NEWS IN BRIEF

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 10, 26 March 1947, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

Chance For Girls on the Land

“I am writing to you in the hope that you can put me fn touch with any young girls interested in farming who would care to correspond with a young Norfolk farmer who badly needs a wife.” This request is contained in a letter from England received by the .Mayor of Christchurch. The writer says he is 25 years of age and of good education and family. “In Norfolk today there appears to be an acute shortage of girls of farming descent who. are prepared to share the trials of'farming with a young farmer,”, continues the writer.

“What About More Cigarettes” “Japanese political activity has features all its own,” said Professor I. L. G. Sutherland, who has returned to Christchurch after a lecture tour of the occupation forces. “At one big Communist demonstration I saw in Tokio there were many banners with fierce-looking slogans, which I presumed were of the usual Marxian character. I asked an interpreter t.He meaning of one of the fiercest, apd K<a pgad: “What about more cigarettes,” ' *

~"* V ' f'iremen’s War Record

High praise for the war effort of firemen was expressed by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Allum, at the annual conference of the United Fire Brigades’ Association. In New Zealand, he said, they had been prepared for whatever might eventuate. Fortunately they had not been called upon, but their colleagues irr England had, and they had contri- / buted in no small measure to the defeat of the Nazis. Mr Allum compared the breakdown in the fire fighting services of the Germans when their cities were subjected to bombing with the splendid saves made by British firemen when their country was suffering the blitz.