Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 51, 31 May 1950, Page 4

Local & General

Dutch Farming Migrants Ten Dutch youths are expected to arrive shortly to take up farming situations in the Bay pi Plenty district, mainly about W hakatane.

Soil Conservation A suggestion that furUiWmnsTruc- ■ tion in s'biT’conservation be given “ to schools and Young - armers Clubs received strong support at a meeting of a southern Catcnment Board.

Edgecumbe Card Evening The first of a series of progressive 500 card evenings were held last week by the Edgecumbe Par-ent-Teacher Association. The winners were Mrs K. Magee and E. Laing. A competition was won by Mr P. Trueman. W"

Car Registration { Car registration violently colourful for several vjears, take a note of austerity and 'simplicity this year. The form wifil remain the same but the background for the black lettering is io be plain white.

Whakatane Represented The Whakatane /Druids Lodge will be represented ,• by Mesdames M. Barrowman, Hancock, Renderson and Mr L. Henderson at an i door bowling tournament to be at Rotorua this week-end, ~ Aerial Topdressing ™ The opinion that aerial topdressing had advanced beyond all expectations and would be of great assistance in the problems of developing marginal lands, was expressed at the annual conference of the Meat and Wool section of Bay of Plenty Province of Federated Farmers.

Selling State Houses The allocation of State houses in the future would still be on the » basis of hardship, and preference would not be given to a person wanting to buy the house, said the Minister in charge of the State Advances Corporation, Mr Marshall, when he met the Christchurch Civilian Housing Allocation Committee. “However, we would like to dispose of every State house,- we have if we can,” added the Minister.

Sulphanilamide For Industry Sulphanilamide powder can now be included in first-aid kits in factories, Public Works camps, and sawmills, and on the provided the application to the chemist*for a supply of the powder is made by a responsible person in the industry. The information was issued by the Division of Occupational Health. It was said that research had shown that there was general agreement that the application of sulphanilamide powder for first dressings and redressings of minor injuries in industry reduced the sepsis rate.