Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 43, 25 January 1944, Page 4

Local and General

Warning Given to Motorists Fire danger as a result of motorists changing from the 1 use of gas producers to petrol was mentioned by an insurance agent. He said the producers sucked in the gas Irom the coal, and when the change-over was made to petrol there, was a danger of explosion or at least ol sparks being cjcctcd. With the. dry condition of the country at this time ol the year it was a danger that : hou'.d be kept in mind by motorists.

Income Tax Payable * The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of Income Tax is on Thursday, the 10th day of February, 1944. Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before 2nd March. 1944. The demands will he posted! from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes on or about 3rd February, 1944. Demands must, be presented with all payments, and if a demand has not been received the Commissioner should be communicated with. Multi -colou red Trousers Support for criticism of articles placed on the market by a few New Zealand, manufacturers has, ben given by a Taranaki men's outfitter;, who produced a pair of boy's khaki trousers containing live shades of colour. The front of the shorts, states a Taranaki paper* was in one shade of khaki, the seat was in two shades, the hip pocket was in a fourth shade,, and the waist band was in a fifth. Another example was a fairly high-priced shirt on which the cult's of the sleeves were in the same material as the shirt, but of Eggs in. Wellington Bad eggs, the subject of complaint by many Wellington housewives, have been finding their way on to the market in recent w r eeks. One correspondent, writing on behalf of several other residents, says he had three bad out of half, a dozen, and so far two. out of this week's. "Tlie grocer says he can do nothing. Surely it would be better no eggs at all than pay for bad ones." The officer in charge of the Egg Marketing Division stated in reply to inquiries that the position was not any worse, and, in fact, was not as bad as had been experienced at this time of the year in past seasons. another colour. Rationing and Production The effect on primary production of the butter rationing scheme introduced in New Zealand Vast ycat is commented upon by Mr L. V. Talboti. president of the South Canterbury Primary Production Council, in a reyiew of farming in 1943, "The scheme is. to be commended i'f it will assist Britain in any way," said, Mr Talbot, "but it should be fully carried out and not dallied with half-heartedly. Rationing will not increase tlie production of food and clothing, and. more production is better than all the rationing in the world." News That Was <4 Not So Hot" "New arrivals among reinforcements for the Bth Army were looked upon as fair game by newspaper vendors in Cairo," said a New Zca-» land, machine gunner who returned wounded recently. When the New Zealanders' were rushed, back to Egypt from Syria they were not} permitted to stop in Cairo, but went straight through by lorry and were in action in the desert almost immediately. "Although the move was very hush-hush at the time the. Gyppos got to hear of it beforehand by some, mysterious method of their own and when we arrived a number of tlicm were waiting for us with newspapers for sale. Of course, we fell for it., the whole lot of, us, and they ran beside the lorries while we grabbed papers and paid. When we made camp and opened them we found that most of them were at least three months old—and some were dated October of the previous year!"