LOCAL & GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3294, 30 July 1943, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Bobby Calves In Netherton The Netherton Bobby Calf Pool will collect calves on Sunday and Wednesday each week,until further'notice. Happy “Cockies” “ It is a long time since I have seen such a happy group of cockies—it must be the good, weather,” commented the chairman, Mr J. A. Stewart in opening Thursday’s meeting of the Hauraki Plains Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., held at Turua. Hard To Satisfy? “I haven’t met the farmer yet that you could satisfy,” commented Mi; E. J. McLoughlin, at Thursday’s meeting of the Hauraki 'Plains Co-opera-tive Dairy Company Ltd., when the question of the bonus pay-out was being discussed. Ladies With Lamps Because of a shortage of electric batteries for hand torches, members of the night staff of the Wellington Public Hospital are being obliged to make their periodic rounds of the wards after dark with primitive substitutes. Candles are being used by the ward nurses, while supervising sisters are carrying out their night inspections with storm lanterns—picturesque but clumsy illuminations, which have to be partly shrouded in order to avoid disturbing patients; Letter’s Long Journey

A letter written in Wellington on Christmas Eve, 1941, arrived in a German prison 'camp last January after a 13-months journey round the world. Through being addressed to Stalag IVV B, instead of Stalag VIII B, the letter was sent all round Germany, including a visit to the Fuehrer’s own estate, finally reaching the - prisoner for whom it was intended.