Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 12, 16 August 1946, Page 4

Local and General

Food For Britain Following are particulars of the Food for Britain “Famine Emergency” campaign ration coupons presented for cancellation during the week ending August 10: Sugar, nil lbs.; Tea, nil lbs.; Butter, Bilbs.; Meat, £2 17s sd. The amounts of the various goods collected to date arre as follows: Sugar, 121b5.; Tea, 41bs.; Butter, 129 jibs.; Meat, £BB 9s 4d. Aiding the Deaf There are now 77 picture theatres and 32 churches throughout New Zealand which provide sound equipment and headphones for the use of the hard of hearing, according to a survey prepared by the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing. Nineteen of these theatres are in Auckland.

A Heavy Penalty The Borough Council will again support Whakatane Amusements Ltd. in its application to the Building Controller for a permit to rebuild its premises which were destroyed by fire six years ago. The fi Council took the view that the company had been most unfairly penalised and that there was an urgent need for new premises in the town. First For Six Years Yesterday, we noticed a new camera, which the shopkeeper claimed was the first to come in for six years, in a local shop window. The camera was of a very attractive design, and on a par with the wellknown ‘box’ type, with the exception of the viewfinder, which, in this model covered almost the whole top of the camera, and was very large and very clear. The whole thing was crackle finished, and was modern and streamlined. (So was the price). But if'the camera we noticed was any criterion of the type which will be owned by amateur photographers in the future, we can hardly wait to see what the manufacturers will have concocted in the way of better models. The Nazi Iron Heel! Gratitude to the Allied forces pf liberation is expressed in a letter from a Norwegian fish-canning company received recently by an Invercargill firm. “You who never had the Nazi iron heels trampling you down and who were never subjected to the Nazi terror and brutality,” the letter states, “cannot possibly realise the happiness and gratitude we feel.” It adds that tne Norwegian soldiers had fought bravely with their meagre equipment, but that without Allied aid they would probably have remained slaves. Hopes for the resumption of “business as usual”, are expressed in the letter, which concludes: “We are pleased to be able to say that we have been in the position of having had no dealings with the enemy. Not many in an occupied country can say as much.”