The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1946 Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 24, 13 September 1946, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1946

Local and General

United Football Club

All Junior players to be at the Domain at 1 o’clock on Saturday, September 14 to play Te Teko in a friendly game. Anybody unable to play please get in touch with Bert Norman.

Traffic Regulations The Automobile Association (Auckland) reminds road users that a knowledge of the traffic regulations is essential for everyone and that ignorance of the law is not likely to be accepted as an excuse for breaches of the regulations. Inflation in China New Zealanders have practically nothing of inflation, compared with other countries, according to the New Zealand National Review. “In America,” it states, “the price of cotton soared fantastically when price control was lifted, and this will ultimately affect ' the world market. One of the most outstanding examples of inflation is to be seen at Kunming, in China. There, oranges grow profusely, yet they sell for over 80 dollars each. Matches cost 12 dollars a box, and, as only one in four Chinese matches is effective, it costs 3d to night a cigarette. Twenty cigarettes cost from 80 to 90 dollars, and a haircut costs 150 dollars. A visit -to the cinema to see a badly-scratched three-year-old film in a slightly insanitary atmosphere costs £2.”

A Twist of the Fingers How a twist of the fingers determined the quality of cotton cloth was mentioned by Mr Edward Williamson, managing director of the Cotton Textiles Corporation of New Zealand, during discussions. in Christchurch. Mr Williamson said that in the weaving process, a mill hand had to give the thread a righthand twist betweeh thumb and finger. This was easy enough in Britain, but in the huge Indian factories, it had proved very difficult to teach native labour to twist righthandedly, and not to the left. Because many natives gave the thread a left-hand twist, most of the Indian cloth suffered in quality. A local importer said he had often noticed that while one bolt of Indian cotton was of good quality, the next was poor. Mr Williamson, he said, had provided the explanation to something that had always puzzled him.