Notes of the Day

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 205, 28 August 1942, Page 6

Notes of the Day

The'Rev. W..T. Blight of the Methodist Church Feilding has been chosen to give an address at a Christian Order Crusade in Christchurch where he will represent the Methodist Church. Receipts towards the Feilding and District (Zone E) Patriotic fund are now nearing the £IO,OOO mark.- The total previously acknowledged was £8732 12s 6d and additional moneys received include Methodist Ladies shop day £7O 12s; Bulls Patriotic Committee £700; Telephone appeal (2nd list) £l4 1-ls 6d; total to date £9517 19s. Many citizens of Feilding who failed to secure supplies of seed potatoes before the commandeer of stocks by the Government will welcome the provision whereby limited supplies will be made available to those who have regularly grown “bogoranges” as this stable article of diet was once described. The threat of a possible shortage of vegetables has prompted many to take up kitchen-gardening in earnest this season and with such activity sustained Feilding householders should be well supplied with essentials in this department. A number of historic publications have been handed in for the Churchill Auction and included in these from Feilding are three copies of the report of the trial in the famous lible action Bryce v. Rusden I which was heard before Baron Huddleston and decided in favour of the Hon. John Bryce. . This publication contains many references to the Taranaki Maori | War and it was an incident in this war •which William Rusden included in his ; history of New Zealand and which was 'declared to be libelous. The publication was ordered to be withdrawn from ciriculation and confiscated, but there arc still a few rare copies in the hands of colic tors. Discussing the growing of potatoes and other vegetables in Feilding yesterday a citizen expressed himself as being dismayed at the apparent inability of the authorities to exercise some enterprise towards combating the threat of a shortage of these commodities. He felt that, the soldiers at present in camp should be encouraged to cultivate ground adjacent jto the camps in order to grow some contribution towards the requirements of the camps. Children of both Manchester Street and Lytton Street Schools vated plots for vegetables and have sold much of the produce for the benefit of patriotic funds and from observations he was satisfied that the soldiers could be usefully employed in creating vegetable plots and so help towards relieving a problem. New ground invariable provides a goodly harvest of potatoes and parties of soldiers might well be given plots to cultivate.