INFORMATIVE FILM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 67, 30 December 1946, Page 6

INFORMATIVE FILM

“MEET THE DAIRY FARMER” The Federation’s first film production, “.Meet the Dairy Farmer,” has now been completed and a special pre-view was arranged in Wellington on Monday last. Over 300 guests representing the commercial community, state departments and farming bodies expressed complete satisfaction with the production and local press reports were equally favourable. The film is nearly 1700 feet in length and screening time is approximately 20 minutes. Guests of honour at the screening were membersof the family of Mr P. Pi. Catley on whose farm at Kuku, near Levin, the sceens were filmed. In fact the story told centres on the daily work of that family from the time that they rise at 4.30 a.m. for the morning milking until “Dad” works on his accounts after 8 p.m. The scene then shifts to the Wellington waterfront where butter and cheese are being loaded for export, the overseas funds so secured being used for the purchase of necessary imports to maintain the standard of living of New Zealand people. Guests at the preview indicated their appreciation of the restrained manner in which the farmers’ story was told. It was a simple story depicting the long, ardous and varied day’s work of an average dairyman. The whole-family helped, everyone in his or her appointed task. Arrangements are now being made for distribution to theatres and in the New Year when the required number of prints are completed, the film will be on the circuit throughout the Dominion. Plans are already under way for further productions, sponsored by the Action Committee of the Federation. Tyre Priority Schedule

A Dominion Council protest against the present tyre priority schedule and a request that farmers and veterinary surgeons should be placed in Class 2, have not met with very favourable consideration by the Minister of Industries and Commerce.

Mr Sullivan has written to head office that the priority rating given to farmers’ cars and trucks is as high as possible. The popular sizes of 19 inches, 20 inches and 21 inches, are in very short supply and enquiries have been made in Australia with a view to ascertaining if preference can be given to the manufacture and export of those sizes, but as yet no improvement had been secured.

Local controllers were carrying little in the way of outstanding applications for truck tyres, said Mr Sullivan and there should be little delay in making permits available for them.

“I can appreciate,” wrote'the Minister, “the wish of your Council to see that the most careful consideration is given to the matter of determining a suitable priority, for farmers’ cars, and I assure you that this has been done. The priorities are deemed high enough but it is solely a question of availability of stocks. I regret that it is not possible for action to be taken along the lines suggested by your Council, but a close watch is being kept on the position and I assure you that no unnecessary delay will arise in making further tyres available as additional stocks come to hand.”

XMAS PRAYER 1946 “God of the timeless universe, At whose word a world was born, Grant to this atomic age A peaceful Xmas morn. May the star that brightly gleamed Upon the Manger long ago, Spread its radiance far and wide, And all men come to know The living glory of Thy love, And with clearer vision see Thy message down the Ages, In a Star—a Crib—a Tree! God of the ceaseless ebb and flow Of human thought and deed, Protect man from the mighty force Of a tiny atom—freed! Let not his thirsting, probing mind, From nature wrest the master key, Lest it bring complete destruction, To all humanity. God of the restless souls of men, Patient, generous—transcendent skill, Grant to a weary, battered world, The spirit of goodwill! Rekindle in the human heart A deeper faith—a true humility, That men, in harmony may find The one great bond of unity! ' . i God of the veiled mystery Of Time and Space and Life, Grant to man the power .to see, The futility of strife; Give to him, from Thy vast store 1 Of understanding—one tiny spark, A light to guide his footsteps, As' gropingly he treads the dark And tortuous path of human fear; Grant him, at the future’s threshold, A strengthened faith and eyes to see The transfigurated hope, that shines, From a Star—a Crib—a Tree! God of the ceaseless ebb and flow Of human thought and deed, The fields of Earth lie scarified, Teach man to plant Thy Seed. William R. Whiteside, ' Whakatane.