Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 69, Issue 7, 2 May 1944, Page 4

Local and General

[ Cards for Adults At the forthcoming Welcome Home dance at Edgecumbe on Tuesday, May 9, provision will be made for non-dancers who may in attendance to play cards in the card room. Roll up and honour the boys. Farmers Meeting at Edgecumbe Attention is drawn to the advertisement in to-day's issue setting out details of the meeting of farmers at Edgecumbe on Friday next in the interests of the newly constituted Dairy Primary Producers Association.

English Voices Preferred' to German ~Der Neue. Tag, of September 24, castigated the Czech "super intellectuals" who do not know Soviet Russia having read about it only, and who refuse to believe that German soldiers on furlough tell them. The paper went on to say that to theSse Czechs, only English voices are associated with the gospel truth*

Alarmi Clocks Start Stamipedle

Numbers of women fainted, shop assitants were tramped underfoot, and showcases; were shattered, when 2500 women tried to buy 1500 plastic: alarm clocks, the first sold in

Chicago for two years. A few brave men, who joined the long queue several hours before the shop opened were swept aside helplessly in the women's stampede.

Australian Clocks Ready in June Australian clocks, massed produced by an Adelaide firm, are expected to be on the market some time in June. Permission was given by the Department of War Organisation of Industry several months ago to a South Australian firm to esablish an organisation to mass 'produce alarm clocks, and since then tooling-up had been in progress. It. is expected that a very large quantity of alarm clocks will be produced each month after production begins in May or June.

Caterpillar Plague Places that were flooded some time ago in 1 the Opotiki district are being attacked by a caterpillar plague in the same manner as in the Whakatane district. Mr J. Dunlop, Ku'kumoa, has informed a press representative that his farm has: been attacked by a horde of caterpillars where parts were flooded some weeks ago. Mr Dunlop considers that one padlock which was eaten completely bare of grass would havfe pastured 20 bullocks for some weeks prior to ,the arrival of the caterpillars. The caterpillars are also climbing all over the fencing posts: 100> being counted on a single post. It has been noticed by Mr Dunlop that clover is not attacked in the same waj r as other grasses, which are eaten up first. .The ground in some places has been left as bare as concrete. Reports from Waiotahi state that the caterpillars are also cleaning up certain areas of grass. , .