Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 4, 12 March 1947, Page 5

Local & General

Food For Britain

Rationing, coupons surrendered at the Post Office, Whakatane, for the period 3rd to Bth March, 1947, were as under: Meat £1 4s 6d; tea, butter and sugar nil; fats nil. The total collections to date is now: Sugar 191b5.; tea, 131b5.; butter 219£1b5.; meat £212 12s sd.

Galatea Agency For Beacon As from today Mr N. C. Benson, contractor for the recently established Galatea Rural Delivery, will be acting as official agent for the BEACON in that district. Orders may be placed with him direct. Mr H. F. Mitchell has been appointed special correspondent to cover Galatea, Murupara, Te W'haiti and Ruatahuna. „

Rubber Chairs Featured in the “Britain Can Make It”. Exhibition, rubber armchairs have arrived in Auckland. Collapsed, the chairs which are made of rubber covee’rd with a soft cloth material, fit snugly into a small handbag with a zip-fastener. They are in less than a minute by pressing bellows enclosed in the chair itself.

Lord Bledisloe Accepts Invitation Lord Bledisloe has accepted the invitation of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association to address a gathering of farmers in Hamilton in the afternoon of Friday March; 21. The Waikato Winter Show Association has offered its co- *

operation and-'is making Bledisloe Hall available for this meeting tq honour a former governor-general of New Zealand. Lord Bledisloe will be accompanied by the" Minister of Agriculture, the Hon: E. L. Cullen. Butterfly Mystery v

A cable message from London stating that detectives have recovered from a house in the Home Counties a collectiqn of rare butter-*: flies worth thousands of pounds and alleged to be mislsing from Aus-, tralia and New Zealand museums has mystified museum authorities in . Auckland and Wellington. Dr. Gilbert Archey, director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, hnd Dr. J. L. Salmon, entomologist at the Dominion Museum, Wellington, ' say they have no knowledge of butterflies being stolen from museums .. in the Dominion. “An entirely new one on me,” commented a senior police officer in Auckland wffen the report was referred-to him.