-Hydatids Drug: The Government has under order 2,500,000 tables of the drug named areeolinc. hydrobromide for distribution to the local authorities in an effort to reduce hydatids in dogs. The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, stated in Auckland that for the past two or three years the drug had been tissued. Experiments were being made by the Health-and. Agriculture Departments 1 to determine whether any appreciable decrease in hydatids had resulted. > A Womanls Gaze An incident which unfortunately has been repeated with varying small differences in several centres occurred in the Palmerston post office. A young man was waiting to do business there when he noticed a woman gazing intently at him. He approifehed her and said, politely, "Excuse me, but do 1 know you,, or shou'ld, 1?" "No, you don't," was the rep]} - . 'T was just thinking how well' 3'oli would look in uniform." The young man's feeling can be realised when it is known that, he is a returned soldier from the present war and has spent six months in hospital, beinii treated for she'll shock.