Notes of the Day

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 64, 18 March 1944, Page 6

Notes of the Day

The Merchant Navy appeal in Feilding yesterday realised £ll4, this resulting from a shop augmented by a street j collection. Ladies of the local churches together with members of the Patriotic Society were in charge of proceedings and thoso who patronised the shop and made donations are thanked. Q Wintqr pig raising is no longer a a profitable sideline for many dairy farm- n ers who have found that returns do not p always measure up to the high costs of '1 feed, to say nothing of the labour in- c volvcd. Recently a Feilding district o farmer who is no longer bothering about t raising winter baconers disposed of a v line of weaners at auction for 5s a fi head. As his weaners were being sold \- at that ligure he had to bid up to 17s 6d •] each to secure a pen of eight fowls. Ho -y afterwards found that accounts bal- ( anced, his eight fowls costing him what }- he realised on his draft of weaner pigs! j As it is not within the knowledge of everyone just how much work is undertaken by the National Patriotic organisation, a special window display in Cobbe’s is to be arranged shortly wherein will be set out samples of all Jj the multitude of articles which are provided out of patriotic funds for our ® servicemen and women overseas. The list is amazingly lengthy and it is proposed that attached to each item dis- * played will be a ticket setting out the 1 number already sent overseas. This will 1 enable everyone to gather an idea of the enormous contributions to tho s Forces made possible by patriotic funds, 3 a The Harvest Festival will be ob- l served in St. John's Church to-morrow, j So as to give all communicants the r opportunity of taking part in the great a thanksgiving service of the Church, Holy Communion will be celebrated at v 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. At 11 a.m. a special j, family service will be held, starting with a children’s procession and pro- t sentation of gifts. Evensong at 7 p.m. <j will bo of a festal nature, special har- . vest anthems will be sung by the choir , and the preacher will be Rev. A. R. An- j derson, C.F. chaplain at Ohakea. The j fruit and vegetables, used for decoration, will be donated to a children’s home. The London Blitz pictures which are c to bo exhibited in Feilding shortly for patriotic purposes were referred to by * the Mayor (Mr. T! L. Seddon) at Thurs- ~ day's meeting of tho Feilding Patriotic Society. These pictures, he stated, were outstanding examples of photographic * art and they were bound to make the right appeal to citizens. In size most t of them measured 6ft. by 4ft. so that t people would be able to obtain an ex- L cellent appreciation of what London :< suffered under the force of the blitz. It e was expected that the exhibition would £ be held in tho Drill Hall in tho near future and arrangements were now in 1 hand. c ‘SSorry, no fish," was the position at 5 Feilding restaurants yesterday. Nor- t mally Fridays find local fish shops well j supplied, but during tlio past fortnight r there has been an abnormal shortage and promised supplies have not materialised. Tho iuauility of fish merchants > to obtain supplies is causing them no ~ little concern as with tho operation of meat rationing their business is dwiud- i ling seriously while overheads continue. ‘ Tho opinion of many is that there will j require to bo made some adjustment as t far as restaurants arc concerned otherwise many will be obliged to close up business. It would be no exaggeration 1 to say that many hundreds of households were disappointed yesterday when they could not obtain fresh fish. 1 i Mr. and Mrs. (Saunders, of Kim.bolton « Road, Feilding, held a party in the t Odd Fellows’ llall in honour of their 1 daughter Jean, who was celebrating her i 21st birthday. There were 130 guests i present and the time was spent in t dancing and games. Entertaining items ’ were given by Misses F. Wilton and M. i McFarland and Mr. B. White. The sup- : per tables were decorated and arranged j in a unique style, and the savoury j supper was in the nature of a novelty. Mr. A. Sporle proposed the toast to i Miss (Saunders, with the usual felicitations, aud her father replied on behalf ; of his daughter. Miss Saunders was the recipient of many varied and fine gifts. . Sergeant McCorkindale, who is at pro- . sent on furlough from the Pacific, proposed a toast to tho boys on service overseas. At Thursday's meeting of tno i’eilding Patriotic Society a report was submitted dealing with the collections towards the 194.4 Patriotic Fund Appeal to date. Already in the current Patriotic year which ends on September 30 next the five shop days held had produced over £4OO. The visit of the R.N.Z.A.F. Band realised £l2O and the recent Leap Year ball over £4B, while: sundry donations amounted to £95. Mr. ] C. H. Tate, who submitted tho report, stated that lie had had advice that Messrs Thos. Borthwick and Sons would bo donating £l5O to this year’s appeal. This would mean that between £BOO and £9OO had been collected to date and out of this had to be met the quarterly charge for parcels which was just under £l5O. Citizens of Feilding and district arc asked to make a big effort to provide for the Services all tho clean linen or silk rags possiblo this month. At the meeting of the Feeding Patriotic Ccrfnmittce on Thursday night the Mayor (Mr. T. L. Seddon) stated that on March 25 the Girl Guides would make a house-to-house canvass for this urgently required material. Woollen goods wore not wanted in this collection but would bo acceptable to the waste materials depot, but cotton and silk articles were required urgently, lie stated that such waste was now valued at over £74 per ton and whatever Feilding contributed would be paid for and credited to the Patriotic Fund Appeal. Mr. Seddon emphasised that only clean rags were wanted and ho hoped that people would make a really big effort to assist this campaign which tho Girl Guides wore undertaking.