AMERICAN INVALID SOLDIERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 29, 30 November 1943, Page 4

AMERICAN INVALID SOLDIERS

ONCE again Whakatane citizens are being approached to make their homes available for an unspecified number of American invalid soldiers. Once again we have no doubt but that all requirements will be met, if by any chance a quota is available for our town. All communications should be addressed to Mrs J. E.. Winstone, secretary of the Eastern Bay of Plenty Association of the Red Cross Society.

The Farmers* Friend A plea lor the total protection of the goldfinch is. made by a contributor to "Forest and Bird." During the summer its diet consists of insects and grubs, and the rest of the year it lives on the seeds of thistles, ragwort, dandelion, plantain, etc. As it destroys the. germinative properties of the seed it eats it and is thus of immense value to the agriculturist.

Rationing' Story The latest story has to do with the introduction of cream and butter rationing. On the first morning after the broadcast announcement a milk vendor found a note in tjhe milk jug, "Please can you let us have some cream?" The vendor did not comply, but wrote: "Don't you read the papers? Next morning there was another note reading: "Yes, but we hoped yoa didn't."

drives the engine was not meant to blow the whistle.

American labour has been employed making our Lend and Lease; requirements for which they received to-day's wages rate which had been added to its cost. What we supply in return (in many cases) has been laboured by men from the forces receiving soldiers pay which cost has been added to 1039 cost. Therefore our reverse soldiers labour and exempted military persons labour added to 1939 prices and to-day's labour wages added to 1943 prices. \ New Zealand's chaos docs not only apply to iinance but it applies to much of its administration in connection with the war elTort. The; professional mi,nd! of Mr Lefeaux sees chaos as regards methods of finance. Undoubtedly it is so and to mc on the eve of the prospectus of the second Liberty 1,0311 I saw the peoples savings being locked np through nearly a dozen different channels. I wrote, then that the Government was handing control of the Dominion's finance to the money lenders. Yours etc., P. .MORA, Taneatua.